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by sadlyNess 14y ago
It's nice seeing how you actually used the feedback from previous HN submission & made changes(and havent been rementioned here). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4703380
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
What is a TL;DR anyway? The core of an article in fewer words, an alternative title, an excuse for laziness, a tool for busy people, a bird's perspective? Some people like writing a TL:DR, it's an attempt to reverse the article's conception
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
> Know when you're attacking a difficult problem and you won't get quick feedback. Good TL;DR .
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
The dont-vote-for-Obama bit reminds me of George Bush's "pre-war intelligence failure" fiasco.
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
Well, most damage(to hacker-mindedness) is done in high schools and universities, that's a place one can start with. I'm thinking our hackspaces need to have good libraries so a book donation inititave would help.
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
Kenyan and curious, what ideas do you have on how you can help?
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
Why the downvotes? Mpesa was made for a VodafoneUk subsidiary. It's not network ubiquitous(& hasnt scaled as succesfully in other vodafone subsidiaries) but makes a lot of profit for its network. Ushahidi is OS & not-for-profit &#
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
PG also stresses the importance of creating a new technology in his definition of startup. A startup is a 'Useful infrastructure' previously and wholly 'nonexistent' that 'fills a need' for a population and thus earns revenue. I'm sure I'
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
Or just; "Omit words."
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
And the Firefox icon too. * http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/the-icon-handbook
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
This might only work if it remains a camera; tactile buttons, a non attention-stealing screen, its own app store(custom camera apps), and the apps function more like plugins/addons than apps. Otherwise it'll be just another android phone wi
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
If a startup gets something done well, no one will notice their uglyness unless beauty is a non-trivial part of getting their job done, initially.
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
Stereotypical POV about Africa(that bus driver shit). There was Western Union & Moneygram before M-pesa. M-pesa was just better(cheaper, faster, cellphones everywehere,).
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
>solve the problem of a need for entertainment That's just skewing it to fit the post. More appropriate is robomartin's 'solved a problem, filled a need or fed an interest' tag.
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DDJ's Interview With Ward Cunningham(drdobbs.com)
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
Here[ http://www.candlerblog.com/2012/05/18/where-did-the-talk-sho... ] and [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3993649 ] .
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
I understood that quote that if you find someone working on a project, they are happy.
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JavaScript: A Brief Tutorial(badassoftheweek.com)
1 points by sadlyNess 14y ago|0 comments
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
<$0.02> Android not WordPress</0.02> Its not about Open 'source' but simply 'open'. Weak proof of this is the Facebook Phone rumors a while ago. What if FB could at this stage own Android? FB wants/needs hardware presence
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by sadlyNess 14y ago
So what should the tech providers do to provide a secure and end-user simple Wifi for their clients, the hotels?
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by sadlyNess 15y ago
What we need is algorithms that can recommend like a human who knows you would. An rapid publish/editing filter engine based on my previous interactions...
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by sadlyNess 15y ago
It may not actually be bias but fear, that this may get flamey if discussed in the HN-wrong context(israel v palestine). Coincident: A leading human rights figure got a lot of flak for writing a newspaper article saying that our (kenya's) n
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by sadlyNess 15y ago
There's a KiSwahili proverb that goes Fahali zipiganapo, nyasi ndio huumia. When the bulls fight, its the grass that gets hurt(translated literally).
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by sadlyNess 15y ago
That is what I tag as(the inception of) a Stupid Arguement, pretending a unit of a whole is 'better' than another unit(not sub-unit), and ignoring Context. A successful FB is made of both the working business and the working tech ends. The
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by sadlyNess 15y ago
'Wrong' in that it's like punching someone you disagree with as opposed to shaking his hand if you agree with them when you could have just voiced your thoughts. I presume pg says its fine because it'll mean less flamey comments.
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by sadlyNess 15y ago
Well, if you look at w3schools, you might want to look at w3fools.com first. It is a criticism of w3schools and recommends htmldog and dev.opera among others.
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by sadlyNess 15y ago
That's what the aikido principle, Living Calmness or Seishi, is, IMO. Just because i'm not expressing my enthusiasm, doesnt mean i don't think its cool, I'm just Calm. http://www.aikiweb.com/spiritual/reed1.html
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by sadlyNess 15y ago
>Goncalo said this bias caused subjects to reject ideas for new products that were novel and high quality. Article lost me here. Because its hard to judge an idea as 'novel and high quality' in prospect. They should have used an idea th
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by sadlyNess 15y ago
Sounds like a hyper version of what's here in Kenya(and africa). More mobile, Opera mini everywhere, native apps preference, a little bit of Android, far much less Apple,. Even Nokia's running a S40 app contest for its Ovi Store(50K Euro to
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by sadlyNess 15y ago
This page has more useful info. http://solidcoin.info/faq.php

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