ErikAugust

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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Agreed. A good way to get better at coding is to go completely offline without any books or help whatsoever. Write as much code as you can from memory and try to solve your problem with your own existing knowledge.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Cool, useful. Thanks.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
BI are masters of click-bait. Which makes them masters of spreading untrue statements.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
What's with the downvotes? The notion of a "greatest year in the history of the world" is silly.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Greatest year in the history of the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Good advice.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
"Every time I run it, I give it a set budget, say $50. It grabs a random word from the Wordnik API, then runs an Amazon search based on that word." You're right.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Yeah. Wow, these comics are amazing too, thank you.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
I think that's what it does: http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/35454415921/randomized-... It also bought him a Chomsky book on Linguistics and a electronic music CD. And if the bot did that on it's own that'd be a little too spooky.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
I hope the bot buys an ebook about horses.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Design done right. Also, very useful for fans like myself.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
http://zareason.com/shop/UltraLap-430.html Gonna purchase this.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Nimble 250. I worked at places with 25 people that weren't close to anything I'd consider "nimble".
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
"If you can distill your idea to its kernel of truth and launch that, and don't get customers, that's either a big marketing problem, or the market saying it doesn't need your solution." Right.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
G+ is very pedestrian. There's no draw outside of Hangouts.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Okay, one MacGyver solution - Buy one user account - set up a ton of aliases. Set up filters to Gmail inboxes. Yeah, that feels dirty... I know.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Ha, I figured. Thanks for the reference.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
All praise to the LittleSparkVT! Though I could just view stuf f in IE8 ;)
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Wayland and Weston. A MetroWest Boston thing?
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Damn. That's a bit nutty. So they obviously don't hire devs-turn-journalists. Probably cost too much.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
"when douglas crockford went to paypal, they churned out their normal thin tosh, but topping it off: thinking java and javascript are the same thing (since been corrected)." - from Chris, one of the commenters. Damn. That's pretty inexcusab
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
"Part of Facebook’s appeal in those first days was that it was clean, protected space very different from the all-too-public hurly-burly of MySpace [10]." That's it, really. It was an elite college kid social network. Now, anything but.
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
Some updates made - sharing now works.
955.
by ErikAugust 14y ago
Working on some tweaks for sharing. Thanks for checking out!
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Lifegrid - visualize your lifetime, put things in perspective(lifegrid.co)
3 points by ErikAugust 14y ago|4 comments
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by ErikAugust 14y ago
They booted the guy who headed up the Windows product line. They can claim success and "greatest OS ever" all they want but it's clear to me that MS isn't thrilled.
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What the heck is a Growth Hacker, really?(erikaugust.com)
1 points by ErikAugust 14y ago|0 comments
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Instatour.co(erikaugust.com)
0 points by ErikAugust 14y ago|0 comments