dhoulb

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by dhoulb 13y ago
Like a cheap certain-to-flop ripoff of Hannah Montana...
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by dhoulb 13y ago
That's what I was thinking. Find someone who isn't under such a restrictive licence, and let them feed in the data. I presume this is what will happen.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Presumably the machine flags WHY it's an error, and as long as that reasoning is included in the rebuttal, humans, or other machines, are free to disagree with it. Science.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I just can't get my head around that valuation. For something that's basically a feature, when they already have that functionality baked in, built out to a similar scale? It's not an acquisition for talent, or technology, so
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by dhoulb 13y ago
One of the biggest advantages some companies have, is having one or more people who can, kinda, SEE the future, without needing to focus group everything. An ability to intuit what's right - what'll work - without needing to test
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by dhoulb 13y ago
A suspicious man might notice a recent correlating resurgence in IRA bomb threats being bandied all over the news.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Richer obviously != better. But being richer === being richer. He's saying if you want more money, hang out with richer people, and you'll pick up some tips. And a good way to get time with someone is to buy them lunch. You'r
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by dhoulb 13y ago
To extend and correct your analogy: it'd be like if Googlers and Facebookers, and 20 other companies had to create and continuously improve software that unintentionally drove up real estate prices, in order to engage in a highly compe
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Good question! I'm not quite there yet, but I've got it in mind to buy all new staff members personal laptops. A lot to think about with that though: Obviously they need to be insured against loss, theft and damage. We'd prob
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by dhoulb 13y ago
This is why I always use 'Login' and 'Register'
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Much spam. So clutter.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
He's not really asking what to do - I'm sure he can think of 10 things. He's really asking 'what would you do'. And he's getting some awesome feedback from the community. What made you so bitter!
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by dhoulb 13y ago
That's dark...
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Problem is contacting him first tips him off. If you build a technological solution, you can reuse it if this ever happens again.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
This is a great approach. I'd also recommend only borking SOME of the data - an intermittent bug is harder to fix than a consistent one!
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Not sure if he's stripping it, but serving a 'canonical' meta tag would solve that if he's not,
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by dhoulb 13y ago
> Bottom line: who can stop Google getting what it wants? Why would they want to? They want to lease airport space, not poison babies. People overreact to Google all the time. They've in a really weird PR place. People kinda love th
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I think there's an inevitability to his eventual hatching of superpowers. Whether or not he's good, bad, or indifferent to people, all he has to do is wait it out —til they're all dead — and he hatches into super universe mon
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Yeah, but then you hatch into a megabeing that can make and destroy universes. Swings and roundabouts.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I didn't take anything from it, just thought it was a very creative idea. I suppose there's a 'every experience makes you grow' angle - but I don't think the author was really trying to push it. It's mostly abo
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Maybe he lived as all of them on the way up. Or WILL live as all of them on the way up, depending on your worldview.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I was expecting that too. Son was okay, but a bit Jesusy. Self would've been more of a head scratcher.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
You want to be relaxed about it, so some leeway in the 9-5 is fine (and encouraged, cause who likes being doucheboss). But if they're consistently arriving at quarter past 9, and leaving before five but never 1 minute after it, that&#x
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I was happy to be surprised by the answer!
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by dhoulb 13y ago
It's definitely possible for people to have dev environments that are objectively insane. Dreamweaver isn't too crazy though — some people use Vim. I've not really used Dreamweaver in years, but I assume most people disable t
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Don't worry about it man! To me, your biggest mistake here was not throwing up screenshots. Could've flipped the whole tone of this thread from a car crash into an actual hate-fest for crap design.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Sublime is probably closer to Dreamweaver than Notepad. I think people who code in Notepad or Vim are nuts. Sure, it's 'hand coded', but there's some point where your ethics are compromising your productivity. It'd
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Definitely true that the less people clear their cookies, the better it is for Google. But that seems like a nice side benefit. I bet the main reason they did this is helping users avoid login screens. When you clear cookies, you obviously
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by dhoulb 13y ago
My question after reading the article is: is this bad? Is it a terrible thing that they're not growing in the USA? Apple is huge. What's really achieved by them being even bigger? Is growth for growth's sake important? If the
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by dhoulb 13y ago
To extend the explanation. Computer science and chemistry = terminology and numbers. Baking and programming = structure, creativity and taste.

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