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willfully_loston Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2012)

SEEKING WORK - New York - Remote/Local

Python, Django, Javascript, Backbone, HTML/CSS

Have been working on Gigsmash (https://www.gigsmash.com) for about a year. Haven't gotten a lot of traction on that yet, so also looking to freelance.

These pages would probably be best to check out as examples, since most search locations on site don't have much data yet.

https://www.gigsmash.com/vt/burlington https://www.gigsmash.com/vt/burlington/map

willfully_loston Google warns that rate limits, overage fees are coming to Maps API

Look at the note at the top of the page you linked, Version 3 of the Maps API doesn't require a key.

willfully_loston Google warns that rate limits, overage fees are coming to Maps API

Reposted from other Maps thread

Aren't the limits IP based? This page on Google's 'Geocoding Strategies' seems to say so: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/geocodestrat.html#...

So as long as your call to the Maps API goes out client side, aren't you ok?

willfully_loston Google maps usage fees

So you think that the Geocoding API will work via IP limits as described in the link I provided, but regular Maps API calls will be subject to domain limits?

willfully_loston Google maps usage fees

Aren't the limits IP based? This page on Google's 'Geocoding Strategies' seems to say so: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/geocodestrat.html#...

So as long as your call to the Maps API goes out client side, aren't you ok?

willfully_loston IE9 is the IE6 of CSS3

IE is worth a lot to Microsoft because of Bing. Google pays Mozilla for Google search being on the toolbar. Chrome is Google. IE is the only browser that would have Bing be the default search engine. That's worth a good amount of money to them - I can't seem them throwing up the white flag.

willfully_loston Ray Kurzweil Responds to "Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain"

So to some up: "Yes, the brain is very complex, but you don't understand the power of exponential growth in information technology!" Surprising.

willfully_loston Megan McArdle: The Great Stock Market Myth

That's not at all true. Social Security's issues are massively exaggerated by certain groups. The real problems with regards to our "entitlements" is in Medicare. Unless the price of healthcare can be kept under wraps its going to be a nightmare. But there's too many people out there with a lot of money that don't want to see that problem dealt with.

willfully_loston Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High

It's an interesting question. I imagine a lot of it has to do with our current world view. I think a lot of people have a tacit understanding of how fragile it is.

The psychedelics for example aren't illegal because of any harmful physical effects - they're some of the safest drugs we know of, physically. They're illegal because of the world dissolving experience you might have on one. For a people like us who have built up an elaborately abstract way of viewing our world, this is quite threatening.

I think it can also speak about why something like marijuana is still illegal yet caffeine is a daily sacrament for us - one makes you go even faster and work even more, the other makes you fairly uninterested in such things.

willfully_loston Implantable Eye Telescope That Treats AMD Finally Gets FDA Approval

Something like this is quite dangerous outside the question of sight I think. Someone with these implants will now have eyes that simply don't look right to others. Many people might either consciously or unconsciously look at these people as somewhat other than human, as some type of machine in some ways. The eyes are likely the most important physical feature a person has toward developing a sense of social communication. Perhaps implant recipients will end up wearing sunglasses at most times like the blind.

willfully_loston Meditation: Why Bother?

It's interesting to me how much Heraclitus resembles an Eastern mystic. Fitting that he was both behind and way ahead of his time.

"Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things."

"To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just."

willfully_loston Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again

I think it's important to remember not to make free will vs determinism a binary argument. As I look at it, the truth is both and neither.

For various reasons certain people will be influenced and coerced down the path of least resistance by their environment more so than others. Free will is essentially something you must claim for yourself (of course I mean relatively, no one can ever be <i>fully</i> in control of the developments of their life).