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by bigethan 11y ago
I'm currently living in Tunisia, which does not allow currency to leave the country in any meaningful way. You can change a maximum of 10,000 TD at a time, equivalent to ~$5,000 USD, and if you did it many times, they'd probably s
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by bigethan 11y ago
Let's be clear, I wasn't a good student. Keep that in mind with this advice :-) This technique seems incredibly effective, but also way too time consuming. My best advice is to buy a ton of four color pens, and put them everywhere
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by bigethan 11y ago
Please try harder (or be less sarcastic?). How do I know which is which?
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by bigethan 11y ago
Once again Capitalism trumps Ethics ;-) It'd be easy to dismiss this as "nudges are just marketing", but I do think he has a point. If a nudge is the ui trying to be a knowledgeable assistant, it shouldn't be dishonest.
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by bigethan 11y ago
Sure it's pretty good. But can it interop with other APIs predictably forever without paying Zapier? And the capitalism dig has to do with when your address verification endpoint decides that an API isn't profitable. Or that it&
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by bigethan 11y ago
The Awl's articles make me miss Google Reader.
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by bigethan 11y ago
Reminded me of this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary... This article is fun, but big food companies are gonna use everything they can to get you to enjoy something th
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by bigethan 11y ago
I had two thoughts while reading this. 1 - The need for the web to be profitable in some way makes 'single tools' hard to build. You have to grow users, add features, etc, etc. So even if you have an API or something useful it li
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by bigethan 11y ago
I appreciated the minification walk-through more than actually having a tweet solid package manager. Before you get to the range of code golf, less code means less bugs.
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by bigethan 11y ago
I'd say that it hurts _all_ of it's software development, though AI is probably the most obvious genre. If you can't discuss issues with outsiders how do you attract developers who are interested/skilled in those specif
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by bigethan 11y ago
> Fearing GMOs because you don't like Monsanto's practices is like fearing computers in the 1990s because you don't like Microsoft's practices. I disagree. I can live without a computer. I can't live without foo
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by bigethan 11y ago
The issue in the US is that GMO === Monsanto. And Monsanto is very clearly a company that does not care about the long term implications of its science (you think they'd sit on data like Exxon did with climate change data? I do, 100%)
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by bigethan 11y ago
I don't understand why you replied to me.
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by bigethan 11y ago
Hi, we've cultivated a massive audience of angry young men, you sensitive arty types wanna come over? Bob Ross is still your king, right? /s Snark aside, I do love the opportunity for artists to have a way to earn money along thei
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by bigethan 11y ago
Sure! For "I'm a person who is also developer" browsing I have a variety of plugins installed that play havoc with the console normally. In FF I have "I'm working" plugins installed. I'm aware that I can
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by bigethan 11y ago
I've started developing in FF because of the ability to not have all my chrome plugins installed everywhere, and the dev tools are pretty much there compared to chrome a few versions ago. For performance inspection chrome is still the
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by bigethan 11y ago
Formula 1 is especially amusing to me. Rather than saying "no tech" it says "not this tech" which just invites loophole finders. eg. the so called "F-Duct" ( http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/
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by bigethan 11y ago
The camera science is fancy, but to me the bit at the end: "At the very least, he doesn’t want this tactic available to just one team." A week or so ago there was a discussion sparked by advanced curling brooms here about how spor
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by bigethan 11y ago
Recognizing that you're accidentally/subliminally sexist or racist is good. But you should also recognize that those have had an effect on the world, and knowingly attone by spending some of your privilege. A sudden self awarenes
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by bigethan 11y ago
The server side rendering looks really interesting (I've been getting into SVG for mobile web graphics). Are there other SVG libs that do server side rendering, or is this unique as it seems?
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by bigethan 11y ago
This quote hits close to home: “Basically at the onset of a project I think the higher ups prefer a dollar amount and schedule that doesn’t shock the public.” When the people who are not knowledgeable about the actual details of the project
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by bigethan 11y ago
I was recently in Tunisia, and got to see into a co-working summit ( http://www.coworkingsummit.org/ ), which feels like a very related trend. I was surprised at how each of the co-working space managers really focused on bu
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by bigethan 11y ago
yep, don't people know how Capitalism works? This sort of stuff is perfectly expected, just like the VW cheat. It's a fight for money and there aren't many rules.
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by bigethan 11y ago
The interesting bit to me: If you load the app with content before entering China, when you are in China the app won't open. It seems to be deactivated if your phone connects to any Chinese cell tower. This seems to be a bit heavy han
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by bigethan 11y ago
TL;DR: It's ok, but expansion is tricky, as the initial installation (which was substantial) can only power the existing facilities. Also the dependability of the power grid is a concern as well.
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by bigethan 11y ago
If you're burnt out, you're gonna need more help than "Eat a good breakfast". See a therapist, don't let it become depression, take some serious time off.
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by bigethan 11y ago
It feels a lot like Wall Street in the 80's. I'm not leaving, but I needed to find the currents out of the main cultural flow to stay sane.
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by bigethan 11y ago
Yep that's the soot part I mentioned.
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Poll: Code Quality Your iOS App vs. Your Android App
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by bigethan 11y ago
The iOS App code is "better"

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