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ColemanF

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About ColemanF

Learning to program. Personal blog: http://colemanfoley.com

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    Comment #5302899

    A tiny suggestion: the field where you type the route should say "Or type it and click go", not just "Or type it and click." It's a little clearer. I see that you fully spell it ou…

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    Comment #4660934

    I was thinking about trying to make a similar tool. I got the idea when I was trying to decide in which format I wanted to buy the complete series of The Wire. I found it too hard …

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    Comment #4508969

    Bloc( http://www.bloc.io/ ) does exactly that. "This is perfect for someone who wants to enroll in something like Dev Bootcamp but can't because they don't live in San Francisco." …

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    Comment #3621670

    Personalized news is exploding right now. This looks like a pretty strong contender.

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    Comment #2699797

    Interesting discussion, but why is there a picture of Joe Montana on Winer's post?

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    Comment #2600058

    We think we are more obsessed with apps than pretty much anyone, so others might want to see what we have to say. What are the main hashtags for this purpose right now? That sounds…

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    Comment #2283156

    Toorld? Too hard to pronounce and spell. But it seems like a great idea.

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    Comment #1900508

    I don't have any UX training (Econ major, myself), but I recommend making bigger stories take up more space, like TechMeme does. I do like how you de-emphasized related stories, be…

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    Comment #1319734

    Google is making good-looking stuff lately. The YouTube update, Chrome, and now this.

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    Comment #1235965

    False sense of superiority.

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    Comment #1227009

    The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas P. M. Barnett. It's like The World is Flat on steroids. It's probably even more pro free trade. It's the…

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    Comment #1226995

    Another good Behavioral Economics book: Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman I liked it a lot better than Predictably Irrational.

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    Comment #842530

    A bureaucracy meant to increase entrepreneurship...maybe he should make an Office of Government Non-Intervention, too.

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    Comment #842497

    Maybe he should create an office to boost government non-intervention, too.

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    Comment #759624

    Eliminating high school would cut the amount of taxes needed for public schooling, and would instead increase tax revenue by putting more people in the workforce. Not to mention th…

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    Comment #759582

    Aspies are often outgoing, but they have a lot of trouble socializing. That is what I am like, and it is pretty tough. How is it not a disorder to be unable to do something that is…

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    Comment #715494

    well, kinda

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    Comment #688715

    It's like the boy who cried wolf. I've seen so many of these articles, it hardly means anything to me anymore.

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    Comment #687742

    If Chris Anderson accomplishes nothing else by releasing "Free", he will have at least started a really good debate.

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    Comment #682079

    excellent point

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    Comment #681945

    Asperger's is very poorly understood, and this misunderstanding is really hard on suffferers (I am one.) The cause of all the varied symptoms is that we have a slight delay in proc…

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    Comment #676400

    i don't think it's too niche, because as many web apps as have come out in the last year, i think there will be way more in the coming year. good, thought-provoking comment, though…

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    Comment #671218

    Technology is certainly necessary. Technology is the only way to increase production. Increasing production is they only way to get wealthier, by definition. Not only is it necessa…