joshwa

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by joshwa 17y ago
Most Recent displays EVERYTHING (like News Feed used to). Top News filters things by ann algorithm that weights by the amount of comments/likes, among other things.
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by joshwa 17y ago
arazorashinyknife, eh? We run in similar circles (friends with cathy erway?). Is your project food-related?
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by joshwa 17y ago
Anyone remember the $400K Parrot eBook? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516215 (what is it about birds and AdSense?)
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by joshwa 17y ago
We chose Kunming primarily because of my wife's work-- she is going to document the foodways of the many minority communities in Yunnan before they all disappear via migration or assimilation. I am learning Mandarin, albeit in my spare time
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by joshwa 17y ago
That's one of the reasons I'm moving to southwestern China this fall. Making freelance/telecommute USD will enable me to live quite nicely in Kunming. (PS if anyone needs an experienced Rails/Java/Python/whatever-you-need-me-to-learn coder
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by joshwa 17y ago
seems they linked to their staging site (publicly accessible!!) by accident. Same page without staging subdomain: http://www.rosettaproject.org/blog/02008/nov/3/macro-micro-e...
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A baseball star funds a gaming company. What could possibly go wrong?(boston.com)
3 points by joshwa 17y ago|1 comments
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by joshwa 17y ago
Organizational Theory question: How do you avoid, once becoming a larger enterprise, this kind of "mission creep" where too many groups hold sway over the public face and mission of a company? The most common model I've seen thus far is the
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by joshwa 17y ago
Design is not the problem. I'd be much more curious to see "100 Business Redesigns" where you'd outline how you'd revolutionize the mission, organizational culture, operations, marketing, etc of a large public company. You could title it "I
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by joshwa 17y ago
In Newsday's geographic target area (Long Island, NY), if a news consumer is the type of reader who mainly reads news online, they'll go with the Times, or even the NY Post or Daily News online, rather than Newsday. Newsday's print readers
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by joshwa 17y ago
The last few times I've been to doctor's offices/hospitals, I've noticed that a huge amount of doctors'/nurses' times are spent mouse clicking. The docs' offices all have computers in them with EPIC or similar patient record systems, and in
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by joshwa 17y ago
Might I recommend a title change? s/logic/boneheaded logic/ Currently reads as if the article is advocating treating them as sex offenders. (wording taken from article's deck)
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The Filibuster is Unconstitutional (NYT Op-Ed)(nytimes.com)
1 points by joshwa 17y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 17y ago
what's the benefit of the integration? the transient back and forth conversations of a debate don't need to be co-located with the longer-lived artifacts-- the signal/noise ratio would probably actually harm effective communication. I actua
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by joshwa 17y ago
I've found campfire + internal wiki or threaded messageboard to cover most of the usecases in the article. Also the UI around threading in Wave is awful from a usability perspective. It's nearly impossible to tell if you're creating a sib
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by joshwa 17y ago
My algorithm: 1. 4-6 dishes are kept on the shelf (household size: 2) 2. When we eat, I pull the top 2 dishes from the shelf 3. Dishes get washed and put in drying rack 4. Next time we eat, we pull from the shelf. 5. In order to wash the di
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by joshwa 17y ago
Sounds pretty similar to my day, too: [redacted - list of gripes] (realized it's easy for my employer to find these posts. Trust me, they were funny/sad. And involved a certain company out of Armonk.) Re: YCRFS 6: do you mean #5 on this pag
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by joshwa 17y ago
Probably related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032875 (Tim Bray's "Doing it Wrong" screed on enterprise software) (ps edw519 I was waiting for you to chime in on that thread)
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by joshwa 17y ago
the site needs screenshots/info about builtin feed integration and APIs, which are the core differentiators from campfire (this comes from someone who contributes to and writes plugins for a campfire bot: http://github.com/joshwand/campfir
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by joshwa 17y ago
Starting with the UI is a good idea, but completely ignores the functional requirements that aren't embodied in any UI elements - business rules, automated processes, workflow, behavior related to integration with other systems, etc. User
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by joshwa 17y ago
Passur does this for a number of large US airports: http://www.passur.com/airportmonitor-locations.htm
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ProSwitcher - WebOS-like backgrounding on the iPhone(9to5mac.com)
1 points by joshwa 17y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 17y ago
Yay! Now we can do remote pair-programming totally within our internal network (the IT Policy goons are quite unhappy when it comes to using cloud-based services).
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Boeing 787 First Flight Today 10AM PT(787firstflight.newairplane.com)
41 points by joshwa 17y ago|34 comments
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Pictures of a UK Amazon Distribution Center (Operations pr0n)(dailymail.co.uk)
5 points by joshwa 17y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 17y ago
"ugh, server failure at CrystalTech. And apparently their normal backup process silently fails at backing up VM images." http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/6573094832
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by joshwa 17y ago
... and therefore essentially meaningless.
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The Future: When the Editors Hire the Publishers(theawl.com)
1 points by joshwa 17y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 17y ago
GSM or CDMA?
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by joshwa 17y ago
the screenshot in ev's post didn't show that, but now I see that the screenshot on Techcrunch does. That makes me feel a bit better.

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