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joshualastdon

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joshualastdon··on Google is about to learn a tough lesson
My first inclination seeing the title of this post even before I read the article was to comment, "are you a fortune teller?"

But seriously, to put it mildly my friend, I don't agree with you. Google determined that the best thing to do was to kill it and they did. They continue building other stuff; life continues.

joshualastdon··on Facebook Acqhires Storylane Because It’s Time To Fight Tumblr
Facebook already proved that a social network where real identity was encouraged could succeed. So saying that Tumblr wouldn't be as popular if it made users use real names would be misleading. I don't think the popularity of Tumblr was because they allowed users to not use their real identities.
joshualastdon··on The best programmers are the quickest to Google
Let use an analogy in education:

A professor in college might allow the class have an open book exam, however you still see a number of people who might not pass that exam. Why? Well, there were two kinds of people in that class:

1. The smart ones who actually know the material. 2. The others who know nothing about what had been taught so far in the class.

The students in the first category will pass the exam but the second crowd perform poorly, because even though the book is in front of them, they don't know what to look for, especially in a timed test.

So the way I see this is that googling will help those who already have knowledge of the programming concepts, not those who have no idea of what they are trying to implement at all. In reality those who can use google to get what they want can also figure it out without google, even though it might take longer of course.

joshualastdon··on Rethinking The Postal System
That's smart! But if you get the number wrong, there might just be no way to link the package to whoever was sending or tracking it. Well, then at least the problem will be on the end of users other than what we currently have.
joshualastdon··on The Serenity of a 5pm Bedtime
For a long time, I used to have a "night owl" schedule and I thought I was very productive until I switched to 12am-5:30am sleep schedule. I sleep at most 1-1:30am, but if I ever stay awake past 2:30am, I don't go to sleep anynmore. I also take a 15 minute nap during the day at about 3pm, after which if I would be very refreshed for the rest of the day.

I think the early-to-rise sleep pattern is very productive and best even for some people that consider themselves night owls now. Most times, a lot of people think they are night owls from their late night sleep schedule from their teenage years. There are some exceptions, however.

joshualastdon··on Happy Valentine's Day
Nice. Nice again, I say.
joshualastdon··on I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
Look, I love Quora and what they are doing. You like quality answers and want to get access to the community of users providing it? Then, at the least make the tiniest contribution back to that community by creating an account. Simple!
joshualastdon··on Airbnb Annual
Wow. Very excellent presentation. And the numbers show tremendous growth by AirBnB.
joshualastdon··on Page Layers - Convert websites to layered Photoshop PSDs
This is some cool tech! Really see myself using this.