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One option could be to join something like this: https://haystacks.solargarden.org.au/

The big caveat is you have to sign up with their retail partner, the pricing structure is interesting - you aren't actually paid based on what is generated (or at least from memory).


I feel like this was the highlight; http://gfycat.com/SophisticatedFarawayEthiopianwolf


Sophisticated Faraway Ethiopian Wolf?


Gfycat seems to use a randomized adjective-adjective-animal_name for their URL structure. Certainly more memorable than the imgur six-character alphaneumeric string.


It's an ID or hashcode, but in English words rather than hexadecimal.

Easier for humans to recall, communicate, and error-check.


An utter bitch to type compared to a short string of garbage, though, and typing a URL manually (friend gives you a URL over the phone or in person) is the only case I can think of where the URL itself matters.


Well, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I'd rather type out "Ethiopian" than waste time finding out that someone said "bee" instead of "dee" or accidentally putting "e9800998" instead of "e9800098".

I've got a ton of pre-arranged neural circuitry, evolved over centuries, trained with decades of live data, all geared towards noticing typos and touch-typing words... It seems shame not to leverage it.


On mobile, perhaps, where you're pecking at a keyboard like a chicken, but with a keyboard it's easier to type.


I find it the opposite to be honest, but probably only because I'm using swype on mobile.

It's easy to hit random characters when touch typing on a full keyboard, but it's much easier to just swipe a couple words together in the url bar than it is to get the correct capitalization as well as having to hold down the key for about a second each time you need a number.


If I need a number, I just swipe down from the letter that the number appears under. No press-and-hold needed. Does that not work on your phone?


They should choose shorter words.


There appear to be some snags, though -- "Faraway" is lacking capitalization for the "away" bit, and, even more confusingly, "wolf" isn't capitalized either. Word boundaries aren't always obvious, but I feel certain that the "wolf" of "Ethiopian wolf" is an independent word.

So this string is easier to pronounce, but it's actually fairly tricky to communicate and error-check.


Actually, "faraway" is a whole word, used as an adjective as a location, e.g. "exotic faraway places".

I feel you wouldn't use it for actual locations, though, e.g. "it was too far away from me".


You'll note that I characterized "Ethiopianwolf" as being even more confusing than "Faraway", since "wolf" is definitely a separate word and it isn't clear whether "away" is or not. That unclarity still makes it difficult to communicate the capitalization in the case where capitalization matters.


Are they actually case-sensitive, though? Randomly capitalizing words seems to have no effect to me (unless iOS is sneakily autocorrecting it), so it's something of a moot point.


Capitalizing random letters in the URL didn't have any effect for me either. So I'm a little confused as to why they show the capitalization they do, but I withdraw the idea that there's a usability problem.


In a perfect world - someone working for apple, somewhere would notice your comments and think "Hey, this guy is so right. I'm fixing this!"

You could be some famous legacy device soldier. Fighting the good fight! Battle on my friend.


That'd be nice, haha.

All of my mobile devices are at least outdated by two to three years.

With my Androids, I can just use CyanogenMod, but there's no custom rom for iOS devices. :(


> With my Androids, I can just use CyanogenMod

You make it sound like with Android there is this guaranteed upgrade path to a newer OS which simply not true. And even when you can upgrade it is common for there to be serious bugs or functionality missing.


"Gittip is designed for long-term, sustainable funding, and only supports recurring gifts at this time."

Did I miss some great reason why they don't do once off tips? Sometimes you just want to throw 10 bucks at a person and not worry about recurring transaction. I imagine allowing this would increase overall tips due to cheap folk like me.


Sustainability is a core design goal for Gittip. I want to be paying my mortgage from Gittip gifts, so it needs to be predictable and consistent. Does this limit growth? Yes. But it makes the growth we do get much more reliable. Gittip grows slowly and shrinks slowly, and that's by design. Once we have the recurring baseline well-established, I fully expect we'll mix in one-off gifts.

I added a +1 for you here:

https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/issues/5


Well! Nice getting a direct reply from the man himself. Have you considered adding that reason to your FAQ for some comic relief?

I'd be right on this band wagon if once off's were allowed - I'd happily tip three repositories off the top of my head but don't want to commit to ongoing.

Would it be considered bad form to +1 it myself thereby technically causing a +2?


Help yourself to the +2. :)

You can always workaround it by tipping on Thursday and then changing your tip on Friday.


I caught the second half of this and enjoyed what I saw. Pretty interesting getting some insight into the setups and what is going on for us Aussies. Now to catch the first half.


yeah it was a good show - they had the founder of 500 startups on there as well as Steven Levy from Wired.


Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan - highly. highly. Recommend. Ready Player One... meh. Much preferred MetaGame (only $2!). Otherwise - The Quantum Thief was a great mind blower. Haven't heard of Daemon, loved Snow Crash. Will look into.


I wonder how those two stack up to "Dream Park" by Larry Niven?


Cryptonomicon? The only book I ever read to say "I beat you massive book!" and not for enjoyment. In the end it was a decent romp.


I had the endurance to read through Cryptonomicon, it was long but still enjoyable.

Then I bought all three volumes of the Baroque Cycle, but gave up halfway through volume 1 and sold them. It was just too much.


Cryptonomicon benefits a lot from being a theoretical comp-sci and/or crypto nerd.


This is so timely and poignant its almost as though it was written just for me!


Pretty cool. Going to model a similar session next week internally to see how it rolls within a support team environment.


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