rorymarinich

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by rorymarinich 16y ago
I agree with sudont, bh23ha; you have more than a streak of condescension with your response right here. But more than that, I think you're wrong, or disagree, with how idea of what a college ought to be. It's worth a conversation. I'm not
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Every friend I have left (51 at current count) has expressed doubts re: Facebook use, and has contemplated switching to something. Every one came to the conclusion that the disadvantages to switching far outweigh the advantages of switching
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Yay, customer surveys! I like those! I actually have an Rdio account, because I have a curious bias towards web sites with sexier names/subconsciously believe I am judged by the names of web sites I use. When I joined I had the impression t
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Thanks, Ryan!
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Can somebody passionate explain what Pomodoro is? When I Google it all I get are sauce recipes; I'd love if an enthusiast for the system could explain to me what makes it so effective and nice.
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Yep!
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
I'm still confused myself; the Internet hasn't been restricted to university usage since the way-early 90s, right? What specific service are you providing? Without that I can't be more clear. (If it's something you'd rather keep secret, I u
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
The font you use for your tag line is too silly — it doesn't make me feel particularly learned or wise or any of the things I associate with scholarliness. Ditto that wishy-washy blue color. The "email-subscribe" widget is ugly and gray. Th
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
"The right place to find a designer," goes the adage, "is wherever the designer happens to be." Frustratingly, there is no official hub where every designer goes, so you have to look in a lot of places. Elance has some talented people, but
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Fair enough. :-) I also know they're not writing pieces like this - which I see as a problem. I do think awareness to the shifting role of the designer is necessary at this point. But I still don't agree with this. If anything, I think we
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
> prosaic You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Apparently detailed reports of the US spying on its allies, or reports that the US deliberately concealed the civilian death count in Iraq to make the
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
I like — and by "like" I mean "am vaguely unhappy" — that this post and most posts like it are written by a person or people whose idea of web design is slapping a light color on another light color, adding padding, and then @font-facing in
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Well, we've known certain parts of the right have wanted to classify the NTY as terrorists for years now.
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Click-through rate might be slightly more accurate than simply pushing everything, but it's not an ultimate solution because it too makes assumptions about your usage. The one assumes you want everything equally; the other assumes that your
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Yes, and even this is a more complicated problem than simply stating it would make it seem. Imagine a solution that was open and allowed anybody to utilize its social graph. In theory this would allow other sites to build off the original
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
My bet? Probably most of them. But that's only because almost every service is abandoned by most of its initial users. I set up a site once where literally the instant you made an account you were adding content; you typed your name, hit en
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
What's funny is that I simultaneously agree with you and think you're missing the point. Tumblr has done an awful job of monetizing. I'm pretty sure the team doesn't give much of a shit about monetizing, because they seem pretty damn happy
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
Not at all! My ideas are entirely open for discourse. I don't think for an instant that what I wrote was immaculate and untouchable. The reason I'm pissed off about this whole thing is that it's a bad essay. It's not worthy of pulling up an
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
It's not worth it to get into a pissfest. I don't care enough. One comment: If you don't like being generic, then why the hell were you nothing but a bag of gross generalizations in your stupid little essay? It's not an essay. It's a blog
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
See, even now, my talking about this comes off as confrontational, to no effect. I still think it was better for the original conversation to leave it out. Nah, that's a completely sensible point. I don't think it's hard to make programmi
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
Perhaps it's that I think the vast majority of programmers are doing meaningless work, and so their use of the term has diluted what the word means for me. But then, I'd pick the term "designer" which some people think is just as meaningles
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
We could have a whole lengthy discussion about this, but I still disagree. I think that success is easy enough that somebody who's willing to try and try again will succeed sooner rather than later.
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
I was actually going to mention Drupal, because it's what I've spent a good five years playing around with. I love it. There's something about the questioner being unwilling to help themselves. Not a lack of understanding about a topic, bu
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
If he didn't care, he wouldn't have gone out of his way to make a blog theme that screamed "Obnoxious asshole" and then gone on to rant about things that got him called an obnoxious asshole. I'm not saying that those two things make him a
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
Bullshit. Gravity is a provable part of science. The social sciences are harder to deal with. Meanwhile, you want proof? I'll offer myself and every single person I know who's willing to be social as proof. I'm friends with guys with weir
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
I'd think the anxiety are outnumbered by the things that Facebook makes simpler. (I just add my relatives, and hope they don't mind that I occasionally use foul language. They usually don't.)
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
Look man, you said you had a solution to the problem. What I said is hardly a leap. You have a funny definition of "drastic proportions". I use hyperbole. I ought to have said "proposed" solution. Either way, your response was snide and s
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
I clarified what I said in my response to Zed's post. I should have thought before making that previous response.
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
No! Of course it's not okay to hurt somebody. If I made it sound like that I fucked up big-time. What I said was that it's the attitude above that leads to physical violence. When somebody starts wanting to punch somebody in the face, it co
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by rorymarinich 17y ago
One of the most-disliked kids at my school was the football captain, a Republican football player who wouldn't stop talking about politics or sports. I was in a class with him and with a completely insane dweeby kid who tried to add a word

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