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   by hugothefrog 3y ago

   I’m just in the middle of re-reading Simon Wardley’s collected blog posts on Wardley Mapping (via the soft cover book). My recency bias aside, its uncanny how much his concepts infuse this Economist article. Almost every paragraph echoes a
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   by hugothefrog 6y ago

   That's an avenue I'm pursuing - have joined the waiting list and am waiting for someone to get back to me after a brief email interaction over the weekend. Secured by work was a reference to one possible suggestion of using Alpine
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   by hugothefrog 6y ago

   Hijacking this comment, but it seems likely to attract the right sort of crowd.. Can anyone recommend a Mac/web Gmail UI with exceptionally fast hotkey interactions? The Gmail web interface has slowed to the point of un-usability for m
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   Application-Level Consensus [pdf](weareadaptive.com)

   53 points by hugothefrog 9y ago|8 comments
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   by hugothefrog 11y ago

   I'm keen to understand exactly what parts of a 'messaging stack' you guys have built. Feel free to drop me an email (details in my profile).
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   by hugothefrog 16y ago

   I'm a developer working in London - I've been here for the last five years. Immigrants seem disproportionately represented in the software dev industry (but not IT in general). Quite a few from the EU, but a lot from Commonwealth countrie
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   by hugothefrog 16y ago

   WhatsApp is a near approximation of BBM on the iPhone (and other devices, I believe). Their reliability isn't great, however.
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   by hugothefrog 16y ago

   Well spotted. This may have been pointed out elsewhere, but it seems to have something in common with the if-by-whisky style of argument. All that's missing is the "if by 'cult' what I mean is a slavish adherence to laws and dictates laid d
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   by hugothefrog 16y ago

   I just returned from Berlin a couple of nights ago, and met an English guy (I'm a New Zealander living in London) who'd worked there for a few years. He is an aerospace engineer working for a very famous English engineering firm in their Ge
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    So, that's a pretty cool story. The feedback loop on these sorts of things is insane. Does anyone have any anecdotes of this sort of thing that don't result in #1 on reddit (or something similar!). Also - does anyone know of a program that
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    Wait -- what? You don't get those emails? I'm a heavy user of Amazon in the UK (Prime membership and all), and I get regular emails asking me to review products I've previously purchased. ..I've never written a review, though.
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    Would love to make it, too, but am wrapping up at my current client's and will be late this evening. Have a good evening - looks like it'll be a lovely warm night for it!
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    I was trying to think of a good reason why FIFA continues to refuse to introduce any form of video replay/video referee, and the reason Ed outlines are just what I concluded. The game is supposed to be exactly the same when played at World
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    I'm totally lost - what is the vendetta against her about? Any idea what caused it?
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    Thanks for the comparison :) I can't say I've watched Momento more than once. I guess that says something in itself. I'll definitely be getting a copy of Primer now!
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    Another movie similar to this (I think, having not seen the movie, but from reading the discussions) is Momento: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28film%29 IMO it stays with you a long time after you've watched it..
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    For reference, since I had to google for it: http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    Hah - I didn't intend to end 3/4 of my post with question marks. Or did I? ..ahem. My comment was really a rhetorical question about the moral (not necessarily commercial - I'm not arguing that) appropriateness of taking (as you described)
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    Instinctively, I disagree with you. But you might be right. I may even agree with you, intellectually. What evidence do you have to support your hypothesis? Alienation is a very powerful emotional force, used by all sorts of parties to all
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    I'd just like to echo others comments about C being a really good idea. I live in London, and have recently moved into an apartment with large windows that are just screaming out for planter boxers. My partner and I are trying to figure out
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    Presumably, to a first approximation, you could track the weather at your customers' location, and know what is going on with their plants. This would allow you to tailor your emails - and your product suggestions - over time.
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    Thanks. I picked it up via curl, but it was crashing Firefox. It's up at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2169086/Market%20Crash.mp3 for a while, now. Not a pleasant experience listening to that. Perhaps that's the way the world will end - not wit
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    Don't suppose anyone grabbed a copy of the audio while it was still up?
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    Thanks for the pointer. I was looking for something just like this. It seems to install and work just fine on Win Server 2008 64bit, for reference :)
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    Sounds like this guy wants exactly what the Mine Project is trying to deliver: http://themineproject.org/
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    My partner and I just had a ten year anniversary in Thailand, and we're in the process of sharing our entire groups' photos via Divvyshot. If you had a less wedding-oriented skin/store-front on that website, we'd love to use your service..
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    by hugothefrog 16y ago

    I've not heard the phrase 'host-proof' before, but I wrote my thesis on trusted computing platforms ( http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~cthombor/Students/mbarrett/mba... ). Some of the work I review in it was related to proving a remote host to
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    by hugothefrog 17y ago

    I definitely would be. Any techniques you've developed for switching contexts would be greatly appreciated..
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    by hugothefrog 17y ago

    I'd not seen this - thanks for the pointer.
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    by hugothefrog 17y ago

    Has anyone seen a tetris implementation from the other first-person perspective? As in, you're the block, looking downwards? Probably far too hard to play, but that is what I was expecting when I hit the link..