jonmc12

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Is he serious about consumers impacting government because they get mad about their favorite brand getting sued? Consumers vote with their dollars - a massive change in spending habit would be required to impact congress. Voting consumers
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Great thinking - but I think the dichotomy of self-sacrifice vs growth is not the most useful conceptual model. I found the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in 'The two paths to success' to be more relatable when it comes to optimizing f
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How's my e-mail?(howsmyemail.com)
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Sparrow email client on OSX has this feature too: https://sparrowmail.tenderapp.com/kb/starting-with-sparrow/d... Though in addition to mailing stuff to yourself, you can archive other attachments in DB as well. Incidentally, never consi
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This is awesome, but why does compete.com think their traffic is going down since raising funding in July? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/airbnb.com/
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Symantec: Anonymous stole source code, users should disable pcAnywhere(arstechnica.com)
72 points by jonmc12 15y ago|26 comments
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If there was a way to opt out of exposure to political advertising (kind of like can-spam and do-not-call lists), and most Americans adopted this option, maybe it would remove the motivation to exercise this 1st amendment right.
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In addition to hellbanning, another fun trick is to view your submitted links to see which links have been removed without your knowledge. View your links in one window while logged into your account, then view the same page on another bro
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It appears to use a Ballastic computer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25_CDTE ), like this one for iPhone: http://ballistic.zdziarski.com/ Given that this is basically an ultra-fast artillery device, the tech in this gun more likely rep
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I was surprised to read this in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child#As_a_non-adult - "Recognition of childhood as a state different from adulthood began to emerge in the 16th and 17th centuries. Society began to relate to the ch
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Thats not a hypothesis in the scientific sense, that is a scientifically-based speculation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method btw, does SIAI, et al, actually align to a common speculation that logically unfolds to the notion
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Mathematicians, computer scientists, and philosophers are going to save the world? As I read it, a group of researchers is creating philosophy around a branch of thought in order to begin to define the problem. Thats all good, but proper s
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Every member of each generation grows up and implicitly faces a decision: am I going to follow the path of others towards success? or am I going to redefine success? The former is for iBankers, lawyers, doctors, carrer academics and social
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Wikipedia is not to blame any more than MTV is to blame for Jersey Shore - they are both simply catering content that reflects how their audience wants to expend attention. Looking at the numbers for perez hilton, farmville, facebook, telev
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"This is, of course, the path of insanity, and not the good kind of insanity." - from Paul Buchheit's 'I am Nothing'. Mr Altucher's persona of his past self is a caricature of seeing the world through a lens of self-identity and ego.. walk
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"Delivery services have been using routing software for years" - yes, but not on a real-time basis. Solving real-time resource allocation vs routing a driver on pre-scheduled deliveries (like UPS) is a different problem with more complexit
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I've noticed in the past that Google has special provisions for: Navigation, Autonomous Vehicle Control, or Enterprise Applications in the terms of use - http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html - 10.2c. Google has all the data to know
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(6) not advertise ability to "Capture button presses" - http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/12/Experi... (7) not include "user interaction" and "key presses" within the core claims of their technology patent http://www.faq
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In addition to being on their patent, as mentioned in article, these claims of key press tracking and user interaction tracking are also present in their marketing material: 1. "Capture a vast array of experience data including screen tran
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Was discussing the origin article with my wife last night. One theory we had was that men actually negotiate and put a higher value on money in order to attract women . Perhaps men ask for more money at jobs because women value men with
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I created a quick doc to describe some of my ideals: http://jonmc12.github.com/BackboneIdeals/ - very quick obviously.. but I think it gets main points across: 1. A conceptual model that describes the input / output between DOM and
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I'm a user of Backbone, Coffeescript across several projects - and generally a fan of your work. However, your comment makes me feel like you are missing what your users are saying and falling back on your opinions about code vs considering
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I've used both frameworks on a recent project. I was drawn to backbone because of flexibility and I can see code all the way down. As I have worked with Knockout, I've come to enjoy the automatic DOM syncing - it really simplifies managin
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I found http://learn.knockoutjs.com/ to be a very nice intro to knockout.js. For Backbone, docs + annotated source are more than sufficient. Best practices - I stick to simple rule of using Views (in backbone) and view models (in knockou
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Reminded me of this section from the Rspec book - http://cl.ly/2x231s0N2v3C2P1S1z04 , http://cl.ly/2R1Z1D450Y1n1n3L170b - which applies to testing object-oriented code by mocking objects and putting assertions on the interaction between
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I though to myself, is Kaczynski really the poster-child of the view-point that technology can harm civilization? Surely there are thinkers in this area that did not blow up people. In researching, I found that the Kaczynski was quoted by
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Ok, so no one likes the law. I've read your stuff - you are scared of going to jail while your competitors are building up cash to defend themselves against potential enforcement. Meanwhile you are filing complaints against them. You are
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"This is absolutely no different than what you do with any other website, where you're overriding the browser's default styles instead of Bootstrap's" Its different. There are all kinds of properties I don't want to have to override. This
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Recently I walked into project that used Twitter bootstrap for the initial CSS. A prototype was built, relying on the bootstrap CSS, and from that point on it has been hassle to work with the CSS. I'm really not sure I understand the strat
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http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Asana-developing-their-own-progr...

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