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by jmduke 13y ago
I just reread your comment and now I feel like a dunce. Leaving my original comment, so that I might better revel in my shame.
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by jmduke 13y ago
I'm glad this was posted here, otherwise I never would have known. I don't mean this sarcastically -- are you serious? It's been plastered over my news and social feeds for the past 48 hours, but I recognize I have a dispr
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by jmduke 13y ago
This seems like a slightly less insidious (and, arguably, less fun) version of a common drinking game from my college: text or shot. You take turns with a random person's phone, composing a text to a person of your choice -- you show
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by jmduke 13y ago
Looks like he typo'd and put a space in between the "1." and the "5", which got interpreted as an ordered list.
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An Interactive, Personalized, Newspaper on the Web (1993)(w3.org)
2 points by jmduke 13y ago|1 comments
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by jmduke 13y ago
This is the type of clever advertisement that won't change the opinion of anyone, because its target audience is already on its side. (Also, and I'm saying this as a nerdy Democrat, calling out the lobbying efforts of Bloomberg, K
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by jmduke 13y ago
I think the parent's comment is better phrased as "There's no constraint preventing iOS from being just another tablet OS." Apple consciously refuses to decouple their hardware from their software (and I agree with you t
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by jmduke 13y ago
A big distinction for me is "programming as work" and "programming as play". I can spend eight hours at work and be absolutely drained when I get home, but still leap at the chance to say, take a bite out of my function
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by jmduke 13y ago
Now more importantly let’s look at the time saved. No code shipped on the evenings where drinking occurs (loss of 4 hours each night) and 1 day hangover on the Saturday feeling sorry for myself. You're not gaining four hours each nig
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by jmduke 13y ago
I strongly disagree with your characterization of him as 'cartoonishly twisted' and think that if you're going to write someone off for being overly glib in a private conversation while they're in college, then you'
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by jmduke 13y ago
In the past three days, I've read that the following companies are doomed: Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, LinkedIn, and Samsung. Good thing I have so many blog posts to tell me about it! Otherwise, I don't think I would have noticed
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by jmduke 13y ago
I've got a MacBook, iPad, and iPhone, and I still love my Roku more than my old AppleTV. The only issue is that the AppleTV has better options for watching sports, but Plex alone more than makes up for that.
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Spoiled Blackberries(jmduke.net)
2 points by jmduke 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmduke 13y ago
All four of those technologies have been created within the past four years. With that in mind, using 'hipster' as a denigration seems... ill-advised. (I agree that they should be added.)
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by jmduke 13y ago
Your point is well-taken, but female teenagers who spend their entire day on the internet only fulfill one of the three qualifiers I had for "nerdy" (the other two being 18-25 and STEM-educated.)
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by jmduke 13y ago
There's something particularly ironic about calling Ozymandias timeless.
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by jmduke 13y ago
Reddit is visited by tens of millions of people of virtually every demographic. Corralling them as "internet nerds" seems a bit like you're trying for some bullying yourself. The post to which you're replying didn&#x27
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by jmduke 13y ago
An idea (that might already exist): SMS reminders to take prescriptions. I know, for example, that my great-aunt struggles with this at 79: she's not debilitated or anything, but she's old and doesn't have the greatest memor
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by jmduke 13y ago
“What does Trello Gold mean for Business Class?” Nothing. They work totally independently. Trello Gold is for individuals and Business Class is for organizations Getting upset that your Kanban board will get cluttered by stickers is missi
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by jmduke 13y ago
People are going to say that there's nothing about this that's specific to video games, which I guess is the point, right? You can work yourself to death if you want, but every piece of research I've read says that recreatio
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by jmduke 13y ago
Brute-force strategies rarely work well in real life Sudoku.
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by jmduke 13y ago
"In what other industry is it okay to give discounted “girl tickets”?" To provide, at least, an objective answer, airlines will discount tickets if they have a given level of certainty that the passenger is female -- except, int
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by jmduke 13y ago
The line that has always stuck with me is that code should aptly explain how and comments should aptly explain why.
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by jmduke 13y ago
I think this is less 'Silicon Valley' the geographic location and more 'Silicon Valley' the idea -- the metaphorical land of hype, of venture capital, of red bull vodkas and launch parties, of being wired in -- of buzz.
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Students accused of cheating return to a changed Harvard(nytimes.com)
1 points by jmduke 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmduke 13y ago
What would change it is reseeding the PRNG based on the amount of time waited The argument by the author is that the game implies that this occurs.
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by jmduke 13y ago
Cynically, you can consider it hedging one's bets (no pun intended.)
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by jmduke 13y ago
I am impressed by how much time I've spent on the site (and still don't understand exactly what it does or why it's worth $40/user/mo.) I am also impressed by how the future of web development is a node.js package.
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Marginalia(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jmduke 13y ago
But it is surprising -- or, at least, interesting -- that the product doesn't benefit from economies of scale.

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