DanI-S

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When is it right to steal ideas?(killscreendaily.com)
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by DanI-S 15y ago
That's fascinating, disturbing and something I had not considered.
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I can certainly see the reasoning, but it falls apart in application. A store clerk may be subjected to intrusive medical examination at any time; they are responsible for a few thousand dollar's worth of stock. A Wall Street trader is unli
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I wish there were someone willing to stand up for us against employment-related credit checks and drug testing, too. As a European working in the US, I find it astounding that these utter invasions of privacy are considered routine. I don't
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by DanI-S 15y ago
You say that with the sort of glowing confidence that can only come from thinking in black and white.
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How to be Paul Graham(situnayake.tumblr.com)
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by DanI-S 15y ago
It seems almost the opposite in the UK. Out of my original group of home town friends (from a pretty even mix of low and high income backgrounds), very few people haven't moved at least to another city. A large number of us have actually em
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I'd argue that European gasoline is more expensive purely because European gasoline taxes are higher - the underlying commodity has a similar cost. European governments benefit from being able to charge higher taxes on fuel because US forei
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by DanI-S 15y ago
You make some good points. I figured that US involvement probably has a hand in ensuring us a steady supply of fairly low priced oil, but you're right that other factors may counteract this. Honestly, it seems so hard to imagine a 20th Cent
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I suspect it may also require the systematic exploitation of the remainder of the world through aggressive pursuit of unfair trade agreements and projection of military force abroad, but I may be wrong. Also: the help of a larger, richer fr
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by DanI-S 15y ago
This is certainly true.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I don't think Google /want/ you to have any files on your computer. They could have built Dropbox a long time ago, but that's not the direction they want the world to go. They chose Google Docs instead. Whether they're correct or not is sti
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by DanI-S 15y ago
This is certainly a wise parable. However, the way in which we routinely use stories of this nature from Communist countries as a source of kitsch hilarity leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Mismanagement and the subversion of metrics to give
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by DanI-S 15y ago
For those interested in something more lightweight than jQuery that supports the majority of commonly used functionality, give Zepto a try. http://zeptojs.com/ It has a compatible syntax at a third of the weight. It's very well suited to
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Honestly, Facebook's load time is quite phenomenal. It is one of the most feature-laden and complex consumer web applications out there and they still manage to set the bar with regards to speed and multi-platform usability.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
This is probably the most significant comment in the thread. Most people are pretty entrenched; they will be much more willing to try a new tool if it can fit it in with their existing workflow. This applies to pretty much every problem out
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by DanI-S 15y ago
The author mentions that picking 800 items filled 52% of her daily quota. An extra 5c shipping cost per item could thus double her salary, or pay for an entire extra employee. There's no need for this kind of brutal efficiency. It is detrim
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I would guess that the current economic climate provides an incentive for management to push workers harder than before, since there's a greater pool of replacements and a worse fate awaiting those who can't keep up.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
You definitely make some fair points. The BBC is definitely not a perfect organisation, although most of its value comes from the fact that it is intended to strive to be one. I'd certainly take commentary from the commercial UK press with
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by DanI-S 15y ago
"On the other hand, they could easily provide paid service internationally but choose not to." I doubt it's easy, but they've been working on it for a while now and it should be available fairly soon. I agree that it may not be fair to char
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I'm British, but I live in California, and I'm eagerly awaiting the day that I can pay monthly for BBC iPlayer (their streaming service). There are sketchy proxy services available, but it feels terrible to be paying a third party and effec
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Some validation: In the UK, the BBC has a pretty fixed budget, a pretty fixed (low) number of channels and a pretty fixed audience. They have continued to produce a high quality output of world-class educational and entertainment TV for a g
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by DanI-S 15y ago
Contrarianism is not an end in itself. If you deliberately take the polar opposite of what is popular, you're following fashion just as much as someone who always has to be using the new hot thing. How about we just use the tools that allow
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by DanI-S 15y ago
I don't know the when we arrived in this new world, where thoughtful design is king, but I am glad to be here.
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by DanI-S 15y ago
This article starts by saying that there is something badly wrong with modern programmers. It then details and critiques the way a typical one-man, one-site 'startup' is using discrete 'cogs' to build his system, presumably whilst learning
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The article makes it sound like this is more an 'opt in through purchase' experiment rather than a serious product launch - perhaps that is to mitigate this particular concern.
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Something tells me there's a subtext like that to a large number of YC-funded companies. They're clever.
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Because we care about efficiency, not least with regards to our time, and running one's own mail server is not an efficient use of such a scarce resource.
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If you don't think that's impressive, here's 32k of RAM from just a few ago: http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/CompuPro/RAM%...
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by DanI-S 15y ago
The first challenge is here, and there'll be a new one later today: http://10minutedesign.tumblr.com/post/16495873834/challenge-...

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