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by gaelian 12y ago
Potentially yes. But I would not agree in all cases. Does the teenager enjoy the activity? That could be reason enough for him to pursue it. And there's shades of grey here we're not addressing... OK so he doesn't have Jordan
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by gaelian 12y ago
I guess I just don't see it as this binary situation where you either have to be the absolute best in the world at what you do, or you're not contributing at all to mankind. And that's the feeling I often get when people disc
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by gaelian 12y ago
I would have thought it pretty obvious that some people have in intrinsic "gift" in certain areas. This is completely obvious in physical sports and I don't see why - considering that our minds are underpinned by the physical
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by gaelian 12y ago
If you work in an environment where you get to pick your own browser, yeah it is. Work in many an enterprise setting and IE9 could be more like the latest thing.
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by gaelian 12y ago
FYI, your home page looks pretty messed up in IE9. Not that IE users would be your primary target market I assume. :)
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by gaelian 12y ago
I always think of him as being more like Peter Weyland from the Alien universe. "For those of you who do not yet know me, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Peter Weyland, and if you'll indulge me, I'd like to change th
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by gaelian 12y ago
As a person who works in IT, and from my own personal point of view, I agree that I find it hard to imagine that someone would sign up to FB without clear awareness that feed manipulation and other shenanigans might occur[0]. But the thing
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by gaelian 12y ago
> That sort of manic movement is, I think, what really sets apart the elite FPS players of the Doom, Quake, and UT era In those days, my friends and I used to get into UT quite a lot. Most of the more experienced UT players I watched wou
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by gaelian 12y ago
> Gore-tex uses open allocation and is large (almost 10,000 employees, if I recall correctly). Thanks for the tip on Gore-tex, hadn't heard about them. > What I don't think OA can survive is too-rapid growth. I think it can
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by gaelian 12y ago
Cool, thanks.
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by gaelian 12y ago
> Events like the Github fiasco should not be mentioned in the open allocation debate ... Well I guess you'd have to take that up with Mike as you're really referencing his opinion not mine. In that instance I was neither tryin
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by gaelian 12y ago
I met Mike Cannon-Brookes at an event that I attended some time ago and I happened to have a reasonably lengthy and interesting chat to him about - amongst other things - the culture at Atlassian. It happened to be the same week when GitHub
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by gaelian 12y ago
Just curious, which Tor browser do you use for iOS?
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by gaelian 12y ago
I'm not quite sure if you're saying that Apple may start selling the MacBook Air with some locked down iOS-like OS on them while leaving OS X on their other chunkier PCs, or if you're saying they're going to entirely get
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by gaelian 12y ago
Totally agree. If anything, the vested interests in this case are generally more obvious than they were/are with our ill-fated NBN. I think it's time for the big tech companies to put their lobbying efforts into overdrive and supp
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by gaelian 12y ago
I take your point, but I would argue that it's not comparing apples to apples. Some time ago I read the Douglas Rushkoff book Program or Be Programmed , wherein he puts forth his view (if I may paraphrase) that this last communication
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by gaelian 13y ago
There's a popular viewpoint I think from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers [0] that could possibly be summarised as "any non-trivial skill takes at least 10,000 hours of practice to approach mastery." I think this applies esp
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by gaelian 13y ago
He's speaking like an Australian, he mentions Sydney in one of his posts, he's on a domain that is now using name servers registered to an Australian company (as aaronbrethorst pointed out). I don't think this guy is trying t
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by gaelian 13y ago
It would be interesting to see an analysis of the number and severity of Rails security issues as compared to similar frameworks with similarly sized user-bases. I would be happy to be convinced by _actual and relevant data_ that Rails has
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by gaelian 13y ago
Still no reply from svbtle.
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by gaelian 13y ago
I wrote a blog post about this that you may find useful: http://blog.binarybalance.com.au/2013/12/06/why-i'm-not-writ...
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by gaelian 13y ago
I'm a sci-fi/fantasy fan too. I often find interesting new reading by researching one of the writers I know is good, and finding out the writers that they're friends with or who influenced them or who were influenced by them.
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Why I'm not writing on Svbtle(blog.binarybalance.com.au)
1 points by gaelian 13y ago|0 comments
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by gaelian 13y ago
Wasn't particularly impressed by this article until the last paragraph: > The less time we spend obsessing over our shiny new devices, the more time we’ll have to use them for stuff that’s interesting, useful, important. Because in
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Comparing cognitive styles of tech tutorials(blog.binarybalance.com.au)
2 points by gaelian 13y ago|0 comments
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by gaelian 13y ago
I'm encouraged by your optimism. Being a little cynical myself, I could just as easily have attributed his dickishness to arrogance/elitism and the missed copper to the possibility that his arrogance/elitism lead him to not e
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by gaelian 13y ago
I don't have a horse in this race one way or the other. I didn't back Soylent, I'm not for or against it, just an observer. But did you read that Herman guy's original comment[1]? He's borderline ranting from the ou
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by gaelian 13y ago
I personally think it's a nice looking solution and - as has already been said - I like the idea of a unified loading animation across an application. But I'd like to see some actual user testing on whether this kind of progress b
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by gaelian 13y ago
I think the need for an enemy can't be understated for some people and some organisations. One of the upper comments here states: > It is very difficult to overstate the extent to which "government people" live in a bubble
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by gaelian 13y ago
This kind of discussion always reminds me of the movie Cube [1]. Since watching it years ago, I have often found it to be a fantastical and exaggerated but useful metaphor related to this topic. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/w

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