RyanMcGreal

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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Reminds me of Dan Pink's presentation on what motivates people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc It seems to me that the only piece missing from the current system is the ability to fire bad teachers . I'm generally pro-union,
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
That's seriously awesome. I can't wait to see more of these experiments pushing out our conception of what you can do with HTML5 and its assorted technologies.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Don't scoff at this until you've tasted military-grade walnuts.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Email replaced meetings in the same way that desktop computers replaced paper.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
A bigger worry is the improbability of having another ship arrive to pick you up within 30 seconds.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
I don't know whether this consequence is intended or not, but at times HN feels unbearably stuffy, self-important and, well, humourless. I've always thought of hacking above all as a fun activity - in the way that posing and solving puzzl
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
"Commoditize your complement" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Not bad, but it should be implicit. Hell, even the Pizza Pizza IVR has an option to re-order the same thing you ordered last time.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
This is the CSS reset I normally use: /* reset block elements */ blockquote, dir, div, dl, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, ol, p, pre, table, ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 1em; }
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
I understand what you're saying. My point is that I don't even use Word for the things Word is supposed to be good at, let alone the features that Word doesn't even try to provide.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
I'm sad to hear that they didn't cast Alan Arkin as the dad. The question is: what happens when a smart, pithy collection of short statements uttered by an old man and documented by his loving son gets taken over by the writers' guild and t
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Mostly essays.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Granted, my print layout needs are modest, but these days I do nearly all my writing in Markdown in a text box on a web form, and save my documents to a database with version control. I use python-markdown2 to convert it to HTML, and I wrot
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
You raise an interesting point, but the purpose of an editor is to filter content before publication in a scarce medium so that resources aren't wasted publishing crap no one wants to read. The editor serves the owner of the means of publ
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
>I thought most of the time sexual harassment happened because the aggressor basically wants the victim to sexually submit (i.e. have sex). Sexual harassment is harassment - behaviour intended to intimidate, disturb, offend, threaten
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Muphry's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law Also, it's always been true that many people don't have the writing skills to communicate effectively. What's different today is that for the first time, those people have the abil
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
If we follow Winer's advice and use just a simple subset of XML, what does XML buy us that JSON doesn't also provide with less overhead and better readability? (Yes, I know JSON doesn't have namespaces, but I'm not persuaded that namespaces
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
>It has always been the case since the dawning of the World Wide Web that we would all go to the same site and get the same information. What, what, what? That's the exact opposite of what the web is supposed to be about. The web is s
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Playing on the sexual innuendo of a paper on bat fellatio doesn't need to mean he was hitting on her. More likely it was a subtle form of sexual harassment.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Addons.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
On both my home Ubuntu system and my work Windows XP system, Firefox and Chrome are about the same speed and the same memory footprint. However, I can't deny that Chrome subjectively feels snappier to use.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
>Certainly, Google Chrome is now growing at a much faster pace than Firefox is. I get tired of seeing this repeated ad nauseam. It's easy to grow fast from zero; Firefox grew fast from zero. It's a lot harder to grow fast from doubl
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
The ability to deliver technically is only part of the success of a business. The ability to communicate clearly, honestly and effectively is just as important. It may be that the Wakemate devs have perfectly fair and reasonable grounds for
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
This really underscores my wish for HN to be more transparent in how the decision is made to [dead] a submission or a comment. Right now it feels highly arbitrary; about half the time I can't easily determine why something is killed.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Do you double your number of cars or romantic partners every year? Then the analogy might hold and the strategy might work.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
There is a theory which states that if we did adopt one rendering engine to rule them all, the healthy competition that keeps (most of) the various rendering engines innovating would collapse and progress would stall. Eventually, some upsta
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Beautiful, thanks.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
I seemed to get the optimum reading speed and fluidity at 300 wpm, 10 words at a time, reading in 1 word at a time. Edit: I also second mahipal's recommendation to right-align the text.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
>THE world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned. An important lesson from the Canadian cod collapse is that when populations drop b
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
>To roughly paraphrase what Obama said, quit dicking around on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc. and look for good articles. But sometimes I want to dick around with enjoyable distractions.

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