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by misuba 17y ago
>"I do not think these points are as mind-shattering to the average geek as the author seems to believe. Marketing is not intrisically scummy and scammy? You don't say! Marketing need not be deceptive? What a concept!" So all you really
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by misuba 17y ago
Word up to completely random low-margin stuff that doesn't come across as promotional but succeeds as promotion anyway. Few companies are as good as Panic at this (not counting rock bands).
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by misuba 17y ago
The author is 100% clear that the exercise is an attempt to escape debt. He's got plenty of options if he just wants to afford an education.
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by misuba 17y ago
sort of. but everything humans do can be argued as a status move, so it's unwise to get super hung up on it. (me, i just marvel at the 1337 tax-evasion skillz. :-)
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by misuba 17y ago
Craigslist has continued to thrive over at least ten years of neglect and hostility towards developers as well as interaction design. They seem to disprove your claim.
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by misuba 17y ago
The better question in the linked article is whether third-party app stores will flourish on Android.
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by misuba 17y ago
It isn't clear who the author is speaking to here. I hope for his sake that he isn't really speaking to most users of word processors. For most people, structure in writing is visual. It's a paragraph because it has an indent or a blank
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by misuba 17y ago
As others here have pointed out, she's not living without money so much as making her own, on the spot, when she needs it - in the form of the very adaptable just-in-time currency known as barter. Douglas Rushkoff's book _Life Inc._ and his
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by misuba 17y ago
"children being raised without any parental guidance" fallacy of the excluded middle much?
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by misuba 17y ago
So... how many RubySpecs _are_ there exactly? They pass over 28,000 and they aren't done. How much ground is left to cover?
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by misuba 17y ago
That's the job of the interviewer (and his/her editor).
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by misuba 17y ago
The grind especially matters, and burr grinders can pay for themselves, if you're concerned about the rising cost of good beans (places like Stumptown, Ritual in SF, Victrola in Seattle etc. are doing coffees pitched - and priced - more lik
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by misuba 17y ago
From the article: "In fact, FarmVille isn't really a game at all. It's an online hobby, and has far more in common with knitting or gardening than a first-person shooter." It has this mostly in common with The Sims. Most people don't want t
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by misuba 17y ago
Mainstream media is certainly not dying - the real killer of newspapers is and has always been TV. People seem absurdly blind to this now that the internet is dealing that last 2 HP of damage.
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by misuba 17y ago
How about a command for closing whatever tag is open where the cursor is? For repeating the last closed tag? For wrapping a tag in another tag? I'm an emacs noob but it seems like the tools for actually working with existing markup are impo
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by misuba 17y ago
I think this is actually going to be popular amongst electronic musicians who perform live. Two-dimensional analog position data that you can map to effects sliders and such, plus the joystick, plus all the mod buttons? Not too shabby. Migh
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by misuba 17y ago
HTML output would be valuable even if it were as simple as possible and completely unstyled. That's still a tedious step I don't have to do.
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by misuba 17y ago
But: "Duck Duck Go knows Computer can mean different things." Isn't this a bit braggy/evident/confusing? Why not just "Computer can mean different things"?
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by misuba 17y ago
The primary thing you need to know about holding your breath a long time is if you only work four hours a week, it will start to seem like a good idea.
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by misuba 17y ago
This isn't a crawl deal; this is a deal for access to "the firehose," the realtime data of all public tweets that Twitter most certainly does not give away anymore.
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by misuba 17y ago
Wow, everyone's signed non-exclusive agreements, no one's shipped anything stable... it's almost as if there's nothing to discuss.
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by misuba 17y ago
The point's been better made elsewhere in the thread by now, but: what I mean is Google's always been a "best to market" company (to borrow a phrase from a friend) more than a "first to market" company. That certainly holds true for search
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by misuba 17y ago
Google wasn't the first search engine, either.
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by misuba 17y ago
That's interesting stuff. What's the source? Also I apologize for my ignorance here but what's the distinction in this context between a university and a college? Is it still research vs. not-so-much?
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by misuba 17y ago
Google needs to do two things with the GWT client UI: 1) clear up the confusion between collaboration spaces and conversation spaces, by making each wave have one collaboration space at the top and conversation space below it; 2) confine li
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by misuba 17y ago
The really disappointing thing here is that I don't doubt for a second that there are horrible, horrible iPhone apps for men centered around dating. And this author found... this kinda lame one to complain about. Put a little work in!
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by misuba 17y ago
No it isn't - at least, not by your arguments here. Harvard could theoretically scale its operation to select more people of the same quality - or indeed to create more people of the same quality. No one thinks there are only 1600 people of
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by misuba 17y ago
You see those a lot because they're two of the easiest forms of illogic to spot.
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by misuba 17y ago
Craigslist does need to start charging for personals. $1 would be pretty appropriate - enough to make spam unprofitable, but not enough to drive legit users to a better deal (at least I'm not aware of any).
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by misuba 17y ago
How much does a gorilla cost? Like, a real one? Given that it's probably a gray market at best, I'd guess that one or two particularly impressive ones have traded for $8 million. To Kim Jong Il or somebody. Seems reasonable, right?

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