normloman | 10 years ago | on: Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
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normloman | 10 years ago | on: Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
Tell that to everyone who's been in a relationship for 6 months before breaking up because "he/she seemed so perfect when I met them"
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
"and so many women (the historical gatekeepers of sex and relationships, fair or not) began to hold out on local suitors because they didn't meet some platonic ideal they'd seen once somewhere."
Citation needed. Pretty sure women had standards before television and movies.
"If they'd wanted traditional relationships, they should've been friendlier and less aloof when they were being courted earlier."
Ah, the 'nice guy' argument. Plus a bit of generalizing. It disturbs me that you refer to women as 'they' as if they all collectively decided to ignore you.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
The medium always shapes the conversation. So yeah it's different from the real world. Maybe you don't see flame wars on Twitter. But do you ever see in depth discussions? Long form story telling? Even 2 way discussions are rare, though they are possible. Twitter is optimized for the quick joke, the announcement, and the reaction comment.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
This is true when you're just looking for a quick fuck. But as someone in a long term relationship, believe me, superficial qualities matter a lot less. My wife is beautiful, but so were other girls I dated. I stuck with my wife because we make a good team, and she shares my values.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Leaked Uber financials from 2012 to 2014
Self driving cars aren't coming tomorrow. They are years away. Maybe a decade. How long can uber coast on VC money before that happens? And then how do they guarantee dominance in the self-driving taxi market? Basing their value solely on this shoot-the-moon project is problematic.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: How Not to Die (2007)
You may think sprinting is pushing you faster, but by working yourself to exhaustion, you're really going slower (and neglecting your health in the process). For your own sake, give yourself time to recharge. Work/life balance is no small thing.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Soylent 2.0
I was talking about people who didn't have time to cook. You have time to cook, you'd just rather spend it doing things you enjoy more (and that's fine.) It's the people who can't cook, even if they wanted to, because they're trapped at the office, who I'm worried about.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Soylent 2.0
True. And I didn't make that argument because it should be obvious to everyone. A key difference is that frito-lay doesn't imply you can subsist solely on cheetos.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Soylent 2.0
I'm also skeptical that one can live well on soylent alone. There's nothing bad in soylent AFAIK, but there's no way of knowing whether soylent is missing anything vital. With this in mind, I wouldn't be worried if someone replaced one or two meals a day with soylent. But I'd hesitate to replace all meals. I think it's irresponsible that the makers of soylent keep pushing the idea that one nutrient drink can replace all your meals, though I have nothing against the product itself.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Soylent 2.0
It may be faster than cooking for yourself, but not always cheaper.
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normloman | 10 years ago | on: Soylent 2.0
Right! Even if you don't like to cook, not having the time to is symptomatic of overwork.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: The Web We Have to Save
Who's desire does it fill? My rational system 2 brain? Or my impulsive system 1 brain. The reason you can't justify shitty content with "we're just giving you what you want" is because we really want something better, but if you give us shit that appeals to our impulses, you can make us act against our best interests. So we keep scrolling through the news feed at 2AM, thinking we should really go to bed, but failing to resist the feeling that some huge payoff lies just a few scrolls down.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet
- You have, but he is stubborn and refuses to see the downsides even though they are obvious to everyone else.
That one!
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet
What you're forgetting is:
1. People have to read this calendar. 2. People have to edit this calendar. 3. Other people in the office don't know Excel as well as him. 4. Other stuff is designed to work with our calendar software, but not excel.
A hammer can drive a nail into wood. With a little help, it can also remove nails, smash glass, and pry things open. But if you're using a hammer to stretch pizza dough, get help.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet
The "give people what they want" philosophy leads saving word documents as HTML.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet
It's the ones that know the functions that you have to worry about. Especially finance people. Excel is the software they are most comfortable in, and they never want to leave it. My boss just made our company events calendar in excel. Why not do this in a calendar program? Because he can do it faster in excel.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet
No no no. People at my company already use spreadsheets where they don't belong (in the place of databases, note taking apps, regular expressions, and one time someone tried to do page layout with it). The last thing we need is for these bozos to program with it. I see the need for an intermediate entryway into programming (Hypercard), just don't tack it on to an already bloated program like excel.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Who's doing this to my internet?
I agree with what's been said here about payment. It is hypocritical that the author want's ad free music, but won't pay a buck and a half for a track. That said, the ad supported web still has problems, and I don't see anyone trying to solve it. Subscriptions are great, but how do we get people like the author of this post to buy into them? What's a fair way to charge subscriptions? How do you balance getting paid with keeping your content searchable? We shouldn't stop looking for new business models.
normloman | 10 years ago | on: Startups and The Big Lie
But we're not talking about founders lying about their start-ups chances (the lottery ticket is a winner). We're talking about founders lying about the present situation of their start-ups (not being transparent about financial health of the company). If, like you say, both parties involved understand the risk, why can't founders disclose more?
Reality: Women made individual choices as to which relationships they wanted to pursue. And being rejected by a woman still doesn't give you the right to be an asshole.