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by jvdh 15y ago
I've been doing some GTD on and off, and to me the whole point is pick and choose. The 43 folders is one idea that I thought of as a good one, but not suitable for me. I wonder if the 43 folders might work in an e-mail form though for putti
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by jvdh 15y ago
Good to see that someone watched Capitalism: a Love Story and joined the fight.
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by jvdh 15y ago
Oops, you're right, they do work when your iPhone is muted.
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by jvdh 15y ago
The iPhone alarms do not work when the phone is turned off. If you've muted your phone this also means that all alarms are muted too. May be useful in business surroundings, but this makes the iPhone an awfully bad travel alarm.
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by jvdh 15y ago
No, the real world could really do without a Jack Bauer.
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by jvdh 15y ago
I run my own mailserver too for private use. I make use of a DNS provider who also provides backup SMTP service. Basically it adds another address as alternative for delivery for your domain. That server is configured to forward the mail to
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by jvdh 16y ago
There is nothing in this story and video to back up any of the claims they are making. He just waves around a rotating disc. He could be talking about cold fusion in just the same way ;) [edit] looking at the duplicate link, they refer to t
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by jvdh 16y ago
You'd be surprised how much ontologies are catching on these days. Have a look at http://linkeddata.org/ Ontologies and linking different ontologies have become a key part in unlocking large data sets such as Wikipedia, from governments,
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by jvdh 16y ago
You don't have to get rid of them, make them participate more actively in the movie and or demo. Sitting there while you're doing all the talking makes you look like bad because you don't seem to want to do it alone, and makes them look bad
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by jvdh 16y ago
Uh, first of all, get rid of the glasses and the dude on the left sitting with his mouse open. Then, focus on the demo. One of the best things I learned from Presenting to Win is that one of the first things you have to do in a product pitc
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by jvdh 16y ago
I fully agree. But in the original post the commenter is insinuating that DDG is bad because it is "just a hack using APIs" in stead of a search engine based on the work of a "legion of brilliant programmers". Which results DDG is also usi
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by jvdh 16y ago
You seem to be forgetting that "some hack using APIs" describes a very large amount of YC startups.
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by jvdh 16y ago
Hmm, the Dutch seem to be blessed with just the single § key. Other European variants are indeed much much worse, check out the Hungarian one: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2841 That must be a disaster to code on, lacking access to [, ],
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by jvdh 16y ago
> It may be lower than in the US. But Europeans have more protections and guarantees by law with their purchases than in the US. Yes, in Europe customers have a guarantee on hardware failures for the first year or so. Extending this to
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by jvdh 16y ago
These "Apple stores" in the Netherlands are official retailers, not official stores. This means that they are allowed to sell them, but they are just general stores selling Apple hardware. You'll have some knowledgeable people there most of
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by jvdh 16y ago
That last part explains why customer experience in Europe sucks so utterly and completely. Decisions at Apple seem to be made by these design teams, which have no direct experience or feedback from Europe. Examples: - There is a § key at t
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by jvdh 16y ago
Simple, every mention of "unlimited" in their advertisements or contracts will have a footnote saying that it is actually capped by an AUP with a cap on it. Like the author said, operators and users have a different definition of "unlimited
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by jvdh 16y ago
The main point of Grubers' criticism is that Google is being hypocritical by dropping H.264, but still keeping Flash. If Google would really be visionaries with such great long-term outlooks, then why would they allow Flash, which is owned
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by jvdh 16y ago
they actually come in earlier, but if you're a fast typist and not too slow on the uptake, you can manage to shoot those before they shoot at you. I agree, the game is a tad too simple if you're a reasonable typist. Perhaps stressing the ac
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by jvdh 16y ago
The PhD contract is just a single contract, and a position only becomes permanent after a third contract in a number of years I think. Once you get your PhD, and you're rehired at the university, you get a different position, starting the c
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by jvdh 16y ago
Universities in the Netherlands are getting hit by budget cuts pretty severely as well. This means that permanent contracts are getting harder and harder to come by in academia. Three main reasons for this in the Netherlands: * A permanent
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by jvdh 16y ago
That's exactly the difference the author means. Programmers like to know about this as a means to better achieve things or purely as a hobby, exercise for the mind. People who pursue a PhD go beyond that, and are simply interested in the ab
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by jvdh 16y ago
I completely agree with this. I've just gotten my PhD, and could have gotten some commercial job with a higher paying salary. Yet I've chosen to stay in academia, doing something I love, travelling all over the world and having fun doing it
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by jvdh 16y ago
My god, this thing always keeps biting me. It seems so obvious now with that cp-mnemonic. But it makes me wonder, why does everyone do it wrong in the first place?
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by jvdh 16y ago
That is exactly what makes mountaineering so awesome, at least for me. In modern society most people have lost their respect for nature. Going into the mountains and climbing them makes you respect nature in all its awesome force. You're wa
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by jvdh 16y ago
They accept the inherent risk that comes with air travel. No amount of security theater is going to make that risk smaller.
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by jvdh 16y ago
That may be true, but he is already a professor so I assume that he has already covered his tenure. And given his achievements, and speed at which he has achieved them, he is one of those people who probably won't have trouble getting tenur
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by jvdh 16y ago
The lack of power tools may have exactly been why the building is as sturdy as it is. It took the builders several years to build the whole building. Most of the concrete they used hardened out before they built on the next section. If they
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by jvdh 16y ago
I completely agree. Make sure that the top of the screen is at about the same height has your eyes when you're sitting upright. That's the best ergonomic height for a screen and will prevent you from slouching.
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by jvdh 16y ago
Seems a lot like Movielens: http://movielens.umn.edu/

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