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by dstorrs 16y ago
I've done this. I set up a survey on SurveyMonkey and then created a series of tasks on MT to send people to it. I paid about USD$0.05 per survey and spent something like $30 or $40 (I don't recall exactly). I got thousands of people taki
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by dstorrs 16y ago
> I also fail to see how dumping our waste on generations to come for our own selfish desires is less bad. You're assuming that just because we consider it waste, they will too. Personally, I'm expecting that at some point some use wil
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Could someone with Mongo experience help me gut-check this? I want my data store to be durable and unsurprising -- barring a hardware failure or such, if I submit data it should either tell me that it failed to commit or it should be stored
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by dstorrs 16y ago
This is fantastic. Thanks for spending the time and effort to produce it.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
> These few individuals left Africa by crossing the Sinai and went to spread around the world. That was definitely bad for Neanderthals. And the relevance is.....?
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by dstorrs 16y ago
"It won't help existing victims" doesn't mean we should give up on this. Based on the little bit of data in the article, this sounds like it could work as (or be modified into) a vaccine. I don't mean to sound cold butif we can prevent HIV
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by dstorrs 16y ago
More mainstream hosting providers would have called that "the enterprise level" of hosting. So, "Barad-dur" is probably a not-so-subtle joke about the typical geek impression of the enterprise.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
I use them too. Been a customer with them for something like 5-6 years, never had a single issue. Absolutely flawless service.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
jrookie, I hear you. Except for the pain of losing your father -- which I have been lucky enough to avoid, and I am so sorry for your loss -- I have felt all of what you're feeling. Mostly, I've felt it because I've (been lucky enough to a
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by dstorrs 16y ago
The primary focus here (understandably) is "we make your laptop look / work like your iPad". Versions, AirDrop, etc are tacked on at the end and given much less focus. The problem with making my laptop work like an iPad is that the laptop
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by dstorrs 16y ago
True, my bad. It's been almost two years since I was working in Scheme, and I didn't check closely enough.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
This comes off sounding needlessly aggressive, but I'll answer anyway. I was trying to pick up Scheme, and I was using PLT Scheme (now Racket). I would ask on a Scheme list / IRC channel "how do I $FOO?" Someone would say "here's some cod
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by dstorrs 16y ago
It is worth noting that this is from 2006. Also, he missed the main problem with Scheme (and Lisp) IMHO: language fracturing. Want to use Scheme on your project? Not so fast! Which one? PLT Scheme? Chicken? MIT? DrRacket? Gambit? Tiny
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by dstorrs 16y ago
"For a limited time during this soft launch, we're making our amazing service available for $19.99 per year. This offer won't last forever, so get in early." This is good, but it would work better if I knew what the price would eventually b
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by dstorrs 16y ago
There's also http://www.freecsstemplates.org/ which is, as the name says, free.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
My concern is that "better at generating new ideas" != ("better at generating good/relevant ideas" || "better at accomplishing things") I tend to be more creative when I'm letting myself drift, but I need to focus in order to execute. As w
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by dstorrs 16y ago
> Anyway, i don't agree that technological civilization is not intrinsically unsustainable Objection! That sentence should be taken out back and shot.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Also, two major models of social graphs (Lead/Follow/Mutual and Enforced Mutual): http://blog.rmdstudio.com/2009/01/19/social-graphing-models-...
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Graphs in the Database: Rdbms In The Social Networks Age (2010)(slideshare.net)
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Doing some negotiating that is low-stakes but has a value attached. For example, talk to a friend / sibling / whatever and offer to babysit / trade services (e.g. web design for massage) in exchange for $WHATEVER.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
If the debtor pool varies as widely as you claim, that reinforces something I've been wondering for a while: Is it true that Americans are in debt because they are fiscally irresponsible, or is it because the playing field is tilted? It is
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Can you provide a demonstration of this? For example, I disagree with the idea of intelligent design. How would I "give it some genuine love", to use your words?
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by dstorrs 16y ago
I wasn't among those who downvoted you, but here's my two cents: 1) I don't think the quote added anything new to the discussion. Nor was it a good summary of the article. 2) You asked a loaded question that implied a bias on the part of y
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by dstorrs 16y ago
> [criminals going free is] just as scary as violating other's rights and wrongful convictions. I disagree. There will always be evil in the world; one criminal more or less is a drop in the bucket. What truly hurts a nation is when i
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Victorian England is definitely a good candidate, yes. But for an example of a "free market" society that is nearer in time and space to modern Americans, read Upton Sinclair's _The Jungle_ : http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Jungle/Up
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Mac daddy predicts all-knowing, all-seeing UI(theregister.co.uk)
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by dstorrs 16y ago
+1 Also, billions are harder to spend than millions, because purchases that big change the environment. For example: a small, unprofitable company makes purple widgets, even though no one else thinks it's worth it to make purple widgets.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
This is obvious selection bias, on several axes. Here are two of them: - There is more/richer information available on people who keep journals, so it's easier to make the case for their greatness. - If someone does great things but no rec
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by dstorrs 16y ago
You might check out this novel: http://www.amazon.com/Davids-Sling-Marc-Stiegler/dp/06716536... Among other things, Stiegler posits a "Zetetic Institute" that teaches people how to think better -- effectively, an "organic foods" industry
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by dstorrs 16y ago
If you made it out of steel, it would survive just fine -- there would be some ablation, but it would still get to the ground. As to the "more expensive"...no, not really. Basically, it's just a crowbar with a simple camera and some fins o

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