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by grovulent 14y ago
Is this really front page worthy? When will people stop up-voting arrington/techcrunch psychodrama?
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by grovulent 14y ago
Exactly... I would love to just experiment with google latitude. The idea would just to have an open social experience - such that if I'm at a cafe somewhere - and I have latitude enabled then people can just feel free to join me. But I d
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by grovulent 14y ago
One of my fears as I hit 35 is just a general fear that suddenly I'll blink and I won't be able to use the essential interfaces that you need to get stuff done as effectively as most of the people around you. As the OP describes - we all re
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by grovulent 14y ago
Not sure why this deserved to be taken off the front page... It's not against the submission guidelines... Did I otherwise do something wrong?
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Would you take the honeymoon pill?(reviewsindepth.com)
20 points by grovulent 14y ago|4 comments
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by grovulent 14y ago
well the title of the article is 'your words are wasted' - which is a bit hyperbolic if you agree with the diversification view. That title - along with the content that follows - seems to imply that it's a waste of time if it isn't going
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by grovulent 14y ago
I really don't get the all or nothing attitude of this article. I have a blog - and a facebook account and a g+ account. The blog gets my best content. But it's not easy to integrate a standalone blog into an existing social graph (social
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by grovulent 14y ago
Hmm - you know I actually think it's not correct to look at regex as an interface - even though we use it as one. It's really more accurate to look at it as a grammar (type 3 if I remember correctly). Anything that comes out of the whole c
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Those New Mac Ads - Why We Hate Them(reviewsindepth.com)
3 points by grovulent 14y ago|2 comments
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by grovulent 14y ago
All this from a wank-tastic buzz video that doesn't even show the device in operation? What is it with the punditry these days? Surely there is a whole evo-biol book out there devoted to explaining this particular nonsense facet of human b
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by grovulent 14y ago
Very well said - and you've pretty much nailed the heart of the problem. The mistake as I see it is in ruling on individual cases as a matter of some matter of single process that in itself can be ruled fair and unfair - where this in turn
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by grovulent 14y ago
In making an animated movie heaps of money goes in all sorts of places besides the animation itself. Writers, directors, actors and all the other production crew folks etc... distribution, advertising and so on... Who knows what the break d
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Fashionistas (and bureaucrats and journalists): Please learn to code(danwin.com)
3 points by grovulent 14y ago|0 comments
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by grovulent 14y ago
That's really grammar bad...
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by grovulent 14y ago
I'm going to leave this here - since I've been talking about this for a while. http://reviewsindepth.com/2011/04/why-everyone-should-learn-... I really think the issue is deeper than current commentators are addressing.
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by grovulent 14y ago
So I wrote a piece advocating why everyone should learn to code: http://reviewsindepth.com/2011/04/why-everyone-should-learn-... I don't think Jeff's piece undermines any of the reasons I put forward there. Going through his points one by
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by grovulent 14y ago
Ludicrous... I really have nothing else to say.
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What can hackers learn from iterative fiction like Batman(reviewsindepth.com)
3 points by grovulent 15y ago|0 comments
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by grovulent 15y ago
The way I've always thought about it is as the application of game mechanics to the problem of sustaining a community that links to quality content and produces quality discussion. Karma - particularly on Hacker news - is not useless - it's
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by grovulent 15y ago
So - I had a mate that built an application that made it trivial to deploy a niche ebay site with tens of thousands of pages. He had an insane number of them - and briefly got his revenue upwards around two hundred k per year (tho panda ki
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by grovulent 15y ago
Hey that's pretty neat... I made a cute little animation of a glowing halo... not as fancy as many of the submissions on there - but if you think it appropriate I'll whack it up. http://camcorderheaven.com.au/halo_demo.html
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by grovulent 15y ago
Exactly - I can't wrap my head around how clueless Google is being about this...
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by grovulent 15y ago
Just be careful who you circle... But then again - the best thing about Google+ is getting into chats with interesting folk you don't already know. That's it's ENTIRE selling point for me right now. Most people share crap (like everywher
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by grovulent 15y ago
So I'm usually one of the folks defending google+ against the haters (usually along the lines of it's dead/no it's not arguments)... But this particular issue shits me no end. It's ridiculous to give us this way of sorting people into circ
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by grovulent 15y ago
Agreed... It was a pretty thin article - but the G+ criticism was just completely irrelevant to it and add nothing to the idea being explored... Also - in general I find the g+ bashing is weird generally... My stream is full - my conversat
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by grovulent 15y ago
Yep - know your pain... Dex has helped me a lot. It gets me through my boring day job. But a big part of it is also learning to make peace with your eclectic nature. You'll bloom late - but it will happen. And you'll also have powers of t
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by grovulent 15y ago
Hmm - that's true. I spose it's not too late to change... any ideas?
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by grovulent 15y ago
I think I'd need to know what aspect of it particularly makes you say that to answer you adequately... But the problem I have on G+ is that it's hard to remember people that are willing to engage - the ones with whom you've actually had a s
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by grovulent 15y ago
I dont feel you deserve to be voted down on this comment... I actually think your statement - while ultimately needing more argument behind it - is actually true of just about all of the analysis I read these days. It's all thoroughly atav
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by grovulent 15y ago
So I've actually gone ahead and built and app for Google+ to help people curate more substantive relationships on the platform - so that in principle online social networking doesn't have to be about being superficial. http://puttheefforti

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