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Re: After 35 Robot Years, The New thoughtbot.com Is Here!

zachhale — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:44:32 -0000

Beautiful job!

Re: The official 8tracks blog - Hi y’all. We’re looking for about 10 alpha testers...

zachhale — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:07:11 -0000

I'll do it!

Re: Exceptional 2 and RubyFoo | Exceptional Blog

zachhale — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:58:31 -0000

One of the distinguishing attributes about Exceptional that made it a much better alternative for me compared to the others was being able to open/close/ignore the tickets straight from the list pages.

The new interface loses these! It's now just as difficult as every other product out there to quickly resolve issues. :(

Re: Would you choose to live a great life or achieve great things?

zachhale — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:30:04 -0000

Wow, heavy topic. This has been on my mind a lot as of late which has me doubting my trend towards the second option. Granted you only itemized the extremes. Based on how you phrased that second option, I don't know why anyone in their right mind would take that path. The question is how realistic is it to have your cake and eat it too?

Which would you choose?

Re: Introducing TeachStreet Payments!

Zach Hale — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:54:38 -0000

This is great. You might want to double check your math in the example $50 signup examples. The examples are inconsistent with your percentages.

Re: http://www.jackcheng.com/the-value-of-certainty-part-1

zachhale — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:42:15 -0000

I would definitely choose option A. Very likely my body would get used to the taste of my previously least favorite food. And it would give me an easy reason to eat well and diet without temptation.

My life could go on much the same with option A. With option B, I'd risk time and health complications that would not be worth it.

Re: The name Ruby Lucille

zachhale — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:25:09 -0000

You can't deny the programming language didn't at least factor a little into the decision. ;)

Beautiful name.

Re: Facebook: why the disrespect for events?

Zach Hale — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:45:10 -0000

Agreed. I frequently check events on the go and to have to open the iphone mobile site then click to switch to the low-tech mobile site before having any way to interact with events is madness!

Re: Jermbob - (Via/carlovely) Death From Above 1979 - little...

zachhale — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:05:02 -0000

This hit the spot.

Re: iPhone apps that should have GPS integration

Zach Hale — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:07:41 -0000

I'd agree except do you _really_ want to be clicking the dialog all the time saying it's okay the app uses the location services?

Re: Seattle Tumblr Meetup, Part Deux

zachhale — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:17:12 -0000

See you there!

Re: Legitimate and cargo cult ideas

Zach Hale — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:54:52 -0000

Well done on an extremely lucid contrast of the two types of ideas.

It drives me crazy that your solution for how to distinguish between the two is that it's impossible. Even if someone were to "reach the cliff", for any cargo cult idea of significance one man's assertions would be quickly covered up by those who have lived their lives in support of the false idea.

You mention "only probabilistic measures are possible" but I a having a hard time conceptualizing for what sort of circumstances you could argue disproving the cargo cult idea is "possible". Or maybe you just mean possible on a one-on-one basis.

How frustrating.

Do you have other examples of good cargo cult ideas that exist similarly to the atheist vs. christian argument?

Re: Seattle Tumblr Meetup, Part Deux

zachhale — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:45:29 -0000

I'm sad I missed the last meetup so I'm all for a part deux. Capitol Hill works for me!

Re: Seattle Tumblr Meetup, Part Deux

daryn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:52:17 -0000

reblog and spread the word!

Re: Rails initial request slow with mod_rails

zachhale — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:03:38 -0000

Great! mod_rails seems like it's perfect for sites with low traffic just due to the simplicity in setting up new sites, but then here in practice my infrequently used sites consistently take 15 seconds to load! Blasphemy!

This is great. Thanks for posting this and confirming my suspicions.

Re: Noone is born atheist

Zach Hale — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:40:08 -0000

Well put. I agree.

I took me until a significant number of years into my life before I even began to think about religion and then not until within the last several years that come to any sort of a conclusion as to what I believe.

Considering the alternate argument and effort required to explain an alternate "default" such as animist intuition, it is all too easy and understandable why in many cases arguing "everyone is born atheist" is an more likely assumption to come to consensus on.

Re: Pie - Flobots - Handlebars Worth a listen to. Let it...

zachhale — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:24:38 -0000

I like it.

Re: The world’s first LOLFetus? (from today’s... :: daryn's tumblelog

zachhale — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:28:53 -0000

I love it!

Re: daryn's tumblelog - Sara Quin w/ Kaki King - Sweetness Follows ...

zachhale — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:37:42 -0000

Way cool!

Re: yvynyl

PovertyJetSet — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:39:54 -0000

Yeah, interesting, isn't it? I wonder what they're going for. Joe has a great response on his blog:

http://joelaz.com/post/48609964/tumblr-explore

Re: yvynyl

zachhale — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:33:18 -0000

I have been wondering the same thing.

Re: New Phone?

xijio — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:17:38 -0000

Actually, I quite like the iPhone. It is just too expensive and doesn't meet all of my phone requirements (see edit 2 above)

Re: New Phone?

zachhale — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:56:16 -0000

You're just an iPhone hater.

Re: New Phone?

xijio — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:24:06 -0000

See reply to ray :-p

Re: New Phone?

zachhale — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:12:09 -0000

iPhone.