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da5e

2,044 karma · joined June 5, 2009

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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da5e··on Hacker News Redesign
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.
da5e··on Thinking Different
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.
da5e··on The Internet Made Me Sad Today
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.
da5e··on Remove Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
da5e··on "White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail
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.

da5e··on Memory grand master Ed Cooke gets $1M to teach his tricks at new startup
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.
da5e··on Waking up at 5am to code
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."
da5e··on Google's Anti-SOPA & PIPA Page
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.
da5e··on Reddit to Go Dark to Protest SOPA. Right on
It's interesting that Reddit will get a huge number of hits by people going to see it go dark. Too bad there's no way to monetize a dark site.
da5e··on The $2 Standup Desk
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.
da5e··on How Rick Santorum Is Making His "Google Problem" Worse
Some Iowa cafe owner, dubbed his creamy chicken salad as the Santorum Salad. Apparently without irony.
da5e··on Occupy Portland's Dec 3rd Tactic to Neutralize Police
>They're putting their collective time, effort, and (most importantly) money into something

The Occupy protesters put their BODIES into something. Both approaches are important.

da5e··on Arson Forensics Sets Old Fire Myths Ablaze
The title of the article was linkbait.
da5e··on Arson Forensics Sets Old Fire Myths Ablaze
shorter: flashover occurs faster than investigators thought. That is the sole myth the article even mentions.
da5e··on About Userlook
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.
da5e··on Googler: "we pushed a bad version of our iOS app for Gmail"
This should make the guy who left out the var during his product's launch feel better. No one is too big to fail.
da5e··on How One Missing `var` Ruined our Launch
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.
da5e··on How One Missing `var` Ruined our Launch
>>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?

da5e··on How One Missing `var` Ruined our Launch
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.
da5e··on How One Missing `var` Ruined our Launch
Hmm, so you wrote a careless typo while describing your "careless" coding? Not to be harsh, but maybe it's a hint?
da5e··on Steve Jobs didn’t
"Steve Jobs" is now link bait.
da5e··on Steve Jobs didn’t
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.
da5e··on Steve Jobs didn’t
Steve Jobs also did not share the credit. Like Elizabeth Warren said, "Nobody ever made a million dollars by themself."
da5e··on Steve Jobs Succumbs to Alternative Medicine
Normally a cold lasts 7 days, but with aggressive medical treatment it only lasts a week.
da5e··on Geek love: In an uncertain economy, women choose brains over brawn
But there's a huge geek-fitness movement, so the best of both worlds for women.
da5e··on Make it less annoying every day
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.

da5e··on 62 years old woman swims from Havana to Key West, without a shark cage
As I understand it a physical shark cage makes a swim quite a bit easier by blocking resistance in the water. So this is a lot harder.
da5e··on United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
The debt is not the problem.
da5e··on A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency
Carr's phony sentimentality is exactly what ej didn't do. She wrote measured, balanced prose, which was very convincing for me.
da5e··on Plot thickens in Airbnb vacation rental horror story
This headline in Business Insider about pg is pretty misleading. Airbnb Investor Suggests Ransacked Airbnb User Is Lying http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-ransackgate-paul-graha...
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