Lewisham

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by Lewisham 16y ago
I personally roll sans-Dock, so I like it, but it should definitely have an option to turn it off. Seems like this one isn't even half-risen, let alone fully-baked, but it's tasty enough (extended metaphors are fun).
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Really great app, but really disappointingly appends "Sent with Sparrow" at the end of sent messages, with no preference to turn it off. Massively uncool, even if I can delete it myself. EDIT: Found this on the author's Twitter feed. Weird
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by Lewisham 16y ago
That's the sort of managerial problems that can only be solved from the top down. Shake-ups, reshufflings, and some good old fashioned ass-kicking can begin turning the ship around. A lot of Apple enthusiasts like to say "Apple's excellence
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Everything I've ever read about Microsoft's problems always point the finger at crippling management problems. Each department is out for themselves, not for the good of the company as a whole (see the Kin/WP7 debacle), and yet many departm
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Unfortunately, it's this mentality which makes it pretty painful to actually use the Microsoft products that are done well. I like my Xbox 360, a lot. Can I play videos on it from my Mac? Not without third-party hacked software! The WP7 loo
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I don't think anyone really believed that something you can hack together in twenty minutes, where your business plan is completely based on "for as long as Twitter doesn't do one", really counts as a "space". Anyone who invested in it dese
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by Lewisham 16y ago
One could view this as a by-product of the research university vs the teaching university. A research university is supposed to be a place where experts at the bleeding-edge of their fields congregate. That expertise is expected to trickle
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by Lewisham 16y ago
The problem with OpenID is that takeup is orders of magnitude lower than Facebook. That hasn't changed for years, and I don't think anyone really expects it to. Users can't use it as a direct facing log-in because users don't tie themselves
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Yeah, exactly. When I see a Facebook login, what I parse is "this site decided that it was a better idea to leave security to the professionals rather than hack something together. A secondary benefit is that I get to get through this signu
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I read it as program committees, but I guess PC is a subset of conference committee.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Yeah, essentially. Hipmunk's "Agony" metric is one you use when you've already decided to compromise. I wouldn't need it if I had the money for my preferred airline (there's lots of good airlines if you can afford them). A "choose your neme
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I love the addition of choosing alliances as your preferred airlines, but I still want a way of excluding airlines I hate (I will never give United or Air France my money again!) When that happens, Hipmunk will be perfect :)
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by Lewisham 16y ago
The thing you will really need to push on in your message is ease-of-use and functionality. Continuous Integration is one of those things that you mention to most teams and they raise an eyebrow and go "Why would I do that? Our tests only t
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by Lewisham 16y ago
This is another part of it: It's very difficult to compare health care in the same way you can compare, say, auto insurance. I've got a policy from my university, but it's still a significant document of legalese that doesn't easily explain
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I found it a somewhat more palatable alternative to SlideShare because I was a big fan of the HTML 5 viewer, but I had no idea this was part of their plan. It's a nasty bait-and-switch which isn't signaled when you upload at all. Not too ha
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Even after all other factors that are mentioned already, the one significant difference I feel (having come to the US from the UK) is one of constant fear. Can I afford to go to the doctor with my co-pay? If something bad happens to me, wil
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by Lewisham 16y ago
It's not thousands and thousands of dollars, it's just a bit too much to make it easy to undo on a graduate student salary. It's small things that rack up. It's small things that don't get easily factored into budgets: flowers for the groom
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by Lewisham 16y ago
How long are invites going to take? I'd love to take a look at this; my recent wedding has simply wiped me out. I'm not sure what to do, and having a better idea or what needs to be done would be a real boon.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I wouldn't necessarily agree this is true as long as you never have a mentor, never take money from anyone who wants voting shares and only work by yourself. All environments have politics. It's inherent in collaborative human interaction.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Some universities are better at this than others. My alma mater, University of Bristol, actively encouraged their faculty and students to create startups inside their incubator, giving them a bunch of money (usually alongside other VC AFAIK
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by Lewisham 16y ago
"Research union card" is my preferred description. It encompasses the necessity but scopes the applicability :)
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by Lewisham 16y ago
You're on the right lines, but it's not time itself that's important ;) I'm a British student taking my PhD in the US. The core difference is publication record: in the UK, publications while doing your PhD are simply nice to have. In the U
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Saying "really finishing ASAP isn't a good idea" is an advisor fail. Much of these points are advisor fails: it's your advisor who should be pushing you through grad school. They've seen it multiple times. You've seen it once. If your advis
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by Lewisham 16y ago
No, but grad school is a fantastic place for it. Yeah, it is, and it's a great way to add years onto a career move that is paying you subsistence wages. You can attend other classes once you're a post-doc (unlucky) or a professor (better)
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Yeah, BDD/TDD will also stop the necessity for "running the code all the time" like Gabriel espouses... what is better is to test the code all the time. Hit those green marks. Manual run-throughs of code paths is boring, to say the least. T
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by Lewisham 16y ago
One of my concerns about Backupify is that they didn't use APIs (at least when I tried it) so I couldn't revoke access later. I'm pleased Greplin does.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I think there's a very strong difference between Facebook's changes and Digg's. The changes to Facebook were most definitely what the company thought was best for the user. Lots of people don't like change, but Facebook stood their ground a
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by Lewisham 16y ago
This is about right. When I've seen my SO in female-dominated workplaces, the constant strain of "collaboration" is exhausting. However, "collaboration" in this sense is usually playing a competitive popularity contest, and in the archetypa
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I think this goes back to sunir's post. Women at the school yard are competing on who is winning the popularity contest, which is like a political campaign. You need to bring together all the money and the tools to win the hearts of the vot
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by Lewisham 16y ago
It freaked me out when I found out pg spoke with an American accent. I just assumed he had an English one from his place of birth. D'oh!

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