Poiesis

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by Poiesis 16y ago
Disk encryption.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
(raises hand) Although to be fair it only reached 10% after 401k matching kicked in, if I recall correctly. Can't pass up free money.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I have four kids and would consider this product. Of course, I have similar software monitoring my bike commute for my wife's edification. I'm the one who set it up; I don't feel particularly oppressed. I would hope that my kids would view
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Recently my mom witnessed an interaction at our county fair where a woman was feeling symptoms of a heart attack, and feeling very ill. This woman flagged down someone, and handed her her iPhone to call for help. The passerby promptly took
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Personally, I figure that if I stay at $BIGCORP I will have far less time to connect with my kids--over the long term--than if I work for myself. I might have to front-load the time a bit as I get set up but this is not a given, given the s
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I would like to make it to one of these, but the timing's always been wrong. Tomorrow our youngest daughter will be eleven days old, so we're a bit preoccupied with her.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Actually, it can help if you have a risk-averse spouse. We aggressively pay off our mortgage so that we'll be free of that expensive obligation sooner. It requires sacrifices from everyone, kids and parents--but we're not convinced that the
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Unfortunately, companies do occasionally change version control systems. History also tends to get lost when the codebase of one project is imported as the beginning of another.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Look, here's the thing--we're not all your competitors. The existence of other bright people is more or less orthogonal to your success. Even then, they're probably a net positive because you have other people to learn from. Your success o
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Message: AT&T expects to solve user experience problems by removing or restricting features, and this is a bad thing. This is of course in contrast to Apple's usual product design approach, which is to solve user experience problems b
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I use a CD ladder for this purpose. Twelve one year CDs, each maturing on different months, set to automatically reinvest unless we decide otherwise. Works well for the people who need to have their emergency money a bit harder to get too,
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I will feed the troll: He should spend some of his blogging energy on developing a more interesting topic/business to blog about. Patio11 is not your dancing monkey. Sure, his writing skills and analysis are decent/good, but the content
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by Poiesis 16y ago
"I have even lined up speaking gigs at conferences in my vertical (no idea if I'm actually going to be any good at this)." Toastmasters International is your friend. They exist for this reason. Find a local club, visit, and see what you thi
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I have found that while you don't always get what you pay for, you generally don't get what you don't pay for.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I like reminders. I forget stuff. But I hate interruptions. Make the interruption as quick as possible. To me the advantage of getting a recording is the minimal interaction. I don't have to exchange greetings with a robot. So make it fast.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Thoughts: The sales pitch is too long IMO. If you end up keeping something like it post-demo you should test alternatives. The voice talkent is good. A bit too slow for my tastes but you need to do research here to see what people can hand
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by Poiesis 16y ago
- GMail for the iPad is actually decent except for one bug: you can't properly scroll when composing long emails that span one vertical screen space. Again, this just makes GMail useless on occasion. I don't have an iPad, but is this an i
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by Poiesis 16y ago
There are more valuable things to life than money. I challenge this reactionary view that the worth of a person's contribution to society can be measured by their salary. If a person chooses to enrich humanity's lot by providing value outs
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Psst! You missed the joke!
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by Poiesis 17y ago
That's one application of the Five Whys I'd like to see get more use. At work everyone's more interested in the next bug or feature instead of in how the last one got there. The irony being, of course, that what they're going to get is exac
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by Poiesis 17y ago
He's as much to blame? Did he have in his posession something which did not belong to him? To be sure, that is where his outrage is. Someone had something that dis not belong to them. They sold that thing. The recipient had every reason
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by Poiesis 17y ago
For what it's worth, he is referring to the bill-paying job when he says "only 60 hours?". And he has a successful product on the side, so much so that he's quitting the day job. Pretty sure the intent wasn't oneupmanship there so much as g
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by Poiesis 17y ago
I was really excited by the Sharp Zaurus when it was coming out, and by that openMoko idea and all that, and the the iPhone came out and actually made all that stuff practical. Ok, so I can't hack my own UI on the thing. BFD. I don't have
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by Poiesis 17y ago
That's a great idea. In fact, why don't you make it a mp3 player too! Built in wifi would be nice, and of course a decent API for development. While we're at it, make sure there's some sort of parental controls on there to make life easier
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Strike one idea off my "opportunities" list. :). Well done. How long did development take?
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Incidentally, this is why Don Knuth stopped giving out checks. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
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by Poiesis 17y ago
GUI based IDEs are flexible and have large communities too! > Yes. You're looking for Cedet. Can your IDE read my mail? Yes. At least, it can read my mail. For yours I'd have to know more info. :) > Can your IDE integrate with your
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Ctrl-Shift-t for similar behavior for "Open Type" in Eclipse, also Ctrl-o is handy for a popup outline for autocomplete navigation to methods/members (if you have huge bloated Java files for example).
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by Poiesis 17y ago
So, how much do e-book writers have to worry about piracy? It would seem that the barrier for entry, so to speak, for piracy of a PDF is a lot lower than for software, especially as it seems that someone's more likely to email their friend
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Title could potentially be improved to "How shipping a product saved my life". I figured he was getting a liver or pacemaker on a container ship from China.

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