thenomad

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by thenomad 12y ago
Yes. It's actually one of my major concerns about 21st-century life: the filter bubble effect promotes extremism in all issues and breaks down consensus. I'm working on a couple of things to attempt to combat it, but more ideas wo
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Is Gaming Culture Short-Changed by Current Intellectual Property Law?(strangecompany.org)
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by thenomad 12y ago
I agree - I think most of the numbers in the article don't really explain why this is so interesting. To me, this is the key part of the proposal, if the technique scales: "at around 15% of the cost of traditional methods."
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by thenomad 12y ago
What went wrong with the businesses you've built so far? It's hard to tell whether you should give up (although spoilers: no, probably not, unless you've got something you'd rather be doing) without knowing what went wro
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by thenomad 12y ago
Yup. Here in Edinburgh we have quite a lot of Victorian flats with 14' ceilings. They're noticably more expensive to heat in winter than flats like my current one, which is modern and has 8' ceilings. They do also feel a lot
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by thenomad 12y ago
He doesn't quote that size as being the size of his house - he quotes it as the total floor space of an average dining room, a small kitchen and a small living room, added together. He doesn't give the dimensions of his home. Ho
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L.A.F.A.B.L.E – Large Agile Framework Appropriate for Big Lumbering Enterprises(lafable.com)
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The Taboo Productivity Trap: On Dealing with Blah-Ness(taylorpearson.me)
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by thenomad 12y ago
Depends where you live. The relative costs of restaurants and similar food-preparation services vary wildly around the globe compared with the cost of buying food and preparing it in the same city.
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by thenomad 12y ago
Don't suppose there's a Windows equivalent anywhere, is there?
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by thenomad 12y ago
Practical point: I've had an Aeropress for years, using it at least once a week, often daily, always inverted. I've never knocked it over. It's much more stable inverted than you might think.
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by thenomad 12y ago
You can solve the body issue with a metal rather than paper filter, FYI. Definitely worth a try. This is the usually recommended one: http://departmentofcoffee.com/product/able-disk/
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by thenomad 12y ago
From practical testing, I'd say it makes a difference, but it's second-order compared to grind size, temperature, steep time.
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by thenomad 12y ago
I'd argue that agitation time, press time and brew technique (inverted vs regular) are also worth considering, albeit not as important as the three you mention (plus bean choice). In particular, I find inverted brew vs regular brew usi
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by thenomad 12y ago
Agreed - I don't think people say "I'm so OCD" or similar out of malice. A lot of people genuinely don't know what OCD is or why it might be harmful. Hence I do think politely and briefly educating folk is a good th
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by thenomad 12y ago
As others on this thread have mentioned, full-blown OCD is considerably more serious than it's commonly portrayed. It's as serious a health condition as other mental illnesses like depression or bipolar disorder. Cracked.com, of a
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by thenomad 12y ago
Nah, that one already exists: http://fivesecondtest.com/ ( I may be making assumptions about the user base, but I think "bored developer" is a reasonably safe bet...)
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by thenomad 12y ago
My advice, if you want it: try and make the thing you want to make. If you get absolutely stuck, read more to find the solution. Otherwise, finish that thing, then think about what could have gone better with that thing. Research ways to do
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by thenomad 12y ago
Yeah, that's a problem in a lot of fields, not just programming. Just from my own experience, writers, marketers, filmmakers (and all the sub-disciplines within filmmaking), poker players, and entrepreneurs all suffer the same challeng
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by thenomad 12y ago
There was a CMS based on Dropbox which I think produced static pages, although I don't recall the name of it. Obviously, a Dropbox-based interface is really easy to use, provided the user can get the hang of very basic Markdown (which
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by thenomad 12y ago
"I don't personally know of any other field that does this sort of thing" Filmmaking. I love my artform, but if you want an example of a culture where there are a lot of strong negative opinions about almost every potential
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by thenomad 12y ago
That's a pro video monitor - considerable overkill for a Pi.
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by thenomad 12y ago
You might want to look into doing infoproducts instead of SAAS. Given you're an actor, you presumably have presentation skills - explaining something in front of a camera is something you'll be able to outperform most people at, a
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by thenomad 12y ago
I've heard a lot of good things about Pinegrow, although I've yet to try it out. Still, many people seem to really like it: http://pinegrow.com/
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by thenomad 12y ago
I'd recommend targeting the user group who would be interested in your product, rather than the usual startup suspects. There are a lot of very large sex blogs and sex-related communities out there, and they're not at all shy abou
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by thenomad 12y ago
Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content has had a similar journey. Very interesting to watch the transformation.
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by thenomad 12y ago
Looks very cool! Any chance of it ever moving to Windows, or is it Mac-only forever?
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by thenomad 12y ago
That sounds very interesting - can you suggerst some articles / books covering that?
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There Is Value in the Items on the Right(realworldagile.net)
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by thenomad 12y ago
I wrote an article on this a while ago which may be of use: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/01/you-are-...

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