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by neilk 13y ago
Agreed. I saw someone post the link on Twitter, and it was very interesting. Skipped back to the beginning and Adora Cheung's story (HomeJoy) just blew me away.
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by neilk 13y ago
Matthew 5:17. The Bible can be made to say anything.
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by neilk 13y ago
That part made no sense to me either. I think their requirements were to transmit every action the other player(s) took, so it seems like things would still be failing all over the place. But maybe occasionally insane results are better tha
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by neilk 13y ago
Okay, it's clear that sooner or later you are going to outgrow this place. But, just some advice for you in the meantime: don't be that developer who insists on your standards, no matter how much you feel yourself to be right. If
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by neilk 13y ago
> I've heard him tell other developers that they should change a single variable name. That is totally legit, if there is a naming convention in place on the project and the developer violated it. If it's just his personal capr
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by neilk 13y ago
People who work for tips defend the practice, because the people who make it their profession have learned how to work the system. People who aren't good at it have been weeded out. So it's hard to say if it's really good or
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by neilk 13y ago
The author has some good points. Ultimately, it is a kind of slacktivism. And a mass effort of one day won't fully counter the efforts of a few who are paid very well to advance the contrary agenda, the other 364 days of the year. And
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Rust closed the second most number of issues on all of GitHub(mail.mozilla.org)
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Failure Modes(techcrunch.com)
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by neilk 13y ago
The entire premise of this is flawed. I posted a huge ranty comment on Anil's page, but the TL;DR: * Tech companies have no expertise providing social services. * It is a very bad idea to have public services delivered at the whim of p
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by neilk 13y ago
eob is correct, more or less. The anger isn't about the buses; it's about the evictions. The buses are just a symbol that attracts the activists' attention. (The activists are mostly transplants too, living out some fantasy t
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by neilk 13y ago
Since you are against this conference in principle, I have a feeling you're only bringing up the trans issue to cause trouble. But, you're right, it has been an issue at some conferences. So it's worth clarifying. The Ada Ini
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by neilk 13y ago
When Jobs designs things, sometimes you get an extreme focus on simplicity ("Why can't this CD burner have just one button that says 'burn CD'?") and sometimes you get skeuomorphic atrocities like Game Center. I don
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Algorithms are not enough: lessons bringing computer science to journalism(overview.ap.org)
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by neilk 13y ago
Yeah, although Wikipedia Zero does have real benefits, it is a bit problematic. I have wondered if a Creative Commons Zero policy might be better. I'm not for DRM, but if we have to have licensing baked into the web, let's use it
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by neilk 13y ago
> he thinks (and I agree) that people should learn to program because it helps people think, and helps people learn. Read it again. He specifically called that out as a terrible idea. Bret believes in Seymour Papert's vision, where
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by neilk 13y ago
Nice. There are many lifestream products but I like the design, particularly the the unrolling effect.
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Timeline of Wikipedia in 2013(guillaumepaumier.com)
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by neilk 13y ago
I have had my email address available on a web page, with only minor obfuscation (escaping characters, sometimes in different encoding schemes) for over a decade. I don't get a lot of spam on that address. I doubt there's any econ
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by neilk 13y ago
Hey, that's great for you, but don't be too quick to criticize how someone else hacks. You deserve credit for trying something hard, but so does this person for actually releasing stuff. And remember, it's not all about progr
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by neilk 13y ago
Most of what I read is related to startups or economics, but for the short list of change-my-life books: This year I read a lot about what you might loosely call the Paleo movement / anti-carbs and sugar movement. The New Evolution Di
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by neilk 13y ago
Well, there are obvious limits to that argument. Even a hundred years ago, it was common to die in your 60s. Taking on a new career or new relationship at the age of 60 would be ridiculous. Today, it's still a bit unusual but not unhea
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by neilk 13y ago
Fair enough but that doesn't really correlate with willingness to spend $10/month on some site that doesn't already have a reputation. These sorts of things need some nucleus to form around, some other reason for being there
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by neilk 13y ago
Oh yeah, I'm aware this guy is just here to sell his $10/month network of entrepreneurs. To be honest, it's not hard to find other solopreneurs struggling - I already connect with people this way for regular check-ins, and fo
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by neilk 13y ago
For this project, it's hard to do that without actually building a reasonable prototype. I have a technology demo but it requires a lot of explanation. Once people get it, some people do get very excited, but I need a better demo or se
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by neilk 13y ago
I'm doing everything solo. Not by choice, but I moved to a different city, away from my usual network. Haven't found the right people yet. Distractions from contracts (inevitable if I want to pay rent) I'm working with techno
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by neilk 13y ago
How can you say it changes nothing, when Snowden's actions clearly are changing things? You may argue that we already knew what the NSA was doing, but specifics matter. If I have a key to your house (for emergencies), you know that in
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by neilk 13y ago
This is more of a story about the danger of relying on search ranking than it is about Google abusing anyone. Presumably Cringely knows this, but he also knows that carping loudly about it will increase portraitquilts.com's Google rank
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by neilk 13y ago
No, I agree with you quite a lot. It amazes me how much time startups in Canada devote to getting grants. But, when you lack private investors like SV, and the government is a willing partner (with lots of strings attached), this is what ha
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by neilk 13y ago
They have a lot to gain. Many analysts are saying that surveillance, or the perception of complicity with it, is going to lose international customers and have other negative effects on business partnerships. https://www.eff.org&

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