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by bk 18y ago
Life is all about deception, isn't it?
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by bk 18y ago
"Free Agent Nation" describes this (or at least very similar) process/pattern as well. A world of free agents is at the highest resolution possible in that sense.
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by bk 18y ago
Thanks for the recommendations, but I'm actually looking for an editor written in javascript to embed in a web site that allows some nice code editing (chiefly auto-indent). Offline, I use textmate, smultron (both os x), vim.
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by bk 18y ago
I'm still looking for a simple editor that can auto-indent code/text. (Not even context sensitive, but at least keep the indent of the previous line). I've only found buggy or overkill implementations.
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by bk 18y ago
I will cautiously agree with that - cautiously because I don't want to become a part of it exacerbating the problem. To everybody wondering why there is such an echo chamber in the rails and (increasingly) merb communities: consultants. The
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by bk 18y ago
Many use cases remain (and will remain for a long time) where having a network-based application is not practical. This doesn't even necessarily depend much on technological advances, as it does on geographical and social factors. Examples:
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by bk 18y ago
Call me naive, but I think it would be great for OSS to have a license that is free (as in freedom), but free as in beer only as long as a certain revenue threshold is not passed, basically, a "pay when you can" model. Why shouldn't a compa
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by bk 18y ago
poster |ˈpōstər| noun 1 a large printed picture used for decoration. • a large printed picture, notice, or advertisement displayed in a public place : [as adj. ] a poster campaign. 2 Computing someone who sends a message to a newsgroup. Whi
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by bk 18y ago
I'm pretty sure he means to fix the deliberate piratized misspelling of yarrhoo-inc to yahoo-inc. This technique started with inserting "NOSPAM" into email addresses when posting them publicly on the web as a spam protection measure. Since
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by bk 18y ago
I'm reading the book, and although everyone online latches on to the 10,000 hours hook, Gladwell's hypothesis is much more ecological, in the sense that it's not (primarily) some innate drive that gives "geniuses" (i.e. accomplished people)
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by bk 18y ago
Sorry to rain on the parade, but I've never felt js slowness in Firefox (I'm on osx). What I do feel every day is: 1. Crazy memory consumption for "power" usage (even without extensions) 2. The flash plugin just kills my CPU like Jack the
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by bk 18y ago
This is fine and dandy if you live near an Apple store. If you don't, especially if you go overseas with a US bought product, things get much less pretty. Non-US Apple has refused to handle my US warranties, so the only recourse was to ship
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by bk 18y ago
The word you're looking for is circle jerk . :)
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by bk 18y ago
I'm not a game dev, but I'd say that besides the technical issues of development, (non-action) RPGs depend particularly on three things: 1. story line / script 2. character development (stats and items) 3. careful balancing of rules to keep
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by bk 18y ago
Load balancer fail: "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request."
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by bk 18y ago
I really think the new macbooks / ~ pro are a bit of a letdown price/performance wise. There are recent other notebooks, such as the Samsung R560 that cost about half of what a macbook pro costs, and offer roughly equal specs. E.g. Samsung
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by bk 18y ago
Thanks, Gabor. I think the email field is huge and it baffles me how many people can't see it. But when they eventually see a better way of dealing with it, they'll be blown away. I have a whole UI prototype on the shelf that I can't impl
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by bk 18y ago
Gabor, it would be helpful if you could outline what stack/technologies you have in mind for hacking to give people a better idea of their suitability.
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by bk 18y ago
I agree. Especially since there's a socially conditioned stigma against falling for a false alarm when trying to help. It seems to be seen as a display of hysteria on the helper's part. That's why most people act "too cool" to actually do s
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by bk 18y ago
I agree that editorialized titles often distort more than help. However, I welcome neutral additions to (short or artsy) titles that provide some context or clarification.
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by bk 18y ago
I mostly agree. The single most important thing you have to do when starting a company (esp. without funding) is to choose the right customers. How efficiently can you reach them? How well can you turn these leads into customers? What is th
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by bk 18y ago
Anecdotal evidence is very important when it concerns you - if you get cancer or your parachute happens to be the one that fails, the larger statistic is really not all that relevant, unless you're in a competition for "I got screwed in the
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by bk 18y ago
I can painfully relate. One of my computers was called the Crapple (dual inherited from cripple and crap). I've owned four Apple computers (ibook G3, ibook G4, imac G5, macbook), and despite skipping first revisions and treating my computer
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by bk 18y ago
Speaking of online credibility... Here's a past post and comments by Duncan Riley (the article's author) from techcrunch. Judge for yourselves: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/29/its-fair-to-say-that-ge...
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Physicists spooked by faster-than-light information transfer(nature.com)
41 points by bk 18y ago|51 comments
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by bk 18y ago
So they can drive up their valuation with an inflated number of "registered users".
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by bk 18y ago
I agree, but the best chair is still at least an order of magnitude worse than some good old-fashioned exercise, esp. of stabilizers, and good postural habits. Btw - good luck with your physical therapy. It usually works wonders!
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by bk 18y ago
Some German universities have Max Planck or Fraunhofer Institutes attached to them. They do interesting and cutting-edge work, and take local students for assistant work, etc., which is great to do something "real" during your studies. Denm
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by bk 18y ago
Oh no! Alexa's old web measurement tool doesn't measure itself! http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/alexa.com Pathetic sensationalism. Google has a new reporting tool. Genuine thanks for reporting that, but the whole linkbai
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by bk 18y ago
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

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