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by rabble 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the contemporary word we use for "female impersonators" is trans.
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by rabble 9y ago
If an org does WBI's then it's a good indication that they are not choosing the best applicants. Instead of either getting good at them or trying to get the industry to change, we should embrace this. If they do WBI's then th
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by rabble 9y ago
Twitter started out as Odeo, we started with Ev's investment in Noah Glass's idea for a podcasting platform in 2004. After a few months in early 2005 Ev joined full time. Biz and Jack joined in the fall of 2005 almost a year in to
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by rabble 9y ago
Yeah, huge amounts of work from prototype to world changing platform happened after i left. Nobody created twitter, rather it was the collective work of many.
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by rabble 9y ago
I know a lot of the early history, I worked there when we hired both Jack and Biz. I can tell you that it's a really good thing that Biz is back on board. Biz was able to articulate what twitter was as the human voice of the company in
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by rabble 10y ago
So i think it's partially values and markets. Enough US companies know the transformational effect tech can have on a business where that's not really understood elsewhere. Just having part of the market get it means it drives up
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by rabble 10y ago
one in a billion... he's the most ethical hacker and political actor i've encountered...
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by rabble 10y ago
They only use it for fixed line systems, not cell phones or microwave. Those are the ways people actually want to get connected in rural areas.
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by rabble 10y ago
If you can get line of sight, microwave works well.
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by rabble 10y ago
I've got a place in rural northern california and we don't get cell phone coverage, no where within a 20 miles, and of course there is no broadband. The forest service doesn't help put in towers, the rural telephony program o
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by rabble 10y ago
I love Project FI, but nobody who tries to call me ever gets through. Not nobody, but really like %75 of the calls don't go through. The data and international roaming are wonderful.
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by rabble 10y ago
Does gigster have anything real at all? There are no gigs at all listed on their site... just a few full time jobs in SF, plus things for working on gigster itself. Seems like it might be a lean startup trick of painting the sky blue to try
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by rabble 11y ago
Not only is it cool to honor David Kelly, it's also probably more useful to have a speed limit like 17 vs 15. The thinking is that 15 feels generic where as 17 is specific.
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by rabble 11y ago
It's really disappointing that they didn't even look at 500 startups, one of the few VC's who've done a genuinely good job at getting diversity of partners. http://500.co/team/
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Ev – Why i'm glad Jack is back at Twitter(medium.com)
6 points by rabble 11y ago|0 comments
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by rabble 11y ago
The question is will these folks ever get brought before law enforcement for such a brazen attempt to infiltrate networks?
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by rabble 11y ago
I got to try this out at XOXO and it worked remakrably well. Really enjoyable to use and i didn't get motion sick.
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by rabble 11y ago
Seems cool, but it's missing a lot of listings. Compare the city's listing of permits at protlandmaps.com and buildzoom and you see lots of missing ones from BZ. It does have a nice UI and seems cool. Oh also you have to implement
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by rabble 11y ago
Because Ev's a great product guy but not such a great manager. Speaking of which, Jack's also better at coding / product than managing himself. (i worked at the company before both 'founders' jack and ev joined as
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by rabble 11y ago
This won't work in the US. The problem is the way government contracting works. Government Digital Service in the UK has managed to reform things there because they demanded and got to control the way the UK contracts for software. The
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by rabble 12y ago
I've got more than 10 years of rails experience. I started with Rails 0.5 in July 2004. So looking at the calendar we're at 10.5 years. There were only like 5 people including DHH when i joined the #rubyonrails irc channel. And on
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by rabble 12y ago
Ezra was a playful hacker who was never afraid to strike out and build something crazy.
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by rabble 12y ago
Mujica's great. I've lived on and off in Uruguay for a decade and really things are going pretty well. There's laptops for all kids, free internet for everybody, no taxes on tech companies, free universal education and univer
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by rabble 12y ago
When we built twitter we had also hacked up various forms of RSS readers. At the time nobody on the team really thought they were going after rss, news reading, or discovery. But it turns out that trying to solve that problem in parallel to
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by rabble 12y ago
I was just going to say the same thing. What the hell kind of group offers security and VPN services and then sends passwords plaintext!
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Live by the Google Sword, Die by the Google Sword – Future of Metafilter(medium.com)
3 points by rabble 12y ago|0 comments
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by rabble 12y ago
It's not like you need to ask a language community's permission to build your own thing in that language. Before Rails the Ruby community was very OO focused. Rails isn't very OO to be honest. It tends to used lots of composi
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by rabble 12y ago
I don't mean to be a bit difficult here, but i wonder if the tutorial's author had anybody actually try it. I mean it seems like there's tons of missed steps, sections missing, assumed bits which aren't done. Each exampl
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by rabble 12y ago
It's so friendly that Uruguayans and Argentines don't identify the other as foreign. Uruguayans didn't want to be their own country when their started their independence war, it was an attempt to not be part of Spain or Brazi
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by rabble 12y ago
I think it's a matter of definitions. Demographically the countries are actually more similar, there is just differences in how people identify. The biggest difference between the two countries and cultures is Uruguayans are secular bo

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