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by CKKim 14y ago
The article makes me wonder what would make someone want to be around a social group "all the time, or even on a frequent basis". When I was a child of course I wanted to hang around with my friends as much as possible: there were activit
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by CKKim 14y ago
The wild misuse of "26-Hour Day" here would make me question doing business with this person. So many startup folk who have made a good first impression on me have blogs full of clangers like this, which should have been a clue as to proble
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by CKKim 14y ago
For me this is the bit which really rings true: "I successfully avoided my picture taken. Not so much consciously, but more with the knowledge that it would come out not particularly flattering." It reminds me of a point Tina Fey made in he
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by CKKim 14y ago
The increasingly magnified images remind me of playing with fractal-viewing programs, with one major difference: here the zooming in leads to distinct patterns at specific resolutions, rather than repetition of one at a different scale. Onc
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by CKKim 14y ago
This seems to be the most important/interesting part: "There is a simple rule of thumb in speech recognition: The smaller the application domain, the better the recognition accuracy. [...] Simon can now re-configure itself on-the-fly as the
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by CKKim 14y ago
I've not had any posture or RSI problems, but here comes that word: YET. A few people have commented that whenever I stop typing I like to stretch my arms right down to the fingertips and adjust my position on the chair, sometimes getting u
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by CKKim 14y ago
After the first couple I thought these were jokey, a la Viz's "top tips". I read on for the humour and by the end wasn't sure any more. I think it's a mix of mostly gags but with a couple of serious-sounding ones thrown in for contrast.
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by CKKim 14y ago
I'm seeing much skepticism and criticism of Lanier in the comments here, which would be my position too, based on 99% of what I've watched or read about him (a scene with an Aibo comes to mind especially!). However, there was a 1% where I f
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by CKKim 14y ago
It is a confusingly-written comment, and I think the final bit especially is simply the wrong wording for what the author means, but beneath all that there's still a valid criticism of Google Flights over Expedia. The unambiguous part is th
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by CKKim 14y ago
Fascinating. I always wondered if this sort of thing was possible when I noticed as a child that pressing multiple buttons at the same time on my parents calculator made the screen show stuff that wasn't actually real numbers (things like a
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by CKKim 14y ago
Regarding your first line, my initial response was exactly the same on reading the title of the submission on here. But before commenting I read the article and came across this: "A multiplayer game like Battle Dungeon requires servers to h
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by CKKim 14y ago
Having recorded myself using a computer and watched it back to analyse my habits, I've noticed that I don't begin highlighting when reading an article but if I consciously highlight part to reread for comprehension (or to look up a word) th
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by CKKim 14y ago
Whenever these posts come up I question to myself whether an ideology for "stuff" is actually required, desirable, or helpful at all. They are usually thoroughly entertaining and informative, but I always leave feeling it's been therapy for
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by CKKim 14y ago
What an excellent comparison, I totally see that. I remember playing Doom on my graphing calculator in college! ( http://youtu.be/LVMOdZdKuqI ). What's the equivalent? Well, I suppose Minecraft on the exact same model of graphing calculator
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by CKKim 14y ago
If the author had simply chosen a few examples of good commenting in code and exhibited them, then he wouldn't have had to write this article explaining his point..or would he?
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by CKKim 14y ago
I completely agree with this and always find it instructive to examine wording thoroughly when posing problems or solutions. However, I think you could come across more likably by offering a better wording yourself in your comment. I'll hav
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by CKKim 14y ago
That's very jolly! I like how cleanly constructed it is. On a DIY hacking project that kind of attention to neatness can make all the difference between "oh, cool idea" and the feeling of an actual product (even though it's in fact one of a
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by CKKim 14y ago
Fair enough about the "overly dramatic response" and probably equally fair downvote(s) on my comment. From the guidelines, then: > Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports > on something they found on another
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by CKKim 14y ago
I'm interested, what is this?
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by CKKim 14y ago
I think people have different definitions of blog spam and it's a matter of taste. Personally I began to grind my teeth after the first cliche-ridden paragraph ("cliche-ridden" again being subjective, but the "there should be a Nobel Prize
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by CKKim 14y ago
For an article which seemed to jump about so much, I found this unusually readable. I think it's because each paragraph has at least one "nugget". e.g. > As late as the mid-1800s, an English gentleman was expected to beat > a
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by CKKim 14y ago
Thank you, that's really cool. EDIT: It answers one of {how, what} but not the other. Anyone got any more?
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by CKKim 14y ago
Do we know the specifics of the final funding? In the discussion yesterday there were good comments flying around about founders maxing out credit cards, general trends of most funding being in the first 72 and last 24 hours of a Kickstarte
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by CKKim 14y ago
> Just 30 minutes later, Michael Bolan tweeted that the cake was gone. This has me thinking of that scene in Mike Judge's Office Space where Milton always happens to be in the wrong part of the crowd relative to the cake and ne
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by CKKim 14y ago
This was my first thought when seeing the current submission too. I have no problem with reposts, but one thing I would question is when one provides the date in the title. 2011 is too recent to do so? I don't know, for me that seems border
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by CKKim 14y ago
> The Bank of England has been including historic characters on its notes since 1970. The use of the word "characters" here seems comical to me. It makes me think of Dennis the Menace, James Bond, etc.
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by CKKim 14y ago
This is funny, but it's only a mirror in a mirror if I write and post the article. Why one would do that is exactly what I'm trying to understand. But then, I have been commenting actively here and "Why do that ?" is almost the same questi
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by CKKim 14y ago
Thank you, that's a good answer.
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by CKKim 14y ago
I think there's a clash between lifehacker/Tim Ferriss and '[wanting] to share the results, maybe even give back to the "productivity community"', rather than an affinity as you seem to suggest. The former are profit-generating enterprises
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by CKKim 14y ago
> You could ask the question for almost every blog post Indeed. Usually I perceive the motives are to increase the author's employability attractiveness, promote their business, or build status within their community. Some productivity

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