mazuhl

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by mazuhl 4y ago
And the best way to manage your home is to separate the tasks into tidying, organising and cleaning. 3 separate and distinct actions. The same applies to code and projects.
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by mazuhl 6y ago
I really like it too - but one that stumped me when I landed in the homepage was "What do I click to see something?" Maybe add a big green "Ready, let's go!" button underneath the instructions/controls.
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by mazuhl 10y ago
Same here and I've just started reading "Hooked" by Nir Eyal which is kind if a counter/companion to "Deep Work". Following Newport's logic I am looking at optimising engagmement (for a paid/freemium
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by mazuhl 10y ago
The BBC did have a really interesting viewer for all the meta data at http://open.bbc.co.uk - but that seems to have disappeared. http://duncan.hull.name/2012/08/03/meta-bbc/
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by mazuhl 11y ago
Every Day Scripting with Ruby by Brian Marick, published by Pragmatic Programmers.
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by mazuhl 12y ago
When they finally did get barcodes they wrapped around most of the product so they could just whizz them past the scanners. They're still fast, but it's a more frustrating to keep up, whereas before, you were kind of in awe.
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by mazuhl 12y ago
An alternate take on this would be for websites/services that have a splash page but no signup form/RSS feed or a non-news/blog site such as a bakery, local restaurant, etc. From the name/HN prompt, I thought it'd b
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by mazuhl 12y ago
You're right. And the two are hard to compare: cheaper bacon in your hand, immediately, today vs. the more abstract 'human health' (which may or may not affect you, ever).
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by mazuhl 12y ago
Another aspect might be that people with mental/eating disorders might be more attracted to vegetarianism, rather than vegetarianism causing those. I can see good reasons for this: vegetarianism is a good mask for being a "picky&q
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by mazuhl 12y ago
Had a mode extreme version of that - if I kept it open the whole day I had to restart my laptop.
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by mazuhl 14y ago
From my experience a lot of this is to do with people's "food culture" (I can't think of a better way to express that). People have ideas about what constitutes food or a "proper meal". (I've heard people say "My dad would be offended if I
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by mazuhl 14y ago
From the other article on HN today it seems that they've tried to do some of that. They wrote their own pre-IPO prospectus and done the leg-work themselves on other things. It's not "automated", but it's cutting out a lot of what those fina
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by mazuhl 15y ago
They never really solved the 'alienation' problem. Nothing changed about people's jobs, they were just working in the factory for 'The Good of the People' rather than 'Faceless MegaCorp'. Where I work (medium-sized mail-order clothing compa
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by mazuhl 15y ago
You should create a tip jar. I use ViewText 3 or 4 times a day. If I go to a website and there's no print view or there's a load of crud I don't want to print I hit the bookmarklet and ViewText makes it all look good.
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by mazuhl 15y ago
And at the same time the Russians did much to preserve Yiddish (a Jewish language).
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by mazuhl 15y ago
How do you overcome making sure mobile devices don't download lots of images/interactive components they won't/don't/can't display?
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by mazuhl 15y ago
Exit are a left-wing group trying to steer people away from a right-wing group. Tolerance doesn't come into it. From the perspective of the left in Germany, street-level and youth movements for right-wing groups are a real problem. And this
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by mazuhl 15y ago
Here's the problem I have with cryonics: in what future do they need to defrost people from the past for another other than freak show/historical novelty? There are so many problems the defrosted will have: * no skills for their new environ
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by mazuhl 16y ago
47 times faster in Firefox 3.6.1 7 times faster in IE 8
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by mazuhl 16y ago
My boss had a better slogan: JEDI (just effin' do it). We always took it to mean 'do it, don't just talk about it/don't ask permission, just get on with it'. Getting that JEDI mindset is important in lots of workplaces. Back to the original
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by mazuhl 16y ago
There's also a tool called Winsplit Revolution which does the same thing. It's like Divvy on the Mac.
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by mazuhl 16y ago
The quote having it's own Facebook page is probably because of the changes they made fairly recently with people's profiles/interests. I think the quote, an unlived life is not worth examining, is nice and deep. I take it to mean that, not
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by mazuhl 16y ago
As I understand it, Haystack has already 'shipped' code. They 'shipped' it to Iran on USB thumb drives. Austin Heap posted up info not too long after the Iranian elections last year.
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by mazuhl 16y ago
A sensible step would be to get into the habit of upgrading browsers/tools. A workplace that finds it traumatic to upgrade to IE 7, 8 or 9 or from Windows XP or Windows 7 or even from Office 2003 to Office 2007 is not going to be prepared f
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by mazuhl 16y ago
It's not great ideas you should be after, it's great problems. If someone has a great idea for a website, I might use it. If you can solve a problem I've got, I'll pay you. Here are 4 problems I've got that I'd happily pay money to have sol
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by mazuhl 16y ago
You should start making your own screencasts and sell them alongside the others. Your brand is already established, you'll have seen enough screencasts to know what works and you can identify gaps in the market. If you put an open poll on t
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by mazuhl 16y ago
I'd like a web app, kind of like DabbleDB, where you can just drop in data and easily make pivot tables and get interesting outputs. It could just throw a bunch of analyses at the data and see what it comes out with.
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by mazuhl 16y ago
This is sad news. I have read many of his books and found them enjoyable, although he used the same formula many times: the world - something we take for granted = interesting story. Here is an interview from 2006 with Saramago entitled "St
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by mazuhl 16y ago
There is a demand for this kind of thing outside of just high-school. I'm not in a position to go back to high-school or university, but I'd like (and would pay) to be able to "study along" with other people on a course/textbook. (This is p
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by mazuhl 16y ago
I regularly read (quality) content online and think "I'd tip for that". But there's no way of doing it. I could click the adverts, but I don't want to deal with lots of popups and I have no interesting in buying whatever they're advertising

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