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by klenwell 16y ago
http://twitter.com/chimpinson (php)
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by klenwell 16y ago
If you're meeting Americans abroad, you're generally meeting a special self-selected type of more open-minded American. I tend to find Germans I meet here at home much more enlightened than the majority of Americans I deal with.
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by klenwell 16y ago
I wanted to place a long bet about 10 years ago that Lance Armstrong would be exposed for using performance-enhancing drugs. It was after reading a New Yorker article on cycling that made it pretty clear that cheating was the rule. Even th
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by klenwell 16y ago
I developed a similar theory independently this week after learning about the loss of Feingold in Wisconsin, the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act. One possible solution: extend TSA inspection authority to interstate RV travel.
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by klenwell 16y ago
I remember vividly when I first learned about Google, too. In the New Yorker, of all places. But then I was a lit grad student at the time and thinking a lot about ways to optimize research. And I was similarly underwhelmed by the competenc
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by klenwell 16y ago
I thought that claim was weakly stated. She backs it up more convincingly with this point: "The annual Gallup poll about education shows that Americans are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the quality of the nation’s schools, but 77 percent
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by klenwell 16y ago
"people consider themselves primarily bargain-hunters rather than experience-seekers" I suspect changing this attitude, more even than the promotion of local/organic/sustainable food production, could be the biggest social benefit of the fo
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by klenwell 16y ago
This is not a new trend. The Times even offers a set of APIs: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs
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by klenwell 16y ago
While I agree this will challenge a lot of popular assumptions about classical art, this information isn't exactly new. See for instance Alma-Tadema's representation of the Parthenon: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1868_Lawrence_Al
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by klenwell 16y ago
I've always found consolation in a line from one of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales: "Injustice has parcelled out the world, nor is there equal division of aught save of sorrow."
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by klenwell 16y ago
Or a golden opportunity for Blekko -- if they can get the invites out fast enough: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/25568/
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by klenwell 16y ago
The it's-all-a-dream interpretation is the only one that makes sense from a science-fiction point-of-view, however unsatisfying it is from an artistic perspective. The slightly wobbling top at the end points, rather overtly, to the real an
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The Rupee Gets Its Symbol(npr.org)
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by klenwell 16y ago
Is it possible to use generator to stub out an app and then work on the generated source? I would love something like that as an gateway to app development as a developer w/o much previous Android/Java experience.
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by klenwell 16y ago
I agree sliders would be overdoing it. But what about penny, nickel, dime, quarter options. Of course, they'd have to be abstracted for an international audience, but make it analogous to coinage, spare change, something tangible that peo
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by klenwell 16y ago
I agree. Existing donate buttons are cumbersome and discourage the shift in perception that's needed. I think Flattr's on the right track but the subscription model at its base is still overly cumbersome and inflexible. They've indicated th
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by klenwell 16y ago
This comment is kind of harrowing. Interesting self-observation.
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by klenwell 16y ago
Is that the UCSD library?
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by klenwell 16y ago
I want portability and I prefer services that offer some kind of API with which I can manage my data, or at the very least, a usable RSS feed. Google is pretty great about this. I felt burned when Yahoo closed Launchcast after I'd been us
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by klenwell 16y ago
Hotmail? ah ha ha ha hahahahaha! ROTFLMFAO! You mean that stigma? :) At this point, it's only real utility would be as a secondary disposable address. But given Hotmail's tendency in the past to delete any account you didn't login to ev
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by klenwell 16y ago
On that topic, I present Emily Chimpinson, a little project I've been playing with: http://twitter.com/chimpinson She's a Markov-based script inspired by the public domain works of a certain poet. All of her incantations are checked to m
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by klenwell 16y ago
Hmmm. I got a server error. But it sounds like the problem is recognized. Thanks for the link.
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by klenwell 16y ago
"If there are crazy computer algorithms in the market doing crazy things, guess what, that makes it much easier to make money! We rational humans can outsmart algo's gone wild with ease, right?" Wrong. I'm sure the dive in Accenture, et.
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by klenwell 16y ago
I like the design. So let me complain about something else: mailing-list/forum/newsgroup archivers. For instance, search on a certain type of error message, which as a developer I frequently do, and the first couple pages of results are l
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by klenwell 17y ago
It dawned on me when I saw this in the NY Times: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/06/15/business/arm3... Note the date.
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by klenwell 17y ago
"When people trust you, you can pull money from their accounts at will." Hadn't heard of Venmo before this. But yeah, that sounds like it could be pretty disruptive.
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by klenwell 17y ago
Will Blippy be huge? With a name like Blippy, the language snob in me insists I answer, "Good lord, I hope not." The privacy advocate in me has no comment.
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The NY Times map from 2005 that first revealed to me that we were in deep shit(graphics8.nytimes.com)
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by klenwell 17y ago
"Throughout human history, young men have been responsible for the vast preponderance of crime and violence—especially single men in countries where status and social acceptance depend on being married and having children, as it does in Chi
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by klenwell 17y ago
My girlfriend is studying for the LSAT and I've been helping her a bit. It's been a great lesson in logical reasoning. (I'm definitely sending her this page. She'll love it.) She's not a native English speaker and she excels at logical re

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