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Antigenic Cartography: Fighting the Flu with Maps(radar.oreilly.com)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Never Hate. Only Ever Destroy.(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
53 points by baha_man 18y ago|27 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
Try 'Search Y Combinator' instead: http://www.searchyc.com/
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Google innovation across America: Find. Share. Secure.(googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
2 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
You talk about age being irrelevant, and then suggest that people of different ages will necessarily have different viewpoints - isn't this a little contradictory?
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by baha_man 18y ago
"not because telling them gains me anything" You are gaining something, indirectly, even if you don't realise it - more users for Pandora, for example, means they are less likely to go out of business. Also, it may not mean anything to you
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by baha_man 18y ago
My point was that it a doctor would probably consider it inappropriate to give specific medical advice on the web without examining the patient. The same probably goes for most legal and financial advice. I can't remember the exact Google
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by baha_man 18y ago
Well, it's like when people ask medical questions online or write into newspapers - most of the time the correct answer is 'go and see your doctor'. Having said that, have you looked at the direct.gov.uk site? It seems about as straightfor
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(NHS) Patients should get Wikirecords(e-health-insider.com)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Using Git as a versioned data store in Python(newartisans.com)
34 points by baha_man 18y ago|6 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
"It doesn't make any sense to complain about inept suggestions or withheld permission when the problem could have been solved or a critical decision could have been made without blessing from above." The trouble is, if you try to solve a pr
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by baha_man 18y ago
"...you can’t build software the way the Egyptians built pyramids: draw a triangle blueprint and whip the slaves until it’s all in place." Nitpick: the pyramids probably weren't built by slaves. http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built
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Show, Don't Tell(weblog.raganwald.com)
37 points by baha_man 18y ago|11 comments
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Platial Goes Local & Very Soon Mobile(radar.oreilly.com)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Teaching Kids Programming(radar.oreilly.com)
20 points by baha_man 18y ago|5 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
I personally don't find that particulary annoying, I just hit the tab key. You can always take the user to the next textbox automatically with JavaScript.
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by baha_man 18y ago
Only in certain countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day#Mother.27s_Day_in_...
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by baha_man 18y ago
You could always take a leaf out of Richard Stallman's book... http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/
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by baha_man 18y ago
"On Friday night, Lorenzo, 35, was on a train heading to work a nightshift for a major American sales website's Berlin branch." This part of the article is pretty useless, it doesn't actually tell us what his job is. It sounds like it's no
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Goodbye to Linens and China(portfolio.com)
2 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
Want do you want to test, exactly? If it's the 'usability' of your application, you should read 'Why You Only Need to Test With 5 Users' by Jakob Nielsen: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html
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On Beauty in Code(avdi.org)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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You Can't PDF Your Way to Good Software(codingthewheel.com)
11 points by baha_man 18y ago|1 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
"When programmers embed their choice so deeply into their psyche that it becomes the tagline by which they identify themselves... Do you, the customer, really care what kind of tools they use?" The customer probably doesn't care, but recrui
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Reserved words: what are they good for? (Absolutely nothing?)(panopticoncentral.net)
2 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content(googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Pools of blood(badscience.net)
2 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Why Apple is really more expensive than Amazon(listeningtoreason.blogspot.com)
2 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
In my personal experience, it's the mouse that does the most damage. If you use Emacs but switch Caps Lock and Ctrl, you'll be much better off than using a normal IDE and the mouse. If you must use the mouse, try using your non-dominant ha
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by baha_man 18y ago
Yes, I bought one to use at work and it's now the only keyboard I use. It took a little getting used to, but now the only time I miss a keyboard with letters on the keys is typing passwords one-handed while I'm on the phone. Seriously, I d

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