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by zach 17y ago
Meaning like every other Google account termination, probably...
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by zach 17y ago
But on Twitter, that seems like a step towards outright account deletion.
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by zach 17y ago
Then you Google "faster horse," or, more likely, "buggy whip shootout long-distance" or "best feed workhorse carriage"
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by zach 17y ago
Every idiom was once a trick. Then again, some tricks seem far less likely than others to graduate to that level...
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by zach 17y ago
I also have this book and recommend it for anyone who wants neat, readable writing that is pleasant on the eyes, a combination that is really difficult to do with Palmer cursive.
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by zach 17y ago
For those interested, I found an answer to one of the less-frequently asked questions in a recent mailing list message. Q. How large of an individual file is Fossil designed to comfortably work with? A. Under 10 MB. http://www.mail-archive
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by zach 17y ago
That's funny, I've learned something more like: 1. If you see something you can put in your pocket, do so. 2. Whenever you're in a new place, look at everything and try to use it. Even better, put it in your pocket. 3. When you're done wit
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by zach 17y ago
That appears to be the time when they had a major launch, a meta-search for ticket comparison shopping: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/13/fansnap-is-the-new-kaya...
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by zach 17y ago
Maybe not directly, but Pixar's Andrew Stanton is starting filming on the PG-13 John Carter of Mars movie later this year with Disney: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_of_Mars_(film) And this is even as Brad Bird is in developme
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by zach 17y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it were lower, but I would love to see some real statistics in play.
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by zach 17y ago
Unfortunately, the real problem here is that Google is a company that tries to be nice and pleasant to their users, but has to deal with unreasonable customers on a massive scale. In fact, not just unreasonable customers, but many who are
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by zach 17y ago
Google is in a contractual business relationship with its partners, not an hiring or governing relationship. The contract may suck, but does anyone sign up for AdSense because the contract is great?
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by zach 17y ago
Isn't 15% is about what you would expect if they were randomly convicted first of a nonviolent offense?
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by zach 17y ago
Google Irvine had an open house two years ago, before the troubles. Similar feel as this one, it seems, and worthwhile for anyone interested.
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by zach 17y ago
Citation needed. Here, let me Google "prison recidivism non-violent" for you -- a 1997 study which suggests that only about 15% of nonviolent offenders are returned to prison within three years for violent offenses [PDF]: http://www.ojp.u
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by zach 17y ago
As a matter of fact however, there is a commercially available placebo. It's for kids and is called Obecalp: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/health/27plac.html
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by zach 17y ago
There is a reason why "achievements" (NB: nearly always by that name, hmm...) are the most pervasive game design pattern today. I want a t-shirt that says "Actually, I'm just doing this to get the achievement."
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by zach 17y ago
And lose all the Rails infrastructure, plugins and functionality? After all, Rails is actually a collection of technologies and perfectly usable as a presentation layer alone. And hey, once we've put Lisp on the JVM, why not Clojure on Ra
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by zach 17y ago
Only by the word "just" which could easily have been inserted by mistake. "How much did you raise?" "It's, um, shy of one million dollars." Reporter writes "Am't raised: just shy of $1M" in notes.
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by zach 17y ago
Oh boy, Malcolm Gladwell must be 3,000 words into a new essay already. This is right in his wheelhouse.
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by zach 17y ago
Of course, the LA Times moved to a complete redesign this week, so that could have been more timely. FWIW, the LA Times has some sharp Ruby hackers in their web department -- in fact, they just hosted the LA Ruby Users Group meeting at thei
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by zach 17y ago
All my business cards I've chosen when working for other companies say only "Programmer." I like that. But when you're a founder or such, you have to cop to it. You don't want it to look like you're evading responsibility or jerking peopl
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by zach 17y ago
As always, the shortcut to success is to lower your standards.
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by zach 17y ago
As a child, I was mystified by this CYOA, where I once reached an lavishly favorable ending and on further readings was unable to determine how to get to it again... Great hack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40#Plot
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by zach 17y ago
Many places you lease a server from do not typically provide DNS servers. Also, you get the advantage of always-speedy, geographically diverse name lookup. When I leased my own server, I had a painful experiment with hosting my own DNS on
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by zach 17y ago
There will always be decisions which seem arbitrary and subjective in these situations because what's going on here is a very rough categorization with no room for nuance. And the very idea of age as a measure of appropriateness is pretty
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by zach 17y ago
Nobody remembers the free auction site Qool.com? I still have some t-shirts I got from them back in the days of the internet ad bubble ten years ago. Users earned auction points by visiting pay-per-click links and buying through referral li
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by zach 17y ago
Sure it does. The problem is how to do public chat via your mobile phone. Of course, by now that's a footnote...
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by zach 17y ago
Listia is very qool, er, cool! I really like the clean interface; this site is one I will put next to Etsy on my list of good content site designs.
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by zach 17y ago
It's a fair point that those who would even consider switching in the first place would be the nerds. And I thought a bit about the Daring Fireball article -- holding on to your enthusiasts is important. Yes, I know reconsidering an opinion

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