sholanozie

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by sholanozie 12y ago
You might be interested in Walter Lippman's 'Public Opinion' from 1922. It basically lays the groundwork for manipulating and influencing a population's collective mindset by exploiting our inherent cognitive limitations
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Islam, Censorship and the Real Threat to Our Freedom of Speech(alueda.net)
2 points by sholanozie 12y ago|0 comments
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by sholanozie 12y ago
This is a really awesome article - thanks for sharing!
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Yama.js: Yet Another MVC Aberration(celebio.github.io)
1 points by sholanozie 12y ago|0 comments
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Press Releases: Effective Marketing, or a Waste of Time?(alueda.net)
2 points by sholanozie 12y ago|0 comments
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by sholanozie 12y ago
I've been playing around with a similar project and I think I have a few ideas that would add a lot of value to Muusical. I'm not sure if you're interested in collaborating, but I'd love to chat with you sometime. My e-m
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by sholanozie 12y ago
What kind of application is Rust well-suited for?
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by sholanozie 13y ago
With Backbone.js: I usually just hide all views except for my "loadingView" (which is usually just a simple HTML element with a spinner/translucent background/etc.) while I'm retrieving data. When my data arrives, I
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by sholanozie 13y ago
I might be a little late, but does anyone have any examples of simple CRUD web applications written in a functional language? There seems to be a lot of meta discussion about the suitability of functional programming for the web, but not ve
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by sholanozie 14y ago
Ah, I understand. Wasn't sure if you were being sarcastic in your original post!
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by sholanozie 14y ago
What's the difference between your suggestion & the 'new' feature?
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by sholanozie 14y ago
I don't disagree with you, but for many people it's far more convenient to query an external API than to create their own.
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by sholanozie 14y ago
The retrieval and processing of the data is done externally (i.e. not on your server).
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by sholanozie 14y ago
I think you're looking at the article in an overly-cynical way. "M-Pesa is not an attempt to recreate developed countries’ banking systems in Africa. Instead, it’s an idea which has been tailored to the Kenyan environment. Rather than givin
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by sholanozie 15y ago
I definitely see where you're coming from, I'm just commenting from an observational standpoint. I think that some people felt a little cheated by the "you can look but you can't touch" mentality of the blog post. (I'm also a fan of dcurtis
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by sholanozie 15y ago
This is a flawed analogy, I think. What dcurtis did is more analogous to developing an algorithm, and then saying that only the smartest programmers doing the best work can use it. Let's be honest here - there is nothing inherently special