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by n_time 11y ago
> Yes. Coke, McDonalds, The Gap and every other consumer company try like hell to create involuntary behaviors in people all the time. The appeal to authority that you have connected to the actions of corporations in regard to ethics doe
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by n_time 11y ago
the cavalier attitude this article shows towards inferring character assessments based on metrics makes me feel uneasy. given the equally casual approach most technologists have towards embedding user behaviours into applications, the poten
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by n_time 11y ago
so was the ladder to power and ownership at zappos just knocked down? is this just a bigger gap between the real power holders and "the rest"?
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by n_time 13y ago
We're addicted to the applications that were designed like VLTs. Practically every application feeds into the animalistic trigger, action, reward habit loop in order to retain users. Advertising and sites that sell user data attain val
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by n_time 14y ago
privatize profits and socialize losses. :D
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by n_time 14y ago
To me this argument boils down to style over maintainability. The arguments for the latter seem so clear in my mind that I don't really want to dignify the other side with a response.
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by n_time 15y ago
This is never going to happen, and IMHO should not. Equality is not equivalency and none of us are colour blind. The key is accepting differences when they ARE there. That said, class is a way bigger difference than race. :P EDIT: I'm defin
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by n_time 15y ago
I think you need to take a closer look at poverty in your country, dude. Maybe you're abstracted away from it, but it's not a fairy tale.
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by n_time 15y ago
Didn't Knuth work on TeX for like 10 years? Not all of us have 10 years to work on everything. ;)
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by n_time 15y ago
That is an amazing visualization.
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by n_time 15y ago
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by n_time 15y ago
answer: wonderfully http://simplynoise.com
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by n_time 15y ago
Maybe added economic value is the wrong way for society to decide the quality of someone's life?
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by n_time 15y ago
tl;dr america in decline. getting a job hard? try school.
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An Intro to Backbone.js: Part 3 - Binding a Collection to a View(liquidmedia.ca)
41 points by n_time 16y ago|6 comments
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by n_time 16y ago
"My web apps are JSON/REST endpoints that also serve a few pieces of static HTML, JS, and CSS." ^^^^ THIS
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by n_time 16y ago
These are valid concerns. I think that the client/server distinction is in a state of flux right now. As we make richer applications on the web, a lot of that server complexity is being moved to the client. The goal of Backbone is explicitl
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An Intro to Backbone.js: Part 2 - Controllers and Views(liquidmedia.ca)
53 points by n_time 16y ago|15 comments
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by n_time 16y ago
Sorry about that. My company is waiting on a new site design and this WP template is what we're using for now. I switched up the code styling a little. Should be easier on the eyes now.