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Been running The AFTRlife: A Tom Robbins Playground since 1994 at aftrlife.com. Day job: Database developer in the Education market.

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thetalentcode.com 14y ago

The Power of Small Wins

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news.cnet.com 14y ago

Web could vanish for hordes of people in July, FBI warns

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thetalentcode.com 14y ago

A Solution for “The Parent Problem”

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: What's the new karma level for downvoting?

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thetalentcode.com 14y ago

How to Make Learning Addictive

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calnewport.com 14y ago

The Father of Deliberate Practice Disowns Flow

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opensu.blogspot.com 14y ago

A Blip on Hacker News -- The numbers

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support.google.com 14y ago

Creating useful 404 pages - Webmaster Tools Help

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opensu.blogspot.com 14y ago

Worst 404 Page Ever?

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thetalentcode.com 14y ago

How to be Brave

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www.webpronews.com 14y ago

Google Patents Background Noise: No Privacy

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www.readwriteweb.com 14y ago

How Engine Yard Keeps Customers Up when AWS is Down

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latimesblogs.latimes.com 14y ago

Albert Einstein online archive puts a genius at our fingertips

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www.latimes.com 14y ago

Los Angeles Times launches new membership program

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www.fourhourworkweek.com 14y ago

Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

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calnewport.com 14y ago

Hard Truth on the Sheer Difficulty of Making an Impact

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thetalentcode.com 14y ago

How to Get Better? Be Like Evolution

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www.readwriteweb.com 14y ago

New TED Ed Has Vids With the Best Teachable Moments

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boingboing.net 14y ago

Turing's Cathedral

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www.nytimes.com 14y ago

Reclaiming My Web Address

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calnewport.com 14y ago

You’re Working too Hard to Make an Impact

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idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com 14y ago

BuzzFeed Launches New Tech Blog ‘FWD’

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

HN Just noticed

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www.nytimes.com 14y ago

Evolution of a Point Guard

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thetalentcode.com 14y ago

The Talent Builders

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www.forbes.com 14y ago

The TSA Is Coming To A Highway Near You

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news.cnet.com 14y ago

Smithsonian turns to 3D to bring collection to the world

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calnewport.com 14y ago

Don’t Know What To Do With Your Life? Seek Bargains.

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thetalentcode.com 14y ago

Should Coaches and Teachers Have a PreFlight Checklist?

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www.readwriteweb.com 14y ago

Download the Universe brings together 15 top Internet science folks

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Nice design but it doesn't add anything to the site experience for me. The header seems too big for orange. I used the option to turn the color of the header on HN from orange to white to further simplify the look of it. I do kinda like the number of comments bubble though. I'd love to see a link on the 404 pages.

Thinking Different 14 years ago

Apple...Gandhi? Really? I thought the article was being ironic. The thing about a big fail like Mike Daisey's is that it shuts down valid debate. Apple ends, great. Means? Iffy.

The worse thing is that Google lets ads like the "look younger" one buy time. They offer a sample to try for free, but if you don't return it they sign you up for a year's subscription for a $100 a month and you also get charged for the "free" sample. Simple ripoff.

True but it seems this intrusion gave the team an excellent problem to focus on. The system is better for having solved it.

If considered in relation to scale, what per cent of its wealth did Facebook have to spend on this? Not much.

I used to use memrise, and enjoyed it, especially the gamification and the ability to put your own mnemonics in as well as see what images others used. But when they changed to a garden metaphor I lost track of what their algorithm was doing and went back to more traditional flashcardexchange.com mostly. I'll take another look though.

Sounds like a great habit. There are some studies that indicate problem solving ability is highest when you're "groggy" so maybe skip the coffee. Many authors have developed the same habit during their early days when they had a day job. Mark Cuban said, "You're only at your best once a day."

There's sort of a force multiplier with Google protesting online. It's that Google also has lobbyists who are pointing out and explaining the online protests to legislators.

The $2 Standup Desk 15 years ago

Nice. I like my lay-down desk which I also sleep in. Churchill used to work in bed for four hours every morning. Hugh Hefner too. Netbooks are good for this.

About Userlook 15 years ago

Fun page. Even has a little easter egg when you point to the cheese. I think this spawns an adage: It's not whether you're first, it's whether you're first to hit HN front page.

I think you misinterpreted my remark. This actually wasn't a "silly" error, it was, as many have pointed out, an avoidable error. I think many don't take javascript seriously and it bites them.

>>You act as if my mistake had the potential to ruin a business. Of course it didn't- I picked up on it before the code had even been pushed to the remote repository.

Not to beat on you, but didn't you discover the error after users started using it in a big news day?

Well sure. I actually wasn't trying to be harsh OR sarcastic. It's not pop psychology (I think it goes back to Freud) that in some sense there are no mistakes. We all make errors and I was just saying that two errors about the same issue might be a hint that one has "issues" about the, er, issue or that some self-sabotage in important matters might surface under stress. You're the only one can answer that. I admire your courage in sharing your experience with all these crack programmers.

Steve Jobs didn’t 15 years ago

Steve Jobs didn't really create that much. It's easier to choose than to create. Jobs was a "chooser" of other people's good ideas.

Steve Jobs didn’t 15 years ago

Steve Jobs also did not share the credit. Like Elizabeth Warren said, "Nobody ever made a million dollars by themself."

Excellent post. It applies to any area of creativity and making things.

I like the way he put a link to this comment section on his blog item as well. Smart.