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by nollidge 14y ago
I think that's unreasonable, especially because it's never happened to me in recent memory.
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by nollidge 14y ago
To reveal the magician's secret: the lower tone indicates the row on the phone keypad, and the higher tone indicates the column. So on a keypad, the first four digits 1-5-7-0 consecutively goes down the keypad's rows and alternate between t
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by nollidge 14y ago
I seem to recall being able to turn the speaker noise off on at least one of my modems growing up. But I'd end up leaving it on, because you could follow the sounds like an auditory progress bar.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> (into a notebook; not onto a computer) I've been thinking about getting an electric typewriter just for this reason - to force myself to write without editing, but with a bit more speed than handwriting generally allows. Plus, I mean,
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by nollidge 14y ago
Absolutely. Programming is writing, except in addition to targeting an audience of humans, you're also writing for computers.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> You may say that I'm not speaking rationally, but reality can validate every one of my worries and regrets. Depression lies.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Gold has the value we all say it does, just like paper.
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by nollidge 14y ago
The one thing you do lose is push notifications, although I suppose I could turn on SMS notifs.
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by nollidge 14y ago
That's fine, but saying "this code makes my eyes bleed" is very obviously meant to demean the human being who wrote the code, not the code itself.
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by nollidge 14y ago
So I see your update, but what exactly drove you to take the side of the critic before evaluating the criticism ?
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by nollidge 14y ago
I don't disagree with your larger point, but as an official member of the Twitter Defense Squadron (got a badge and everything): > the 140-char restriction supposedly makes you to the point and concise, but in reality it just encourages
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by nollidge 14y ago
Actually, the U.S. is probably in the middle of the pack or worse when it comes to average connection speed.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Here's David Cramer's notpology: http://justcramer.com/2013/01/24/being-wrong-on-the-internet...
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by nollidge 14y ago
He calls it "being wrong on the Internet", but doesn't actually admit to being wrong, much less apologize. He seems to take umbrage at being called out on dickish behavior.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Of course you're not. But that's not an objective assessment, and neither is the opposite view. Jobs still managed to create products that a significant chunk of humanity subjectively enjoys. That's not easy.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> consider them a threat rather than an ally. I think that's a cynical view of it. Like your sibling post from Firehed says, it's probably more about "not getting too many cooks in the kitchen" than being territorial, as well as prevent
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by nollidge 14y ago
Where are you located? Every dentist in the U.S. will scold their patients for not flossing.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Other great impossibilities: sequencing a human genome in 15 years. Citation needed. Who said it would be impossible? And: were they actually taken seriously?
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by nollidge 14y ago
Plenty of people also don't take him seriously because lots of his predictions turn out to be hand-wavey or quite obvious. http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/ray-kurzweils-sl...
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by nollidge 14y ago
Cherrypicked? He's describing how consciousness currently manifests itself. Which cherries did he forget to pick? Also considering much of Kurweil's "evidence" is best-fit graphs of cherry-picked data points, it's kind of ironic to lob that
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by nollidge 14y ago
Just want to say thanks to all the Hyperbole Police in this thread pointing out this isn't actually the worst bug ever.
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by nollidge 14y ago
But I don't see a kiss as not-language: it's body language. It still requires agreement between the parties on what it means, and it doesn't require any logic to be understood - just a common psychological framework plus similar cultural ex
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by nollidge 14y ago
> it has basic logical underpinnings I'm not sure what you mean. More specifically, what logical underpinnings does language have that communication doesn't? For me, communication is the transfer of ideas from one brain to another, and
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Last year's buzzwords are this year's forgotten fancies. Some of them, yes. A great many are not. Taking your "last year" to be poetic rather than literal: -gate is cliche, "meme" is totally a thing now, "my bad" has diffused into inf
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by nollidge 14y ago
I defy you to support your implicit assertion that "different than" is not fine.
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by nollidge 14y ago
And just because one particular serif font looks better to one particular person than one particular sans-serif font on one particular medium quite obviously does not mean it is true. Nor do your amateur fontophile gut feelings matter--an
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by nollidge 14y ago
Indeed, I might go home and dork around with this later, and throw it up on my github page.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> I once had a company give me a problem that was essentially to build a page that displays products from an API endpoint, and have that page infinitely scroll. I'd probably have the same reaction to that as you did to the reverse-GOL.
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by nollidge 14y ago
That sounds like a fun challenge, and if it's at all representative of the sorts of problems they take on, I'd love to know who the company was so I can apply.
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by nollidge 14y ago
OK but Google and Yahoo's news sites do something similar, at least as far as I can tell (and I'm a pretty technical dude - most users won't even understand that much). Again, what's going to entice me away from them?

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