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by zach 18y ago
Sadly, I gave in and did mine last night. Can somebody make a facebook app already that quizzes you about which random facts belong to which of your friends?
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by zach 18y ago
Too true. I like the optometrist who made me read tiny letters again and again instead of asking "better like this... or like this?" Because even I can't tell the difference at first sight.
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by zach 18y ago
Google went to www.giveupandbuyyoutube.com.
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by zach 18y ago
It seems illogical to me that the most complex designs are easier with CSS alone and no tables. Pragmatically, there's no room for a multidisciplinary approach? And I must vent about the you-poor-thing defense, which was only mildly presen
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by zach 18y ago
Exactly, everyone with their knives out end up going for the biggest target. Same story with McDonald's, which gets dissed at every turn [1] while Burger King doesn't have to deal with any of that baggage and can happily, you know, sell bu
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by zach 18y ago
I started dieting with small meals recently and found the same thing happening. The co-founder I worked for at my last job was well-known for being a well-focused hacker as well as skipping lunch. He seemed to run on tea alone. There may
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by zach 18y ago
Assuming the following: - A small percentage of internet users potentially interested in your site will find it. - A small percentage of those who come to your site will become regular users and create content. - A small percentage of those
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by zach 18y ago
So Americans enjoy no better standing than Canadians, whose pensions funds such as CPP also invest heavily in the US stock market, and Salvadorans, who run their economy in US dollars?
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by zach 18y ago
Interestingly, I had never noticed the similarity of TDD and GTD -- David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology, where you basically break up abstract problems and needs into physical tasks that can be checked off a to-do list. The questi
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by zach 18y ago
I see we're also celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of naysayers insisting that Apple has to do things the way the PC market dictates it should.
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by zach 18y ago
Same pitch I heard for Kongregate, so it seems like a good one.
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10 lessons learned in 10 years(!) making one animated short film(leoanimation.blogspot.com)
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by zach 18y ago
"The real problem is that we don't have effective screens for employees. What is an hour-long interview going to tell you? Little. And you're going to have to do many of them." A friend of mine who is a dentist told me that he was looking
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by zach 18y ago
This is great for occasional users to check anywhere that they haven't left a stray instance running, especially if they start them via scripts. I, of course, have totally discovered that only after getting the bill a week and a half later
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by zach 18y ago
You can't deny that Crispin Porter has some brass. They come up with some random ideas, but if it will get people talking, they dutifully see through to completion. I still can't believe they actually commissioned Burger King video games f
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by zach 18y ago
Highly recommended for changing your Windows or Caps Lock key to a control key, and it works flawlessly. It makes moving onto Windows from a Mac much less painful (literally, if you use Control-Z and Control-Shift-Z as frequently as I do i
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by zach 18y ago
No, actually, that goes double for me showing up for an interview as a feudal swordsman. Replace the sound of screeching tires with galloping hooves. So lack of preference is a strictly tactical precept then. Well, who cares? If someone'
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by zach 18y ago
They don't have a problem of demand for their product, the news. People love the news. People love getting personal messages delivered to them, but that couldn't save the telegram. I mean, come on, TV news has been around for sixty years
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by zach 18y ago
Could you imagine coming to interview at a company that had these "core values" on a brass plate on the wall? * Accept everything just the way it is. * Be detached from desire your whole life long. * In all things have no preference
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by zach 18y ago
"There's a long history of being able to caricature the suburbs and get away with the idea that you're doing something that's deep and profound." From an NPR report on evil suburbs: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6215
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by zach 18y ago
Looks like someone is (or should be) taking GitHub up on their offer of a lifetime account: http://github.com/blog/256-tortoisegit-challenge
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by zach 18y ago
Right, especially since Bell Labs is about the most institutional example of that kind of environment. I suppose not many people really had as unusual of an entry into that environment as the subject of this article did. Things were quite
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by zach 18y ago
Man, I love hearing stories like these. It's curious how people plan and apply and work to get into top university programs which last a few years, yet they seem to stumble quickly into amazing places like Bell Labs, these super-learning e
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by zach 18y ago
I am now styling myself as a Ruby Bionic Commando.
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by zach 18y ago
Well then, maybe Clojure or Arc can get some of that new relationship energy. They need it more than Ruby does. I'll still be writing Ruby though.
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by zach 18y ago
Well, the reason employer-sponsored health care took off was that WWII wage controls were still around for years of the post-war economy. Growing employers, auto manufacturers in particular, could not offer higher wages to attract workers.
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by zach 18y ago
And if lyrics in Icelandic aren't obscure enough, that's really saying something.
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by zach 18y ago
So obviously that was a foolishly harsh take on it. Here's my optimistic take so you don't think I was too reckless: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5815
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by zach 18y ago
I would have preferred a link to Paul Krugman's summary: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/james-galbraith-...
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by zach 18y ago
There needs to be a term for the kind of agenda-less company founded by those with nothing to prove and no personal need for enrichment. "Sandbox corporation?"

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