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by 1tw 16y ago
I think 'infantilisation' is probably a better term than 'gamification' - to someone who doesn't play computer games, Epic Win and its ilk look like so many automated Primary School teachers handing out gold stars for listening quietly at s
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by 1tw 16y ago
So, the service appears to let you read content from many sources, select that which piques your interest and publish it to a reverse-chronologically ordered web page. In my day, we called that blogging.
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by 1tw 16y ago
There are pubs in Scotland that, instead of flies on the urinals, feature names of landlords guilty of forcing tenants from their land in the Clearances of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
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by 1tw 16y ago
From a financial standpoint, buying Apple shares in 1998. Careerwise, spending all my time at university working on the uni newspaper instead of working on my degree.
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by 1tw 16y ago
It might be a good idea to let users know where the service is available? (I entered a UK number complete with country code and the site claimed to have sent me a verification text, but nothing has shown up after five minutes)
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by 1tw 16y ago
See also: http://gethabilis.com/
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by 1tw 16y ago
Similarly, forcing yourself to stay out of insert mode is a huge help when learning vim: " Automatically leave insert mode after 'updatetime' (4s by default) au CursHoldI * stopinstert
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by 1tw 16y ago
It works well--entering just my name offered photographs of me, adding my email address got me the avatar I use pretty much everywhere. (Which makes me wonder whether you're pulling images in from Gravatar?)
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by 1tw 16y ago
Same here - I can really see myself turning to OneWay instead of Expandrive for a lot of those regular, simple little tasks. Nice work , nrj.
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by 1tw 16y ago
In the US, perhaps. Chip and PIN is the standard for new credit and debit cards in the UK - swipe and sign isn't quite obsolete, but it's certainly on the way out. This can be a big inconvenience for travellers from the US to the UK (having
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by 1tw 16y ago
Watching the video it took me a while to work out what was 'wrong' with the system: it works with cards you swipe, and there's no PIN entry, something I haven't seen in five years (and won't work with any card issued by my banks). Of course
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by 1tw 16y ago
> Has always worked for inbound mail, not outgoing. Unless you signed up for the Gmail beta before the trademark arose, in which case @gmail.com works in both directions. (Though your IMAP folders are still under [Google Mail] not [Gmai