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by FilterJoe 14y ago
I wrote this article and was very surprised someone posted it on Hacker News, where the audience is highly technical. Your criticism makes it sound like the post was intended to be the ultimate guide to custom building silent PCs for the te
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
I just joined Facebook a few months ago. I was afraid of it being a huge time waster with low signal to noise. So my expectations were quite low. Turns out the experience, with less than 30 Facebook friends, is even worse than I imagined it
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Ranking for Signal to Noise Ratio(sethgodin.typepad.com)
2 points by FilterJoe 14y ago|1 comments
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
You ask: Why not let them discover it for themselves? In our social circles, many kids see Star Wars before age 5 and most have seen it by age 6. For many, that will be their first exposure to violence and evil. Depending on your values aro
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Our kid had us read to him every part of the Star Wars story multiple times before we just let him watch #4 a week ago. It accomplished the main objective laid out in this nice article: Timing it so they're able to "discuss and analyze the
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
According to a friend of mine who worked on the search team, Inktomi shifted its (management and CapEx) focus away from search and onto other projects. He thought at the time that even with the constraints of not competing with their own cu
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Free iPhone Data Will Scare AT&T, Verizon and Sprint(forbes.com)
2 points by FilterJoe 15y ago|0 comments
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Fair point but the 9700 is over 2 years old - and when it came out it had better battery life than the competition. The 9900 which recently came out has better specs and still a good battery life. What's killing Blackberry IMO is that it's
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
The author asserts that "The first company—whether it’s an incumbent phone maker or Ph.D.-laden start-up in a garage—that figures out how to solve the smartphone battery problem will see enormous gains." Nope. Blackberry has had battery lif
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I tried it for a few minutes and it needs work. Adding a non-Wordpress.com site is awkward and results in getting all the posts and all the comments. I'm hoping Automattic rapidly improves it to become a real competitor to Google Reader.
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Wordpress Introduces WP-centric Feed Reader(en.blog.wordpress.com)
2 points by FilterJoe 15y ago|1 comments
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
The article and the conclusions of the underlying study bring up more questions than answers for me. Such as: 1) Does the importance of talent vary by domain? 2) They show working memory matters. Does working memory matter by different amou
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
This makes for a great story but how do we know it wasn't totally made up? There is no link from the consumerist article to a post from the original source (someone whose purported first name is Ryan). Searching for word-for-word sentences
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The physics of an economic crisis(blogs.reuters.com)
2 points by FilterJoe 15y ago|0 comments
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Problem: Can no longer access old "notes" or "shared items" Solution: Turn them into "starred items" Details: You can only access notes or shared items from certain mobile or desktop clients. I don't know exactly which ones but the one I us
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I restart the computer and chrome each morning. And when Chrome gets to slow I restart it mid day sometimes. I also clear caches once every few weeks which seems to speed it up a little, but not like it did when going from Chrome 14 to Chro
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Anyone else noticing a big speed increase? Chrome 14 was actually much slower than the prior few versions on my 7 year old Windows XP system (1 GB RAM). I'm experiencing much faster page loads with Chrome 15.
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I've seen what you're talking about with easy vs. hard. We were lucky enough to have an easy baby. Yet I found the first few weeks very tough as I have higher than normal sleep requirements. By the end of week one I had trouble staying awak
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
If I were the author of such legislation I would do everything I could to require that the person actually live in the house. Possibly even including (as a condition of the program) unscheduled visits to the house to see if they're really l
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I'll go out on a limb here and say I like the basic idea. One major detail I would change is to make it a $100,000 or $50,000 minimum instead of $500,000. There are many parts of the country where it's hard to even find a house that's as ex
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Blackberry vs. iPhone: No Longer a Contest(filterjoe.com)
1 points by FilterJoe 15y ago|0 comments
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I pay $49/year for 10GB. Dropbox doesn't advertise but if you request it they'll quote you for other storage amounts and let you sign up. 20GB for $49/year is what I really want. Hopefully they'll do that soon. Here is what they told in lat
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
As a paying Dropbox user, one of the things I most appreciate about them is how they are slow and cautious about rolling out new features, placing more importance on keeping the software stable, reliable, and reasonably fast. I also use Eve
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Agreed. While clearly not leaders in hardware, Microsoft's entrenched position in the enterprise means you can never count them out. They have a history of arriving very late to a game, getting it wrong a few times, but finally getting it r
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I disagree with your assessment that "not one of [Google's] three positions is easily defensible in the face of determined competition, and I suspect it is more by luck (and inertia) than judgement that they have avoided this fate so far."
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I never read beyond top 200 from front page. However, 5-20x/week I click on "new" and skim headlines from the top 10 or so (or anything on the page with at least 2 votes). Most of these never make it to the top 200, yet I typically find abo
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
If you ask a variety of people how readable they find a typical web site, you'll receive almost uniform responses that many (or most) pages are difficult to read. Font size is a factor but there are many more factors, which I outline here:
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
I own a Blackberry 9700 which was a nice phone when it came out but have been underwhelmed by the 9780 and in some ways even the 9900 (no autofocus camera, no UMA). That's why it's the first thing I thought of. I think I would prefer an iPh
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
This upgrade reminds me of the upgrade from the Blackberry 9700 to the Blackberry 9780. In both cases: camera is considerably improved, processor and/or memory modestly improved, more interface eye (or ear) candy. It's no wonder that many p
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by FilterJoe 15y ago
Great comment. And it's even worse with less common ailments like Asthma or Chronic Fatigue Symptom. My wife has Asthma that is triggered by a number of different things including perfume and smoke. People often dismiss concerns she raises

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