ryanricard

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by ryanricard 14y ago
I use http://historio.us/ for that. One-click bookmarklet, all my links are indexed so I can full-text search for them later.
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by ryanricard 14y ago
"We learned that government officials are often wary of, if not downright hostile to, the kind of disruption that is an all-but-inevitable consequence of innovation." "The original idea was straightforward: Replace “error” pages, which are
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by ryanricard 14y ago
I am fascinated at the idea that you wrote a 10KLOC iOS app in the time it took you to type it out. I had heard tales of programmers approaching the design, implementation, and then testing of a program as totally seperate steps, but only a
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by ryanricard 14y ago
I don't know about typefaces, but taking a screenshot of rendered black-on-white text and saving as .jpg sure has an effect on credibility.
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The Digital Bolex: Affordable Digital Camera That Shoots RAW Images(kickstarter.com)
3 points by ryanricard 15y ago|0 comments
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by ryanricard 15y ago
Hmm. Wonder why the de-duper didn't catch it. Ah well.
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Exploiting an Obscure Massachusetts Lottery for Millions(articles.boston.com)
5 points by ryanricard 15y ago|2 comments
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by ryanricard 16y ago
You might have heard it from the movie Lock, Stock, and two Smoking Barrels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjj8eMNxivM (warning: strong language) I'd love to know if someone's actually run a scam like that at some point. Seems like a cle
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by ryanricard 16y ago
Politifact keeps an "Obameter." I particularly like their 5-category system (including "Compromise," "In the Works," and "Stalled") http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
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by ryanricard 16y ago
According to the "How it Works" page, "we know which dealers are the friendliest, which ones will give you the best prices, and which ones to avoid completely." Presumably they wouldn't send you any quotes from known bad dealers, but obviou
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by ryanricard 16y ago
Playing around with some common latin phrases, I think I just found an Easter Egg, or quite an odd mistranslation: http://translate.google.com/#la|en|quid%20pro%20quo Edit: and reverse-engineering from the english -> latin translator,
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by ryanricard 16y ago
> And since Southwest can't grow by adding capacity to current routes (we know the negative cycle that creates), they must find new markets. I don't think I "know the negative cycle that creates." Could I trouble someone to explain it t
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by ryanricard 16y ago
...which also references 1984 and a Hanna Barbera cartoon. Of course it's less funny now that I've analyzed it, but still a good joke.
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by ryanricard 16y ago
I dislike this framing of taxation in absolute terms. Yes, the government "takes" a portion of your earnings, but in doing so it provides a number of services, some of which were prerequisites to those earnings in the first place (paving th
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by ryanricard 16y ago
I think this is my first time encountering the "Grid Method," maybe I've seen it before but I was definitely taught the "old way" in school. It's genius . I remember the thing I hated the most about long multiplication or division was havi
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by ryanricard 16y ago
The first time the map pops up I was dismissive. "Eh, so they mashed up a google maps thing with the video. Big deal. You can even see the google (r) watermarks. lame." Once it started in with the street-level images, swirling around, it s
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by ryanricard 16y ago
Headline should read "2 in 10 Americans say reducing incredibly complex systems to binary questions is silly"
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Things I've Learned from Traveling Around the World for Three Years(huffingtonpost.com)
260 points by ryanricard 16y ago|98 comments
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by ryanricard 16y ago
Wow, I've been a regular Trader Joe's shopper ever since one opened up down the street about a year ago. Frankly, I was always a bit worried that between the price and the quality there was a "too good to be true" angle that I was missing.
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by ryanricard 16y ago
I absolutely love the interface, especially: -Sorting by "Agony" is a brilliant decision. It seems to take into account time spent traveling and cost, which leaves me with a few easy choices to make (spend 20 bucks more, save an hour) inste
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by ryanricard 16y ago
I'm not getting a particularly Apple-y vibe from the press release. What similarities do you see to iPhone ads?
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by ryanricard 16y ago
I do a lot of my reading on the bus or waiting for a bus, which tends to involve sunlight on a semi-regular basis.
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by ryanricard 16y ago
One beef with the article, one with the tone of many of the upvoted replies: As for the article, I'd argue that the strict ability to afford a computer matters much less than the understanding of why a computer is useful, how to get the
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by ryanricard 16y ago
I'm surprised he didn't mention the "Our phone doesn't have a problem," "All phones have this problem" combo as well.
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by ryanricard 16y ago
A Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting, offhand. Well, Will was writing on a mirror not a window, but it still fits the "tortured genius doodles in grease pen" cliche.
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by ryanricard 16y ago
That Tax Foundation survey would seem to suggest that CA (48), NY(49), and MA (36) aren't good places to start a startup either. http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/bp59_es.pdf I think that the other factors mentioned in the article: innov
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by ryanricard 16y ago
As a lover of the Twin Cities, this is definitely a saddening read. Minnesota is a pretty great place to work in tech as an employee, but it's not currently the thriving area of tech innovation I'd love to see it become. It's too bad, too,
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by ryanricard 16y ago
This is like the serious version of http://failblog.org/tag/autocomplete-me/ My favorite recently was "Do Not I...(ron clothes on body)"
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by ryanricard 16y ago
Couple of "WHYYYY?" comments on here, mostly with good answers, but one more piece that hasn't been mentioned: since the industry is very competitive, having experience on a shipping game is a huge benefit to your resume. I'm sure many of t