jraines

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by jraines 19y ago
Equally awesome writing on another example, Roger Federer[1], by David Foster Wallace, a MacArthur guy and one of my favorite 3 writers ever: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20fede... Sorry for the non-hacker content
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haha, yeah; didn't even know the term "phreak" until, say, 3 months after when I stumbled across the old cDc text files.
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Tumblr is an awesome blogging platform that's dead simple and has some Twitteresque social features (ie following) built in. Also has a great bookmarklet and a neat api.
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I wonder which of his other ones are still going strong. Jobbook seems abandoned even though it was a great idea (or at least, addresses a real need). There are a lot of organizations doing really good watchdog work -- the problem is getti
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by jraines 19y ago
I lived in rural Georgia and ran up a $600 phone bill dialing long-distance to an AOL connection the first month we had "the Net".
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by jraines 19y ago
Also relevant to 37s philosophy is the fact that they charge for something (chips & salsa) that most people expect to get for free. Which is why I get my burritos at Willy's :)
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It's pretty close to the intended, prescribed use. If you can't focus on your work to the extent that allows you to compete with your peer group, you get prescribed Ritalin/Adderall.
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by jraines 19y ago
I use Ruby, with its nice regex support and libraries (open-uri, REXML) and the hpricot and mechanize rubygems. Yahoo Pipes is also fun to play with; and Firebug is the scraper's best friend. Right now I'm working on scraping public Linke
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by jraines 19y ago
Here's the complaining and their basically solid rationalization for it. http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/575-but-theres-only-so-ma... Although I'd still come back and say there's only so many ways to do chat . . .
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by jraines 19y ago
Everyblock is going to be huge -- can't wait til they bring it to Atlanta. (Or I move to a cooler city)
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Why does Clickpass not work for me?
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$20?! What, is it made of diamonds? My current phone is AT&T's $10 Go Phone (some kind of LG), and it has a color screen, customizable menus, and better voice quality than my previous phone (an LG flip phone). It's also light, small a
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by jraines 19y ago
[meta] - this is one of the most awesome linkbaiting headlines I've seen here.
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by jraines 19y ago
is there a domain-name generator out there that says "Enter a Number" . . . "Now Enter a Noun" . . . "Create Domain!"
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Actually I haven't seen one on the front page in a while, but maybe I haven't been paying attention. Also, I have a friend who is a dyslexic physicist, and he thinks the Large Hadron Collider is kinda gay.
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by jraines 19y ago
Moderation,reposting to Twitter, and linking are interesting ideas -- I hope you don't mind if I take them as suggestions and potentially implement them down the road. What language/framework did you use to build tweviews?
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that's interesting -- I didn't know Twitter supported that; I'll definitely check that out and implement it once I grok it
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Gentlemen: I give you the Internet's first and only way to rate things on a 1 to 5 scale. To use, just send a tweet reply to @rating in this form: "@rating 5 "Thing Being Rated" and some comments here" This is a pretty rough draft -- wish
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My project: Twitterate: Rate stuff via Twitter(twitterate.com)
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Yeah, it really hooked me -- even though I haven't used it for much, every time I have a simple, quick task where I just need to get a little info online fast I think of jottit
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by jraines 19y ago
As a headhunter (my day job), I can tell you that this would be a real shitty thing to do. Unless of course they've been unethical towards you -- for example, like one commenter said here, trumping up the job description. Also, as another
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by jraines 19y ago
What does that have to do with becoming another reddit? It's a good thing if something that gets popular here gets picked up by the larger tech media. It IS a popularity contest -- the question of merit lies in the question "Among WHOM is
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by jraines 19y ago
Check out the one right above it -- super cultish: "The four worlds of the Metaverse Roadmap could also represent four pathways to a Singularity. But they also represent potential dangers. An "open-access Singularity" may be the answer."
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Ask YC: API Overload -- What are your favorites?
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Wow - he comes off as a jerk, but this venture will probably net him another couple Gulfstreams
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To spell out the analogy, they both: 1) Are young and have started or been part of successful startups 2) Have blogs where they exhibit a strong personality through their writings, which are sometimes controversial but always tinged with el
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I still check out his blog occasionally.
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Matt Maroon : Hacker News 2008 :: Aaron Swartz : Hacker News 2007 Don't get me wrong, though -- they're both good writers, so the above isn't a swipe at either guy or Hacker News. However: "trailer-dweller" seems a little mean-spirited (and
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When I was at GT all freshmen had to take CS1321, which was taught in Scheme. (ahem, well, the lectures were in English . . .)
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> Is Twitter getting alarmingly stale? I'd say yes. I agree especially with this point: >The ability to have private or semi-private group conversations. Or just some kind of grouping functionality for the people you follow, like Fa

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