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by gfunk911 15y ago
I'm a programmer. 3-4 years ago, I bought an iRiver. It got great reviews, it was supposedly better than an iPod, and you could put Real Rhapsody music on it. I literally spent over an hour attempting to load music on it, and failed. It
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by gfunk911 15y ago
This was my question exactly. What about layering designer-specific functionality on top of dropbox? Use the Dropbox API, people sign up and tell you where in their Dropbox folder they store designs, and you provide specific functionality,
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by gfunk911 15y ago
1. Are there seriously smiley faces in this serious post defending your company? 2. From what I can understand, they suspended multiple accounts, one of which was paid in full. The paid in full account's owner cursed out the company on twi
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by gfunk911 15y ago
BODY OF THE ARTICLE (currently 503): The Deep Procrastination Crisis Above is a snapshot of my blog e-mail inbox, filtered to only show e-mails from students struggling with deep procrastination. Notice that there are close to 60 such messa
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by gfunk911 15y ago
Great article. Your boss won't always explicitly tell you to take time to experiment. I've gone to my boss many times and essentially asked for time to experiment. If you have a good boss, he'll be right there with you. Don't be afraid t
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by gfunk911 15y ago
You just described Intellectual Ventures exactly.
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by gfunk911 15y ago
There's a growing body of evidence that statins are actually net harmful to the body. Millions of people are on medications that are helping them, and other millions of people are overmedicated.
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by gfunk911 15y ago
Regarding the argument that doctors aren't lawyers, and they were just listening to so called experts: There was a popular article last week discussing how doctors were ignoring evidence and logic because so-called experts in their fields h
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by gfunk911 15y ago
Bug, they rejected my CC with exp date of this month as expired. Lost a user.
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by gfunk911 15y ago
Discussion of this study http://www.marksdailyapple.com/fish-oil-prostate-cancer/
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by gfunk911 15y ago
That's a joke. A email telling them to remove the word donate within 5 days or their account would be closed, I would totally get that. Shutting down new orders until the verbiage is changed, same thing. But to say that this is a reasonabl
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by gfunk911 16y ago
I'm planning on building a ruby bot. I'll be putting at least my "non-proprietary" logic code up on github. Anyone interested in working together?
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by gfunk911 16y ago
I don't ignore the match percentages at all. Obviously they aren't perfectly correlated, but they're pretty solid. People with very low match numbers are basically 100% duds.
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by gfunk911 16y ago
If an applicant is judged to be a reasonable applicant, but is not hired, Google could refund the fee. Basically, you get your money back if you weren't completely insane to apply. This probably introduces even more problems, but it's an i
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by gfunk911 16y ago
So this meta-giftcard has even more hassle than a normal gift card, but without the shred of thoughtfullness that buying a standard gift card has. It's just as thoughtless as cash, but super-inconvenient. I don't get it.
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by gfunk911 16y ago
I was initially confused by the demo. Potential use cases 1. I have a perfect fitting shoe, I'd like to buy another perfect fitting shoe of a different brand. 2. I haven't found the perfect fitting shoe. I'd like to find one. I assumed thi
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by gfunk911 16y ago
Yes, you do
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by gfunk911 16y ago
Exactly. When cities are facing potential budget shortfalls, they say things like "If we don't get a tax increase, we're going to have to slash the fire and police departments." They highlight the most important areas (which should of cou
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by gfunk911 16y ago
I don't think it's fair yet to say that Twitter won't do these things. The first step was fixing the regression as fast as possible.
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by gfunk911 16y ago
Heh, I have the same story. Messaged both of you on Github, we should team up. https://github.com/mharris717/lsl
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by gfunk911 16y ago
When did "powerful" start to correspond with "the sheer quantity of things that can be done at a minimum poor level of quality"?
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by gfunk911 16y ago
I didn't mean that people ignore instances when Microsoft fails. I meant that failing is an accepted part of Microsoft's DNA. People didn't like Vista, but putting out an (arguably) busted OS didn't seem out of character for Microsoft.
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by gfunk911 16y ago
Great article. Choosing a place where people appreciate honest criticism works for friendships as well. My biggest criteria for friends is that the person is cool with honesty, including telling them when they're wrong. Interesting point ab
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by gfunk911 16y ago
I signed up for this service but didn't really use it. I really like the concept. It wanted to remind you when you hadn't been in contact with friends in a while. Good luck to these guys. Does any of the Etacts guys (or anyone else) know
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by gfunk911 16y ago
The value of an acquisition is (simplifying) a product of how easy it would be to replicate the target without buying it, that is itself a combination of (again simplifying) how big a first/early mover advantage they have, and the technica
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by gfunk911 16y ago
It sounds like she was getting very little fat and protein in her diet. When you demonize fat, and don't eat much protein, you have no choice but to fill the void with carbs, if you can fulfill your csloric needs at all Also, Leafy vegetab
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by gfunk911 16y ago
I would really like a service that did the following 1. People can message me in a way that no more difficult than now. 2. That message will be sent to me via whatever communication method is best for me at that moment. 3. This choice of co
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by gfunk911 16y ago
It all depends on what the SLA says, but hypothetically, if they are down for 24 hours a year, that's 99.7% uptime, which isn't terrible. Heroku had a 1-2 hour outage the week after we switched an app there last year. My boss was freaking
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by gfunk911 16y ago
I hate those auto-generated find methods as well. So i don't use them. I don't understand why this negatively impacts your experience. +1 on the lack of support for views. You can kludge things together, but its not pleasant. You're making
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by gfunk911 16y ago
Yes, because that's all Rails (and the other frameworks) do. They obsfucate HTML and put a thin wrapper around SQL You always have the option of dropping down into straight HTML. This is one of the things I love about Rails. Also, he forgot

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