OneSeventeen

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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Wow... I would so much rather just have (perhaps a subset of) the actual data always on my display. I don't have an iPhone, but there's some room on my little screen that could show -90 when I'm in a cave and, like, -9 most of the time (or
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
The USC loss highlights something to me: It was hard for me to tell what information was being displayed. I totally missed the news on that game (fail) so I saw USC in bold and assumed they'd won and didn't know what the big red box meant.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
And, by contrast, this is why computers are so slow at some decisions: no biases or heuristics, no input prioritization, etc.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
I read a tip, I don't remember where anymore sadly, about taking a key word from the question, adding some password-like string to it and calling that your answer. So: "What is your pet's name?" n0tm4hp4s5w3rd-pets-name and: "What street di
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
I'm currently learning Flex, which I guess means I'm learning ActionScript? I have to say I'm not enjoying it as much as I enjoy Ruby.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
That's hilarious. I think the best part is where it points out that since particles have positive and negative charges and 1 + -1 = 0, then the universe must have been made "from nothing". Astounding.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Doesn't it say something specifically about not wanting marketing pitches?
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
I agree that this is the big decision point. I'm a Ruby guy and I've looked at Python several times and it never really stuck (I could work on a project that use Python, it just wouldn't be as fun as a project using Ruby to me). I could com
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
No kidding. Great reality hack.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
I'd be interested in discussing it. If you (or anyone else) are, too, feel free to email me at the address in my bio. Thanks!
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Is there--understand, here, that I don't have a blog and haven't blogged, so I have no idea--is there blog software that will do this for you already? Like, handle a different URL, css styles, etc. but point to the same database? That sound
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37Signals: Voting With Your Wallet(37signals.com)
7 points by OneSeventeen 18y ago|3 comments
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Though the article was interesting, it's nothing that isn't said a lot: quality communication is necessary and also hard; quality communication between more people is commensurately harder. On another note: the link to hitmeuplater.com was
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Seconded. The whole verb/noun discussion played into my Linguistics background nicely. Now I... get it.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Yeah. Way to fail completely at your job, Keyes. This is a guy who can't imagine anyone using his product in a way different from the way he uses it. Fail.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Concur. I think the most impressive thing on here was Fez. Other stuff either looked like it wouldn't be terribly useful to actually use, wasn't real or both.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Yeah. Functional programming. I "understood" it for a good while before, rather suddenly, something clicked and I realized what the big deal was all about.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
"Most of the time when people use qualifiers like that it's to express some type of instinct - which seems to be what the author is against." Hah! Wonderful sentence. Love the irony. Also concur. Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I coul
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
I had a pretty horrible experience with an airline recently (I won't regale y'all) and it has had me thinking about ways to fix air travel in the US. I had a few ideas on how an outside company might help, but I don't think they're actually
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
The link broke for me, but I just went up-URL to see the post. So awesome. I just... this is amazing.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Similarly, have y'all seen mobaganda.com? It is doing the simple == better thing, as well. I notice you guys seem (I haven't actually used either site yet) to have a few more features. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
I think the assertion was not that they should get better treatment, but that they should get equal treatment. I may have misinterpreted, of course.
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
As the article points out... Or else they'll be more likely to be lured away and, while they're with you, give bad customer service, etc. I certainly know that's true. I worked in a retail chain a few years ago. At the first store I worked
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Do I really need to be as popular as YouTube (even in a different market) to be a success? Maybe this is what you meant by "different standards of 'getting somewhere.'" In many arenae, there is some company that has a massive, massive chunk
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
We have a bus system that I love, so "Yes". The company that runs them tries a sort of service like you've described, but I have anecdotal evidence that the trick is no one wants to drive. Part of it is that they will provide a vehicle and
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
I, personally, prefer Ruby because it thinks the same way I do (if that makes sense). So that's what I'd pick. But Python would do you just as well, if you like the way it reads, etc. better. They key, I think, is to not be too worried abou
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Second this. Instead of looking for a project in a language you're familiar with. Maybe look for a project solving a problem you're familiar with in a language you're not. Then you'll have learned a new language as well. After that, you can
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Also, I don't know how uncommon that perfect storm is. Isn't one of Starbucks' primary products convenience? They're all over the place so that it's always really easy to change your plans to include a "Stop in at Starbucks" step. So, not t
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
Yeah. No kidding. Honestly? Fuck that. ;)
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by OneSeventeen 18y ago
As someone who's considered this tactic (I'm some years away from having children, but planning seems like a good idea), I'm interested in how that's working out. Have you ruined cursing for your kid as some people imply this tactic would?

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