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by izaidi 18y ago
Oh for sure -- I'm not saying there wasn't tons of branding on the part of the Obama campaign. But this logo was launched at the very beginning, with the speech in Springfield in early '07, before he raised a billion dollars, and even then
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by izaidi 18y ago
But did those logos carry meaning right from the start or was that brand recognition built over time? What's interesting about the Obama logo is that it's instantly evocative of a message without needing years of branding, yet it still mana
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by izaidi 18y ago
By that logic, would you rather die in 5 years than in 50?
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by izaidi 18y ago
It doesn't take that much karma to downvote. In fact it looks like you crossed the threshold with this post. :)
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by izaidi 18y ago
I think the tricky part is that peak shift relies on generalizations (like "rectangleness") being made about a whole set of objects or experiences, so you first need some kind of foundation (like Pavlovian training) from which a generalizat
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by izaidi 18y ago
I like this a lot, but I'm not sure I understand the title.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Not the parent, but I often take caffeine naps as well and they're great. For me they're always accompanied by an awesome action-packed nap dream and I wake up extremely refreshed. Mine are a lot longer than 15 minutes, though -- usually 1.
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Is Urban Loneliness a Myth?(nymag.com)
3 points by izaidi 18y ago|0 comments
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by izaidi 18y ago
Only after it completely fails.
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by izaidi 18y ago
You can put ASCII on a pig...
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by izaidi 18y ago
Hang onto a McDonald's cup and keep asking for free refills.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Freud hasn't really been taken seriously in the psychological community since the middle of the 20th century. The only place where psychoanalysis still has much credibility is among a subset of literary theorists.
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The eyeballing game(woodgears.ca)
51 points by izaidi 18y ago|9 comments
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by izaidi 18y ago
They grow up so fast.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Just pick one and worry about the product instead. No one's going to care that much about what it's called.
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by izaidi 18y ago
That second one took a couple tries to parse. For a second I thought you were in the sex change business.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Somewhere, someone is dreaming up a social coffee table book about coffee tables.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Pretty interesting post. I'm working on something cool that attempts to solve problems 1 and 2, plus what I think is currently the biggest problem with email (and every other form of messaging): incredibly lousy interaction design. I'll lau
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by izaidi 18y ago
I love Hacker News. Even the credibility police hang out here.
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Why do good ideas come to us when they do?(web.mit.edu)
2 points by izaidi 18y ago|1 comments
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by izaidi 18y ago
I took "orientalist" to be a pejorative in line with Edward Said's Orientalism -- i.e., accusing its target of attitudes shaped by Western imperialism. It's not really correct to use it this way, since "Orientalist" already has the meanin
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by izaidi 18y ago
The most important thing to tell your kids is, "Just don't die."
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by izaidi 18y ago
At least Tipsy seems trustworthy. I'd give him my money voluntarily; Angry Mohawk Turtle would take it from me at gunpoint, then kill me anyway.
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by izaidi 18y ago
I'm not an expert on this stuff but if you're just changing the IPs and not the actual NS records for the domain, the changes will be pretty much instantaneous, depending on how quickly your DNS service registers updates. I use DNS Made Eas
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by izaidi 18y ago
True even without the "(math)". I've always liked the idea of elegance applied to writing -- the best writing, like the best code, uses simple language to unusually strong effect.
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by izaidi 18y ago
Well said. I've been rereading a lot of Orwell's stuff lately -- it's some of the most lucid writing I've ever run into, and it's aged remarkably well.
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George Orwell: New Words(orwell.ru)
6 points by izaidi 18y ago|3 comments
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by izaidi 18y ago
What do you code on?
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by izaidi 18y ago
Murder happens when a person lacks the strength needed to resist their rage, and not because that person has the guts to carry out the morally reprehensible. People as bright as Reiser often have pretty persuasive demons.
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by izaidi 18y ago
You weren't. Running through my head practically every day: "I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed." I like to think it's mostly cautionary, but, you know. Also, if you can still edit that post, I'd advise taking the "h"

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