dan_the_welder

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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I agree with your friend, it's my observation that all human behaviors are somewhere on a spectrum. People have different abilities or cultural ability to discern the resolution. Some see in black and white and some see greyscale.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I deal with a lot of different people in a given day, academics, trades people, sales people, students, parents, bankers, employees....you name it. I do all of the context switching, or condescending, up or down because I long ago realize
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I regularly find myself having two separate conversation threads in a text message exchange with one person. I don't know if that confuses people or not.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
If it logs your miles from a text message, that's a bit more complicated than a website. SMS to web gateway, process the data, update the database, connect database to website, make functional website. These are not super complicated on the
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Facebook changes have been incremental. This may as well be a completely different site.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Which "ERP, Accounting and CRM app" ? List seems to change fast.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Fashion yes, the best industrial designers barely understand fashion. The only thing I can remember where a fashion designer attempted to incorporate tech is those sneakers with the LEDs in the heels... and since they were a fashion, they p
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Search has "issues" I wonder if the modern electronic card catalog has a place in the grand scheme of things. I think search has made us lazy, I admit to typing a name into the search bar rather than typing the URL into the location bar eve
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The Open Directory Project(dmoz.org)
1 points by dan_the_welder 17y ago|1 comments
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Wow. Yes.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Sure, crap only wins in the short term and psychologically speaking the last 10 years is nothing in the grand scheme of things. I have a coat older than Google. I have drill press older than the entire internet. I have books that predate th
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Also if you look at Google owning web advertising with a critical eye, one question seems to appear to me. How is it that Google has become essentially the equivalent of a broadcast advertiser in a narrowcast distributed ownership venue lik
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Great read, However, first he says: "These days, a lot of newspapers look to cut their overheads by reducing their actual journalist and editor head-count — after all, these folks aren't contributing much to the bottom line .... But in the
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Agreed. Be polite, contrite if necessarily, to LEOs to get clear of the situation. Deal with the injustice later, unless you are ready to go all the way and do it the hard way. Schools are bad because school funding is flawed. All the metri
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
In my experience there are plenty of police that don't even know the law. I used to carry around a copy of the the Florida statues, the same version that the police have in the trunk of their cruisers which they could refer to if they act
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I especially like how he (the blog's author) addresses the issue of modern pseudo-anonymity. Although many bloggers, myself included, are not technically anonymous, there's still anonymity for someone like me in the fact that there are lit
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Poor http://www.desktopfactory.com/ killed by a legion of tinkerers. See also http://www.makerbot.com/ if you prefer a more finished product. I'm going to give RP a go at some point but I suffer from project overload right now.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
So cashing solves the problem? I think not. I changed my mind, switch to different project, Where are those images I forgot to catalog, I have Pandora open. Hey, the Internet's broken. Cashing is not the answer.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Sounds exactly like the music industry as my friends describe it to me. Major labels anyway.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Until we get real high speed internet, 100 Mb or better, the web will not really come into it's own as a potential replacement for the desktop. Until I can get anything off the web as fast as off of my hard drive it's not happening. I lov
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Today instead of a scavenger hunt we have just decided to put all the items on the table, because finding all that stuff is just too hard. I love XKCD but when it's over my head (frequently)I go on a scavenger hunt and learn something new.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
You have to teach the culture you want to see. My pet peeve is repeat submissions. I'd like to see a primary source focus.With news that's difficult as many outlets break the same story more or less simultaneously. I get annoyed when I see
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I have a copy and I rather like it to play with. Good for inspiration when doing naming. For writing if I am stuck on a word, i'll just hit Google and go 'word' + thesaurus, because firing up the program is slower. I see they dealt with tha
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
That is an incredibly naive viewpoint given how agribusiness behaves. Their modified crops cross pollinate with standard strains and "become" the modified strains. Then they sue the farmers for not paying the license fees. They threaten to
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I encourage you to read "The Merchants War" by Fredrick Pohl
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I looked again and it seems to all be .cfm extensions. So perhaps a Cold Fusion vulnerability.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Are they wearing enough flair?
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Well I figured that the site admins would not likely reply to some random person asking about how their site got hacked. I asked here because I thought perhaps a curious person would read this and find it interesting.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I have to give that project some major props. It was the most painless install I have ever done and it is simple to use.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
If you can cook, you can roast coffee. It's not that hard. My advice to new cooks and coffee roasters is the same. Eat your mistakes.

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