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by jcutrell 13y ago
The very first reaction from the founder at my company: "Seems a little big-brother-ish?" I couldn't agree more. The same thing can easily happen in all metric tracking for productivity. For instance, if you estimate points-p
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I was going through the code and found that as well! Nice effect. Seems like the main.js[1] file is inordinately large to me - did you feel that way? [1] http://theremin.io/scripts/main.js?v=5
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Totally agree with the idea that meta discussion should be limited. And, to be fair, it's not my fault my comment is the top voted post. I think the discussion about the fake/real login screen should be upped more than this one, c
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by jcutrell 13y ago
That makes sense. However, there's one problem. > these people are not "being who they are," because someone else has caused them to "conform to [their] taste/style." This is assumption based on cultural hin
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by jcutrell 13y ago
My favorite tweet about the subject. https://twitter.com/HuffPostMedia/status/397811579527233536/...
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by jcutrell 13y ago
Dear HN. Please stop making a big deal about how you don't like hipster beards. It really makes HN look like pretentious douchebags instead of intelligent thinkers. It makes HN people look like the have no understanding of marketing. I
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by jcutrell 13y ago
Literally nothing. Which is sad. The point of these things was most likely a marketing strategy, and one that will likely be effective. I bought it. Not because of the jeans. Not because of the vintage storage space. Because it's a goo
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by jcutrell 13y ago
I absolutely don't think people writing thank you notes to their boss is weird. I do this on almost a daily basis via email or text. This block of text does seem weird though - I think it's because she was highly emotional while w
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by jcutrell 13y ago
To accomplish the complexity of issues I face on a daily basis in code, I would hate to build in a GUI. I can type faster than I can search for the right button in Photoshop. Ask anyone who lives in their terminal - it will increase (rather
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by jcutrell 13y ago
How is it possible that O'Reilly puts their name on something with blatant errors like that?
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Becoming a "great hacker" doesn't rely on novelty of solution. It relies on ingenuity. I'm currently writing a book, and in that book I make a claim: "engineers are addicted to problem solving." This ends up ma
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by jcutrell 13y ago
For those who don't have a use case, make the use case a simple security measure. For instance, create metadata for the persons name and perhaps tie it back to objects in your db. This way, you can easily rebuild transaction history if
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I agree with this. At the same time, I'm quite glad the OP reposted a few times. I may not have seen this app otherwise. The hustle required to delete and repost doesn't feel spammy to me. And, furthermore, the original post made
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Not all advertisement is scummy. You could easily change the tone here. "I joined a bunch of very specific types of groups so I could manually write a post that tells them about a free app that I built for their demographic." I fe
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This is fantastic news for people who fly a lot. I know that a "2-hour flight" for me _could_ mean a really good sprint on something, if it weren't for the interruptions that tell me when to put my computer away and ask me if
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by jcutrell 13y ago
Opal and Decaf are two projects that run ruby in the browser. Opal compiles to JS. Decaf is a "modification of Webkit". Decaf: http://trydecaf.org/ Opal: http://opalrb.org/ A quick google search g
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by jcutrell 13y ago
Sorry - should have clarified. My commenting is good to go, but my Submissions are all dead on arrival.
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http://jcutrell.svbtle.com/a-simple-and-flexible-selfquantif... I've written a response, but I suppose I am hellbanned for new posts. No clue why unfortunately. The basic idea: prompting is of great importance in this
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by jcutrell 13y ago
Looks like there are "areas" to unlock.
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I almost created one of these, except for news. Hyper-local news is largely missing - I was going to mash up Twitter, Instagram, and in-app updates to help people get a sense of what's happening immediately around them. This is actuall
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by jcutrell 13y ago
I heard from an unnamed Google employee once about very similar responsibility-laden abilities with the massive number of images Google has access too. In particular, a conversation about recognition algorithms for sorting pornography at th
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by jcutrell 13y ago
It certainly would be useful to do some sort of programmatic analysis of speeches mapped over time. Sentiment analysis. Repeated phrases. Cross-reference with others' phrases to see who's saying the same things at the same times.
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Am I the only one that thinks this should absolutely be put up in some open-source version-control-based way? If it's public, it's public. If I have to email you and you get to decide whether or not I'm a scholar, doesn'
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by jcutrell 13y ago
I actually thought about making this once - a CV generator that gives you a PDF and HTML files back, with a few themes to choose from. The idea would be that you can update it at any time through the system, and it would keep track of chang
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by jcutrell 13y ago
I really like this idea. (May be worth changing the name to a Show HN, or starting an ask thread about it.) I think it would benefit from a standardization with something similar to OpenGraph, though. And really, endpoints to arbitrary serv
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by jcutrell 13y ago
There's a lot of this that I agree with, but there's also a lot of it that is limited by personal experience. I for one have never had a fight on Twitter - the closest thing being when I complained about my poor Comcast service -
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Indeed. What I might coin the "cloud tag".
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Most of the companies doing customer support via Twitter are either very small (as in, 20-100 people) or very large (as in major banking companies). In both cases, very few people handle the Twitter accounts in general, and usually they rev
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by jcutrell 13y ago
You know, there really should be a better way of contesting rejections. I'm surprised at how often we hear this same type of story of rejection.
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by jcutrell 13y ago
That's what I was thinking. Sounds more like a rage against the existing app that doesn't match up to the expectations set out by Apple.

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