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by randrews 18y ago
You don't want desktop apps, you want a better browser. Put in a URL, download software from it, run it locally. That's a browser. The only thing that Google Apps is missing from that is that it periodically has to hit the server to save yo
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by randrews 18y ago
Okay, so I go over to my girlfriend's apartment and want to show her something I wrote. MS Word: Buy a copy of the server-side component for my server, set it up beforehand, buy a second copy of MS Word, remember to bring it with me, instal
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by randrews 18y ago
> Seriously, nobody needs a fucking web-based photoshop. What for? Collaborative red eye removal? Maybe so that their images are available from whatever computer they happen to be sitting at. That's what I use Google Docs for.
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by randrews 18y ago
To get past the creepiness aspect, let's say that you can only view what someone else is seeing. That's still pretty useful. Imagine that you make this high enough resolution that it's like watching TV, and then small enough that it'll fit
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by randrews 18y ago
For the reasons lined out here: http://javascript.crockford.com/javascript.html Don't get me wrong, it's my favorite language. I don't want to bash on Javascript. Most of the coding I do for fun is in Dashcode, which I never understood wh
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by randrews 18y ago
I would like you to be correct but I don't think you are. Javascript with minor syntactic sugar for making DSLs, and with the stupidity around scoping ironed out, that might win out, though.
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Letter to a Young Engineer (from a purported Honda employee)(gadgets.boingboing.net)
14 points by randrews 18y ago|0 comments
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by randrews 18y ago
Joel Spolsky, or maybe Steve Yegge (or maybe both), wrote an article once about how you should always understand your business at a level of abstraction lower than what you actually deal in. If you write in C, know what a C compiler does.
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by randrews 18y ago
I'm posting this, even though it's a political article, because of their reasoning why political eras change: changes in technology. Supposedly Obama's administration will start a more participatory democracy, which is probably of interest
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Obama and the dawn of the fourth republic(salon.com)
1 points by randrews 18y ago|1 comments
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by randrews 18y ago
Assuming you have sawdust and corn stalks. If you're in a part of the world where rainforest is more plentiful than either of those, and you're chopping it down anyway to make farmland...
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by randrews 18y ago
You're awfully optimistic. Who says that a fungus that makes diesel fuel won't just encourage people to chop down more rainforest so they can make diesel fuel out of it?
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by randrews 18y ago
The article reads, to me, like a bunch of Air Force managers decided to think outside the box, and a bunch of tech people are telling them why none of it makes sense, and they aren't listening. Anyone involved in this project has my pity.
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Air Force Aims to 'Rewrite Laws of Cyberspace'(blog.wired.com)
1 points by randrews 18y ago|1 comments
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by randrews 18y ago
This article closes with a meme I'm getting pretty annoyed with. "Don't be evil" is not the same as "don't do anything that the author disagrees with".
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by randrews 18y ago
I had this exact problem for passwords and random to-dos about six months ago. I ended up writing an app for it: http://yellownote.info It's like OS X sticky notes (mentioned elsewhere in this thread, which I also love) for the web. There
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by randrews 18y ago
I grew up in Texas, reddest of the red states, and a lot of my friends did abstinence pledges. Most were Christian Evangelicals to one degree or another (they even evangelized to me, though god only knows why. I wasn't really liberal at all
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by randrews 18y ago
I wonder if it's really that "liberal women" are infertile, or that having children makes you more conservative?
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by randrews 18y ago
Hmm, fair enough. Still, you combine that with people telling you that condoms don't protect you from anything, and you get a bunch of people terrified of sex.
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by randrews 18y ago
Am I the only one who thinks both sides are wrong? Not having sex because god doesn't want you to is sort of insane, but not having sex because you won't get into a good college if you do is equally bad. It's possible to do something danger
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by randrews 18y ago
"Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to s
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by randrews 18y ago
According to their FAQ, it costs money.
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by randrews 18y ago
If you'll think about it, there is actually a huge difference. The comment I replied to was talking about how as (mostly) programmers, we have a skewed perspective on the job market. Most people in our age range don't get the kinds of job o
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by randrews 18y ago
She does, but she doesn't get paid for it. It's very hard to make a living as a professional writer.
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by randrews 18y ago
This comment reminds me of two friends I've got: One finished a graduate degree in English last spring. She is now working as an admin assistant for $28k a year. People told her that she had too much of a sense of entitlement, when all she
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by randrews 18y ago
Neither. I try to think of something I'd want to use myself. That way, if it goes nowhere (which is likely), I haven't wasted my time, since I now have a useful tool.
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by randrews 18y ago
I wonder how much their situation would improve by opening up their archive for free and removing the registration stuff? They'd get vastly more page views, and thus more ad revenue. For that matter, if they do go down, what happens to the
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by randrews 18y ago
"The key to Dr. Guestrin's algorithm ... is that it can assemble the maximum amount of information for the least effort." So it's efficient then? As opposed to every other inefficient algorithm? I bet this is what medical researchers feel l
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by randrews 18y ago
The Dashboard, Dashcode. I think it's a pretty awesome environment. Also Versions (the best SVN client ever), Transmit (the best FTP client ever) and Coda (a pretty awesome website editor).
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by randrews 18y ago
In what ways? Could you elaborate some?

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