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by nmcfarl 15y ago
To me this then boils down to: Are the people in my organisation the ones that are most likely to make me say 'Wow!' or would it be better if my water cooler conversations happen at the local coffeeshop / meetup. And I've got to say as the
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
Now I don't use twitter's API, so I have no clue as to their conventions, but when I saw, in the documentation you qouted, the phrase the "equivalent of", I read this as the "raw data we used to produce" , and not the "exact string you see
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
Interestingly I've found this not to be the case, many very good teams of coders (in my experience) have at least one socially awkward person, and still perform very well. (Sometimes it feels like the manager is little more then "socialable
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
This article is a much better summary of the situation, if I only had the time to read one, I’d read it.
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
> We owe society some answers that are more sophisticated and productive than "the old business model is broken, so it's okay to pirate until someone launches [new service from which I can get everything I want, when I want it, at a pr
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
And black is for the little pads under the keyboard. Orange is for my iPhone bumpers. And so on…. But really sugru is for everything! There’s a product I’m a fan of.
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
ICT appears to mean "Information and Communications Technologies" something I didn’t know. Also man is that a depressing story.
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
Neatly done, though I’d really prefer these things come with at least a blog entry describing how it was done. Mainly I’d love to know if it’s reasonable to modify it towards your own use. Looking at the CSS it seems like a lot of very tin
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
I’ve programed perl for ages, and at this point I actually like the sigils, as they force you to keep track of your data types. At this point they are definitely a plus for perl, and perl readability for me. But starting out - yeah, they w
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
Chambers of Commerce are apparently only very loosely associated, and the politics of various international Chambers of Commerce diverge a lot. Perhaps there is room for another national level Chamber of Commerce for the US - one with a mor
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
That's actually covered in the Snopes article Kottke linked to.
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
> Read Stallman charitably. Read Kottke charitably. Read everyone charitably This! Always, every day. You might make the world a little bit better in the process, but you will make your life a good bit less stressful, just by being a bi
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
So what I don’t get is the hate. I run a small crowdsourcing biz, (that was pretty risky to start btw, it ate both the founders life savings and more), and I’ve once or twice been told I don’t belong at various startup/hacker meet-ups. Or
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
Of course they could have taken perl's tact and defined "\n" to mean System.NEWLINE not 0x0A. That would have been an improvement right there.
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
This looks rather cool, and I’d be willing to outsource the guts of my bog to Google+, leaving me with just the UI. But it looks to me like there’s still no way to post to Google+ via the API, which makes this a non-starter for me.
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
Looks like there is a little bit of the story here: http://blog.inbox2.com/we-are-launching-a-new-product
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
There is plenty of this in modern medicine, as a matter of fact my wife is on a palliative care rotation in Med School right now, and this is a major focus. However it must be said that it seems that this bit is considered very 'newfangled'
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
That was almost as good as the article, and very much worth a read. An alternate, and in my opion better, explanation of the phenomenon.
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
This actually brings up a good question. I checked `1 hour per week` but actually I have my Facebook IM hooked up to my Adium IM client (along with 8 other services) - and I haven’t intentionally logged out of that in years. Heck I leave
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
The question then becomes: Is there any political story (not explicitly startup related) that should not be flagged off of HN? I'm not sure - but if that's the policy I think it should be clearer.
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
According to this article YSL made a pair of completely red heel, top and bottom, which is what landed them in this lawsuit. http://www.inquisitr.com/133848/louboutin-battle-yves-saint-... This use of red seems very different from contra
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
I've been using phrases and sentences as passwords for a while, and I've found that there are 2 main problems; 1) A lot of sites, still in this day and age, have max password lengths, so I still have a lot of short passwords. Usually this
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
I completely agree with your last sentence. However, I at least, find writing about emotional matters to be extremely difficult. When I sit down with a goal of saying something nice, to show some compassion, to show what I'm actually feelin
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Tangle a JS library for creating reactive documents. (worrydream.com)
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
The main problem with a revenue tax is margins. If you apply the same rate of taxes to all companies with the same revenue, regardless of their margins you have your choice of putting all low margin business out of business by assessing a t
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
For me the reason is integration: Calendar invites, Google Docs "shares", and other permissions grants don't forward, so they always end up tied to the Google Apps account. Which means using it as a primary account, gives one a better more
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
So it looks like a lot of people here do not have broken workflows, and mail works for them. However, I like the author, have significant problems with my inbox. My inbox is as someone much smarter than me said "A todo list others write fo
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
I have to say this is an important distinction. Nearly everyone I /text/ has an iPhone, because they are the ones that text back. The exceptions are both Blackberry users. All of my dumb-phone friends (and my single Android friend), will
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
Reading this it became clear that it probably makes sense to build a "boxcar for growl" - unfortunately I didn't find such a thing with a quick google. Still it seems to be history/central inbox for your unread notifications doesn't just m
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
I too have worked with Mike - and can vouch for everything Troy says. Mike is an excellent Dev Ops guy, capable of automating the heck out of your backend, while assuring that everything stays up even under the most trying circumstances. H

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