its_so_on

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by its_so_on 14y ago
Just a note that a lot of people find my tagging annoying. I will think of another solution.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
only a few, as i explain in one of them. some of my other comments if they are extremely technical and analytical might instead contain a rational tag :)
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by its_so_on 14y ago
exactly. i'm not saying it matters - i'm saying even in this we find the same difference as in everything else.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I did notice that, and agree with you. The minimal example continues: Apple does not care about standards very much, in this case doing something (caps html) for arbitrary reasons and counter to best-practice (and the standard), while actu
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by its_so_on 14y ago
#creative I'm serious in kind, but not degree :) I do realize it's pretty frivolous, and a bit funny. It's also a good minimal example! Even though it is only meant to be used as a literal in a program to check against with a regex, still,
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by its_so_on 14y ago
#creative I like this idea, but the results have what I would say is "very low momentum" in them (not speaking with any kind of terminology here, just ad hoc) meaning that just as when you write L E T T E R S e..x..t..r..e...m
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by its_so_on 14y ago
sorry if i missed the dns part; talking specifically about the test page in question
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by its_so_on 14y ago
#creative I was specifically talking about that one page and its location. It is English, meant to be parsed as a literal by a program, it's not a random number or a response to a query, that .txt file is literally logically equivalent to
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by its_so_on 14y ago
#creative (see [1]) The Apple implementation is "logically the same" as the Microsoft implementation, yet so much cleaner. check for yourself. http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html vs http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt i won't co
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by its_so_on 14y ago
the asterisk. even after 10 years of this (or is it 15?) i still look for the footnote :( ... made worse by the fact that sometimes there is one!
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Three founders is three too many. Businesses don't need founders. They need owners and they need managing directors. Too many people think that becoming the former magically makes them into the latter. Here is a test for the next time yo
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by its_so_on 14y ago
you're thinking of po-po-po-powerbook.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
thanks for these thoughts.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
sorry about the format, i'm intentionally trying to not so much to be accessible as to reach certain people who might already know. i'd like their feedback. you are completely right that it's hard to peg the shift in present-wealth without
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by its_so_on 14y ago
i'm about to make a nuanced, technical argument, and i don't know if it's correct. if you understand it, your feedback is appreciated. so, i believe information asymmetry is possible. i believe that many good ideas are in such a relations
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by its_so_on 14y ago
if we're being generous, maybe apple just thought that it was a Swiss train station clock nobody cares about (which, in a way, is what the clock actually was), which their team kind of just came across (maybe in switzerland!) and thought th
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by its_so_on 14y ago
you're not alone. apparently, for many people, occasionally hearing the word "CUPS" is the closest they ever get to printing under Linux.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
but we're talking about a few moments ago. it is a conversational thing - it doesn't make much sense to argue against what you've just been misquoted as saying a moment ago. to justify the title, "how to confuse a moral compass" the method
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by its_so_on 14y ago
nothing remarkable. if any one of us were presented in a fabriacted "forwarded" quote by us, > in this format... and we didn't really care, we would probably defend the misquotation (unless we explicitly remember what we actually said.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
more broadly, i've often said that there are two ways to build a massively successful business (e.g. $100m business, or one worth a billion or billions): 1. don't fail. 2. don't fail to massively succeed. bootstrapping is all about comple
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Thank you very much for taking this step. (Not disclosing long-term plans just because they're frighteningly ambitious). Hopefully this goes double for ideas you chose not to take 7% of for a couple of grand :) (As that adds real injury
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Wow, I am going to save this one: "It's not really that HTML5 requires extra work, it's that it lets you get away with not putting in extra work and then the lack of that work ends up biting you in the end." I have never experienced such ha
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by its_so_on 14y ago
a competent coder will not build a person's turd-trading platform in five-minute increments for $60 per 12.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
which is why the guy above is so very, very wrong that these steps actually take five minutes, as opposed to just looking like they do :)
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by its_so_on 14y ago
there's another route. break down what you want to do and you can basically get it done for free. For example: -------------- Requirements. 1. requisition an Amazon EC2 instance for me. No other steps. -------------- then a tech guy on I
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by its_so_on 14y ago
The lottery ticket has $20 billion winner written on it. I gave you a range of probabilities that the ticket can actually be cashed. The point is that this probability is clearly not exactly 0.00000... given others have cashed theirs. But
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I personally hate recognizing anything. If you think about it, even distinct text characters one next to each other are a skeumorphism from movable type. Obviously the only correct interface is a simple vertical list where hovering over in
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by its_so_on 14y ago
going native is like going skinny-dipping. a lot of freedom and exquisite possibilities, but with it comes responsibility - and you can easily get yourself into trouble.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I wrote the following email to PG some time ago, which I hope have helped inform the present essay. ---------------------------------------------------- 1. You know, I came across: " I think they're not so much dense as bitter. There's a su
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I love how people are always up at arms how "a nation state" OBVIOUSLY means Israel in a given story why don't they come out and say it???, or OBVIOUSLY means China in another story, or OBVIOUSLY means the NSA, come on!! Meanwhile, the repo

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