powatom

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by powatom 13y ago
$49 per machine is a pretty high cost, particularly for something which is new and untested. I'm no expert, but my gut feeling is that for this kind of tool - you need to offer a more 'enterprisey' offering. The way budgets for the kind of
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by powatom 13y ago
The only reliably effective way to improve quality and reduce time is to practice. This does not mean, however, that you should burn yourself out. Apply common sense: don't do something that is making you hate doing it. Only do it when you
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by powatom 13y ago
And run afoul of literally thousands of patents and copyright issues ;)
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by powatom 13y ago
I'm no biologist - but could it be that this hormone is some evolutionary artefact - a holdover from some ancient common ancestor - that we can now do away with completely? If the evidence in mice shows that blocking the ageing process show
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by powatom 13y ago
Nevertheless, just because you have an aversion to profanity doesn't mean that it is anybody's responsibility to avoid it except your own. Your reaction to profanity is your own issue - it doesn't mean that the speaker is any less intellige
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by powatom 13y ago
Your website feels clunky and confusing. Why can I click 'Next Question' before I've actually chosen an answer? Why are you telling me that something is 'coming soon' after displaying its intro question so prominently? Why is 'coming soon'
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by powatom 13y ago
> most educated people are able to avoid profanity while conveying their thoughts Just because you can, doesn't mean you have to. This idea that swearing means you must somehow have an insufficient vocabulary or IQ is absolutely ludicr
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by powatom 14y ago
Seems pretty nice, but the background is repeating vertically here. It'd be good to be able to set my location manually too, it thinks I'm in London but I'm up North in Liverpool.
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by powatom 14y ago
All very interesting, but where's the evidence that this actually works? As they say - fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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by powatom 14y ago
It creates marvelously built and human products that are designed to express the very human soul. Oh for pity's sake. They make expensive hardware that looks and feels nice.
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by powatom 14y ago
I've thought a similar thing about Bitcoin before - it seems like this is the 'goldrush' era - people are grabbing as many Bitcoins as they can before they become too scarce. Assuming there is no sudden drop-off in interest, will we not eve
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by powatom 14y ago
I've been thinking about this recently too, and I think this is an area which is ripe for a language feature. Currently we have 3 (ugly) options: 1: Validate before method call (bad for obvious reasons) 2: Validate immediately within method
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by powatom 14y ago
> I've asked my current employers for a raise but because they know my situation and they know my stammer means I interview badly they know I am stuck here. You work in an industry where you can get away with relatively little verbal co
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by powatom 14y ago
"If you want to sound credible, wrap it in quotes." -- Me, a developer.
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by powatom 14y ago
It's using a WP theme called 'wp-svtle', so I imagine that's probably why.
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by powatom 14y ago
As somebody else has mentioned - if the customer wants to modify the application later on after the initial contract has ended, and looks for somebody experienced in what they believe they had initially been sold, then that is a costly proc
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by powatom 14y ago
I don't think it's 'fraud', but it's definitely unethical and I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of legal action that could be taken. If I ask for a gluten free meal, and I don't get a gluten free meal, and that makes me ill, th
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by powatom 14y ago
This is probably one of my favourite comments ever.
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by powatom 14y ago
The idea seems good but the implementation could lead to cramped living and this in turn leads to sanitation and social issues. People need space - forcing them to live in small areas will not work out well.
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by powatom 14y ago
Oh god, everything hurts! I'm going back to bed.
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by powatom 14y ago
My girlfriend used Formspring a lot for the photography related posts - would love to know if there was a simple way to scrape posts for future reference. She was upset when I told her FS was shutting down. Good luck for the future, FS team
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by powatom 14y ago
But this is the point - it's fine to say these things if you're not going to put your own credibility on the line and say 'this is me, these are my credentials, this is the reality'. I'm not denying that the game is skewed, that you can onl
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by powatom 14y ago
I can't help but disagree with your approach in principle. I acknowledge that your advice may be sound, and you may well have done the research necessary to arrive at your opinions - but the fact remains that you are giving people incredibl
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by powatom 14y ago
More like: Jan 2015: Sales in masks skyrocket.
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by powatom 14y ago
Both have their merits, but personally I prefer the event based system. There are solutions to the 'silent failure' problem: 1: You could have your event router 'do something' whenever an event is triggered which has no registered subscribe
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by powatom 14y ago
If I'm understanding you correctly, then you're essentially arguing that the CATB analogy applies to the infrastructure of the web. Would you say that something like Diaspora is something which uses the Bazaar approach? Secondly, given your
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by powatom 14y ago
"Anonymous sources disclose unverifiable information!"
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by powatom 14y ago
Thanks for this, I'm gearing up to move into freelancing myself either this year or next, so I'm glad to read about other people's experiences wherever I can!
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by powatom 14y ago
I for one would be interested in seeing what would happen if guns were marketed as 'sissy' weapons. Take the power out of the thing - make people think that you have to be some kind of wuss to rely on a gun to fight your battles for you.
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by powatom 14y ago
One question I have is this: if we let robots produce our fast food, what guarantees of food hygiene do we have? I imagine it can be pretty difficult to get a robot to self-clean all of the relevant parts, and it's not hard to imagine critt

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