Ink: Biggest sham ever
I am trying to buy new ink for my printer that I use to print directly onto discs.
The black ink must be purchased from epson and is $20 for the cartridge. You can get a multipack of the colored ink for $77 on amazon.
To actually buy a new printer, with all the inks in it? $99.
Also: Razor blades and razors.
I used to just buy a new printer whenever I needed ink, just to save money.
from caterpillarcowboySo I'm making this thing...
If you are a developer or designer, this is for you. Reblog this and I’ll get you an invite.
Wednesday updates - 2/3/10
from forrstHere are some things new to Forrst in the last week:
- Lots of UI improvements (especially the new/edit post pages)
- Added the ability to like a post from various activity streams
- You can edit your posts now o_O
- Notification emails for following, likes, and comments
- Comments
Lots more to come. I’ll be giving out some more invites in the next week or so.
Thanks for being awesome,
Kyle
Still missing a “developer” category…
I often find a brilliant blog, see that it’s not a Tumblr, and realize that I’ll never visit it again. Tumblr and Techmeme are my only feedreaders. If you’re not getting me there, you’re not getting me.
A service that could Tumblrize RSS feeds would make my day.
Tying Postling’s publishing tools with an RSS reader is something we can do pretty easily, so you could plug in any RSS feed and reblog the feed items to your Tumblr (or Wordpress / Blogger / Typepad / Squarespace / Drupal or Twitter / Facebook status). The biggest issue is that Tumblr doesn’t expose it’s dashboard or notifications via API, so we can’t recreate the full experience. Fred Wilson has told me Tumblr omits this functionality by choice, sadly, but one can always hope they change their minds.
Jason, isn’t that choosing style over substance?
from caterpillarcowboy
Office Hours
Had a nice talk with Kyle over Gchat, really smart and nice guy! Just noticed he works for Gary Vaynerchuk’scompany. Damn I forgot to ask him for an autograph.
Inspired by Nate (@innonate) and others, I’m going to start holding office hours, with a twist. While anyone can - and should - sign up, I am especially interested to meet with high school students with a burgeoning interest in development. We can meet in person if you’re in NY, or chat on the phone/over IM if you’re not.
It was a pleasure, sir!
In fact, I’m convinced that having too much free time is counterproductive.
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Never attempt to train yourself into a caloric deficit. Don’t spend hours on the treadmill. Diet comes first, cardio second. The dumbest fat loss strategy ever devised is used by people that wake up early in the morning before going to work to do cardio and follow that up with “recovery shake.” Congratulations, you just wasted two hours of your life. Cardio is good for cardiovascular health, but most people use cardio as a fat loss tool - and force themselves through regimens that aren’t very conducive to their daily routine (or mental sanity). Next time, skip the shake and the cardio. Sleep two hours longer, but skip breakfast and fast until lunch time. This way you can create the same caloric deficit with the added bonus of feeling more rested and having saved more time. You’ll be much better off.
* Intermittent fasting is an easy way to create a calorie deficit. Your “cardio” is to stay productive during the fast and work. If you don’t have a job, work on projects that are important to you. Learn. Read books. Write. Don’t sit around and brood about your diet or what you have in the fridge.
-Leangains: The Marshmallow Test (via kortina)
Kyle says: Wait, what??
Is your Mac's kernel running at 32 (instead of 64)-bit?
…..well then you better go catch it. Groan.
Three ways to check :
Yes, what do I do!?
from hlpmeDid I just catch Techcrunch astroturfing?
So I’m reading Techcrunch, and what do I see?
A story titled: Buy and Sell Proprietary Knowledge Through GenApple.
Interesting…right? So I click to read…and what do I find?
People are continually looking for new pieces of information. We go to school, read articles on a variety of subjects, have free websites such as Wikipedia, and use search answer engines such as Aardvark and Quora for the sole purpose of quenching our never-ending thirst for knowledge.
Now here is where I get a WTF moment. I can see listing Wikipedia, and Aardvark…both = knowledge and both = huge companies.
But Quora? Why on earth, would that be included instead of Yahoo Answers or one of the premium Q&A sites?
Here are some bits of info:
- Quora is in private beta(so you can’t even join without an invite)
- Quora only had 2725 users as of the moment I saw the article(got a 500 error on 2726), and like 99% of them are techies.
- Most questions on Quora are unanswered.
- I searched for the author’s name on Quora, and didn’t find a single mention of him(quora lets you search member names). The only guy I found from Techcrunch on Quora is MG Siegler, and he has 0 Questions and 0 Answers.
So based on that data…how does the author recommend something, without even using it?
Was there some PR Agency involved? And if so, which one, since it’s obvious they know what they are doing. Or was this just a friend helping out his friends(author and one of Quora folks went to the same school)? And if so, where is the disclaimer?
Yet another reason I think most tech “reporting” is total bullshit.
from styleguidance