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by droob 12y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but in this case, it's not completely "just wood": http://npic.orst.edu/ingred/ptype/treatwood/gardenuse.html
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by droob 12y ago
"Garbage up your interaction with real humans to make talking to our robot a little easier."
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by droob 12y ago
I remember it being a mix of tinyness, printer quality, and TextMate's limitations. It had the side effect of lending everything a particularly neutral tone.
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by droob 12y ago
I'm probably not the most common user, but this completely breaks Foursquare for me. I use 4sq to keep a list of restaurants I want to check out, keep a diary of where I've been, and look for nearby places. Back to synced plaintex
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by droob 12y ago
For years, before Instapaper and Readability, I used a little script that copied the text out of the current page and pasted it in plaintext, then printed it from TextMate monospaced and 4-up. I'd shove the pages in a pocket or the bac
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by droob 12y ago
I sense that these posts are written for a specific audience, rebutting a set of arguments familiar to that audience, and that's why they seem so reductive and narrowly-applicable, but I can't quite grasp how much of the argument
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by droob 12y ago
Quotas don't necessarily fix things _now_ -- they create a new normal for the next generation.
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by droob 12y ago
If your response is "I hire based on merit alone so this is invalid," a) good for you, but that's demonstrably untrue in aggregate and b) you're basically saying "LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU THERE'S NO PROBLEM
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by droob 12y ago
I could read bug stories/refactoring stories all day. It's the programmer's version of This Old House.
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by droob 12y ago
BOOOOOooooooooo. I'm tired of this game of whack-a-mole I have to play on my home screen. If I've learned anything as a modern user it's not to let any app become a part of your routine. It's not worth the hassle when th
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by droob 12y ago
I wasn't dismissing the fact that Branson's an influencer, I was dismissing LinkedIn's marketingey little attempt to bring him under their umbrella with that goofy title.
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by droob 12y ago
Bummed that "could" here means "could theoretically", not "might".
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by droob 12y ago
"LinkedIn Influencers"
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by droob 12y ago
"Minimum Expected Threshold of Due Diligence Fee"
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by droob 12y ago
Glass has become uninteresting enough that I didn't realize this wasn't already the case.
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by droob 13y ago
They mean "falling out", right?
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by droob 13y ago
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/01/...
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by droob 13y ago
They're closing. It's nice for them, but bad for users.
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by droob 13y ago
This is kinda like saying people with more contacts in their cell phones have more social capital, and the carrier should address that.
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by droob 13y ago
Don't surveil your customers. It's creepy.
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by droob 13y ago
Bizarre headline rewrite, there.
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by droob 13y ago
In this case we're not talking about ARIA or native elements vs. styled ones, though, we're talking about CSS classes.
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by droob 13y ago
We need a better word for this than "semantic". We're just passing the complexity back and forth between the HTML and the CSS, and the only "semantics" or meaning that arise are to the author/editor. Users don&
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by droob 13y ago
Departed from the reality the rest of us share with "Apple attempted to strike a devastating blow to the bitcoin ecosystem"
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by droob 13y ago
"and no one seemed to notice or care." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/nyregion/otis-pike-congres...
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by droob 13y ago
You are a programmer that just said "adding the feature would be very easy."
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by droob 13y ago
Ha! I was going to write almost this exact post -- I can travel from Maplewood to Washington Ave every day by bus in about an hour, or by car in about half an hour.
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by droob 13y ago
Wired article from three years back: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia
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by droob 13y ago
"MDM vendors are undoubtedly inviting you to webinars and enticing you to switch off your BES." They're trying to tell me an actual human typed that sentence?
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by droob 13y ago
If a bunch of folks pitch in to build a communal well, are they being exploited by perceived "social rewards"?

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