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would a mod mind changing the URL to http://white.bikeshed.com/ ? It's the same content but much easier to read (sorry about that...)
Modern communication is broken. We think we're just getting tools to be reachable by people of interest. Instead we're just giving the world a way of spamming us. Constantly. Phones are the worst. Excluding the few times I'm actually expecting a call, every time my phone rings it inevitably interrupts something I am doing. It's almost never urgent. I am basically spending hundreds (if not thousands by now) of dollars…
Modern communication is broken. We think we're just getting tools to be reachable by people of interest. Instead we're just giving the world a way of spamming us. Constantly. Phones are the worst. Excluding the few times I'm actually expecting a call, every time my phone rings it inevitably interrupts something I am doing. It's almost never urgent. I am basically spending hundreds (if not thousands by now) of dollars…
A former employer of mine sent me to a "working efficiently" course offered by Microsoft (I know, I know), and the one piece of advice that really stuck with me was don't be a slave to communication.
Their advice was to only check your email three times a day (when you get work, after lunch, and before you leave for the day), and to set your desk phone to do not disturb.
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http://grey.bikeshed.com/ is a good middle ground and definitely better than the linked.
You're nuts. OBVIOUSLY http://orange.bikeshed.com is the correct URL for reading this on HN.
I'm impressed with how much effort he put into his dynamic subdomain parser.
More obscure colors work as well:
For those who like subtle jokes explained, the URL accepts any color as the subdomain. Everyone can have this particular bikeshed in any color they want.
Presumably the Mongols liked bureaucracy, since the colours were the same for those two...
Modern communication is broken. We think we're just getting tools to be reachable by people of interest. Instead we're just giving the world a way of spamming us. Constantly. Phones are the worst. Excluding the few times I'm actually expecting a call, every time my phone rings it inevitably interrupts something I am doing. It's almost never urgent. I am basically spending hundreds (if not thousands by now) of dollars…
In my home country, SMS spamming is beyond insane. I mean 5 to 10 daily promotional SMS
Any place where options are limited are ripe for abuse like this. In Sri Lanka, it's not uncommon for people to have 2-3 lines from just as many providers (in case one doesn't have coverage or you want to give one number to your wife and the other to your girlfriend). And it's also not unheard of for people to throw away numbers if they get too cumbersome (though this is limited by requiring an ID these days due to nefarious activities).
It's quite a culture shock after coming back to the U.S. where not many people understand the concept of actually "owning" a phone. I mean you say "my phone", but while under contract, you can't leave your provider, get a new one (lest you pay an exorbitant fee) or do anything to the phone itself without rooting cause it's still on a locked-in leash.
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You're nuts. OBVIOUSLY http://orange.bikeshed.com is the correct URL for reading this on HN.
http://ff6600.bikeshed.com/ to be precise. I'm impressed with how much effort he put into his dynamic subdomain parser. More obscure colors work as well: http://fuschia.bikeshed.com/ http://limegreen.bikeshed.com/