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by jeffool 15y ago
For the record, I'd love someone to cook up a blog and keep tabs on these people and their endeavors. Hell, I've got half a mind to do it myself, if only I knew more about the startup world. Of course, that said, I'm curious if one of the t
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by jeffool 15y ago
To read the article, a bunch of these kids seemed to have already decided to leave school. Though I'm sure you're absolutely right about some.
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by jeffool 15y ago
Amazingly, I hadn't heard of that... Thank you!
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by jeffool 15y ago
I get you, but politely disagree. I would prefer an amazing game fourteen years late to any number of mediocre games in the interim. There's been no shortage of lackluster games that could have filled the void for me as a gamer.
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by jeffool 15y ago
The question this brings to mind for me: When will we be able to rotate laptop screens? Obviously it's not a tech problem, and instead a matter of convincing someone this is a wanted feature. How do you go about such a campaign?
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by jeffool 15y ago
I'd honestly be surprised if there is an end goal here. More likely some silly bastard who has trouble keeping his PC safe, but won't uninstall that 1000 smilies toolbar, thinks this is "sending a message to pirates everywhere!" because he'
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by jeffool 15y ago
I mostly keep up with my stream as a part of my wake up ritual, but Twitter does have problems. One important question, however, is how much room Twitter gives you to change things. There was a mention a few days ago saying Twitter has rule
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by jeffool 15y ago
I've always laughed at that joke (and the campaign that spawned it) for exactly that reason. If people could, OF COURSE they'd download a car. That's just silly. I use a "magic ray gun" analogy when explaining P2P to people, "A magic gun th
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by jeffool 15y ago
Having finally incorporated email for all users, in five years time, they'll finally be bothering with voice chat. And all its users will think Facebook invented the idea.
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by jeffool 15y ago
I can only speak personally of course, but... Is music bad for concentration? Yes. But is music bad for WORKING? God no. It really depends on what I'm doing. Playing music makes work (and made school work) far more pleasant (and thus easier
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by jeffool 15y ago
I'm going to be honest; I almost laughed at the premise... But then I realized how many times I've said "God I wish someone would create an intuitive way to read conversations on Twitter." All the broken references, replies not done as repl
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by jeffool 15y ago
Not exactly related to this story, but... A friend in China is taking the GMAT, and was confused about a question, and asked me to word it differently for her. When she typed out the "critical reasoning" example (Given A and B, deduce which
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by jeffool 15y ago
For all his talk of "flying over traffic," that he realizes how super-rural areas (places without roads) could be a major benefit from this is great. And smart. (Assuming it costs less than a small plane, which I imagine it does, and can ca
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by jeffool 15y ago
I would definitely tell the user beforehand exactly what they can expect, whichever way you go. To be honest, I still appreciate seeing "we will never sell or use your email for any purposes than login information" (or the likes,) on sites
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by jeffool 15y ago
Traditional patents are like creating new tools for a carpenter to use. Software patents are when someone picks up a screwdriver and says "I'm going to use this to pry the lid off the paint can. No one else can do that now, ever again."
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by jeffool 15y ago
It's taking all of my willpower not to upvote, just for the fun of it.
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by jeffool 15y ago
I agree, and did a little example of such: http://www.telescopictext.org/text/3r3OhSm1fuXVT I did a better go at it, but then realized I'd yet to sign up... I didn't quite have the mettle to do as good a job on the second attempt. But I c
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by jeffool 15y ago
I agree with this. yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm.ss Also? The Holocene calendar, and the International Fixed Calendar. But then, I'm a nerd.
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by jeffool 15y ago
Now if only ISO 8601 date formatting would catch on... (yyyy-mm-dd)
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by jeffool 15y ago
I really don't like most news sites. The average site like Guardian or Fox News is just "meh." CNN's "above the fold" is okay, having image thumbnailed stories and then a text-heavy list on the left side. That said, I don't actually "like"
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by jeffool 15y ago
Hey good luck with your project. Personally I'd love a good place to get recommendations on contemporary fiction. Good Reads just has a "ask for recommendations" section which I can do myself with friends, y'know? That said, I recommend Art
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by jeffool 15y ago
As a gamer, it annoys me to no end how people are quick to defend and identify with companies that have even a hand in their favorite game. Many will even defend publishers of games they enjoy in unrelated matters, as if the publisher had a
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by jeffool 15y ago
Shut it down for a week. Reopen it as the indie iTunes (audio, video, games, whatever) Also, completely change the look, go for something far more uniform. I'm not against, say, user backgrounds and changing colors, but no animated gifs, no
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by jeffool 15y ago
Trying to write a neo-noir nerd novel! I only get in that writing mood when I have other things that take priority. I can't let that happen forever.
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by jeffool 15y ago
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4128/the_rise_and_fall... The best I can muster. Being a fan at the time, I tend to follow the "it needed more third party support" and "Sony lied/"used false PR" (which seems oddly more acceptable) t
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by jeffool 18y ago
I thought it absolutely enjoyable in an entirely non-zombie way. I loved the movie as it was great fun, exciting action, and gore abounds, but, I do not consider it the type of super-personal 'zombie film' that I love so much. In fact, for
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by jeffool 18y ago
Ahhh, finally, a question on HN I can answer! Firstly, I'm a huge fan of the zombie apocalypse. -So, why do I like it? I love the genre because, by far and large, because it creates a reality that works very counter-intuitively. Sure, zomb
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by jeffool 18y ago
The line "being a developing nation, it means opportunities are fewer, and you tend to get stuck where you are longer than you usually want," is very interesting me. I can't speak to that notion exactly, but here in the US people very ofte
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by jeffool 18y ago
Curious if anyone has any numbers for software piracy historically speaking? We'll forever be hearing how piracy is destroying companies, so one has to wonder how current piracy rates stack up against previous years.