06 September 2010

The Ruby Reflector

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By Joey of Global Nerdy 2 months ago.
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Like a steam punker crashing an Avatar convention

Use is more than just Chrome and colors, look at navigation

Modern users look for standard gestures, menus, animations,

And what about the richness of movement & location

Do you want to surf the web or record your whole vacation?

When I tilt your web app, it's just stuck in a groove

With my purely native code I can bust a move.

Jason:

But that'll only improve-heck, web apps get location …

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By Jacob Harris of Nimble Code 4 months ago.
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…But like most other forms of media, freeform text (with all of its ambiguities) will always remain predominant in twitter; for instance, if your tools just focus on retrieving tweets annotated movie:title=" Avatar" , you'll indeed avoid all those tweets about people's twitter avatars, but you'll also miss almost all of the conversation about the movie ( the precision/recall curve strikes again ).

But, I could be wrong. Thoughts?

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By Giles Bowkett of Giles Bowkett 6 months ago.
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…That's right, feature-length - it's as long as an actual movie, although not as long as Avatar or any of the Lord Of The Rings movies (thank Gawd). Among other things, my new video explains my presentation style in the context of the neuroscience which informs and inspires it, and explains my approach to blogging in the context of an analysis of Google's PageRank algorithm.

I'm making this video available very soon. I'm also going to launch an interesting …

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By Joey of Global Nerdy 7 months ago.
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…a search for "Avatar" and it returns a list of nearby theatres and times for the movie Avatar ; a quick pan to an adjacent page yields the results for local business and places with "Avatar" in the name

Email:

Easy pivoting between unread, flagged and urgent emails

A caching system prevents you from seeing the dreaded "loading" screen

Press "Search" within email and you perform a search of your email messages, by subject, text and so on

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By Giles Bowkett of Giles Bowkett 8 months ago.
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…can really make it happen.

You may or may not care, but from here on in, you criticize Avatar , I unfollow you. To paraphrase why the lucky stiff, make a better movie or shut the fuck up . Life's too short for any third option.

(why, of course, said it in a much nicer way: "when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.")

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