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by sgentle 15y ago
For a while I used Hiveminder and Google Calendar to do something similar. You can email tasks like "Take out the washing [due:today]" to your Hiveminder email and then they show up in your Google Calendar for that day. It was very low-fric
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by sgentle 15y ago
Fantastic. If the anti-SOPA message managed to spread far enough that even people silly enough to yell at a farming association heard it, then it's worked. I don't think it pays to be choosy about who can be on your side when you're trying
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No worries, and thanks for all your hard work.
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This is pretty cool, but definitely rough around the edges. When you tmux -C it uses your current iTerm2 window as a control window, then opens a new one for all of your tmux tabs. So I now have two windows instead of one per server. It'd b
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by sgentle 15y ago
In this case, I can't imagine the Twitter details include much more than email and ip addresses. What I'd be worried about is what happens afterwards, when they order Google and Microsoft to hand over your emails and chat logs.
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by sgentle 15y ago
Shame. I really like CouchApp. It felt like CouchDB was one rails moment away from being a whole new way to develop web apps, where the DB, the client, and the application were all part of the same glorious union rather than being a bunch o
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by sgentle 15y ago
I began this piece raring to disagree, but I find it hard to fault his logic. A human right to unimpeded use of carriages would seem hilarious today, and a right to the use of landline phones will likely become so in the next decade. We don
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by sgentle 15y ago
A similar pattern that blew my mind when I first saw it was ruby's scoped open(). instead of f = open "test.txt" print f.read f.close You can write open "text.txt" do |f| print f.read end The file is automatically cl
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by sgentle 15y ago
If this is a one-off attributable only to Louis's popularity, how do you explain the success of the various Indie Bundles? At least in some form, the low-cost no-middlemen wide-reach movement seems to be gaining steam on all fronts. Maybe i
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by sgentle 15y ago
Yes! Wow, that's fantastic. Did you see the numbers change in the 2011 MIT report[1]? And that LPFI report[2] is just mindblowing. "The vast majority of men in startups believed their companies spent an adequate amount of time addressing
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by sgentle 15y ago
What you think women want is clearly not what women want, because you're only one woman, and women are complex and varied, and want different things. Also, I want a different thing to what you want, and lots of women want what I want. So yo
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by sgentle 15y ago
I don't get the Unity hate. Sure, it's nowhere near as polished as the traditional Gnome desktop, but everything cool and new started out as something crappy and new. If you don't like watching the sausage get made, wait for the LTS release
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by sgentle 15y ago
Personally, I take issue with the entire "lazy" thing. I find most people who talk about laziness are using it as a way to avoid thinking deeply about their own motivation. "I am not getting work done, even though I want to. What aspects of
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by sgentle 15y ago
If anyone is keen to hack on OT or OT-related products, a friend of mine has a great Javascript/Coffeescript library called ShareJS that makes building OT-powered web apps pretty easy. Demo: http://sharejs.org/hello-ace.html Github: http
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by sgentle 15y ago
I don't get it, personally. Yes, Stallman's a loon - although as an aside I think that every good movement needs its loons. Who's going to say "you know what? I believe in Free Software so much that I will use nothing else, and publicly and
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by sgentle 15y ago
I'm no friend of sacred cows, and frankly I'm going to save my mourning for people I actually know, but I think you're wrong about Steve Jobs being nothing more than a skilled salesman. More than any other company, Jobs' Apple has been rele
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by sgentle 15y ago
Grr! I like Stephenson a lot but I find this argument highly disingenuous. In fact, I find most of the reactions I've seen to "the end of US spaceflight capability" sickeningly short-sighted and hyperbolic. Read the goddamn budget announcem
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by sgentle 15y ago
Ha, oops. I don't know how I managed to mix up vaccine and cure - my brain must be asleep. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Easy to miss: "The recent human trials involved 30 healthy volunteers, where 24 were treated with MVA-B, while the other 6 were treated with a placebo, carried out over a 48 week period." This test was done on healthy volunteers, not ones
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by sgentle 15y ago
I'm amazed by the insight in this article. I'm not generally a huge Gruber fan (nor a hater, I just don't find "Apple released a new x, here's my reaction" very nourishing). But in this I felt like he really nailed the state of tablets and
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I agree with you, except that years of painful Windows crapware experience has taught me that manufacturers don't often do a very good job at "value adding", unless you define value as meddling pointlessly with things that work, or lining t
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by sgentle 15y ago
"Then I opened Windows Task Manager and noted down the Memory consumption of all chrome.exe processes" This approach won't yield an accurate result because of memory being shared between processes. As an example, 12 chrome processes might a
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by sgentle 15y ago
How much of Techcrunch was being in the right place at the right time and how much was Mike Arrington? I've always wondered, and now we get to find out.
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It's funny, I would assume pg - as in "a plan for spam" pg - would be supremely interested in running some kind of Bayesian predictive model over YC candidates. Maybe the subtext of that quote was that he tried it and it didn't give any use
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The flip side is that, of course, it can be meaningful - not scientifically, but emotionally - to talk about probabilities after the fact. If a meteorite falls and smashes a car next to you, the first thing to your mind wouldn't be that it'
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I think that would be a fair way to summarise it, but be careful not to reduce something to obviousness and then say it's too simple. The interesting point for me is that much of startup marketing wisdom seems to say "make things people wan
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by sgentle 15y ago
"If someone wants to fund me as a diversity candidate, I will take that shit all the way to the bank." Ha ha ha ha. Right on. On the topic of heels and tech events, here's a really cool lightning talk by Pamela Fox about whether feminine ca
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Yeesh. What does that make it now, an outstanding rape/international extradition case, a massive falling out with Domscheit-Berg, the Guardian unredacted document leak and now this. I'm missing a lot more, I'm sure. Agree with him or not, y
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SShuttle is brilliant. For those who don't know/are skimming the comments, it's basically VPN built on SSH. You just sshuttle -r user@host 0/0 and all your outbound connections are now securely tunneled through that server. I mainly use it
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Argh. This makes my blood boil. There are many good responses to this comment but I want to address one idea in particular: the idea that by putting things in the same category you can make them equal. It's terribly poetic to say that Dawki

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