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Suggestions for Tiny Educational Reforms(justindz.tumblr.com)
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by justindz 18y ago
I recently set up Facebook Connect on my poetry editor web app. When a user writes or updates a poem, they can have a link published in their news feed. Being very far from a lawyer, can anyone tell me whether the fact that the link is pu
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by justindz 18y ago
The problems you cite were legitimate. All I was suggesting was that prices were still not artificially inflated because they are set by demand. You could say that unsustainable demand was generated by policy, but I don't think that's the
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By my reckoning, if the law passes it would immediately apply to the people who wrote the law. Now that's leading by example.
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by justindz 18y ago
I have created reminders in my PIM to check this post again in late June of this year and May of next year. It's fun to speculate and debate this, but I'll be extra interested to check back on this and see which, if either, of the models p
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by justindz 18y ago
Considering the value of a transferable good is based on what others are willing to exchange for that good, yes, inflated house prices means they are worth more. It does not mean that houses are worth more at any point in time, but it does
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by justindz 18y ago
Although I have no interest in stifling debate here, I do agree with you that HN karma has little to no influence on policy and does not counter-balance monetary influence on policy makers. So I hope that the strongest opinions here, regard
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by justindz 18y ago
A bunch of ultra-libertarians with guns could probably defend against well-organized and reasonably armed pirates. The odds would be better if they trained, had defense shifts and/or patrols and did other militaristic things. Being purely
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I took off my pants and then tried it, but I don't think that proves anything. About the site.
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This has been missing on Heroku as well. I haven't needed it myself, yet, but it's been discussed frequently on the mailing list.
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by justindz 18y ago
I just ran across this yesterday. I've always been interested in creating 2D RPGs and Lua looks interesting, so this is on my list to explore.
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by justindz 18y ago
A friend last week described some study which he said showed some evidence that as you consume calories, your body winds forward in age, and that very simply calorie restriction may wind your clock forward more slowly. I believe he said so
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by justindz 18y ago
Parent is female?
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by justindz 18y ago
I hated the Crouching Tiger DVD. Since I didn't see the movie in theater, getting the DVD to play involved going through a few menus showing very critical development moments in the movie. Lame. In case you want to read my mock Preamble a
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by justindz 18y ago
People in the know kept all of their phone calls to 2 minutes and 1 second, minimum. I'm hoping that was a purely hypothetical example, or else the signal to noise ratio must have been absurd.
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by justindz 18y ago
"You have one goal: to connect with your audience. Therefore, you must track what your audience is feeling at all times. One of the biggest problems I face when watching other people’s movies is I’ll say, ‘This part confuses me’, or whateve
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by justindz 18y ago
As a poet and programmer, my first response was to be offended. But, then I remembered all the poetry I read on Facebook earlier today and kind of thought "eh, yeah, I can see that now."
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by justindz 18y ago
It was a strange mix of humorous and clever and 4chan-ish waste. The Xorg.conf-like entry for an LCD w/ five dead pixels was a highlight for me. It sort of mocked the slightly bygone era of having to know your syncs and refresh rates and
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by justindz 18y ago
Although I agree that you should backup the things you care about (mental note: add "download all my stuff in a zip file" feature to poetry web app tonight), I do often wonder whether my backup strategy, personal machine chance of survival,
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by justindz 18y ago
I agree. This was an opportunity for the true believers to be astonishingly helpful. Perhaps the girl was not ready for college, but that's not the point. The point is that people in a tough situation shouldn't be attacked for things tha
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by justindz 18y ago
I get the impression from a lot of the coverage lately that they've been working on an actual plan to make money. I'm speculating, but this could involve developers working on features or even an alternate platform conducive to that effort
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by justindz 18y ago
I grew up with the family tradition of wrapping gifts in the comics sections. The kids would actually unwrap the gifts and then read any comics that were still legible too, haha.
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by justindz 18y ago
Likewise. I kind of felt like saying "I'll miss all the same stuff I missed already 10 years ago, like investigative reporting." But now I can't even remember if they were doing that 10 years ago.
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by justindz 18y ago
A friend convinced me to try AppFuse once. I have a burning, probably un-justified hatred of Eclipse, so I tried the AppFuse + NetBeans tutorial. That may be the most unproductive I have felt in my entire life. I made a damn login form an
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by justindz 18y ago
I get your point, but as a counterpoint let me mention that I did not pay hundreds of dollars up front for my copy of iTunes. Nor can I purchase individual articles, columnists, etc. at a fraction of the cost of a subscription to the whole
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by justindz 18y ago
And to think that I do this for free whenever any of my pet ideologies are attacked on the Internet. I'm getting ripped off.
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by justindz 18y ago
The idea that vim and emacs are not distracting because they don't have features was a little odd. I think he means that they don't make you feel like you have to style the content, maybe. In a period of quiet desperation, I was using the
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The animation framework is called motion. The unit test framework is called lotion. You know, to keep you from getting burned. The language partisans will have slavish devotion.
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This is where you attempt the defense that such activity is "initiation of force." The ability to make many varieties of libertarian philosophies practical hinges on how broadly you can handle interpreting initiation of force and the gover
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A Ponzi scheme is where new investors pay returns to existing investors, but there is no actual trade made using the income. EDIT: Oops. Explained adsense. Too much multi-tasking. Irrelevant anyway, since PageRank does not have any of t

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