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Re:Is that ship still stuck? on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:16PM (#26586245)
Yeah, from the middle out.
Re:The land grab for farm data on Thursday July 07, 2016 @12:34PM (#12050408)
On the operational/financial side, you have Granular. On the soil science / land data side, you've got AcreValue.

Disclosure: was/am the lead designer on both (leaving to do the #vanlife thing).

Re:The Worst Waiter in History (2014) on Monday March 23, 2015 @06:24PM (#9253714)
It's a fine line between pleasure and pain.
Feature request: adjustable expiration time
FATAL: too many connections for role "ruwdncbzdkulsh"
First time I launched visualizations via Winamp in my dorm room was a very happy moment. Some serious app nostalgia there. And, Wesley Willis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JntDcqOxMsM

Re:Why go out? on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @03:40PM (#4138757)
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.” ― Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Suprised the fleshlight wasn't on that list
Re:What HN users don't mean to be on Friday March 02, 2012 @10:39PM (#3659294)
HN goes self-referentially meta, and the slow transition to becoming reddit begins...
Because it's the 9th safest city in the US in its size category >500K.

http://www.morganquitno.com/cit05pop.htm

Re:Sprint to 'Bet the Company' on iPhone on Monday October 03, 2011 @06:07PM (#3068345)
I'm up for renewal and its perfect timing with my move to Bay in a month (and the crappy 3G coverage AT&T has there).
Re:“I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl on Friday September 30, 2011 @10:20AM (#3057091)
"The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user."

Amen.

Re:Showoff on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @12:17PM (#2467195)
Happiness, is a warm socket.
Re:Why Twitter’s C.E.O. Demoted Himself on Saturday October 30, 2010 @04:41PM (#1851765)
I thought the reason why people left the SXSW interview was because the interviewer was a giant, self-absorbed douche who gave Ev little time to speak and/or didn't do a good job of facilitating.
Re:The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions on Thursday October 21, 2010 @12:42PM (#1816256)
Re:Draw on any webpage. Share your ideas - MarkUp on Sunday October 10, 2010 @10:18AM (#1777109)
on its way!
Re:Draw on any webpage. Share your ideas - MarkUp on Saturday October 09, 2010 @09:03PM (#1776323)
We're planning (tentatively) on adding accounts, private MarkUps, and a few other features in the next version.
The page is cached out, so after publish the shapes aren't being laid on top of the original site.
The mischief quotient for this is rather high