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by smokinn 17y ago
I don't know if it's just because I've become more numb to the aggressive greets (or gotten better at brushing them off) but I used to despise shopping precisely because of the badgering. Now it seems that in most small stores I walk into,
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by smokinn 17y ago
With a combination of Hulu for TV and Netflix for movies, live broadcasts are the only thing cable has left going for it. Once sports events are broadcasted over the internet as well cable TV will have been thoroughly supplanted.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Well, if you compare Chrome 3.0 vs Firefox 3.0 (or 3.5), what features does Chrome not have? As far as I can tell it's only missing Firefox's extensions so if you can live without Adblock, Firebug, etc you can trade the extensions for Chrom
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by smokinn 17y ago
It depends. There's surprising as in what is this software doing!? and there surprising as in the wow, this is so much better. The pinch zoom is a perfect example of a surprising UI that most people love. When someone sees a two fingered pi
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by smokinn 17y ago
It's because in Canada the term Software Engineer has a very specific meaning. It means you did a 4 year Software Engineering programming program at an accredited university and then worked under a professional engineer for a certain number
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by smokinn 17y ago
I disagree. Software is far from 100% design. I'd give it 60 or 70% design at best and even then only in the relatively small (though growing) web sphere. Personally, in my career spanning largely web app development, I've found that having
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by smokinn 17y ago
Are you sure about that? Google voice's speech recognition is apparently very impressive.
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by smokinn 17y ago
She was probably featured in the "new users near you" email okcupid sends out. I imagine it trickled off after that though.
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Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message(blog.okcupid.com)
155 points by smokinn 17y ago|64 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
Montreal has Ile Sans Fil but it's doing rather poorly. I heard that Quebec City and Sherbrooke's systems are doing much better though.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Which makes me happy that "Engineer" is a protected title in Canada.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Technically, yes he would've had to pay. But he had no money and neither did his family. If he didn't pay there was no one and nothing to go after, he'd simply declare bankruptcy.
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by smokinn 17y ago
people who normally like open source don't like automatic updates Really? Where does that come from? Because one of the things I love most about running Ubuntu is that everything just stays up to date on its own. I'm always very wary of i
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Online Dating Messaging Advice: Same-Sex Charts(blog.okcupid.com)
1 points by smokinn 17y ago|0 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
And while they'll probably get a lot of customers to sign on to this service, these people won't be happy when they see Google Latitude running for free on their friend's Android phone. You can run Latitude on the iPhone but the whole no-ba
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by smokinn 17y ago
Oops, guess I clicked on the wrong part of the link. Thanks for the explanation.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Here's a link to the PDF where you can actually use your mouse wheel to scroll: http://www.starling-software.com/misc/icfp-2009-cjs.pdf
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How To Get People To Reply To Your Messages In Online Dating, Part I(blog.okcupid.com)
81 points by smokinn 17y ago|54 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
This is a great article on the mindset of people who play lottery. http://www.gurujeff.com/?p=132 But what's most striking to me is how much of a rip-off the government-run lotteries are. It's very unethical. It's so unethical that even w
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by smokinn 17y ago
Seems to me that "Usage note" can be summed up as: Often people use it wrong. This doesn't irritate most, but some people prefer the English language be used correctly.
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by smokinn 17y ago
It blew up because so many people use twitter as a way to "market their personal brand" and other such delusions so when they heard that maybe their vast amounts of time spent on twitter weren't as "valuable" as they thought they freaked ou
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by smokinn 17y ago
In my first draft before I submitted I had oppression in scare quotes but decided against them to make the message more like what I imagine the defenders would like it to be.
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by smokinn 17y ago
The Pirate Bay is not only a website, it's also a political statement. Showing strength in the face of oppression just makes the Pirate Party look stronger. Slumping over and saying it's not worth the trouble just for a few days makes them
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by smokinn 17y ago
I suppose this could be an interesting series but as far as I can tell all this article said was: "I'm soon going to write some stuff about craigslist."
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by smokinn 17y ago
Not to mention that it's completely broken in Chrome on linux. The only thing I could do to read it was click on the document and use the down arrow or page down button. I should've googled the name before submitting the scribd link I guess
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How To Publish a Scientific Comment in 123 Easy Steps(scribd.com)
65 points by smokinn 17y ago|46 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
What an incredibly linkbait title. So people that exploit browsers for a living don't use the browser they exploit. How surprising.
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The Impermanence, Karma, and Bad Behavior of Why The Lucky Stiff(zedshaw.com)
126 points by smokinn 17y ago|84 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
A point on 4: Find or, in very extreme circumstances, write your own very lightweight profiler you can run on production servers. This will be a life-saver. The bottlenecks are very rarely where you think they are. Even when they are, there
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by smokinn 17y ago
I'm not an expert or industry insider so take the following lightly. The reason why they make more money on tour is because of how the current music industry contracts are set up. The music industry take a massive cut of record sales leavin

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