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by dschobel 16y ago
Of course it is universal; what is advertising but giving products a compelling narrative?
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by dschobel 16y ago
That's one of the common criticisms of modern art, that it is largely about justification of the work. After I went to Art Basel last year and happened on a display which was, quite literally, a few kilograms of nutella dumped on the floor,
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by dschobel 16y ago
Totally OT but do you guys still know the content of the first tweet? Apparently the best google-fu effort only yields #20: http://twitter.com/jack/status/20
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by dschobel 16y ago
Fair enough, but there's nothing overtly weaponizable about communication technology. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled the money is there to advance the field, I just wish it wasn't coming from a bunch of dickheads trying to strap guns to i
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by dschobel 16y ago
Serious question, is there anything driving mobile robotics research besides the defense dept? I spent my grad school time in a robotics lab and it always bummed me out that anytime you see something amazing like this it's invariable funded
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by dschobel 16y ago
I remember the GC stalls being quite apparent for swing applications which I wrote in undergrad back in the 2000 to 2002 time frame (so it must have been java 1.3). Highly responsive UI and relatively low system memory (256MB on the G1) jus
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by dschobel 16y ago
Email is also pretty featureless. *Google Wave enters, stage left.*
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by dschobel 16y ago
It's still amazing to me how powerful these devices have become that you can put a GC on a mobile platform, especially considering how sensitive users would be to GC stalls causing unresponsive user interfaces.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Yes, but cut bait on the cofounder or on the company? That's the million (okay, few thousand) dollar question.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Apple has a frustrating habit of neglecting certain products (see AppleTV). It's quite inexplicable when seen from outside.
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by dschobel 16y ago
The Prediction API has the potential to be really cool. Wonder how concerned the Directed Edge (YC) guys are about Google entering their space.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Am I crazy or is the absence of a single mention of Google in that post completely conspicuous?
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A/B Testing with A/Bingo(railscasts.com)
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by dschobel 16y ago
As a caveat, it should be noted that John Bogle, founder of Vanguard (and the whole index investing movement, for that matter) is not a big fan of the ETFs. Check out http://www.indexuniverse.com/sections/news/6012-bogle-invest... to see
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by dschobel 16y ago
Yeah but would it be worth anything pre-IPO?
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by dschobel 16y ago
Pretty shocking, especially considering the equity he's presumably walking away from. More power to him.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Just curious, since you have been successful publishing ebooks, how do you determine what to write about? Do you look it purely as a business proposition (ex: google search for subject matter x is trending over the last 6 months, I'll becom
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by dschobel 16y ago
I'm happy to donate money towards hosting costs; any intention of posting those numbers? (assuming you're not launching this as a money making venture).
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by dschobel 16y ago
Yep, and beauty of the system is that anyone who is a sophisticated enough user to do that, would never do it accidentally. Although, I imagine quite a few users --force a command and, unaware of the afore mentioned facilities, write up a n
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by dschobel 16y ago
Yeah, it's not clear what he did, all he references is a twitter posting saying he lost data: http://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/9368728335 , not how. I think it's fair to surmise that he must have been messing with commands he didn'
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by dschobel 16y ago
I'm not aware of any VCS which meets your standard of not allowing destructive commands (I'm sure you realize you can destroy history/data in git as well, right? It may take a --force, and it'll yell at you, but it's definitely doable)
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by dschobel 16y ago
Wikipedia is at the same time full of articles on all sorts of human depravity which presumably you don't want a young child reading about. I would suggest that maybe what parents deem acceptable for their kids to consume unsupervised isn't
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by dschobel 16y ago
Why not just make a web client? It wasn't obvious from the video that the desktop client does anything which can't be done in a browser window. It could be pretty compelling since you can drag and drop media onto the browser window, mark it
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by dschobel 16y ago
http://twitter.com/#search?q=hooky I know it's trendy to hate FB right now but don't underestimate the ignorance factor in all of this.
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by dschobel 16y ago
It seems to get linked with every git story on HN but schacon's Pro Git is unequivocally the best reference and tutorial I've found: http://progit.org/book/ Workflows: http://progit.org/book/ch5-1.html Git and Other Systems: http://p
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by dschobel 16y ago
Wouldn't fair taxes, strictly speaking, be a horizontal line?
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by dschobel 16y ago
Put the work on something like github, let everyone fork to their hearts content, only accept back what you think is useful. Projects way bigger than this one use this workflow to great effect. Two major red flags for me: 1. Money up front
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by dschobel 16y ago
I'm similarly wary of giving a team money upfront based on a design. Let public demand and old-fashioned nighttime/weekend hacking kick start the project.
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by dschobel 16y ago
I've only used it for proof of concept (read: free) projects and I agree with you about everything but you see a lot of people bitching on HN about the pricing and how costly it is to scale an app on Heroku. Not sure how much of that is jus
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by dschobel 16y ago
No kidding. I only hope those Rorschach tests were a joke but I'm not so sure.

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