AnonJ

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Why Won’t America Go Metric?(zocalopublicsquare.org)
31 points by AnonJ 12y ago|69 comments
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by AnonJ 12y ago
That kind of "planning" mostly won't work. I've tried to do exactly that but it's really just IMPOSSIBLE to get your planned actions done exactly on planned timeslots. In the end the whole "planning" unrav
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One – Read Hacker News, Designer News, Product Hunt, Reddit, Slashdot in One App(play.google.com)
8 points by AnonJ 12y ago|2 comments
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Kobito – A Mac application to manage markdown notes(kobito.qiita.com)
1 points by AnonJ 12y ago|0 comments
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by AnonJ 12y ago
I guess you're misunderstanding the intention of the developers. If they are truly just wanting to make a huge profit out of a brainless game pattern then they won't go with this design. Those "repetitive attention" game
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by AnonJ 12y ago
That is dangerous - you could very well be missing out on very important features all along the way without ever knowing it, wasting tons of time and productivity in process. This happens also when you directly start using an appliance with
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by AnonJ 12y ago
I think it's this one, which was also posted on HN: http://nautil.us/blog/the-math-trick-behind-mp3s-jpegs-and-h...
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by AnonJ 12y ago
A major contribution by tech industry is how it fundamentally transform the way we live, work and interact, in a mostly positive way towards higher efficiency. The effect is everywhere. I don't think you can find many tech companies wh
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by AnonJ 12y ago
By "physical world" we don't necessarily have to do some groundbreaking theoretical physics discovery. Software like online collaboration tools, marketplace apps and search engines have already greatly transformed the way peo
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by AnonJ 12y ago
We also have one in China, in the Forbidden City. It was a present by certain western diplomat in 1700s/1800s. I'm pretty sure this kind of thing was actually quite popular back at that time.
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by AnonJ 12y ago
Text existed before the proliferation of other media probably because it was primitive and inferior. Chimpanzees lived for eternity before human beings appeared. I don't see anything great in that. We didn't use a lot of multimedi
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by AnonJ 12y ago
Right. At least that's how we use it in China. Probably also in a few other East Asian places.
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by AnonJ 12y ago
You certainly have to make some trade offs. But as long as you achieved what you want to do, how could that cost be "unacceptable" in any sense? You expected it and wholeheartedly embraced its existence in the very first place!
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by AnonJ 12y ago
I don't see anyone here talking about insidious, negative "competition" at least
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by AnonJ 12y ago
What do you mean. I dont get it. It's just a skill, as everything else.
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by AnonJ 12y ago
Such a reaction is borderline ridiculous and coward. Others like Wozniack are mature and strong enough and are definitely able to sustain a business well. Several levels apart!
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by AnonJ 12y ago
However his narrative sounds more like something of a bad self-deception which doesn't make any sense at all and will probably make him a worse person.
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by AnonJ 12y ago
Yeah, most adults only get something when they're genuinely surprised, wrong or lost. But the problem is, in many of such occasions the changes are negative and make you worse than your previous self, without you being genuinely able t
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by AnonJ 12y ago
Ayn Rand? What good does that kind of stuff do at all anyways? If you want some libertarian ideas, fine, there are countless philosophers out there for you to cite, even Robert Nozick. But Ayn Rand? That's just disgusting beyond belief
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by AnonJ 12y ago
I think what people dislike about this statement is how downbeat and escapist he sounds. > If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately. Frankly I can't think of anybody who
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by AnonJ 12y ago
What totally shocks me here is the whopping ignorance and lack of even the least bit of effort of understanding shown in the pathetic comments. Are really so many Americans brainwashed to such a crazy extent? Well anyways it makes me sick.
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by AnonJ 12y ago
I can never imagine how would a university/its various student organizations get their messages through to students, without email. I went on a full-year exchange to Chile, where the email service simply is useless and everybody(includ
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by AnonJ 12y ago
How's that so different from Foursquare and stuffs anyways.
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by AnonJ 12y ago
Read some Peter Thiel and he will tell you that in the ideal startup there should be no "competition" at all. Competition is a horrible and destructive thing. Although, as a fact you have to realize that many people who excel in c
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by AnonJ 12y ago
"Searching for "Bletchley Park" will cause the title of the info card to appear as if it was being deciphered by Google."
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by AnonJ 12y ago
Exactly. I love Ubuntu Mono and have settled on it after extensive search.
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by AnonJ 12y ago
Not exactly. Many people don't realize the situation at all. And also, there are many ways to find and reserve time for things you love, which are not necessarily related with/constrained by your work at all. People just fall in
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by AnonJ 12y ago
What kind of pervert, anti-human-nature "culture" and "philosophy" you are talking about? Haven't they victimized and taken the happiness away from enough people already? Not to mention that being a Brazilian I supp
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by AnonJ 12y ago
It's implied. If it needs explicit mentioning then probably there's something wrong with the culture because there's no reason that normal person wouldn't consider it.
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by AnonJ 12y ago
Also ask Investment Banking people. From what I hear, they lead a life at least as busy as ours, and what's worse is that they often cannot control what urgent tasks are shoved into their faces. I call the talk on "programmer work

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