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by frossie 17y ago
I just make mine up on the spot. Does no one else do this? It depends. There are some advantages to winging it: true spontaneity, an ability to have a more interactive presentation that is tuned to the rhythm and responses to the audience
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by frossie 17y ago
You thought that was an awesome answer? IMHO the top Google result for the search "Borges where to start" gives a better one. Like many social networking features, I don't get this one. I sorta-know what my friends know - I am more interest
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by frossie 17y ago
The advantage of having a direct-to-consumer approach is that I can see a market for non-wedding occasions, where there is no official videographer. Baby showers, graduations, retirement parties, it wouldn't surprise me if some people even
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by frossie 17y ago
How can you be bored by exercise? Easily. What, am I the only person on the planet? I get bored because (a) I'd rather be doing something else and (b) as for the endorphins, there are a lot of sedentary ways to release them, like lying ar
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by frossie 17y ago
I think that is a stretch. For every person who is sedentary when they are bored, there's a person bored by exercise and least bored when sitting in front of their computer/book/writing/etc.
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by frossie 17y ago
I wish the search would search contacts... (Yes I know I can go to the contacts widget and do a completely different search in there - not the same)
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by frossie 17y ago
The analogy with manual/automatic transmissions is quite interesting. There are some terrains/situations where a manual transmission is far superior to an automatic, but the majority of people will never experience them. So, the convenience
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by frossie 17y ago
Ok so how does Google fend off an attack like this? Well… imagine if they drop support for all browsers BUT Chrome…. Now wouldn’t that be something. Oh it would be something. Something totally crazy! If anyone thinks people will change th
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by frossie 17y ago
I am not going to vote on the poll, because I think the trolling is a side-issue, once you mentioned a company forum. If you have a company forum, you should have real names - doesn't have to be their full names if you are a small commpan
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by frossie 17y ago
On the more general topic of whitepages.com: The thing that frustrates me about whitepages and similar sites is they don't allow me to build up my own phonebook. Say I want to look up the number of a restaurant - after I have done that once
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by frossie 17y ago
I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on HN, nor am I going to resort to "Hell in the US you can probably sue for anything - but you're not going to win", much as I am tempted. The legal definition of libel is a false statement published w
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by frossie 17y ago
Okay you need to be a bit more specific - since I, for one, do not have spam recipes in my Gmail spam folder (the spam musubi recipe definitely doesn't count as, err, spam).
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Why your friends have more friends than you have(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by frossie 17y ago|1 comments
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by frossie 17y ago
I often suggest people donate unwanted books to the local library, and they say "oh it's not library material". Just to be clear, libraries don't put books that you donate on the shelves - they sell them and use the money to fund their prog
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by frossie 17y ago
This being HN, let's talk about software. I have seen people very wrong-headedly trying to apply rules to all employees because of one misbehaving person, under the misguided notion that this is somehow "fair". For example, a long time ago
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by frossie 17y ago
believe with religious fervour Did you see the reports that the panel got heckled by some women when they announced their conclusions on Wakefield? They were told of the proof that this man compromised the herd immunity of a nation and un
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by frossie 17y ago
Don't panic, I just meant there was nothing for rent on my nearby zipcodes so it was quicker to read about the site than to try it out, being that I couldn't remember any of the major metropolitan zipcodes (which presumably would have had s
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by frossie 17y ago
I realise it is probably rude to ask this, but how old are you? The reason I ask, is that you comment that this is a symptom of your generation's upbringing, but the reality is that there is also a simple age component in this. When I was y
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by frossie 17y ago
Actual site: http://www.rentalic.com/ (I would have submitted that directly, but if you are like me and your zipcode is empty, it's easier to figure out what it does from the consumerist article)
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Rentalic.com: Rent out your household items(consumerist.com)
1 points by frossie 17y ago|5 comments
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by frossie 17y ago
(Agree - no reason not to name names at this point). Question is - work with whom? While I personally find patronising material off-putting, I suspect that may be my inner geekness showing, and "normal" people don't mind as much. One exampl
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by frossie 17y ago
They want one computer that does everything and lasts forever - not a niche device that has to be tethered to a real PC anyway. Yeah, that's a lot closer to describing my mom - housewive all her life, approaching 70 - but since the kids l
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by frossie 17y ago
Fun? By now it will be an anti-climax. I am praying to all the prankster Gods that Steve Jobs walks on stage tomorrow and announces something totally non-tablety - like, the iFridge (keeps track of whether you need milk! shows you videos wh
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by frossie 17y ago
I think that many of the Ask YC or Tell HN posts tend to get more votes more easily Yes but do you wonder why that is? From my own experience I know if I only have a minute or two, I hit on "New", scan down for Ask/Tell HN and then if the
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by frossie 17y ago
Key opening: "We haven’t heard this first hand" How I wish everybody would just stop yakking until Moses descends from the mountain with a tablet in each hand. It's only three days people - read a book or something.
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by frossie 17y ago
[Yeah, didn't I share an office with you 15 years ago? :-) ] But data can't always be reproduced - Shoemaker-Levy won't hit Jupiter again any time soon, and while big results will cause a rush for verification, the little steps are usually
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by frossie 17y ago
But this is a problem that can be tackled, and those who take it seriouslt already do so. For example, in our pipelines we use an infrastructure that always adds every command executed on the file, with every exact parameter, to the metad
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by frossie 17y ago
I'm not sure your personal business being logged can be compared to the social change of the Industrial Revolution. Cast your mind a few hundred years ago, where people were born, grew up and died within a few miles of their village. Everyb
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by frossie 17y ago
Seconded. If you want ROI, work on an open source project that matches the work you want to do. I'll hire a high-profile civil O/S contributor before I will hire somebody with a PhD - and I work in a science shop. That should tell you somet
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by frossie 17y ago
When building interfaces it's funny (or not, depending on the pressure) to find that users interpret the icons in completely novel ways. Which is why I always think - do I really need an icon here, or should I use text? The worst example

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