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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Find another comment or submission from the same person and upvote it, if you feel bad about reducing the guy's karma. Apologize in response to the comment, if you feel bad about taking the shine off the comment. Move on.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
The value of a network increases as the square of its nodes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfs_Law The value of a network to a user is in the number of people he can communicate with. The value of a network to Facebook is in the numbe
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"I would happily run OSX in a VM, but Apple doesn't let me." A Mac is Apple's DRM to protect OSX. All Macs are merely giant dongles that plug in to the internet.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
evim (vim in -y easy mode) is cross platform and simple (as I mentioned in an email I just sent to you).
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Anecdote of one, my 12 yo son is learning Python as his first programming language. I just helped him through one of his math homework questions in Python; found a homework error. :)
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
No, it helps people who like one line. You leave soft wrap off normally, and you see your lines the way you intend. If a line extends off the end of the screen, and you don't want to scroll to see the rest, turn on soft wrap to see, then
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Actually just not wanting to be a jerk should deter one from being a jerk, public or not.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
The point of the complaints, and the lawsuit, is that you as a consumer are not receiving a fair picture of reviews. The allegation is that businesses that don't pay lose positive reviews and gain negatives, by yelp's manipulation. If the a
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Every business has good and bad interactions with customers. For most businesses the bad ones are unfortunate but isolated cases. For those where it's a pattern, they'll eventually lose enough business that they'll change or die. What yel
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Does anyone use something like Warnier/Orr diagrams for on-paper procedural code, or do you just code/pseudo-code in the target language? http://varatek.com/warnierorr.html http://varatek.com/warnierorr_diagrams.html
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
My first thought was Wave. My second thought was Wave sucks (in my limited experience). I also like the idea of minimising the use of proprietary protocols. Can you imagine if email were invented today; lots of non-connected email islands.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
or: modified google/blogger, default private + existing rss that blogger already has + some kind of permission/auth mechanism Not as free/open as you might like, but quicker/easier to implement.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
[something like] tor + [something like] rss + some kind of permission/auth mechanism your browser client gets permission to subscribe to a "friend" and keeps up to date via [something like] rss over [something like] tor.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Is something supposed to happen after "Click to Play?" I'm just staring at a blue coffee cup stain. (Linux, FF 3.5.9)
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"Facebook also introduced a way for certain sites to push this further than everyone else. Three carefully chosen launch partners — Microsoft’s Docs.com, Yelp and Pandora — have access to what Facebook is calling “instant personalization.”
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Well, maybe upgrade for free, with a time limit, and an email saying "if we don't hear from you in x days, we'll shut 'er down."
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Hacker News: We get shit done, so you don't have to.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
As a non-musician, it's interesting to read about the frustrations and tensions involved in tuning. So similar to the trade-offs we have to make in writing software, and equally obscure and surprising to non-participants.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
It's a clever quip, but I see nothing wrong with "users." It's a neutral, general term that can be used in place of all the terms byoung helpfully lists. There's nothing negative about using a hammer, and there's nothing negative about usin
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I think that's what's happening in the picture.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I used to drive from Seattle to Vancouver for the weekend a few times a year, in the eighties, back when terrorism was something that happened on page six. Driving in to Canada, their border guards were always pleasant, smiling and welcomin
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Wouldn't that reasoning be the post itself?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
We could of course extend this back through the consumption chain and suggest that consumers have this responsibility (in which case I assume the author's house would no longer be full of Apple products). Certainly they have this choice. So
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I stumbled across the Dictionary of Programming Languages, and HOPL http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/ while I was trying to figure out why I pronounce "a = b" as "a gets b" rather than "a equals b". I think I pronounce it that way because the f
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Dictionary of Programming Languages(cgibin.erols.com)
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I hope we don't have a disaster because aviation authorities were pressured into opening the skies too early.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I've (male) been going to they gym almost a year, after 30 years of sloth, it's made a huge difference. I've heard some concern from women who don't want to work out too hard because they don't want to bulk up. I'm no expert, the responses
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Yes indeed, Apple should treat every submitter with fairness and equality. But they don't. So if this is what it takes to get their attention, huzzah!
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"But a representative from Apple called the cartoonist Thursday and suggested that he resubmit the app, Mr. Fiore said in an interview. “I feel kind of guilty,” he said. “I’m getting preferential treatment because I got the Pulitzer.”" He
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
That's a good point, in the spirit of "routing around censorship." But if people really do pay for information apps, information corporations are going to notice that. Editorial control will be increasingly given over to Apple (or whoever).

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