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   by bprater 18y ago

   Reddit is that way -->
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   by bprater 18y ago

   As usual, we won't care until it's too late. That will be the history of our human civilization, too obsessed about today, never being truly serious about our future generations.
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   by bprater 18y ago

   Cool, I was wondering that exact thing yesterday: why no jet engine grill? Not all engineering problems are solvable! (Or should be solved.)
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   by bprater 18y ago

   This thing is so silly that they must be gaming for the viral crowd.
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   by bprater 18y ago

   What happens when both sides are almost exclusively using robots? Will war become a game?
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   by bprater 18y ago

   Jobs is Apple. But Pixar? Pixar is more John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton, directors of their blockbusters. Without the passions of those guys, Pixar wouldn't be where they are now.
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   by bprater 18y ago

   I'm a bit surprised that Google doesn't have an employee agreement in place preventing this. Many can extend well past your employment.
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   by bprater 18y ago

   I have a backpack and I take it everywhere. Not sometimes, but every single day I hit up a coffeeshop. So it's very portable. If you regularly plug into a bigger screen, a smaller machine might be better. If the Dell isn't compatible yet, I
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   by bprater 18y ago

   I love my MBP 17" with 1900x resolution. It allows me to pack my screen full. It sounds like it isn't in your budget, but as a developer, you might think about screen real estate. I had a 15" but couldn't develop on it. Since I got this 17"
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    by bprater 18y ago

    I really liked the post the other day where they handed the interviewee a chunk of code and asked them to "make it better".
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    by bprater 18y ago

    If we go through another great depression, perhaps a new generation that has true grit will have better clarity and perspective on what it takes to succeed.
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    by bprater 18y ago

    Corporate bureaucracy is a creative vacuum.
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    by bprater 18y ago

    Whuu? Should we flag every blog that puts ads on their page? Look, it's one thing if there are 5 hosts listed, but this guy obviously put a ton of effort into gather this data. Don't be so quick to pull the trigger, folks.
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    by bprater 18y ago

    Wow, did the company really not think that far ahead? How difficult is it, really, to set up a service that can be scaled these days? This is a good reason to hire the best systems- and programming-level guys you can. They wouldn't have ove
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    by bprater 18y ago

    I like services like this, however, the problem I run into is remembering the "command-line-like shortcuts". Was Amazon "amazon book" or "amz book" or "book amzon.com". And "what was the syntax for getting the definition?". Or "Do they have
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    by bprater 18y ago

    The script appears to be a command-line tool where you plug in your telephone number and it hits a Dominos backend, parses the page and returns the status of your pizza from oven to delivery. I'm actually surprised Dominos tracks each pizza
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    by bprater 18y ago

    I've never heard that Buddhist story before! Pretty amazing. Why do you think you picked this life?
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    by bprater 18y ago

    I think it's imperative. From an outsider's perspective, most start-ups look like a bunch of nuts riding the edge of sanity. From the inside, you have to convince yourself that you will succeed. Yes, it looks a little bit like crazy.
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    by bprater 18y ago

    I disagree, I thought it was an amazing blog post. The bottom-line is that you have to entertain online. No entertainment, no visitors. And people aren't entertained when they see a big wall o' text. If you were even slightly entertained, I
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    by bprater 18y ago

    He's being a wiseass. It's not even funny.
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    by bprater 18y ago

    Could we actually have some real conversation about the topic?
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    What's Cool about Windows 7...(arstechnica.com)

    3 points by bprater 18y ago|0 comments
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    by bprater 18y ago

    That why it's always good to give humans a reference. We have some kind of completeness gene. It's why we sit through commercials on a program we don't really like -- because they broke to commercial with an unanswered question. Preloader #
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    by bprater 18y ago

    You know, it's possible to summarize nearly every article in a sentence or two -- but you miss out on all the flavor that way!
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    by bprater 18y ago

    Hmm, having a private repo might be pretty nice. I wonder if the Dropbox cats have thought about doing something like this? They could continue acting as a "controller" and route data elsewhere.
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    by bprater 18y ago

    I continue to hear really good things about SoftLayer. Sounds like they are doing something right.
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    by bprater 18y ago

    I'm both a consumer and creator. I consume large quantities of non-fiction, but would prefer to write fiction. I'd rather create video games than play them. I don't think consuming and creating are mutually exclusive.
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    by bprater 18y ago

    I went through a nearly identical phase as the author. Obsessive reading, hours in the library, ordering everything related to business, becoming a Kaiser & Blair rep when I was 17. A blur of success and failure. But always moving forwa
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    by bprater 18y ago

    Take. Action.
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    by bprater 18y ago

    The jpegs might be for the lower-resolution chunks.