cha-cho

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by cha-cho 10y ago
Was it "their rapists" or "they're rapists" that he said? One makes sense in the context, the other makes people outraged.
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by cha-cho 10y ago
This needs to develop into a grading system. A "Flanders Threshold" or something.
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by cha-cho 10y ago
Kathy Sierra gave an informative talk on the topic of learning at the 2015 O'Reilly Fluent conference. It's entitled "Making Badass Developers". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKTxC9pl-WM
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Show HN: Project 7BT – A Universal Start Menu and Common Storage Concept(7basictypes.com)
2 points by cha-cho 10y ago|0 comments
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by cha-cho 10y ago
This is a little embarrassing. Like most every idea I came up with at the time, it had the word “smart” in it. Smart Windows. What are “Smart Windows”? So glad you asked. At the time both NeXTSTEP and MacOS only had resizing handles on the
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by cha-cho 10y ago
To my young mind, it was more about someone else taking credit for my wonderful ideas. My naive thinking was that Steve Jobs would be dazzled for sure. He'd probably want to hire me or pay me a million dollars, but some other person ch
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by cha-cho 10y ago
I sent him an email from a NeXTStep configured PC in around 1996/97/98 stating I had some window GUI ideas that would give him a distinct advantage over Windows. As I recall, his reply was terse, along the lines of: ~~~ What are t
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by cha-cho 10y ago
I would be interested to see the original spec for Lotus Agenda. That product still has a legion of fans extolling its virtues online. And it was a DOS product.
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by cha-cho 10y ago
The solution to all your problems is to get one customer. One person who says “I get what you are trying to do and I will pay you for it.” The longer you put off acquiring a customer the harder your journey becomes.
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by cha-cho 10y ago
A good book about Larry Ellison is “Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle” from 2004. It looks like Larry himself proofread the book as he offers comments and corrections at the bottom of some of the pages. Oracle is unl
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by cha-cho 10y ago
I cobbled together a NeXT-compliant Intel box in '95 so I could get NeXTSTEP 3.2 installed. What started it all? An old BYTE magazine article that featured a screen capture of NeXTSTEP. It looked so good that I just had to try it out f
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by cha-cho 10y ago
It feels a little insulting to read that headline after watching the 20/20 report on the Rolling Stone UVA rape hoax. For that story they relied on one source and didn't listen to their own fact checkers. In the process they damag
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by cha-cho 10y ago
Nuts. I don't think I removed the battery and it's been in storage for almost ten years. Then again if it can survive me naively washing the motherboard with a garden house and letting it dry in the sun, I think the Amiga gods wil
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by cha-cho 10y ago
It's been quite a while (the ole 2500 is in storage) but it seems like a person could change directories without the "CD" command. Just type the path in the CLI, hit return, and you moved to that directory. edit: Likely think
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by cha-cho 10y ago
Pretty compelling information. Two observations: 1) No LinkedIn. Are they on top of the problem? 2) I had fun results with the Epic Privacy Browser.
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by cha-cho 10y ago
Another option: https://www.windytv.com/?25.314,-76.003,6
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by cha-cho 10y ago
I'm glad this work is being done. For kicks, I'd like to see the clickbait classifier take on /r/savedyouaclick
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by cha-cho 10y ago
It's really not about self actualization though. I think your therapist may have been a CEBT/REBT dabbler. The authors of the REBT books I mentioned are at odds with most everyone other type of therapy. One of the books strongly c
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by cha-cho 10y ago
CEBT from now on it is. Though DBT is worth a mention too and it's not all that different from what's described on Urban Dictionary.
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by cha-cho 10y ago
> I've had probably a dozen therapists over the years Writing this as someone who went through SCUBA training (but never took the open water dive) and also went through an intensive private pilot training course (but never went on
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by cha-cho 10y ago
If you want to know where Microsoft got the inspiration for the box and "X" buttons that debuted in Windows 95, check out some images of ye old NeXTSTEP Workspace Manager from circa 1990.
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by cha-cho 10y ago
It's not dramatically different than hitting CMD+OPTION+H every time you switch tasks. It is a little bit easier on your fingers though.
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Show HN: 1AppMode – MacOS X Single Application Mode Revisited(github.com)
3 points by cha-cho 10y ago|2 comments
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by cha-cho 10y ago
A very clever idea. The UX and the ease to onboard with the demo are both well executed. Congratulations!
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by cha-cho 10y ago
Not hyperlinking to the Agile Manifesto in the second paragraph? Man that's cold.
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by cha-cho 11y ago
My first serious bit of computing was on an Amiga2500 with a Video Toaster card. At the time Windows for WorkGroups was getting a lot of attention so I started playing around with PCs and eventually bought a Windows notebook. I was shocked
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by cha-cho 11y ago
Any idea or product that enhances an OS interaction and could be easily integrated into the OS if the vendor just decided they wanted to do so.
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by cha-cho 11y ago
What is the lesson here for the next flux type product creator?
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by cha-cho 11y ago
I feel that this line should be in bold: "It doesn’t really matter what your friends think of your ideas or you in regards to starting a business–the votes that count come in the form of paying customers."
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by cha-cho 11y ago
Exercise and sunlight are scientifically proven to reduce depression. Indulge in each for at least one hour a day. Two books (with very long titles) that may be helpful in understanding and combatting the illness are: "The Depths: The

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