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On beating roulette: part 2(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
1 points by pw 15y ago|0 comments
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by pw 15y ago
No, that's certainly welcome here ;-)
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by pw 15y ago
It seems like I'll read anything whose title includes "micro-[non-technical thing]."
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by pw 15y ago
Why? :-) I agree that some of them are just versions of the "time, relaxation, hiring and pacing yourself" that he described as the solution to regular burn-out.
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by pw 15y ago
And near the end he refers to her as "my delicious girlfriend." I think it's intentional, and he just threw it in for the fun of it (he is described as "irreverent"). But that sort of thing is out-of-character for the A Smart Bear blog, whi
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by pw 15y ago
"We need more supportive programs and less sorting" We don't need less sorting, we need better sorting. It's obvious that some fields have a cognitive threshold.[1] Some people just aren't smart enough to succeed as a math major (and
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by pw 15y ago
A comma or period that follows a closing quotation mark appears to hang off by itself and creates a gap in the line (since the space over the mark combines with the following word space)." I don't doubt Feal, but the appearance argument do
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by pw 15y ago
"3G-enabled Chromebooks connect to the web using blazing-fast mobile data networks" Eh, "blazing-fast" might overselling things a bit.
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Bret Victor, beast of burden(worrydream.com)
1 points by pw 15y ago|0 comments
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Kill Math(worrydream.com)
227 points by pw 15y ago|108 comments
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by pw 15y ago
Neologism alert: "Doing this in the wrong way Schrutes your whole mission. Doing this in the right way makes you Ani Difranco, or Bob Dylan."
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by pw 15y ago
Makes me think of this Quora question: Is it true that size of the portion of the web that Google indexes is actually smaller than sum of sizes of the contents of everyone's Gmail? ( http://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-size-of-the-portion-
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by pw 15y ago
Why didn't you do this with AR? (Not being critical, just curious, because I remember you being a bit stealthy about AR pre-launch (of your demo, at least).) Also, how would you respond to those that wouldn't want to do this for fear of "gi
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by pw 16y ago
If I remember correctly, maxklein has had success cross-app promotion (promoting your other, related apps within one of your apps). Would love to see you do a blog post about what you've tried.
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by pw 16y ago
What I like most about developing on EC2 is the ability to save an development environment as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), and then spin up instances of it as needed. I can fine-tune the environment over time (just spin up a new instance,
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by pw 16y ago
> radicals are influential way out of proportion to what one would be led to expect by making a quick survey of people's negative reactions to them. Is radicalism a hack for getting attention? Is RMS's radicalism such a hack? If not, co
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Interview with a cracker(successfulsoftware.net)
77 points by pw 16y ago|15 comments
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My Experience With the EC2 Judgment Day Outage(alestic.com)
3 points by pw 16y ago|0 comments
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Bacterial Marketing(whattofix.com)
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by pw 16y ago
While I don't want to go too far down the road of being your online mum (:P), I'd be happy to give your blog posts a once-over. Just email me your drafts (address in profile).
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by pw 16y ago
Did anyone else realize that English must be the author's second language? Not that there's anything wrong with that, I'm just always amazed by the little clues that are behind by otherwise proficient non-native speakers.
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by pw 16y ago
You don't even need Cloudfront. You can now host static sites directly from S3. See http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-... and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5043616/amazon-s3-static-...
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Google's Matt Cutts Talks Down Keyword Domain Names(seobook.com)
9 points by pw 16y ago|2 comments
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Programmer as Market(whattofix.com)
1 points by pw 16y ago|0 comments
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by pw 16y ago
Me too.
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Andrew Warner is in the hospital(mixergy.com)
142 points by pw 16y ago|43 comments
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by pw 16y ago
How do they get much organic traffic using just thin landing pages?
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by pw 16y ago
True, but it sure makes for an effective marketing hack targeting a certain internet subculture...
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by pw 16y ago
cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955263 , particularly the threads by il and patio11.
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Oh, The Opportunity(seobook.com)
2 points by pw 16y ago|0 comments

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