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dreaming··on How I Almost Failed a Facebook Turing Test
Maybe this would be more appropriate if the user was forced to set his own examples, though it'd be difficult to enforce a high level of 'challenge' to this test, if such a thing can be measured. The other problem with is that if you friends set their profiles to public, they help defeat your security.
dreaming··on Nokia Plan B
Assuming this is genuine, it is too little too late. Nokia needed someone to come and say this before the decided to jump ship.

Its staggering to think of how many resources nokia have, and how little and slowly they've innovated. Nokia has been falling behind for a long time. One thing I always found disheartening was their desire to compete against themselves, and ignore others, as illustrated by them releasing an older version of symbian for their business phones, while using the new symbian for their media phones, but it seemed there was no place to get 'the best' nokia. It was always a choice, but one that didn't seem to have an easily identifiable consumer flagship. Just N's and E's and everything in between.

dreaming··on Poll: How often do you visit HN?
Eschewing the usefulness of rss and similar solutions, the endless articles on productivity and discipline, and ultimately all good sense, I find myself visiting hacker news more times per day than a productive person would/should... and it looks like perhaps i'm not alone
dreaming··on Give the Gift of a Custom Linux Distro
When reading this, all I can think is:

Family members, friends, and co-workers might, at first, give you some strange looks when they take a look at a “YOUR-SANDWHICH” written on one side with a sharpie. This is where you explain that you made a “custom sandwhich” just for them.

How do they try it out? Simple. I recommend that you build your custom sandwhich using your own ingredients, similar to a regular sandwhich . That way, people can eat it, and it won’t chmod whatever is already in the fridge. It’s a great way for people to try out other sandwhiches whenever they want.

dreaming··on Get iCourage. The Rejection Therapy iPhone App is Here
I can't seem to find common sense in the itunes store, is it perhaps under a different name?
dreaming··on The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
Presumably I can get similar benefits for exercising just before dinner? Morning exercise is about the last thing I want to do...
dreaming··on 1001 Things To Hack Before You Die
Make a 1001 X to Y list
dreaming··on Things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee
Exactly. Important not to overlook the benefits of meeting like minded people who can help inspire you, or just keep you sane.
dreaming··on Wherein I help you get a good job
yes, it is necessary to be told it is easy to contribute top open source when it is against a backdrop of being told how difficult it is to produce good code, and the difficulties around software development that are frequently reported
dreaming··on Hey Gmail, 1994 Called, It Wants Its Dial-Up Level Performance Back
No issues here either, however perhaps with only 1200mb in my inbox, i'm not enough of a power user to challenge gmail...
dreaming··on The Great Unwashed
Back in high school, I became incredibly paranoid about hygiene to the extent that I damaged the skin on my hands through overwashing, and was paranoid about not touching my shirt/pants after i'd been on a train, between the time when i'd washed my hands and walked to the kitchen table to eat.

At one point I realised it had all gone completely crazy, and during uni I took a conscious choice to relax, and to try and be more 'normal.' This meant observing the way others behaved, when they washed their hands, what they touched, what they considered normal. The diversity of the way people act, and what they think is clean/dirty is startling. I'm still perfecting my own middleground, and the people in this article are doing their best to reconcile so many differing ideas.

The instance in this article that people perceive deodorant-ness as cleanliness is amusing in the least, and nauseatingly smelly for the worst scented deodorants.

dreaming··on Lars Rasmussen: Why I quit Google to join Facebook
Because they've probably discussed the possibilities beforehand...
dreaming··on Are Google and Samsung Announcing a "Nexus Two?"
In Australia, the biggest carrier Telstra generally adds a tonne of crapware, and several people I know with htc desires have links to various telstra features that are broken on the default firmware. I seem to recall the reason telstra didnt get into the iphone game until significantly after the other carriers was because of the iphone impeding sales of telstra 'services'.

