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Agreed. When I was reading it, I was thinking of him as well. Square is a shining example of simplistic design and value.

When numbers get large, the more the little things start to matter. It must be exciting to see the changes happen live in front of you when you flick these 'little' switches.

I've been thinking of using node.js as a backend for an online game. Does anyone know if it is viable or games that have used it?

Com Truise is great. Discovered him last year. I'm a sucker for ambient lo-fi stuff.

This reminds in a similar manner about the time when I did amateur theater. Considering that we kinda sucked, the director asked of us to do a run where we exaggerated every action and word and just basically go over the top. It got us performing better much faster than just incrementing slowly but surely. Going to the extreme makes you realise where in the middle is the best.

This is fascinating! Has it been accurate?

I watch movies much less these days due to this. I wonder whether this is good or bad. These days I am way more conscious of my information diet. I don't want to sit around waiting for my next piece of information dopamine.

> The process is finding about the process.

Yes. Exactly. I've been in a similar situation with my mother. I have to describe the steps one by one. When GMail changed its design, she was suddenly bewildered!

On a related note, I do think this mentality starts from an early age. Education teaches pupils to memorise and not understand. In an attempt for pupils to stay on par with their peers, they resort to memorising. Later on in life, this gets increasingly difficult, and then people just resort to staying consumers, not producers.

While an interesting theory (I should read the book), how are you certain that system 2 comes online when viewing the timeline?

There is a "REST in peace" joke there as well.

About time! Still needs some changes here and there, but it is on the right track.

This and the cheezeburger network will put it in the eyes of people who wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Sites like reddit already preach to the choir! Go team internet!

At what point would you take the app off Heroku and build your own setup? There might be different points for most people, but what is yours?

This is an interesting point and one I haven't thought of like this. The past year, I kept telling people to start learning to program, because there will be an unprecedented increase in demand for programmers and knowing how to program (even just a little bit) will be greatly beneficial no matter in what line of life you are in.

But can it come to the point where if you can't code, you get left behind? It might not be so farfetched.

Good point, something that I have not contemplated before. It makes sense: If we evolve to the point where we can control reality, why would we be concerned with expanding and travelling the universe?

It is almost like saying: "You can do anything and become what you want to become." What do you choose?

Enjoy! Sounds exciting!

Moving to Hong Kong? How long are you there for Leo? Planning on going back to Silicon Valley?

If it is all so virtual, come enjoy some Cape Town lifestyle.

Facebook has suggested twice accurately places I've visited, but I pretty much specified it in the album (Singapre and Australia).

There is an album now with random photos, with the location "Plekke" (which is afrikaans for "places"). They are suggesting "Plekke, San Juan, Puerto Rico". So, currently I wouldn't suggest machine learning, although it is not entirely dismissible. They have the largest photo db in the world, they could eventually learn and then seed it with stuff like checkins, status updates, etc.

EDIT: I have another album called "Kuala Lumpur and Thailand", which have pretty iconic pictures in it (Wat Pho, KL Towers, Batu Caves, etc) and they haven't asked me about that album at all.

Is this yours? There is no reason to have 10 on a page. Do it like "Steak House or Gay Bar". http://steakhouseorgaybar.com/

Watched it yesterday. Incredibly strange and unreal to think such a fabricated society is possible in these times.

I always thought most mobile operators offered a "please call me" service? In South Africa, you can send a 'message' using USSD (ie *140#<number>) to let someone know that they should call you. You have a limit of 100 a day or something.

Is this common in other countries as well? (Clearly not in India?)

Moving fast and breaking things.

1) Great design, especially with the latest iteration.

2) Friend limit. This changes the game quite a bit. You have to be conscious about choosing whom to add, which will most likely lead to adding people you only wish to share with.

3) Taking this into account, you will be more inclined to share things with people that would care to interact with it. On Facebook it would be stupid to say you are awake, or asleep, but on Path it makes more sense, because you are sharing with the people you care to share with.

P.S. Anyone have an HTC Wildfire? I've tried installing it, but it doesn't work although the minimum is specified as 2.1 on the market?

When you are in South Africa again, drop by Stellenbosch (40km from Cape Town)! Would love to hear some more stories.

EDIT:

I also travelled from Singapore to Bangkok (not all the way to Hanoi) this year. Great trip. Took the train. Beautiful countryside.

Elon feels like a real-world Iron Man.

This is fantastic. I'm tempted to also do this, just so I keep my creative juices flowing, and my eyes open to new opportunities!

I would like to see time to conversion. I have a hunch the majority of the users haven't capped out their dropboxes yet. When that starts to happen, it will be interesting what the conversion rate will be.

I use a normal 15inch laptop and that wasted white space was an issue for me. Hopefully with the new theme, the 'compact' theme is compact enough.

Awesome. Been working with a lot of APIs, and I also looked for a way to print it out better in terminal. I found an alternative. If you have python, you can pipe it to -mjson.tool and it will pretty print it in the terminal.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/352098/how-to-pretty-prin...

This is fantastic. It is still a work-around, which won't fit well with the UX, but it's a novel take! Really looking forward to some interesting webhooks.