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Wow... I would so much rather just have (perhaps a subset of) the actual data always on my display. I don't have an iPhone, but there's some room on my little screen that could show -90 when I'm in a cave and, like, -9 most of the time (or whatever it may be).

Seriously, people, are we supposed to be so dumb that we can't do that kind of judgment call on our own? I thought that that kind of thing was what the human mind was supposed to be good at and that computers are supposed to be bad at, yet here we are having a phone do it for us?


The USC loss highlights something to me: It was hard for me to tell what information was being displayed. I totally missed the news on that game (fail) so I saw USC in bold and assumed they'd won and didn't know what the big red box meant.

Maybe I'm just a space cadet and that's not actually confusing, but I found it unintuitive. I'd bold the winner after a game has been played and maybe make a note in smaller type below that the prediction was the other guy. And keep the red box.

Anyway, interesting idea.


My thinking here was Sportsify isn't a place to check scores, it's a place to see who the favorite was - but I've had a few folks share your confusion so I'll probably tweak this.


No, I had no clue what any of it meant either.

I was confused as to why they were bolded when they had the lower score too.


And, by contrast, this is why computers are so slow at some decisions: no biases or heuristics, no input prioritization, etc.


I read a tip, I don't remember where anymore sadly, about taking a key word from the question, adding some password-like string to it and calling that your answer.

So: "What is your pet's name?" n0tm4hp4s5w3rd-pets-name and: "What street did you grow up on?" n0tm4hp4s5w3rd-street

You still have to remember an arbitrary string, it is SLIGHTLY more accessible than mashing randomly, and certainly more secure than putting the real answer.


I'm currently learning Flex, which I guess means I'm learning ActionScript? I have to say I'm not enjoying it as much as I enjoy Ruby.


That's hilarious. I think the best part is where it points out that since particles have positive and negative charges and 1 + -1 = 0, then the universe must have been made "from nothing". Astounding.


Doesn't it say something specifically about not wanting marketing pitches?


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From how I read "the rules" it sounds like:

* demoing a product/website: fail.

* showing how something (which could be a startup product, but most likely isn't) works under the hood (code, etc.): win.

So exposure is not the point; the hack(s) that make it work are the point. At least, that's my take on it. Sounds interesting.


Where do you get the idea that this is for pitching a startup?

(http://freehackersunion.org/rules.html - Rule #8)


Ah okay, I misunderstood it. I did not read the rules :( Okay, I still think it's a good idea.


I agree that this is the big decision point. I'm a Ruby guy and I've looked at Python several times and it never really stuck (I could work on a project that use Python, it just wouldn't be as fun as a project using Ruby to me). I could complain about various technical details, but if I'm entirely honest it would just be minute, meaningless, bitchy detail nitpicks.


No kidding. Great reality hack.


Is there--understand, here, that I don't have a blog and haven't blogged, so I have no idea--is there blog software that will do this for you already? Like, handle a different URL, css styles, etc. but point to the same database? That sounds like it would be really handy.


I couldn't find one, so I wrote my own.


I'd be interested in discussing it. If you (or anyone else) are, too, feel free to email me at the address in my bio. Thanks!


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