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by columbo 14y ago
Here's an example of vim running on an eink device ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdmX52SCpG0 ). A lightweight, long battery life eink-coder would be a fantastic thing to have when travelling. Grayscale vim would be good enough for me: h
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by columbo 14y ago
>The iOS App Store is a Race to the Bottom It is very easy to build something the 2nd time especially when your competitor has invested heavily into working out the kinks. For many software-chop-shops it makes sense to find something wi
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by columbo 14y ago
It really depends on what you consider user friendly. If you want fast access to the top ten applications you will normally use and an OS that is almost entirely hidden go for crunchbang ( http://crunchbang.org/ ) (video demo http://www.yo
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by columbo 14y ago
> Testing Mobile Apps On Drunks I've done this before. Not a mobile app but a unit of hardware that is at bars (think those digital jukeboxes). During the final stages of testing we mounted one at a friend's place and set it to debug mo
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by columbo 14y ago
It appears to have been in the semi-public view for quite a long time. Was there ever any action taken? Other related info: http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=715422 http://www.nychold.com/rev-bishop-0302.html In 200
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by columbo 14y ago
Sounds like most of those would be solved by putting it up on github so you'd git clone the bash repo then execute it.
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by columbo 14y ago
> They are indeed asking for uniformity against creativity Well, I mean you could argue that this is clever, creative and beautiful ( http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Confessions-rachetingDateObj... ). To quote one of the comments "If
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by columbo 14y ago
> 45 minutes writing and rewriting task lists, then spend 15 minutes .... Meh. My post was a generalization and I don't see the benefit of spending too much time (ha) arguing over the high-level time slots I put on the EXAMPLE. Maybe it
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by columbo 14y ago
> Whenever I make a todo list, I forget it and find it weeks later with some items completed and the rest have turned unimportant. I think that's the big problem, your todo lists are too big and too long. Getting Things Done would be a
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by columbo 14y ago
Do not under any circumstances keep to-do lists or use to-do apps. If you can't remember the most important things you need to do every day, you should work on that. And if you can't remember something you "need" to do, it's p
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by columbo 14y ago
> Call me a snob if you will, but I don't want to work with mediocre programmers > I want people with passion for our field, and those people can't avoid gaining the kind of knowledge that Colin's test asks about. Claiming to own th
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by columbo 14y ago
I'm one of the people who posted on the previous thread that didn't agree with the tone/method of the original blog post. Not that it matters in the slightest what I think. However, I'm glad it turned out this way.
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by columbo 14y ago
The fun part about reading articles like this is it leaves the reader to play armchair Steve Jobs based more on their own opinion of what they think Steve Jobs was trying to say. Did he say this because he wanted to see what sort of energy
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by columbo 14y ago
Sure, we've had it for awhile http://hr.cch.com/news/employment/033006a.asp
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by columbo 14y ago
Metal walls also cause condensation. Here's a good reference: http://www.tincancabin.com/ Building a 3 container cabin I believe wound up costing the guy $25,000 I've been thinking of making a tin-can-cabin, some sort of summer-vacation s
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by columbo 14y ago
The biggest challenge would be encouraging growth with people outside of your base. You become a $50m company, and the young manager you hired is turning out to be better than your sister/brother/wife/husband... are you ready to replace one
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by columbo 14y ago
The entire thing doesn't work in Linux/Chromium $$.js:28Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token default $$.(hooks).js:11Uncaught ReferenceError: $$ is not defined $$.(core).js:246Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token delete $$.(ro
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by columbo 14y ago
To be clear, I'm not dismissing his argument, I was simply answering the question "WHO CARES". There's a time to vent and a time to make a case. I personally feel that the author would have been better served making a case (EEOC) instead of
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by columbo 14y ago
Huh... >Also, at some point after this conversation took place, one of the women looked at my prized necklace and said “Hey, that looks like a calculator, is that a calculator?” I didn't really read that as immediately after, more along
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by columbo 14y ago
> WHO CARES? It unnecessarily adds doubt to the claims being made. If your narrator has an agenda it becomes difficult to trust that narrator.
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by columbo 14y ago
> calculator Was that inherently a racist thing to say? Because looking at it... it does look like something electronic. There's no question that the workplace was hostile, but there are too many side quests in this article. I'm not sur
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by columbo 14y ago
That question, and the example in the link really threw me for a loop. At first I understood the question as described, but then looking at the javascript code I suddenly became lost and frightened. It wasn't until I clicked "run" that I re
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by columbo 14y ago
Wait a sec... so get rid of patents, copyrights but leave the concept of trade secrets? How does that make sense?
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> Once those levels were released, people would be able to share them freely among themselves > In a no-copyright world, Valve's business model would certainly have to change Yes it would have to change. Honestly I don't think you'v
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Nothing was "stolen". Without copyright there was nothing that was removed from Valve. It is just a copy.
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by columbo 14y ago
It is really difficult to look into the tea leaves and find an answer to why things happen. After spending the entirety of my twenties working on failed startup after failed startup I finally reached something that actually is turning a pro
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by columbo 14y ago
I don't understand. Say I pay a Valve employee a million dollars for the current working source-code of Half-Life 3. I then compile it and release the first couple working levels for $10 a pop... I should easily be able to make 50 million o
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by columbo 14y ago
> Brick and mortar stores have VIP programs all the time. Yes. But you can also show up and buy a pair of shoes. I don't believe what you are describing is a fair analogy. When I order a pair of shoes I expect a pair of shoes. I don't e
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I'm not clear what the problem is. Do you have a study that shows that, for example, 12 years of training over 4 years of training produces a significant result in mortality rate? Reducing barriers while still producing similar or good-enou
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by columbo 14y ago
> That conclusion can only be drawn by people who perform simplistic keyword matching and fail to comprehend what I've actually said. Sure, I could have misread everything you've posted but imagine the lawyer for a potential failed hire

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