We also have the more budget oriented virgin mobile who have generally little to no customization depending on the phone.

dreaming··on 3 Years In Stealth, $20 Million Raised, Aro Mobile Shows Android Skin - Invites.
I only watched the short video, but nothing appears revolutionary here. I seem to recall that recognising phone numbers, address and so fourth was advertised as a feature of android 1.x release.

Alot of the cleverness of the so called AI can by equally well replicated just by using well implemented device wide search, and the name recognition can generally be achieved either by looking up an exchange server, or regex'ing for common first name pattern and non-dictionary surname.

To me this does seem to be 'just another' skin, and visually, it doesn't seem very impressive at all.

Was anyone else here with a modern smart phone impressed?

dreaming··on The End of x86?
Apple have demonstrated time and again that they are happy to break existing functionality if it suits their aims.
dreaming··on Why I love text files
The concept seems obvious, but it hasn't stopped a slow sapping of functionality and permutability of data in the face of 'easy to use' solely GUI based tools. To say nothing of the rather difficult task of automating software without a CLI component...
dreaming··on Ask HN: Explain to non-techies what you do: Programmer? Developer? Engineer?
I build jobs to pull stuff out of databases, transform it, then dump it in others. Also I deal with a kinda slow, proprietary GUI tool with a little bit of immediate power, followed by a deeper lack of ability to make changes to the 'visual code' in batch, amongst other complaints. I'd rather be in vim...

Short answer: "I'm in IT"

dreaming··on Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion
First thought: overpriced
dreaming··on Quirky.com - the Threadless of product design
It doesn't feel as readily accessible or friendly as Threadless, despite the school-paper design. I was thinking it might be the subject matter, being that love of product design isn't quite as ubiquitous as people who like t-shirts, but it also occurs to me that while both demand community participation, the Threadless site has lots of cheerful looking people. I wonder if this impacts on desire to participate.
dreaming··on Fuck you, Money
Tell me more about this collage freshman. Or is this a subtle suggestion hinting at a broad but nonspecific makeup of his persona...
dreaming··on Bill Gates: Forget university, the web is the future for education
It would be a sad day if physical universities were replaced by online institutions.

University aught not just be a means to an end but a pretty good way to spend the present.

dreaming··on How Exercise Boosts Your Brain
In the context of the benefits of exercise, i'd imagine we need to be careful not to conflate health and longevity before we debate things being 'proved false'.

Also, obligatory [Citation required]

dreaming··on For God's sake, follow your dreams
For God's sake, follow your dreams... before you start a family
dreaming··on Detailed guide to mechanical keyboards (switch types, hysteresis graphs, etc)
A friend of mine struck gold and found a pile of Model M's in hard rubbish. Its pretty easy to tell who now has them when using skype/vent/etc.

Personally, I use an ultra flat logitech illuminated keyboard, mostly for the shape and feel and not the illuminated keys which is a bit redundant unless one is hunting and pecking. Really don't like the way the wrist has to arch up for the more conventional keyboards, and i'd rather not have a wrist rest when I can just have a keyboard with a similar profile to my desk.

dreaming··on Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?
The biggest problem I have is opening thousands of tabs, finding great articles, bookmarking them for later and then not reading them.
dreaming··on Wanted: Hyper Local Disruption
Certainly would have its benefits for residential issues, though baking cookies for the neighbors becomes a real efficiency challenge at 400 people.
dreaming··on In what language do deaf people think?
http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/ideographic_myth.html

Have you heard about the ideographic myth?

dreaming··on Genius redditor created a multiplayer 2d game, where everybody edits the world
I just saw someone write a Ycombinator logo :)
dreaming··on Genius redditor created a multiplayer 2d game, where everybody edits the world
Like Conways game of life, only the rules are random and unpredictable... create a pattern, and something might evolve
dreaming··on The Joy of Interpretation
Summary: iPad and consoles are restrictive (Agreed, but those who read past the first paragraph - which held such promise - probably know this already)
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