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Google Glass: The Opposition Grows(news.cnet.com)
33 points by milesf 14y ago|48 comments
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by milesf 14y ago
It's a negotiating tactic called "higher authority" http://www.negotiationdynamics.com/Authlim.asp
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by milesf 14y ago
I have a friend who's a realtor who told me the story of a local homeless man in our town. "Toonie for some soup" he would ask people (I live in Canada, a Toonie is a $2.00 coin). He was always polite, and made regular appearances all aroun
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Turtle Graphics (aka Logo) in Minecraft using Ruby(github.com)
1 points by milesf 14y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 14y ago
Or maybe it was in response to the petition to build a Death Star =] petition: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/secure-resources-a... response: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-resp...
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by milesf 14y ago
Interesting. I might be persuaded to recommend something else. What alternatives do you think are better?
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by milesf 14y ago
I agree with you, which is the reason why I think PHP is still way more popular than Rails. Cut-and-pasting scripts from Google searches is a terrible way to make code, but it works and it's a lot easier. I agree with DHH that Rails shouldn
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by milesf 14y ago
Using Steve's definitions from the article, the tutorial I usually point people to is Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ which uses the "Prime" stack. I believe I read somewhere that Michael was going to come ou
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by milesf 14y ago
I've been hearing about the "paperless office" since the mid-80's. What is needed is not something to replace paper, but something better. For example, the paper memo was replaced by email. Paper is just another technology, and a very good
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by milesf 14y ago
Absolutely. I'm going to start blogging about all this stuff in the new year. The site will be at http://milesforrest.com . I think the RSS link should be working.
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by milesf 14y ago
Thanks! I am always looking for ways to ween my kids off of consuming activities (eg. TV, most video games) and onto creating activities (playing Minecraft, programming, etc). I'll definitely take a look. Would a Linux version be possible?
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by milesf 14y ago
The movie has an unobtrusive crawl around the 23 minute mark: "Decided to pirate our movie, eh? Now you'll have to deal with these scroll-y bits. If you like what you see, buy the drm-free version at www.storyofmojang.com so that we can aff
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by milesf 14y ago
My son (age 11) wants to be a game programmer because of his love for Minecraft. He talks about Notch as his hero. I've setup a Minecraft server running on a headless box in my house. The server has a whitelist of about 20 names with my chi
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by milesf 14y ago
Really impressed that the producers will have a family-friendly audio track with the official, non-pirated version. My kids (ages 8 and 11) love Minecraft, and it will probably be the highlight for them this Christmas to watch the documenta
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by milesf 14y ago
It will be interesting to see if 2 Player Productions attempt to dialogue with those who would normally steal their work will succeed in actually converting many into customers.
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Producers of Minecraft Documentary upload their new movie to The Pirate Bay(thepiratebay.se)
179 points by milesf 14y ago|71 comments
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The Insourcing Boom(theatlantic.com)
5 points by milesf 14y ago|0 comments
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I'm not a Bank [video](curtismchale.ca)
1 points by milesf 14y ago|0 comments
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Screw Google Glass, I want my augmented-reality heads-up-display contact lenses(venturebeat.com)
2 points by milesf 14y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 14y ago
It's possible, but completely abstaining from Microsoft products has made my life a lot happier. I'm not as angry as I used to be.
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by milesf 14y ago
Don't care how good the browser is, Microsoft has caused me so much pain over the last decade and a half with their products I am simply unwilling to trust them ever again. I tolerate their products because I have to, but whenever I have th
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by milesf 14y ago
Had the same spinning circle in Chrome. Tried Safari and it worked.
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by milesf 14y ago
Dang, I wish I had the results, but a friend of mine wrote some code to pull in data from several different sources on all of the cities in the world. He's a remote worker, single, and can live anywhere in the world. He compared all kinds o
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Better remote collaboration will make protectionism harder(37signals.com)
52 points by milesf 14y ago|26 comments
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Is a College Education Worth the Cost? You Decide [video](news.goldseek.com)
1 points by milesf 14y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 14y ago
I sought council from a professional years ago for something I was going through. Their advice was to leave my wife and two kids. I got out of there office. Fast. I got through that valley in my life, and I've been happily married over 12 y
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by milesf 14y ago
I've been cutting-and-pasting the type of code I write into the Keyboard Layout Analyzer http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/ Now I want to switch to Colemak :/
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German Flying Robots deliver Donairs(doenercopter.de)
1 points by milesf 14y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 14y ago
This older blog post has become a classic for me, and has greatly influenced my view of software developers. Was surprised to see that it was not on HN. If we are going to move forward into parallel programming, the solution is going to com
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The IDE Divide (2004)(osteele.com)
32 points by milesf 14y ago|49 comments

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