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Hoss Gifford: Get More Of What You Want. Negotiation and BATNA(hossgifford.com)
1 points by crux 17y ago|0 comments
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by crux 17y ago
What I think is most telling about that is McNamara's response to Morrison; rather than attempting to paint all dissent as traitorous, or to claim (as would surely be claimed now) that Morrison 'hates the troops', McNamara accepts the moral
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by crux 17y ago
In North America, 'damned [noun]' is a marked usage. 'That damn cat' is considerably more common—more common in writing, and moreso in speech.
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by crux 17y ago
Actually, I suspect you're getting downvoted because the article has nothing to do with 37Signals, and thus your comment was wildly off-topic.
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by crux 17y ago
This article deals with Carr's in only the most superficial manner. Carr clearly wasn't saying, 'these two people had mobile technology, therefore people with mobile technology are heartless.' The two people in his examples used mobile tech
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by crux 17y ago
Dangrover, I just wanted to let you know that I think ShoveBox is a great application. I have been on the verge of buying it for a year now because I enjoy its use and find it so elegant, but I never have done because I haven't been able to
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Sourceforge launches Geeknet(geek.net)
17 points by crux 17y ago|8 comments
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The Complete Guide to Google Wave(completewaveguide.com)
5 points by crux 17y ago|0 comments
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by crux 17y ago
These tips are written with legal writing in mind (and desirably so; as a cohabitant of a recent legal graduate I can report that the legal world has some awfully retrograde typographical principles), but I would not hesitate to recommend a
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by crux 17y ago
Well, part of it comes down to the fact that the text is read differently, depending on whether it's block letters or code. If you're writing prose, you process most text on a word-by-word basis, if not sentence-by-sentence. For instance, p
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by crux 17y ago
I downvote because I have been personally offended by something that has been said. Most often I have been offended by the sin of bad taste. This is, granted, a pretty wide area, but when somebody writes something egregiously distasteful—wh
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by crux 17y ago
The equivalent to his complaint would be that nobody was looking at their mail client at the very moment that he sent them an email. Luckily. you don't have to know anything about how Google Wave works in order to declare it a failure!
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by crux 17y ago
Wow, I never would have thought but my girlfriend just said the exact same thing. She doesn't like looking at feet and thinks they're gross.
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by crux 17y ago
Google Wave is not in beta. It's in public preview. Right now they're not interested in being useful to you or any other user; they're still building and designing the damn thing. The only reason they let you on is so they have a bunch of n
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by crux 17y ago
nor do they expect to become experts at things while being unwilling to ever do them. A cursory look at the internet, at geek temperament, or at geeks on the internet will quickly put that assumption to bed.
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by crux 17y ago
Wal-Mart is despised and loathed because they have borderline-abusive policies towards their employees, because a Wal-Mart store has the capacity to completely disrupt the entire established ecosystem—that's been there for decades or more—o
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by crux 17y ago
I disagree. The two apps have wildly different configuration schemes, yes, to wildly different ends, but in this case we're addressing the exact same function in both editors. It's not a question of whether vim's syntax highlighting is bett
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by crux 17y ago
They'll replace it for you without complaint, but as an Apple Service Provider tech I can tell you, don't get your hopes up about the upgrade. Apple supplies its providers with parts for machines well after their warranties are all up; for
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by crux 17y ago
But given that the people who might end up using Google Wave the most—office workers—are also terribly conservative when it comes to the tools they use, it's not surprising that Google has started with the bloggers. The fact is, the vast ma
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by crux 17y ago
I'm in a death metal band. We're actually recording a new album right now; I'm off to the studio in half an hour. But our previous album is available free here: http://music.flamingtusk.com I guess it's not a very hackery style of music t
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by crux 17y ago
I think there's a (mostly) non-sequitur there. Russian cursive handwriting bears only a very faint resemblance to Latin cursive. Russian cursive is (famously) hard to read and confusing because so many of the letters either look like other
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by crux 17y ago
I don't use anything resembling the italic style of handwriting, but I do applaud any attention that the issue manages to receive. When this conversation comes up, you hear a lot of people say 'Who uses pen and paper anymore? I only type th
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by crux 17y ago
This is magnificent. Zen Habits has managed to squeeze an message against the facile, uncreative, stultified, by-the-numbers webcock formula directly into a facile, uncreative, stultified, by-the-numbers blog post. There is still much waiti
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by crux 17y ago
I should note that both Safari and Firefox understand the URL 'http:news.ycombinator.com/item?id=796434' as well.
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by crux 17y ago
It's interesting to read Guy talk about Twitter. Twitter's pretty new, and still pretty lawless, so you still get a lot of people really openly discussing how best to use Twitter to do nothing more than advertise, to self-promote, or to kee
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by crux 17y ago
This is just another article about the well-established practice of using statistical analysis to compare texts, or to try to determine if a sequence of symbols even might be a language in the first place. In fact, several sentences in the
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Pagegoblin - Content in blog/news/board form at once(pagegoblin.com)
1 points by crux 17y ago|0 comments
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by crux 17y ago
This is definitely the most shallow comment I have made, but: what a deeply unfortunate application icon.
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by crux 17y ago
As long as the Pre is capable of syncing with iTunes, you have a situation where an unsupported device is capable of affecting (through fraudulent means) the user's music, contacts, settings, and god knows what else -- all of which live in
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by crux 17y ago
I don't want to start any flamewars, but the assumption that the market leader can engage in a kind of mutualism and 'not support' a given device or OS while still leaving them open to interoperability displays the sort of cavalier attitude

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