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blndcat
12y ago
but the big eyes can be traced back to Donald Duck of all characters
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blndcat
12y ago
If you don't understand what you're modelling, you won't create an accurate model. For programmers, we create an approximation to the real world and then refine the model as we (or the users) come across the imperfections. Un
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blndcat
13y ago
If you're talking about Tiny Habits, I can vouch for it since I took it end of March this year. Of course my word's not worth much but BJ Fogg does explain about the method on his blog: http://www.foggmethod.com/#l
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blndcat
13y ago
This is exactly what I would like to achieve. Being present. Could you share how you learnt and practiced it? I am trying but failing.
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blndcat
14y ago
No such problem in my case. I explained I was strongly against the idea for most of the reasons listed in the original article and it wasn't a negotiable point. Basically if she still wanted the diamond ring then she didn't understand me we
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blndcat
14y ago
Not sure why there isn't more of a discussion going on, given the uproar over Reader, I found the whole article insightful but especially the end. The concluding 3 paragraphs are like the twist at the end of The Sixth Sense.
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blndcat
14y ago
Not to be too hard on the developer, but judging by these figures, they are under-charging. Clients that are attracted to the lower end of the budget range tend to be more problematic in various ways, as many a web designer can attest.
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blndcat
14y ago
I don't know, I'm trying not to be negative here but the company mentioned and the numerous under $x (where x= 200, 100, 20) Indian computer stories that have the potential to change Indian education have mostly been vapourware and/or failu
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blndcat
14y ago
Though the headline above cleverly omits the 6, the linked to article is "6 ways to improve click-through-rate on your banner ads without being spammy", sure sign of link-bait and mostly vacuous content. In fact only 2 out of the 6 (#1 
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14y ago
see footer of the page. They (TextDrive) were already acquired at the time of the offer.
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blndcat
14y ago
Thanks Jeff for clearing this up
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blndcat
14y ago
If you look at the offer on the waybackmachine: http://web.archive.org/web/20060202181857/http://textdrive.c... It has this Q&A item: How long is it good for? As long as we exist. The footer states: a Joyent company Nothing complicat
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blndcat
14y ago
In the end shared hosting with Joyent wasn't very good. It was slow, it was clunky and had an air of neglect. I have one site remaining on it I think. Most of my sites are on Linode. What was worse was that Joyent changed directions, decide