nmcfarl

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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I was also confused - and this clears it up nicely.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I’d just like to say thanks for the AWESOME link out to CastingWords! (Though we are a little wary of making our strategy, and delivered turnarounds, quite this explicit :)) Regardless we do love happy customers - and this strategy delivers
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
This teaser really doesn't have quite enough info, or quite enough of a hook, to be really worth discussing.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
This article discusses what can be done with just time and location, if you just treat them with a bit more smarts: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4489121
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Attacking the todo list problem, with Chronofencing - Context and the Calendar(thenextweb.com)
1 points by nmcfarl 14y ago|0 comments
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
The first bit seems very much "Hire a UX guy, not a graphic designer" but it does got better. Still, the "sell, sell, sell" feeling of the piece leaves me cold.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Just last night I was thinking that Reminders needed a "remind me at sunset" option to remind me to round up the animals. As it is I have to change the time of that reminder every month. There are probably a ton of triggers that could be us
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
When launched both of these products were problematic, Google from the UI side, Amazon from both the API side and the UI side. And the network effects suck - no one has accounts. We axed amazon soon after we integrated with them - I gather
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
My company empties our PayPal account 2x a month, at which point it's well into 5 digits, and we've been doing this for ~5 years. If emptying accounts is a red flag, it's never hit us.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Ok - I've found a github repo for this: https://github.com/mozilla/napkin#readme which doesn't help much, but it does seem to have an overview document that helps somewhat: https://github.com/mozilla/napkin/blob/master/docs/overview....
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I think this needs some more explanatory text. It's a nice quick mockup generator, it would appear, but it oddly exports not HTML, but rather a nodeJS application, which seems insanely heavyweight for a simple form builder.
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HAL - A lean hypermedia type. (stateless.co)
4 points by nmcfarl 14y ago|0 comments
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
It's still a violent interrupt - I use the silent, no vibrate, technique mentioned above, with an exception for my wife and my business partner both of whom know not to call unless they mean it. Everyone else gets used to voicemail pretty q
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
It sounds like something 1950 got right. At least to me.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
But it is "linked to or contain GPL code" - if you hive off the functionality and interface to it via, say TCP, you actually are good to go, even with the GPL. This technique does work for a certain small set of use cases.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
> (Edit: is this _A_ DHT, or is the idea that if you build your program to use Telehash, you are creating your own DHT that is only used by currently-running instances of the same program?) I had assumed the later, but the existence of
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
This wiki page got me much closer to understanding what's really going on here: https://github.com/quartzjer/TeleHash/wiki/My-Understanding-...
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Telehash discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4420634 - hopefully :)
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I gave this a brief shot - an explanation of benefits, and use, like the short one above, is very much needed on the homepage. In addition a walk-through / example would be very helpful upon login. The welcome email, is quite helpful here -
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JSON+UDP+DHT=Freedom(telehash.org)
174 points by nmcfarl 14y ago|39 comments
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
My guess is he doesn't believe putting illegal drug users in jail has a valid societal purpose - I know I don't. Treatment not incarceration. However I think his analogy is flawed, and that a system that successfully penalizes poor comments
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
If that’s considered "wanting to subvert Twitter", it’s not twitter who’s in trouble. But I suspect (and hope) that’s not Facebook’s end game with subscribe.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
In 2002, a coworker who was late to a meeting and running through the office caught his leg on the non-MagSafe power cable for my iBook resulting in it slamming against a filing cabinet so hard that it both cracked the case, and started br
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Clearly from the comments there are a lot of reasons for this but I'm going to throw out another that I have some experience with: "living to eat another day" Sometimes there just isn't any runway, and loosing this deal, customer, etc, real
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Yeah - I deactivated mine, less hassle than deleting, but still good enough to stop me from using the site.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I use this system myself - except without the `security` command and with random passwords. Which is annoying as my generator is command line, so there’s a lot of cut and pasting going on. This will be a distinct improvement to the system
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
We use a Google Spreadsheet as a buffer for our tweets at work, hacking the ’sheet to post would be an awesome addition - and not one I’d’ve ever thought of. This is a cool hack - and one that will make my co-workers lives a bit simpler.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
As someone who runs a crowdsourced transcription company I can tell you it's not worth it. If it was we'd be hiring them, and the going rate would be $7/hour not $60. You'd get better quality with machine transcription - and that's really
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
This has happened to me, I was looking for an answer, and found a blatantly wrong old answer (as some breaking changes in the toolkit had been made). What I didn't have was an answer to provide, and so I moved on. I'm not sure the tools giv
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
They lost $440 million (and amount greater than their market cap), and possibly the company, on what the world knows to be incompetence. At some point if I couldn’t stop it - I’d be tempted to just kill the power to the server rooms, all o

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