ahoyhere

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by ahoyhere 18y ago
Why does this topic keep coming up? The same comments, the same threads, the same post-hoc justification (from all sides), the same faulty logical extrapolation, the refutation of aforementioned, etc., etc., etc. "Anti"-college people: Hi!
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
FWIW, you can hang out with the clubs and associations and not attend college.
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
It's better to take it in the spirit of challenge rather than waste god knows how many man-hours tirelessly documenting "The Great Feature Train Robbery" or whatever somebody titled the Digg submission.
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
unalone, you're very much correct but there's a nerd skepticism about anything related to "marketing" because nerd populations typically are comprised of people who have a hard time with social soft skills and marketing is the ultimate soft
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
(WARNING: ANECDOTES) I find that contemplating death has a very similar effect, -- not the way you'll die necessarily, just that you will, go in the ground, rot, and everybody and everything will move on without you. It's very good for the
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
Let's not forget that the invention of bureaucracy was hailed as a beautiful and wonderful thing, in order to prevent rich people from buying positions in govt and also getting personal favors out of other govt officials.
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
If he felt he didn't get done the things he wanted to do because he was constantly flitting around on a hundred projects, wouldn't you call that a procrastinator? I would. I'm the same way. Most people wouldn't call me a procrastinator look
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
If he felt he didn't get done the things he wanted to do because he was constantly flitting around on a hundred projects, wouldn't you call that a procrastinator? I would. I'm the same way. Most people wouldn't call me a procrastinator look
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
From what I've read, a lot of studies of "indigenous peoples" contradicts what you are saying. Especially regarding the time spent on necessities. I read an ethnographical book about how tribal peoples in the jungle 'worked' for at most hal
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
Oh hi. It's you! I read all of your blog a while back, maybe a year ago, when there was a long sabbatical. Most of the posts were about how to do the biz thing while all over the place, geographically, as I recall. I see you're back! But no
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
Better to just have personal projects that do the same thing while also demonstrating initiative. People used to call this "being well-rounded." People who wait to be assigned homework are not "go-getters."
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
I'd like to note that bitching about no-good, do-nothing, deceptive, thieving, bitchy, fat women is like slapping on a sandwichboard sign that reads "Grade Z Beta Male Here!" Complaining about it on an online forum merely adds a flashing li
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
Big props to you for realizing your part, and having the guts to admit it. That is the #1 indicator of a valuable human being.
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
With the irony, sadly, that it was not that easy to use and sacrificed functionality for "beauty" which was not even skin-deep. Damn amateurs.
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
> ... and I don't see anything about content creation software that makes it immune to the same forces. I'm a graphic & user interaction designer. About 4 years ago, I volunteered to help fix Drupal's UI problems. Everybody was like
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
> I think this is a classic business model problem with consultative services: 60-80% of the work is, in fact, cookie-cutter stuff that can be executed by any barely-competant practioner... The "cookie cutter nature" depends on whether
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
Every doctor I have been to in Austria has been superior to every doctor I have been to in the USA, with the exception of my ENT surgeon, who was a middle eastern immigrant to the US. (He was a top doctor in his field, taught at JHU, invent
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
> Considering the horrors of both... The horrors of both ? The Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Austria, Germany, etc., are all horror-ible places to live?
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
To address your #2, the fact that having a deep relationship is difficult is why such relationships are valuable and precious.
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
Oh, that's really useful. I had my own mental approximation, but it was much mushier than this, and this is pretty darn accurate. Much easier than multiplying by 5/9ths. Or 9/5ths. Whatver.
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
If they added drag n drop, it was after I used it. I had the service initially when it came out, and for years, the text box was the only option.
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
I could write a long list of stupid design decisions they made with the Kindle (it leaves nasty marks in my hand when I hold it in my preferred way), but... the utility of it is amazing. And I live in Europe so I can't even download stuff o
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
AZW is just a slightly modified version of .mobi, which is an open(ish) format and well understood. You can get gobs of free Project Gutenberg books formatted for the Kindle as AZW files (and in many other formats) at http://manybooks.net/
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
The "interface engineers" are the developers, and the "designers" forget that Photoshop is static and web apps are not? The problem is that they hired the wrong people. Perhaps they'd prefer to hire "interface designers" instead. I hear the
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
No amount of money would lure me to a foreign country with debtor's prisons, where people go to jail for having a tiny speck of marijuana leaf found on the bottom of their shoe: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23436226-details
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
It's not garbage reporting, it's a badly written sentence that makes it read as if the "lurid rumors" part only applies to the first part (sinking), not the second (cockroaches).
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Charity parties in 170+ cities, based around Twitter(twestival.com)
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
I thought Satisfaction and UserVoice were for small businesses. Are you really trying to build a company based on "We're like Coca Cola, but with a different name!" Also, for the love of god, coordinate your colors. Rainbow text is so 199
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
Yeaaaaahhh, why don't people work, like, triple the hours a week, and retire and 40, and spend all day rollin reefers and sunnin by the beach man! Old people aren't so smart as us, you know, plus, beach. Also, like, if you and I look at lik
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by ahoyhere 18y ago
"Self-awareness is what separates man from the ape." Actually, apes have demonstrable self-awareness. Promising title, but fluffy contents without useful info. Using Rescue Time and looking at your Google Reader stats is not the same as liv

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