freshfruit

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by freshfruit 12y ago
I have noticed a pattern of negative coverage of China by the New York Times from "hacking from China" (often indirectly implicating the government), to currency manipulation, to goods dumping. I'm concerned that I may be con
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by freshfruit 13y ago
I think you're promoting a healthy degree of self-awareness. A noteworthy risk however is that you'll make false connections -- ie. garlic is good for fight off HIV.
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by freshfruit 13y ago
> Always great to see studies looking at the mental implications of non-psychoactive drugs. ... also great to read about the mental implications of priming. I'll be more punitive/forgiving depending on the unrelated thought I had minute
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by freshfruit 13y ago
> That you jest about journalism is just an example of the systemic problem in society writ large... The last thing I wanted was to jest about journalism. I'm an avid reader of long accounts of events. My point in putting "journalism" i
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by freshfruit 13y ago
Hmm... perhaps that's a productive definition of "journalism." ... But I guess I don't understand your point. If you're saying that meaningful information can't be conveyed in 142 characters then I think you'd be dismissing the majority of
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by freshfruit 13y ago
Of course. ... but I hope my point wasn't lost.
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by freshfruit 13y ago
A perfect analogy.
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by freshfruit 13y ago
You're right and Slate is right as well. However, yesterday a couple million people really needed to know what was going on immediately. For those of us who live in and around Boston, it's a really small town (that punches wayyy above its w
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by freshfruit 13y ago
Whenever the world is shaken by some awful tragedy, the event is followed by an outpouring of kindness. I remember a trip to NYC right after 9/11; the good will was palpable from our cabbies to our friends. Sandy Hook had a similar affect..
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by freshfruit 13y ago
When you say "too expensive," I'm curious what you mean... Are you including time/labor in your cost-benefit analysis? For me, Heroku allows me to buy more engineering time (and less sys ops complexity) to devote to other problems. From thi
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by freshfruit 13y ago
According to Alex: When you show people respect, something magical happens, people respect you back and it pays off. Suddenly, they want to help you win. This reminds me of one of my favorite rules from Stephen Covey: Seek First to Understa
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by freshfruit 13y ago
This is very helpful from a technical angle. I'm interested in the full cost-benefit analysis. Any thoughts there?
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by freshfruit 13y ago
Awesome. Does DO not yet have a comprehensive command line tool? I'm curious if any Hacker News readers have successfully migrated from Engineyard/Heroku to Digital Ocean. If so, I'd love to hear about your experiences. I am specifically cu
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by freshfruit 13y ago
Awesome. I'm a sucker for a good visualization. What about adding a fixed nav to toggle the image size... sort of a zoom in/out effect?
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by freshfruit 13y ago
Link shorteners have the potential to dramatically reduce the robustness of the internet. A single failure point can break a lot of stuff. To my knowledge Twitter justifies their link shorteners with a security argument: they can easily pre
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by freshfruit 13y ago
Fixed... the issue seemed to last < 10 minutes
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by freshfruit 13y ago
Try clicking any of the links from @nytimes or any other Twitter page...
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Outbound links from Twitter (t.co) breaking(twitter.com)
4 points by freshfruit 13y ago|4 comments
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by freshfruit 13y ago
The last paragraph seems particularly noteworthy: On whether he's taken a MOOC class: "I've never made it through a complete MOOC," Thrun confessed. Much as books have been shrunk down to the size of 140 character tweets, Thrun says he expe
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Sebastian Thrun On the Future of Education(edsurge.com)
4 points by freshfruit 13y ago|1 comments
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by freshfruit 14y ago
I've used the word "founder" countless times to mean founder of a company, but have never remarked that the primary definition is "to fail." This isn't a coincidence it turns out. The root of the word is bottom ("as in foundation"). I thoug
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The Definition/Etymology/Irony of the word "founder"(evernote.com)
1 points by freshfruit 14y ago|1 comments
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by freshfruit 14y ago
If you are not updating gems, does it hurt to continue deploying with a custom buildpack? Heroku shouldn't repull gems if the gemspec hasn't been altered. Is that logic correct? Does anybody have another suggestion for safely working around
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Is Heroku down?
5 points by freshfruit 14y ago|1 comments
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by freshfruit 14y ago
I posted this article because I thought it showed a remarkable lack of understanding of startups. It was frustrating and I'm surprised VentureBeat published it. First of all, the authors issues with edTech startups might apply to any startu
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Most ed-tech startups suck (venturebeat.com)
5 points by freshfruit 14y ago|1 comments
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by freshfruit 14y ago
I don't think we're disagreeing on your first point. A cooperative dynamic is hugely important for some personality types. I would argue that such a dynamic arises in student centric teaching. As for your second point, I too was a teacher a
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by freshfruit 14y ago
I'm no fan of "big publishing," but they do a/b test learning objects... This is a labor intensive job. That is why a new textbook edition costs historically 1M to produce(200k for a re-release).
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by freshfruit 14y ago
You're 100% correct! It's absurd in the US too. The way the publishing industry releases their attractive young female salesforce onto college campuses (I heard this from a somewhat biased source - would love verification) and then bribes g
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by freshfruit 14y ago
In a forum full of hackers, we should all be able to agree, information is information... Whether its letter order, word order, sentence order, paragraph order or topic order... There is a continuum when it comes to deciding what informatio

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