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by jwn 15y ago
Do a search on Amazon for Alfie Kohn, specifically "Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes"
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by jwn 15y ago
I second that. Reading his work has strongly influenced my parenting philosophy for my 3 young boys.
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by jwn 15y ago
I like your line of thinking. I just ordered a BeagleBoard today that I plan to use as a static HTTP server. You've found the Debian ARM port to be stable and complete? I was pondering giving Angstrom a go first. I also love the fact tha
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by jwn 15y ago
Not to take this off-topic, but I never understood how an image can be converted into a Fourier series. It always made sense for waves, but images?
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by jwn 15y ago
No, you are definitely correct. I've got some other added-value ideas that would be cool. I was just a little surprised to see my first instinct was the sample code =)
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by jwn 15y ago
As soon as I read the title I thought of exactly what application I wanted to build with it. Upon reading the article, I promptly found out that my idea already had a name: "Sketchee". Oh well....
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by jwn 15y ago
I went through that. The best part is that you have to know what the kids of your former high school classmates look like to pass. Given that I haven't seen most of them in 15 years, I have no idea what their kids look like. It was utter
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by jwn 15y ago
Sounds like http://www.charitywater.org/ .
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by jwn 15y ago
Could be, but the end result is that I have fewer customers who happen to pay more, and the time I spend responding to customer support emails has dropped =)
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by jwn 15y ago
Last year I upped the price of my B2B app from $399 to $699 (to coincide with a major new release). The end result is my revenue remained fairly stable, but I stopped getting Indian customers. This is a good thing because they required mu
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by jwn 16y ago
Can someone give us some context here?
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by jwn 16y ago
I don't see how to permalink to comments on his page, but he does reply with the following: "I ultimately paid for every penny of college through loans I was lucky enough to pay back. I also worked about 40 hours a week in jobs to pay my li
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by jwn 16y ago
Very poorly designed indeed. They should have been checking for mass!
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by jwn 16y ago
That's pretty ambitious of them considering I don't even have 3G service from ATT in my area. I'm still stuck on the Edge.
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by jwn 16y ago
I found that to be inferred elsewhere in the article as well. If true, it's a very interesting feature. Imagine being able to leave out the middleware web layer entirely and securely have direct access to data within the app!
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by jwn 16y ago
Wow, who would have thought malware writers would be such low-lifes as to lie to us about their impenetrable security? I thought only marketers did that.
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by jwn 16y ago
I'm an experienced Java developer, but a bit of a novice when it comes to webapps on Java. I've tried Java EE, Spring, Hibernate, etc and hated all of them with a passion. For writing simple apps it was a mountain of configuration and fra