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by frossie 16y ago
Dude, you can make the same statement about anything in life that fires you up. Take cooking, millions of people go home and put a frozen meal in the microwave, some cook indifferently the same stuff over and over, and some are totally into
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by frossie 16y ago
Printed & sent That's the big thing I see missing here. "Having it sent" is the goal of the game. Otherwise I might as well snap a personal photo and send it with Postino (which is how I am doing things now - and unscientific sampling
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by frossie 16y ago
Exploitations of people's failure to understand statistics are a lot older than email. Even in my grandmother's time there would be somebody who would offer to predict the gender of your unborn child - "if I am wrong, I'll give you your mon
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by frossie 16y ago
it has never worked for me. I've tried firefox Hmm it works for me: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110124 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.14 At least, I can manipulate the time okay. If there is a way to m
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by frossie 16y ago
Make attendance voluntary by abolishing truancy laws I didn't downvote you, but I strongly disagree. I personally don't want to live in a society full of kids (did you see his percentages - up to 25%!!) that are considered unmanageable at
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by frossie 16y ago
If stranded in an airport for hours, would you be happy to be with this person? I just want to say that some of the best people I have worked with would fail this test. Moreover, every time I hear one of those statements, I can't help thi
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by frossie 16y ago
Here's my number one feature request that wishlists never seem to support: partial contributions. This is even more the case with baby registries, where families might want help with high-cost items (carseats, cribs etc) but where well-wish
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by frossie 16y ago
?? It's there, and also on the B&N nook: http://www.amazon.com/Deepness-Sky-ebook/dp/B002H8ORKM/ http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Deepness-in-the-Sky/Vernor-...
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by frossie 16y ago
And for those who wonder what the heck "skeuomorphically" means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorphism
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Faraway, so close: doing global iPhone dev from New Zealand(arstechnica.com)
3 points by frossie 16y ago|3 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
Moreover I think it says something of interest about Google - while she is trying to be positive, you can read it closely to see some organisational issues - projects being cancelled despite staff enthusiasm, and an environment that feels t
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by frossie 16y ago
Amazon SimpleDB? I don't know what the pricing would be for you though, as it is metered: http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/#pricing
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by frossie 16y ago
with the exception of sports and certain “event programs” Yeah but that's a hell of a big exception. People are willing to pay a lot of money for those. My household "cut the cord" [we're Netflix-only, no cable/satellite/OTA] and the only
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by frossie 16y ago
I think this article perhaps focuses a little bit too much on the negatives :) I'm an Englishman living in California Well, I can imagine reasons why the experience of an Australian in New York is not the same as an Englishman's in Califo
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If you are a beginner and gym unfriendly, I have found that strength training sites oriented towards women spend a lot more time talking about proper form (because they know many women won't just turn up to a gym - they want to train in pri
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differences in future-time orientation between men and women I am skeptical as to whether future-time orientation is the issue. Even if we assume it is a personality issue (rather than simply the tech gender ratio), it is more likely that
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by frossie 16y ago
Built something to scratch his own itch, turned it into a ubiquitous service and still a one-man-shop. What is there not to like? This: [...] geeks like us are always tempted to implement very complex, never-ending features because they’re
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by frossie 16y ago
It's also a reason to make sure your middle managers are not paper-pushing bozos. The idea that a middle manager has to be an entity that generates meetings, paperwork, stupid rules and hot air is prevalent, but by no means necessary. Har
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by frossie 16y ago
You might want to check out Nuevasync, it syncs Gmail Contacts with Highrise Contacts if I am reading their landing page right.
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It's not like you're going to save yourself a ton of time and money I don't know how much money you have, but the price difference between replacing my failing iPhone 3G battery myself and having Apple do it was non-trivial, and the warra
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by frossie 16y ago
she started walking back, saying that the WSJ quoted fragments of her book out of context I haven't read the book, but I have seen evidence that the WSJ extracts were highly selective. In fact in the Guardian piece below, in which her chi
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by frossie 16y ago
Well thank you, if I even need advice on how to fit in my acupuncture and pedicure appointments to my busy day, I'll remember to look this up. Sheesh.
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Really? I thought his point was "because it is a closed system".
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I don't need a retailer to game me into buying things. Yeah, and I doubt that would work anyway. It's too easy to go from "ooh I got a trophy" to "I am not your goddamn trained monkey!".
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The problem is that this is all a lot harder than just news discovery. I don't just want a news item that is relevant to me; I want a high quality news item. I also want to reward the news source for its high quality. Solve that problem a
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by frossie 16y ago
There is a ton of evidence that people will give up individual gain in order to punish bad behaviour. The classic example is A gets given $100. He can choose to split it with B any way they like. B can accept the offered deal or refuse it,
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't, but a lot of the world does, so I thought it's a good time to talk about goal setting apps. Clearly I am in the minority :-)
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Uhm. Someone should tell them that. If I go to, say: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/ there is a "watch now on Amazon Video On Demand" link to the right of the page, rent from Blockbusters, buy from Amazon, etc etc. Even pre-acquisiti
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by frossie 16y ago
Clickable: http://habitforge.com/ http://www.joesgoals.com/ http://www.createnewhabits.com http://rootein.com/
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Ask HN: New Year's Resolutions / goal monitoring sites
4 points by frossie 16y ago|5 comments

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