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by gaelian 13y ago
During a visit to Japan, I had the opportunity to get along to the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka[1]. I've enjoyed the Ghibli/Myazaki stuff that I have seen, even though my tastes generally lean towards the Seinen side of things. But the
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by gaelian 13y ago
I've been involved in a number of recruitment processes, on the employer side, recruiting technical people. The main thing that I look for is a good balance of technical aptitude and cultural fit. I will generally prefer a person that
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How I Became Unfit for the Corporate World(linkedin.com)
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by gaelian 13y ago
I probably should have qualified that a little better: I don't think anyone sane is wanting the next war - which I agree would most likely be US + allies vs. China + allies and would likely spell Armageddon. My earlier post was reall
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by gaelian 13y ago
I am generally reluctant to buy into theories about giant conspiracies, not because I think people in power aren't capable of desiring such things, but because I don't think they're capable of pulling it off. However, it does
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Postmortem of a side-project(blog.binarybalance.com.au)
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by gaelian 13y ago
Your quote reminds me of another from Theodore Roosevelt and one of my personal favourites, which has come to be known as 'The Man in the Arena'[1]. Not sure which TR quote came first, but one likely influenced the other by the lo
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by gaelian 13y ago
That's interesting. I'm using it from Australia and it seems acceptably fast for me. I don't have a huge number of feeds, maybe this makes the difference. Did you contact the developer? She seems quite eager to help.
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by gaelian 13y ago
Quite so. The purpose of my simplified question was to contrast the concept of punishment with really any other option. Because I don't think America has faced the fact that many of its citizens still require punishment of criminals as
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by gaelian 13y ago
Yes, I can understand it while at the same time not agreeing with it. It seems to me that one of the biggest questions on this issue that Americans need to face is: are you punishing or are you rehabilitating? I don't pretend to have a
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by gaelian 13y ago
The fact that the US has a ridiculous amount of people in prison[1] seems like a fairly clear example of short sighted third world thinking to me. I know I personally find this fact rather concerning and I'm not even American. Some thi
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by gaelian 13y ago
I have a general policy of not divulging exact personal details of friends or family on the Internet without their express consent. But suffice it to say she was old enough to understand what the Stasi did, and lucky enough to have not been
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by gaelian 13y ago
My partner grew up in East Germany and has told me of the Stasi and their activities. I note that the GP wrote 'we have a government surveillance program that literally surpasses the level of the Stasi' - emphasis mine, and I think this i
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by gaelian 14y ago
I didn't think anyone would be that interested in my little hypothetical. :) Well, I may live in a different country to you, so any department I describe may not be familiar to you. But without getting too specific, my first starting observ
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by gaelian 14y ago
I suspect it is much harder to retrofit such a culture to an existing organisation than to have it that way from the outset. With Valve, GitHub et al we see organisations that are trying to encourage novelty and creativity in their workforc
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by gaelian 14y ago
> a hacker claiming allegiance with Anonymous But then we'd have to argue about what the word "hacker" means. Seriously though, I'm actually quite OK with using "Anonymous" as a collective noun. Granted, it is a less accurate shorthand,
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by gaelian 14y ago
> It's fair to question how much developers should concern themselves with external costs for using their service. I wouldn't go so far as to say we have a solemn duty to always take such issues into account. But as a designer/developer
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by gaelian 14y ago
It's neither bandwidth nor latency that I would be most concerned about (though I agree they are a problem) but the other point he raises: > ... the amount of data included in their plans before insane pricing kicks in is frequently sti
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by gaelian 14y ago
For what it's worth, that blog post was from September last year and Notifo notifications are still being sent at present. I assume the dude has put it in caretaker mode as he says in his post.
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A question of intent(socialcustomer.com)
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Filelike and a bootstrapper's manifesto(blog.binarybalance.com.au)
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by gaelian 14y ago
That is sad news (and I somehow missed this until now). I thought it was a good little service, I have been using it for a personal project too. Indeed, something like HN notify would seem to be the go for me now also.
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by gaelian 14y ago
Yeah, it is a little cryptic isn't it. I should have been less so with my comment. To get it working: 1. Sign up for an account at http://notifo.com 2. Download one or more of their client applications here: http://notifo.com/mobile_apps
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by gaelian 14y ago
> Is kinda the point I've been trying to make. :) OK fair enough. But I could have sworn I was just replying directly to something you said in your above comment. And I don't think I took it too far out of context. :) > A big part o
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by gaelian 14y ago
But couldn't part of the potential be that a 3rd party developer ecosystem that feels healthy and secure will focus on providing added value for users, thereby encouraging more users? More developers? More revenue? And assumedly proving the
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by gaelian 14y ago
But that blot contains within it a pretty obvious potential to be viewed as a bat though, doesn't it? If it was say, a square with a smaller square inside it, then it's unlikly anyone would interpret it as a bat. I understand the purpose of
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by gaelian 14y ago
There is the notifo option on the profile page, which I've been using successfully for some time. It also doesn't address the 'mostly want other people to be aware of it' part though.
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by gaelian 14y ago
Individual web savviness doesn't always come into it. There are those here who work within environments that mandate less than cutting edge browsers.
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by gaelian 14y ago
> Also, my point in saying I like The Social Network, etc. meant nothing more than to explain why I've started 140 Stiches; I have a love for technology and fashion and want to give advice to guys in technology who are willing to take i
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by gaelian 14y ago
And no doubt you will still find guys who want help, even if - in my own anecdotal experience - there's not as many of these guys around as there perhaps once was. And I wish you luck. But what I took issue with was the tone you use in some

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