quomopete

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by quomopete 7y ago
Medium really botched the paywall approach and I couldn't possibly agree with you more. It is so inconsistently applied and quite honestly I can't justify spending 5 dollars a month on a "publisher" whose content is so v
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by quomopete 7y ago
I am a little unclear on what the editorial bent of this is. Are they trying to use this as another way to say that Amazon unfairly compensates workers? If so, it seems like a cheap target. I've always known mechanical turk as a way to
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by quomopete 12y ago
I don't know if best is the right word, but he is definitely one of the best. Some of the things I think really make him stand out are his storytelling, his flow, and his charisma (that he looks unconventional also probably plays into
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by quomopete 12y ago
my apologies, i'm in a terrible mood and taking it out on strangers on the internet.
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by quomopete 12y ago
http://www.snipe.net/about/ edit: removed cheap shot about motivation.
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by quomopete 12y ago
And this new reputation economy will only be as good as the cultural biases of the engineers of the technology. Which could net us a worse situation than there is currently.
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by quomopete 13y ago
Also not terribly excited about this. But i should also probably just move on from posting here. Not a big contributor and have found that overall there's a huge echo chamber dynamic to this community that's generally hard to brea
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by quomopete 13y ago
I realize that, I made my comment towards this being a metaphor and I still stand by it.
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by quomopete 13y ago
the brain having a programming language would have to be based on a lot of assumptions that not everyone is willing to make.
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by quomopete 13y ago
> If a 10-year-old can become an ace web programmer, why can’t a liberal arts graduate? Brain plasticity. Next.
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by quomopete 13y ago
guess you'll just have to sustain yourself on real food till then :)
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by quomopete 13y ago
If some folks were just trying to pay the bills, working in government or biotech would be fine. What kind of bills are we talking about? I think it's more that sex and photo sharing, at the moment, net an excess of wealth quickly and
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by quomopete 13y ago
This is why I am just utterly confused about what people are willing to do to "solve a problem" or "jump on a trend". From a planning perspective, do users have to set this up with some time in advance. If I were to rent
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by quomopete 13y ago
American Community Survey data is practically valueless. There, I said it. Symbolically, it may be interesting. When applied to cases like this, the conclusions one can draw are largely untenable.
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by quomopete 13y ago
care to share some of that evidence with the rest of us?
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by quomopete 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand what is trying to be communicated here. Edit: OK I guess you click on the drop icon in upper right hand corner (I'm on mobile), then you get some context.
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by quomopete 13y ago
but the question remains: Are social media art? are programmers of social media artists? I do not doubt there are programmers that are artists and programs or implementations of programming that is art. That's not what I am asking. And I do
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by quomopete 13y ago
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
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by quomopete 14y ago
is this a joke?
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by quomopete 14y ago
This is amazingly(!) ham-fisted on the part of NBC. everyblock.com was pretty vibrant from what I could tell. And being forced to shutter overnight is about as unprofessional as it gets (again, I understand this as, without a doubt, some NB
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by quomopete 14y ago
This may sound pendatic, but Accidental Empires is a must read, even after all these years. Particularly if you did not live through the initial rise of the personal computing industry or were too young for it to have any conscious impact o
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by quomopete 14y ago
It's not really coverage of his suicide that this site and the tech community is concerned with, to be clear. It's his life and the significance of him not being around anymore that is the focus. Aaron meant a lot to this community as he
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by quomopete 14y ago
it's not really the same thing. the learn the hard way method is fine for learning something like python or ruby (or whatever language), but not extendable for something like django where you have to set up the db and set the method for dep
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by quomopete 14y ago
who's this kids uncle?
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by quomopete 14y ago
you are way too worried about being downvoted.
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by quomopete 14y ago
Can you accept the fact, however, that this is not about you?
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by quomopete 14y ago
uh, yes. that's exactly right.
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by quomopete 14y ago
why would you be bored learning something new?
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by quomopete 14y ago
A perfect example of design that complete overshoots and denigrates its usability and usefulness. I wouldn't even expect this amount of slickness from a web app that dispenses froyo from my cd-rom drive. The Mobile experience should be the
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by quomopete 14y ago
only somewhat. But techcrunch cant think outside of superlative and hyperbole.

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