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by rkalla 15y ago
A really excellent followup to the study that was linked to around here about 6 months ago that found out "willpower" is an exhaustible resource that needs to be managed throughout your day. The book[1] this article is reviewing discusses l
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Handling Self Doubt and Battling Inactivity(thebuzzmedia.com)
35 points by rkalla 15y ago|7 comments
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Fed Sues US Banks Responsible for Mortgage Meltdown(nytimes.com)
2 points by rkalla 15y ago|0 comments
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by rkalla 15y ago
I have used Play! on a few projects (my experience coming from the last 10 years of JSP/EJB, JSPX/EJB3/JPA, Struts, Spring, JSF, attempted suicide, etc.) and really enjoyed it. It does a lot of magic and doesn't follow normal Java pattern
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by rkalla 15y ago
I have asked this question and done this research a number of times and all the links here are the paths you want to look down. The Asus lowkey links, the Samsung 9 series (you can get this at Costco), the Sony Vaio Z series and the small e
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by rkalla 15y ago
The TechZing interview with the creator of Nozbe addresses your question exactly, his answer: be persistent, stay positive and move forward. He was amazed at how many competitors he outlasted and simply had more interest and staying power t
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by rkalla 15y ago
Ubuntu is no replacement for Windows. It can be a potential alternative, but it is in no way some sort of drop-in replacement. This particular article reeks of someone who doesn't actually need to get work done "Free is unbeatable!" and "Wi
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by rkalla 15y ago
Very good point Groxx, my own experience with this was looking for some snippets recently and Google ended up directing me to DZone Snippets[1] for and what I found were snippets from Java 1.3 to do the task that in Java 6 had been complete
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by rkalla 15y ago
I think a lot of it has to do with how the decision was... presented? 1. HP tablet sales fail. 2. HP warns of low earnings, then announces them. 3. Promise to make announcement only after market closes on the 18th. 4. Rumors that
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by rkalla 15y ago
Absolutely love: 1. IDE plugin (Eclipse, Xcode + MSVS incoming) 2. Community driven snippets 3. Integrated into autocomplete This approach is the trifecta of productivity for software developers. I remember years ago finding some
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by rkalla 15y ago
This new fad of providing interactive/iterative consoles for learning technologies (e.g. redis[1], mongodb[2]) is brilliant. I really well done flow (like this one) reminds me just how fun it is to learn something when it is presented well.
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by rkalla 15y ago
I have such a problem getting excited about rewrapped Linux distribution releases since these are all just recombinations of the same base software with no new core features. A different theme? Sure... but is my 3D card supported any bett
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by rkalla 15y ago
tl;dr: we make snap decisions about people because we have to; the world moves fast. therefore we want people to make the right snap decision about us, so we brand ourselves with bits and pieces of all the brands out there that we think con
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by rkalla 15y ago
I think this was hand-waved away with the admission that Jules is terrible at customer support... the implication being that he was on a rage-bender and nuked the account.
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by rkalla 15y ago
From a customer/outside perspective, I absolutely see how you are coming to this conclusion, but if I suddenly handed you the checkbook to that company, keys to the office and said "Keep this place running, keep making money and keep paying
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by rkalla 15y ago
This announcement likely explains the administration announcement that it was shutting down 800 data centers[1] a year or so after announcing that it was going to ramp up its IT effort. I imagine Amazon provided a compelling argument for us
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CouchDB + Redis might be a match made in Heaven(ai.mee.nu)
8 points by rkalla 15y ago|2 comments
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by rkalla 15y ago
Thanks for the link patio, found a few that I bookmarked for future use hopefully.
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by rkalla 15y ago
--------------- but if you're a heroin user then you can literally get put in jail for trying to use clean needles. --------------- Many pharmacies have programs for drug users to buy clean needles, no-questions-asked for exactly this reaso
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by rkalla 15y ago
Loved the post, but as a programming single-founder with next to no design sense (I would design something like HN) this article makes my checkbook cry blood. I suppose it makes sense that your design suggests to people if they should inves
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by rkalla 15y ago
Appreciate the tip as well and for anyone else that had no idea what "with the canonical hint" meant, I think it means using <link rel="canonical" href="..." /> in the <head> to point Googlebot at the preferred public landin
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by rkalla 15y ago
I had this exact experience that Rachel describes the other day -- was signing up a new startup and saw that, was already feeling like the service was too expensive, then got annoyed at the idea that me (some sucker from the web) was paying
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by rkalla 15y ago
Good point, but could you argue that those Americans that would renounce their citizen ship are already hiding that income in untaxable locations already? I wonder if it would be a wash, you suddenly up the tax, and everyone that was duckin
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Spludo: fast, evented, server side, prototype-based, JS MVC web framework(spludo.com)
2 points by rkalla 15y ago|0 comments
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by rkalla 15y ago
For anyone else interested in this topic (or doubtful about the claim) 20/20 did an cover story on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo8kfV9kONw&feature=playe...
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by rkalla 15y ago
dibarnu, I will concede that point as everything you pointed out are solid arguments against it and well reasoned. Thank you for the detailed reply.
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by rkalla 15y ago
That is a fair point, I don't think the OP's complaint about the 20-to-0 switch was invalid, but I do skip past it to try and look at what kind of benefit can be squeezed from their current predicament instead of scorching the earth and wal
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by rkalla 15y ago
From what I understand, Amazon won't feature a trial or "lite" version of your app for the Free App of the Day. It doesn't have the same value-proposition for users.
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by rkalla 15y ago
That is a good point to bring up. I don't think that study and those results apply here verbatim because this is more the Groupon model than the "cheap service" model. I am, for a VERY limited time, getting a product for free. The perceptio
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by rkalla 15y ago
Would appreciate clarification on the downvotes guys. If I'm missing something let me know.

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