iamgilesbowkett

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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
the sheer number of possible answers is overwhelming, but pretty much everything Google does fails, except for search and email. (I can't be the only one who's afraid to find out what their cars are like.) so I'm going to say the reason Goo
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"Why are you going back onto a diet that you clearly can't sustain?" Who are you kidding? I stayed on it for a year and a half and then got bored. It wasn't a struggle, I just stopped making it a priority. It's a pretty gigantic leap from t
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
I think that's fair. I think plenty of people would describe a dramatic change in diet as an intense thing, and I certainly don't think there's any harm in intensity, as long as it's intelligently applied, and it's different from some kind
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
Sure. Basically just this guy's work: http://www.drfuhrman.com/ I eat beans, fruit, and vegetables, and that's basically it. No starchy vegetables (i.e., potatoes, squash), and occasional nuts and seeds. No meat, grains, salt, sugar, alco
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
I have to disagree with this part: "do it with drive and intensity or don't expect results" I made a pretty radical change in my diet and dropped 82 pounds. I think the first 70 or so came off in 6 months. It required some focus, but not a
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
I wrote about it on my blog a couple years ago too. I'm just glad some voice of reason finally surfaced on here. Besides the cargo-cult idiocy of it, the other thing I don't like is the idea that Twitter's goal is maximizing follower count
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"I do believe that the plethora of instant stimulations is having a major impact on our cognitive processes. Some good, some bad. The bad I see is that it seems that people have a much more difficult time quieting down their minds or enjoyi
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
I think you're absolutely right. I'm sorry to say it, but I also believe that all the comments to the contrary are just people who haven't bothered to learn anything about the subject.
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"don't use your employer's computer off-hours when working on your own projects" California law protects individual side projects extremely well. I am not a lawyer, I could be wrong, but I believe these concerns are absolutely irrelevant in
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
There's a great infographic that pits human lifespans against this old idea - that investing in the stock market is always a good idea because it goes up in the long run. There were many, many times in the last 100 years where "the long run
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
Jesus, dude, why not just talk to OP instead? Any lawyer will tell you that if you can resolve your differences peacefully out of court, you should. This seems to be some kind of hair-trigger litigiousness thing you've got on going here.
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
Do you really think the OP had SEO as a priority? Likewise I disagree with the idea that these two projects share the same space. A Java ORM and a Rails metaframework for avoiding ORM are not things which have a lot in common. I think the l
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
hey man, re: "If you look at Rails itself (it's great Ruby code, I highly recommend really reading it)" I've worked with a member of Rails core, and frequent committers. I've spoken at 10 Ruby conferences at least, maybe 20. I'm familiar wi
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
I have a prejudicial assumption that if you don't know the problem Objectify solves, you haven't worked with a Rails app which has A) a large code base B) a large, active user base and C) a bunch of different features. The vast majority of
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
re "That's very possible," anything which has happened is as possible as possible gets. Sorry to be that guy. This is a very cool hack.
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
This looks great, but the edit feature is not actually something you can't have in IRB. Both my own utility_belt gem from 2007 and another person's sketches gem from 2009 enabled the same functionality. I think Pry is great, I wrote a littl
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"Speaking as a kid (19 y/o), we like rejecting things that are uncool. Nobody my age uses Google Plus, for example." Come on, that doesn't prove anything. Nobody else uses Google Plus either.
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"Facebook is passe because 1) it's got too many ads 2) everyone's parents are on it. It's possible that this is just the lifecycle of social networks - they gradually get infiltrated by money and adults, and the young people move on, causin
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"I'm convinced that the only people who can tell and even care about the performance difference between Path and Facebook's native apps are software developers...most people don't care" the story you're commenting on presents evidence which
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
if you're paying attention to Apple rumors that you see anywhere other than Jon Gruber's daringfireball.com, you're just wasting time. if you do read Daring Fireball, you know press on Apple is wildly inaccurate. Gruber sometimes even runs
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
very much agree. apart from anything else, the inspiration is so obvious that if you don't credit you're basically just asking for a fight. and if you get it in the app store he might even be in a position to hit you with a DMCA takedown. m
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
+1 because I want access to the library, because I want every app out there to buy it from you and use it, and because I think the real goal of a project like this (just like the design prototype which inspired it) is to get Apple to recogn
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"I have never heard of Glancee before today. Going to their announcement page tells me nothing about what exactly did, or do now, except a generic blurb about bringing people together." I absolutely hate reading TechCrunch. This is how much
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"52% set aside $0 for marketing despite 91% believing that marketing is necessary for success." pardon if I'm grumpy, but doesn't this imply that 50% of the devs contacted in the survey were not serious about being in business in the first
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"Yeah, but he misses the next step in logical thinking which is that the changes will apply to everyone." no he doesn't, not at all. he "misses" this step because while it might be logical over the long term for the world on average, it's i
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"While I appreciate the sentiment and agree with his point of view, his simply telling Google 'go fuck yourself' doesn't really offer an in-depth critique of why these changes [are] wrong" what you said is literally false. here's his in-dep
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"It'd be great if we had multiple review sites." we do. if you use Google as well as Yelp, every other site on the Internet which mentions the business you are curious about effectively acts as a separate review site.
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
Well, between this, getting caught stealing user data, and the aggravating unpology which followed, I think if you're surprised to see Path getting negative PR, you aren't familiar with Path. It's kind of what they do. I hate to say it, bec
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
I don't need help finding a book, and I don't appreciate your condescension.
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by iamgilesbowkett 14y ago
"Worth mentioning is Yelp's long (alleged) history of using review filtering as a de facto racket to 'encourage' businesses to sign up for their paid services." EXTREMELY worth mentioning. If you've yelped Yelp, so to speak, you know to tak

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