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by sedev 14y ago
As tempting as it is, every time I read about legalizing marijuana, I'm reminded that implementing that legalization would be an enormous headache ( http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali... ). I believe that the War
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by sedev 14y ago
All right, let's go into specifics here. I strongly disagree with your description of the objectionable comment: * First, saying that it is "non-offensive" to compare someone to Stalin's regime (or more generally to the Soviet regimes) is s
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by sedev 14y ago
That comment didn't add anything to the discussion. The comparison you made is not helpful to anyone's understanding of the situation. Please don't do that. Hold yourself to a higher standard in the future.
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by sedev 14y ago
That's a great example, thanks for bringing that in. I was more thinking of community management since I'd just been skimming "Building Web Reputation Systems" again and its authors have quite a bit to say about the entanglement of social a
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by sedev 14y ago
The whole mess around this should be a reminder to us all that it's very, very hard to disentangle social problems from technical problems.
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by sedev 14y ago
This is a very clever hack and I adore it for that, but it's also a sneaky statement about meaning, and I adore that too. It's like the literature world's cut-up/exquisite corpse work: if you can disassemble an original like this and put it
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Fanboy Theory: Why do people get so worked up over smartphone choices?(marco.org)
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by sedev 14y ago
Ten percent of the US population is (a) a very large absolute number and (b) easily enough that you're likely to see an iPad every day if you look around you. Then if you move into San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York, Los Angel
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by sedev 14y ago
"Moreover, it's all very well arguing that your contribution has raised £X for the client (for some impressively large X) and so you are worth a significant chunk of that £X in fees, but this relies on the fact that the client can't buy a
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by sedev 14y ago
I think one thing people often miss about markets is that they tend to allocate resources efficiently ... over time. Sometimes over lots of time! As someone recently reminded us all, the market can stay irrational longer than an indivi
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by sedev 14y ago
Point of information: he's reviewed several Android phones in the past, and he's talked about them on the podcasts he's on. He does in fact try other devices.
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by sedev 14y ago
I don't think Apple will do that: I think that Keychain is like the Reader mode and Reading List in Safari. It has some features that are like those of a third-party service, but because Apple isn't invested in the service for its own sake,
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by sedev 14y ago
As someone who spends a lot of time writing, I want to grab this writer by the lapels and shout at him. The entire article amounts to a confession that his authorship adds no value! If his unique voice, his writing skill, his experience,
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by sedev 14y ago
"Quality happens only when someone is responsible for it." I admire that as an example of good headline-writing: it tells you one of the important points that the article wants to make. I find it interesting to read this piece in light of r
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by sedev 14y ago
I remember PG's essay about "relentlessly resourceful": after reading this dude's story, it's pretty much exactly that. It's still surprising that he got in late - but not as surprising. He demonstrated, in a visceral way, that he had the
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by sedev 14y ago
I read this article and I instantly thought of patio11 banging his drum and telling people about "pathological customers." This article reads to me like a validation of his viewpoint: building your business model on deal-seeking customers,
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"The changes Twitter made are dumbfoundingly stupid."(brooksreview.net)
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by sedev 14y ago
Contrary anecdote: I've several times had the experience of Googling for a question and finding my own Stack Overflow question as a result, and using the answer to solve my problem (again).
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by sedev 14y ago
Note please that despite asking a question that, as other commenters here have pointed out, brazenly goes against the guidelines for "the kind of question that Stack Overflow is good for," you still got an answer that gave you what you wan
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by sedev 14y ago
I was wondering when someone would crack a Hitch-hiker's Guide reference out. Well played. More substantially, I agree with your comment - it's going to be money invested in the pursuit of giving humans more time to do the things in life
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by sedev 14y ago
As with so many other things in the United States, it is de facto only a crime if it happens to someone rich or well-connected. Mr. Honan is probably on the bubble, there. If it happened to me, a no-namer with skimpy assets, the thought of
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What tradeoffs does Gatekeeper force you to make?(tracks.ranea.org)
3 points by sedev 14y ago|1 comments
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by sedev 14y ago
He recently said on Twitter that correcting that is on his to-do list.
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by sedev 14y ago
I want to share one specific thing that's helped me, in the vein of affirmations. I chose one specific compliment and made it a rule for myself that whenever someone said that to me, I'd respond proudly and affirmatively. "Yes I am!" No
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by sedev 14y ago
I call Betteridge's Law on this. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines ] Stack Overflow has a fairly specific rubric for judging questions, and a central part of it is the requirement that they have a single verif
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by sedev 14y ago
My impression is that Pwn2Own skews hard towards Safari for two reasons: the Air that's normally a prize is more desireable than the random cruddy Windows laptop, and Flash is a much softer security target than Safari itself, so that's usua
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by sedev 14y ago
Allowing JavaScript is only going to get closer to being equivalent to allowing untrusted, unsigned code on your machine. Atwood's Law applies to malware too. Before I edited this comment, I had a laugh at the expense of people who think I'
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by sedev 14y ago
One thing I will always remember from my college economics class was the professor saying, on day one, that that's how you measure what people want. "You want a lot of things. You want an A in this class. You want a trip to Hawaii. You want
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by sedev 14y ago
That's also a helpful way to look at it, yes. I would say that given Mr. Newmark's personal statements, "Craigslist doesn't care about profit" is an acceptable oversimplification, and is how a competitor should probably view the situation f
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by sedev 14y ago
The headline is pure link-bait, but coaxing functionality out of a zero-byte program is a clever hack, so kudos to the author for that.

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