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by fortes 17y ago
I mean this in a very constructive way, but you should really spell check to find the obvious typos. Especially if English is not your first language. First impressions are important, small details like fixing typos are low-hanging fruit.
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by fortes 17y ago
Not sure about underlining, but highlighting and annotating has been there since Kindle 1.
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by fortes 17y ago
> This is an interesting issue -- what incentive is there to help the mentally-disabled homeless from an economic perspective? Well, there's quality of life aspects of not having them on the streets, etc. But perhaps that's not direct e
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by fortes 17y ago
Press coverage: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/Online+Dancing+clip+...
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by fortes 17y ago
There are only a few neighborhoods where you can do it without really inconveniencing yourself: Belltown, Capitol Hill, and Downtown (Pioneer Square / Pike's Place market area). Other neighborhoods don't have as much density or public trans
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by fortes 17y ago
A car allows you to travel anywhere with roads (which were constructed with public money). Road construction (like transit construction) was decided by the gov't.
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by fortes 17y ago
Huh? Cars cost thousands of dollars and require upkeep, etc, etc. People use cars to flaunt their social status all the time. They're also an incredibly dehumanizing way to interact with people (see road rage, etc). Cities which weren't bui
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by fortes 17y ago
Out of curiosity, what city are you currently in? I'm currently in NYC, although I used to live in Seattle carless as well. Honestly, one of the big reasons it's easier in NYC is due to social norms. Seattle wasn't bad, but NYC is definitel
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by fortes 17y ago
Although I'm not a fan of lower-level programming (I'm a UI guy), I loved 15-213. One of my favorite (and best-taught) courses.
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by fortes 17y ago
They've done a great job porting this to Air. The Fl(ash|ex) platform has improved by leaps and bounds in the last few years, a kudos to both the NYT and Adobe. Performance is a bit sluggish on my machine, but overall it feels pretty nice.
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by fortes 17y ago
How should we recognize each other? Do we have a table reserved or anything?
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by fortes 17y ago
Because pirating it takes more work than just sucking it up and using the player.
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by fortes 17y ago
Assuming I can get out of work on time, I'm there.
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by fortes 17y ago
The ABC player does blow, but I manage to run it on Firefox in XP. I really hope they just move to the Hulu player.
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by fortes 18y ago
Dating someone who speaks the language (before, as well as while you are there) is also very, very helpful. (I didn't do this in China, but my friends who did definitely had a leg up).
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by fortes 18y ago
Relationships are a big one. Not just dating, but being isolated from family and friends can be hard (I lived in Beijing for 4 months, and enjoyed it, but it does get lonely). Also, not every one is ready to live somewhere foreign. Especial
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by fortes 18y ago
Exactly -- for JS sytle see Crockford, who explains these in detail: http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html
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by fortes 18y ago
Quick feedback / pet peeve: You've done a great job of making it easy and quick to see how to create a group, but I'm curious about what the groups look like & do. Screenshots or a link to an existing group would do just fine.
169.
by fortes 18y ago
What about limiting the reversal to a short time span, say 1 minute?
170.
by fortes 18y ago
The phar (php archive) feature is nice. PHP is already quite easy to deploy, this makes it even easier.
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by fortes 18y ago
All managers at Amazon above a certain level are required to work in a fulfillment center once a year.
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by fortes 18y ago
Warning: All the "content" in that post is contained within the title line. Could have been a single tweet. Nothing certain, but rumored to be late May.
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by fortes 18y ago
Sales taxes are also regressive, because expenses are a much higher percentage of income for those that make less. This is also true for payroll taxes.
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by fortes 18y ago
Reminds me of this old article: http://www.denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2004/06/Economicchaos.... Humans learn best by quick feedback (I think Gladwell had an article about this, can't recall). In complex systems, such as economies, changes
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by fortes 18y ago
"The decision to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 provoked dire warnings from a handful of dissenters that the deregulation of Wall Street would someday wreak havoc on the nation's financial system. The original idea behind Glass-Steag
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by fortes 18y ago
It's not that they designed for 6% of their users, it's just that a large portion of the users don't like the change for some reason -- some is the fact that there was any change at all, and the rest are probably real design issues.
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by fortes 18y ago
I use Dreamhost, since I have some domains hosted there. No issues, but it's mindblowing or anything.
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by fortes 18y ago
Wow -- that seems like a lot of rapes and other crimes for such a small town (20k).
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by fortes 18y ago
Peer to peer communication and device apis are nice too.
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by fortes 18y ago
Working together could also ruin the relationship, as the qualities needed for a good co-founder are different than one for a good GF.

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