wetbrain

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by wetbrain 14y ago
Anything like this in SF/Bay? I feel like there should be...
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by wetbrain 14y ago
I've heard the same about Twitter. All they do is publish short messages, why do they have 1000 employees? There's always many problems that aren't immediately apparent but difficult.
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by wetbrain 14y ago
That's certainly true, but I'd say most seasoned users on reddit don't subscribe to much of what's on default front page. The default reddits (funny, pics, f7, atheism, politics, etc) are basically as you describe. Rehashed memes and populi
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by wetbrain 14y ago
The OP got a message from the homeless looking guy and a new cipher that was much simpler and unrelated to the original cipher card. Basically proves to me that it's a stunt. Anyway, it's now: YOU HAVE MANAGED TO FIND THE MESSAGE WITH THE H
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by wetbrain 14y ago
Check out http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1289384533.html , >Instead of one gigantic process that has to handle all of an application, you'd have a handful of little ones. Instead of scaling massive applications across a cluster, you ju
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by wetbrain 14y ago
>The price of this is library fragmentation. There's more than one approach to objects, for example. I've found that to be the case with Lua in general. The language is pretty easy to hack with, and so there's alot of wheel making. Lua
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by wetbrain 15y ago
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by wetbrain 15y ago
I think so. I'm not sure, but when I deleted mine a while back I got texts from friends wondering if I was okay, or dead, or mad at them. So there was at least some way they figured out I was gone. It may have just been that they couldn't f
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by wetbrain 15y ago
It doesn't look like your email is in your profile.
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by wetbrain 15y ago
I completely agree. It's why creativity and general aptitude is more important than a focused expertise.
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by wetbrain 15y ago
The only thing I'd add to this is how things move so much quicker. It takes time to find a new job. Like the Joe Smith example, a skilled worker is now unskilled because his job has been made obselete. Anecdotally, I've seen friends parents
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by wetbrain 15y ago
One thing from that article I completely agree with is that “[Mid-Size companies] need to figure out how to recruit and create jobs that are attractive for entrepreneurial people". It's exactly how I feel. I'm about to graduate, and other t
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by wetbrain 15y ago
Some of my best times were spent with a stick.
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by wetbrain 15y ago
For you, that is play. It's something you enjoy, socially. You explored computation instead of a park or creek. Unless coding is stressful for you I don't see how that's different than kids playing games outside. Though, it seems you implie
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by wetbrain 15y ago
I had pretty much the same experience as a kid (I'm 22). As far back as I can remember we were pretty much outside until 'late'. I think the unofficial rule was to check in at streetlights on, and after dark be in only one yard. Most of my
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by wetbrain 15y ago
Something simple, but really useful for the map would be to select different areas/location with a marker. Returning to the list view would show the jobs for that area. The map would be for location search, the list for details. It'd be coo
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by wetbrain 15y ago
I don't think it's about them competing exactly. Amazon probably wants the Fire to be adopted over the Kindle, especially since the table market has been shown to be so hard to enter successfully (Apple was 95%? as of 2010?). I don't think
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by wetbrain 15y ago
So, Amazon had a page that promoted E-Ink over LCD. Then they released an LCD tablet and removed the page. I don't see the big deal, I think the pros/cons of E-Ink are pretty well understood by most techies anyway. Now that Amazon has a its
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by wetbrain 15y ago
I think the community has as much to do with discussion as anonymity. r/programming, r/technology, r/hacking are pretty simmilar in topic, though with less emphasis on buisiness/econ. But the comment style is totally different. As obvious a
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by wetbrain 15y ago
I'd call that a win-win as well. I do take the same approach and try to explain why it's more expensive, they tend to use the 'nephew' excuse to haggle down by a significant amount (A couple hundred for a medium sized site, think school/PTA
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by wetbrain 15y ago
Yeah, I hate "my nephew can make websites". I don't doubt that a high school student could put together a full website, with a store front or whatever else. But I'd be willing to bet it's not the most secure. I'm sure there's something lik
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by wetbrain 15y ago
> Someone wants a Facebook clone for $500? Simply respond "it's a huge amount of work and I won't be able to do it for that." If they press, explain why. >Just saying "no, I can't help you" and walking away isn't doing yourself any
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by wetbrain 15y ago
I think part of it is the cynicism that develops from bad clients. Some people don't understand that the designer is a professional. Designers just draw all day, and love what they do, so why would I pay big bucks for a website? After all,
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by wetbrain 15y ago
Reading the other bbc story on the front page, it looks like the scientists are cautious about the discovery and not claiming that they found something. They found something that may be significant or could be an error, and are looking for
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by wetbrain 15y ago
This. And if possible, add a subtle gradient on each curve. So, even without arrows on short lines the direction is clear. Plus it looks cool.
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by wetbrain 15y ago
Yeah, go for it. I have a fairly busy semester, but I'm trying to find time to work on something like this anyway. I forgot to add Objective-C/iOS above, but I've never deployed a full app.
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by wetbrain 15y ago
I'm about to graduate college and have been considering doing something like this, but have zero business experience. There are plenty of non-profits that are doing great work, but relatively unknown and without much of a web presence, if a