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by 54mf 14y ago
Right, exactly. A to-do list is certainly a positive, helpful tool; requiring one to function can be a bad sign, and obsessively seeking out Productivity Hacks is even worse.
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by 54mf 14y ago
You're absolutely right, and perhaps I'm veering away from the original post a bit. Task lists are useful; obsessively seeking out productivity tips is a sign of an underlying problem. I guess I'm more concerned with the general obsession w
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by 54mf 14y ago
You missed my point, indeed. There will always be specific aspects of any job that are less than pleasant, but if the entirety (or, at least, most) of your job is so discombobulating that you need a rigid system to be able to function, you
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by 54mf 14y ago
"If you really deeply care about something, you will do it." Next time you're unmotivated to complete a task, think about why you're avoiding it. The answer is usually fear or boredom/disinterest. If it's fear, great, you're in a good place
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by 54mf 14y ago
I have zero college experience, I've never lied about it, and I've never had a problem getting a job. In fairness, my specific area of expertise (front-end design/development) is one where you can make a real name for yourself simply by bui
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by 54mf 14y ago
Now this is interesting. I've had an RSS reader/platform on the backburner for a while, and was considering a similar revshare concept. It seems like a really great idea, especially for a new platform. Nothing like direct financial incentiv
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by 54mf 14y ago
He rigged his apartment with, supposedly, 30 or so IED/IIDs, and had full body armor during the assault. As far as I can tell, he pulled out all the stops. If he could have done more, I'm pretty sure he would have.
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by 54mf 14y ago
I agree with your first point. The "black market" isn't a place you just go to if you want to buy illegal shit. The fact is, if the shooter didn't have legal, easy access to an assault rifle, he wouldn't have been able to do the damage he d
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by 54mf 14y ago
A better Twitter is insignificant, but a dating service with a gimmick isn't?
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by 54mf 14y ago
Nth'ing the "I don't know what this is" crowd. To the majority of the population, "Twitter before it became a media company" is still just today's Twitter. Most people don't care about ads, unfortunately, and only a relatively tiny group of
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by 54mf 14y ago
I'd imagine a totally black screen would do the trick in keeping the app hidden, or at least less obvious.
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by 54mf 14y ago
These days, I purchase laptops with a life expectancy of around 2-3 years. By then, the tech will have advanced to far that I'll want a new one anyway, and prices are dropping to the point where I can justify spending $1000-1500 on a device
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by 54mf 14y ago
Yes. Don't use it. Not worth the performance hit.
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by 54mf 14y ago
"... every PhoneGap app I've seen looks like trash compared to other iOS apps" That's because the you don't notice the good ones. ;)
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by 54mf 14y ago
I strongly disagree. It's completely possible to build useful, beautiful native apps with PhoneGap, et al. In fact, it is beneficial in many cases, allowing developers to get from zero to prototype significantly faster. Not to mention, port
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by 54mf 14y ago
(I used to live in Allston, currently living in the "greater Boston area".) "If you look even remotely like your 25 or younger and not dressed 'like a business person', your presumed to be some random college 'kid' who doesn't know anything
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by 54mf 14y ago
It's not terrible. You're ignoring the human visual system's ability to recognize objects by color, shape, or pattern.
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by 54mf 14y ago
So you got permission from the artist and/or label to post that, right? Because major record labels love people posting MP3s without DRM online. Gotye has the #1 song in the US right now, and is on Universal. Can't possibly go wrong.
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by 54mf 14y ago
They want to own the mobile ecosystem. After they release enough Facebook _____ apps, they can (a) lean on the OS makers to give them preferential treatment, ala Twitter in iOS, and/or (b) release a Facebook phone with "all the apps you alr
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by 54mf 14y ago
I had a whole response ready, but it looks like Steven Frank - one of the founders and devs at Panic - replied in the comments and addressed all the issues: "We edit directly on a server — but not our production server. We have a staging se
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by 54mf 14y ago
I've had this nagging feeling for a while that Gruber, while a superb writer, is probably insufferable in real life. That particular kind of nerd that's dangerously smart, always right about whatever they're saying, and just miserable to be
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by 54mf 14y ago
Nope, but it does give you $20 off. $79 vs $99. Also, the app is $50 for everyone for the first 24 hours. A bit of a bitter pill, for sure, but considering that it's a total rewrite with massive new features, it seems fair.
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by 54mf 14y ago
Are you serious? The first paragraph: "You code the web. We revolutionized that process in Coda, putting everything in one place. An editor. Terminal. CSS. Files."
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by 54mf 14y ago
Uh, on a Sunday? Weird.
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by 54mf 14y ago
Yeah, and it looks like a 2-3 hour app. A seasoned developer could build that in the same time with Objective-C, or HTML5 / CSS3.
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by 54mf 14y ago
The tablet they're targeting (re: http://jonathancarter.org/2012/05/10/edubuntu-preliminary-pl... ) is the ZaTab. From their site ( http://zareason.com/shop/zatab.html ): "The only tablet on the market that doesn't violate the GPL! Yay! (
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by 54mf 14y ago
"Schools are spending way too much resources that they don't even have on iPads that will soon be obsolete." My God, the hubris. My fiancée works in education; I can say with absolutely certainty that "root access" is the very last thing an
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by 54mf 14y ago
Yeah, it was significantly more difficult to set up an Android dev environment than it was to get Xcode working. Not to mention, the Android SDK is actually a ton of different SDKs for every possible version of the OS, with a bunch of devic
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by 54mf 14y ago
Love this idea. There have been plenty of times when I wish I could throw a few questions at an expert in a given field. "Is this the best way to program an XYZ?" "Can you think of a better way to do this?" Is the price is right, throwing a
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by 54mf 14y ago
A fair point, and I imagine it would be trivial to add a min and max to the configuration options. Without looking at the source, my hope is that it's utilizing <input type="range">, which has min and max built right in. [Edit] I ha

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