drewblay

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by drewblay 12y ago
rm -rf /homelandsecurity/
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by drewblay 12y ago
>There is a fatal virus in the US that claims 3,000 people every month. And it's a nasty one. It's the #1 cause of death for teenagers. That virus is called a car accident, and the fact we're complacent with that is what s
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by drewblay 12y ago
Also to add to this criticism, change your logo design completely. Blue background with white text, looks too "facebookish".
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by drewblay 12y ago
>there is a large subset of potential users who can not be bothered to sign up for your site via email There is a simple solution to this. STOP ASKING USERS TO SIGN UP! Do your REALLY need to collect the users e-mail? Do REALLY need them
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by drewblay 12y ago
I still have to disagree with you. I don't buy into your "street person" argument at all. I don't think you give people enough credit. Just about anyone born in the U.S. (or any first world country) in the late 80's
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by drewblay 12y ago
>That's true. So it's even more important to retain them by having sensible defaults. Not really. What is wrong with having a product that caters to a power user, or a niche group? Why does everything have to be dumbed-down for
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by drewblay 12y ago
> Most users-on-street don't want to customize either. Most users on the street aren't on the hacker news forum. Also if you are going to play the "most users on the street" game, then most users on the street aren&#x
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by drewblay 12y ago
Seems like a cool product...too bad the website has some terrible grammar mistakes. "Now, You real can do your daily works on it" "BananaPi has same GPIO and circuit layout like RPi, But it got control button and TTL interfac
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by drewblay 13y ago
Forget baecamp. Setup a webserver throw Colalbtive on it. Now you are in control of your data (you are now also responsible for the uptime). Colabtive: http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/
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by drewblay 13y ago
Not sure about that. But if it isn't against the current TOS you can bet your ass it will be against the TOS by tomorrow.
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by drewblay 13y ago
I a agree the title is very misleading.
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by drewblay 13y ago
>pets = ['Dog', 'Cat', 'Hamster'] >for pet in pets: > print('A', pet, 'can be very cute!') This may be nit picking but I prefer output like this: print 'A %s can be very cut
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by drewblay 13y ago
>When I read: > if name and pets and owners >I have no intuitive idea of what that means, of what's going on in the program. I agree with you, when I read that I think if name and pets and owners, what? All equal each other
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by drewblay 13y ago
>And I've found no benefit to Celsius's 0 and 100 coinciding with water's state changing. I agree, I like how Fahrenheit degrees are smaller and therefore degrees in Fahrenheit are more exact.
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by drewblay 13y ago
>If I have 1.73 miles, I have to do the math to figure out how many feet that is, 1.73*5280~=9134, which is not something that's easy for me to do in my head. How often do you need to do this in reality? Most people in their day-to-
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by drewblay 13y ago
>If I copy and paste from a web browser, sometimes I want the formatting The default SHOULD be to lose the formatting of the original and to use the font/style that is in Word. I would think that 99% of time anyone is copying and pa
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by drewblay 13y ago
I couldn't agree with you more! I used to be (a long time ago) a avid Windows user, and scoffed at Mac's. I then got into the publishing world where everything is Mac. The keyboard shortcuts are by far much more consistent and eas
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by drewblay 13y ago
I would like to jump in here and agree you. You can program some really cool stuff with a very minimal knowledge of math. Anything beyond understanding some basic Algebra and Geometry concepts isn't required in order to program. Most o
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by drewblay 13y ago
The article reminded me a lot of this blog explaining why he doesn't sign NDA's with start-ups. http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-...
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by drewblay 13y ago
Didn't Saab go under? Or was that just their automotive division?