mcormier

> And so Facebook encroaches upon the physical world to anchor itself

Reminded me of this limited edition like counter, called Fliike.

http://www.smiirl.com/

Try reloading the page. The server is taking a beating because this article has gone viral. There is a white background if the site loads properly.

Interesting article, but it doesn't seem very balanced as it only focuses only on the negative. Also, it is an excerpt from a dude's book which he is trying to convince you to buy for £7.99.

I agree themanthatfell currently has 1154 karma, but he got the majority of it from this post and the account was only created 7 days ago. You're getting unfairly down voted.

OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Snap!

It's also slow the first time you use it because it pre-indexes a lot of things. Once it is finished indexing it is generally quite snappy.

I've never heard of this but the 10 rules of a Zen program are very poorly written. http://www.grobmeier.de/the-10-rules-of-a-zen-programmer-030...

I found two glaring mistakes very quickly, which makes me wonder how many mistakes are in this book.

1. Focus " You’ll not become quicker, just you work multithreaded." 3. Beginners Mind "Remember the days were you were a beginner."

iPhone? Sorry I was a little distracted with the interesting HTML scrolling design for the page. It's very novel.

Quite ironic when you consider the Design. I wouldn't worry, the fact that you realized this was a poor design means you don't really need to take the course. Just read up on "affordances" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordances) and start complaining about doors that have handles that look like you should pull them but actually have to be pushed, for the rest of your life. It's a life long course.

It had overheating issues if your cat sat on top of it, with the side effect of cat fur being sucked into it.

Reference: http://akibjorklund.com/2008/the-cubes-fatal-flaw-cats

The firewall at the company where I'm currently at appears to be blocking http://strapdownjs.com/v/0.1/strapdown.js but not the github.io domain. They have strapdownjs classified as a spam domain.

This didn't render in chrome, I had to look at the source of the page to read it.

""It's only £2 - less than your morning latte."

I see this a lot, Netflix being the famous recent example. On the surface it seems reasonable; if you would spend this much on a small cup of coffee, why not spend it on our product instead?

But comparing to my morning latte is actually an incredibly high bar to set. What's valuable to me, as a human, is not the coffee itself but the experience. I spend half the morning looking forward to it, and half the afternoon in the afterglow. There's not just a drink, there's a place to sit and relax, free-flowing internet, pictures on the wall, and a waitress who fakes enough interest in my day that I actually believe it. Heck, at the café I'm writing from now the coffee itself is downright awful. But the moment I sat down I felt an eagerness to write. I've got more done in ten minutes here than in the four hours at home preceding it.

A cup of coffee might not be worth £2. But happiness is, and that's what I'm buying. If you want me to buy your thing for £2, it had better bring this much joy into my life. Otherwise, I'd rather have another cup.

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Shameless plug.

I've started a project to track any data that I want and stop relying on all of these free sites because of this loss of data issue.

The source code is here: https://github.com/mcormier/tallyman

and you can see it in action here: http://stats.preenandprune.com

I haven't tackled generated graphs from the SQL data yet but plan to eventually. The one graph on the page was generated with Apple's Numbers. Since it's annual data I don't plan on updating it more than once a year.

"These exquisite toilets are everywhere in Japan"

Really? I was there for 5 days last spring and never encountered one of these toilets. I did, however, encounter a hole in the ground, you gotta squat to do a number two public toilet stall.

Yup, this is a good example of pseudoscience --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience

Then you might want to re-watch episode 6 of nerd TV: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/

Spoiler: It's not really amazing.

Thanks. This is similar to http://evening-edition.com . A nice clean website written intelligently without a lot of fluff.

As well known as printers have a higher DPI than monitors.

"Shipping container architecture gets a lot of encouraging coverage in the design world as a trendy green alternative to traditional building materials, and seems like a smart choice for people looking for eco-consciousness. However, there are a lot of downsides to building with cargo containers. For instance, the coatings used to make the containers durable for ocean transport also happen to contain a number of harmful chemicals, such as chromate, phosphorous, and lead-based paints. Moreover, wood floors that line the majority of shipping container buildings are infused with hazardous chemical pesticides like arsenic and chromium to keep pests away."

YIKES!!

Not exactly. It's poorly written. It takes a lot of effort to read this and determine the author's point. She does a poor job of transferring from her bathroom story to the general issue of there being an absence of women in IT.

Then she starts throwing around statistics in paragraph 6 with absolutely no segue. She goes from whiny complainer about something trivial to I'm gonna fix the world's problems by talking to other women at this conference.

She's just not a good writer and her being a woman has nothing to do with that.

This is the kind of website that makes me want to go redesign a website for no reason than to fiddle with these patterns.

"feelzr connects you with all the people around the world born on the same day as you."

How is this a Top Startup? This seems like a very novel idea to me. Some of these companies sound interesting but I think this list needs a little editing.

15 pages for this article seems quite excessive

Then just create an account on binpress and don't use your GitHub account. You're not required to use a GitHub account.

Is not capitalizing the first word in a sentence the thing to do now?

Yeah somebody is getting off on watching their analytics numbers go up.

Please not another like button. I long for a time when there wasn't 6 or 7 like buttons for different websites on every blog article screaming "Pick me! Pick me!" and causing visual clutter.

At a former company I worked at our CTO likened our product which had many warts to a machine with many levers. He then went on to compare our customers to monkeys that we had trained to pull the levers in the right order. Pull them in the wrong order and you get an electric shock or something.

Every time I see a cluster of like buttons on a web page I think of monkeys and levers.

This functionality could totally be implemented on the server end. When you submit a link it could tell you that the story was already submitted and when.

Wishing the like buttons would just go out of fashion...

On the server side. Associated with your account.