bprater

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by bprater 18y ago
I spend part of nearly every day at a local coffeeshop. Change of locale away from my office helps my creative energy enormously. I rarely get distracted by all the noise and movement, though. Once I'm in the zone, I don't hear the music pl
842.
by bprater 18y ago
Having a bad day? There are many lessons to be learned in life. You may not resonate with her but the lessons she has learned are universal.
843.
by bprater 18y ago
Zed is always angry. That's why we love Zed!
844.
by bprater 18y ago
Glad they changed the name officially. I could never remember where the extra periods went. Before the 'i' or after the 'i'?
845.
by bprater 18y ago
Pump up your positioning. I could barely figure out what I was looking at for a few seconds and almost hit the rewind button before I caught it in the middle.
846.
by bprater 18y ago
God willing, one day cell carriers will be open enough to do this hack without needing a cellphone.
847.
by bprater 18y ago
Be sure to scroll half-way down to see what Cuil thinks of our friend Paul Graham.
848.
by bprater 18y ago
Oops, a little bait and switch, eh? I guess those traveling there might do well to brush up on their tunneling skills.
849.
by bprater 18y ago
Nice to see something positive mentioned about the project. As hackers, it's our job to cheer on projects like this and not focus on the parent company. Good luck to the team playing with the concept.
850.
by bprater 18y ago
This isn't exactly new. What is the new part they are covering in the news?
851.
by bprater 18y ago
The white things are LIDAR units. It's a laser range finder often used for robotics car competitions. It's the most accurate way to measure distance. If you wonder how it works: the unit has a spinning mirror. It sends out pulses of laser l
852.
by bprater 18y ago
Anything to get folks off those old relics of browser, I'm game for.
853.
by bprater 18y ago
Is it possible that Knol ranks high because its lives in the Google domain? And that no one touched the algorithm? I can't imagine Google not understanding that this could happen. Hopefully, they'll speak up soon.
854.
by bprater 18y ago
Most people read in phrases, not in words. I would think 300wpm would be baseline for most folks.
855.
by bprater 18y ago
It is fine for "FanBoys" to push Dark Knight into number one. But downvoting Godfather to put your movie into the #1 spot is plainly wrong.
856.
by bprater 18y ago
Should be easy to cull these votes from the system. Anyone voting Dark Knight at 10 and Godfather at 1 should get nixxed from the system. In fact, anyone voting Godfather less than 8 should be nixxed.
857.
by bprater 18y ago
Perhaps this is an advantage to Y!Hack not having a downvote button.
858.
by bprater 18y ago
Banking on Silverlight is silly. Penetration is hideous.
859.
by bprater 18y ago
I think that's how Google made some distance in the early days. I was using it and telling my friends about it when everyone was still using Yahoo!
860.
by bprater 18y ago
I love the concept, but I don't know that it motivates folks that don't have a business to get out there and start one. It takes a special kind of mindset to want to strike it out on your own without that safety net.
861.
by bprater 18y ago
How does latency affect users in other countries? Worth worrying about?
862.
by bprater 18y ago
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” Wait a sec, who is responsible for writing up this history and making sure we all get a copy?
863.
by bprater 18y ago
Bingo, there is something very attractive about a small community.
864.
by bprater 18y ago
Long live [insert name of company]!
865.
by bprater 18y ago
What's with all the one-liners?
866.
by bprater 18y ago
I have a long stretch of tags (username: bprater), when I click on a lower one, I don't know that stuff is being changed at the top. You might take the user back to the top.
867.
by bprater 18y ago
What functionality (pieces of the puzzle) does he not want to deal with? In general, selling software boils down to being able to take money (credit cards) and provide the software (via a secret URL or a serial code).
868.
by bprater 18y ago
The title might be more aptly written, "It's official -- Steve Jobs calls a Times reporter and says that he does not have cancer."
869.
by bprater 18y ago
There are a few people I will be sad to see leave this planet, folks like Hugh Hefner and Richard Branson, visionaries. Jobs is one of those people. I'm not a fanboy, but I respect his ruthless passion.
870.
by bprater 18y ago
I think many vendors may now use encrypted Wifi by default, but I wonder if doing something as simple as creating a "random" password and printing it on the user's manual would have done the job?

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