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by 21echoes 12y ago
assuming that because some women were carrying bags that means they're just "den moms" or "booth babes" seems to be the sexist move here..
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by 21echoes 12y ago
sure, but i think the reason no one has stopped advocating for it is that very few people believe that "some other system would lead to a better life for everyone in the society", especially seeing as many people count "havin
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> he does not understand decimal notation. which, again, is a symbol misunderstanding. it's extremely presumptuous of you to say that two chained symbol misunderstandings by a fifth grader new to a subject are "the problem [o
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by 21echoes 12y ago
yes. and the science is very exhaustively on my side: time and time again, it's been shown that workers (especially knowledge workers like programmers, designers, etc.) are more productive when working less hours. * http://w
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by 21echoes 12y ago
or, as explained quite clearly in the article, a simple misunderstanding of symbols: the kid interpreted it as 12/7 instead of 7/12.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
[citation needed]
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by 21echoes 12y ago
i just read the comments here on HN for ~10 minutes and i'd say most all were positive and in the brainstorming spirit. what do you mean "hatred"??
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by 21echoes 12y ago
according to version history, it's been there since 2011...
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by 21echoes 12y ago
are we reading the same thread? OP said "i grew up poor, here are my anecdotes about how poor people are dumb while those are smart get out of poverty", while the responder said "actually, struggling to survive has a broad-ra
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by 21echoes 12y ago
i'm sure that this will cause no amount of poor people to no longer have enough money for food, water, or shelter, much less health care, education, or other social contract goods, because enough non-profits will spring up to fill the
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Generally an interesting article, but I can't help but wonder why, of all the things to dislike about Silicon Valley, you would dislike that "changing the world" is so overused so as to be cliché. Most every region and indust
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Dionysos is the god of wine
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> If there were some navigation metadata in there, I could theme the browser to show that as a viewport at the top. I could change the aesthetics to the user's preference. This is the most design-ignorant post I've seen on HN i
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by 21echoes 12y ago
that's what we've done with our API: we have a meta-resource /multi that takes in an ordered array of Request objects, each with a URI, (HTTP)Method, and Parameters. The /multi service then splits these Requests out, sen
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by 21echoes 12y ago
i think his larger point is that it's not screen size that causes layout fragmentation, it's screen aspect ratio , which is (basically definitionally) more consistent across devices.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> Foster said the case began when the teen’s 15-year-old girlfriend sent photos of herself to the 17-year-old, who in turn sent her the video in question. He possesses the photos of his girlfriend, and he manufactured the photos of himse
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by 21echoes 12y ago
it depends on what you consider "BDD". The linked library is nearly identical to Cedar ( https://github.com/pivotal/cedar ), which is, in turn, nearly identical to rspec ( http://rspec.info/
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> and I put TDD in the unit test category there's your problem. TDD with functional tests, only unit test when it's a complicated & important piece of domain/business logic.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
wait, what? there's one downloadable pdf for offline viewing, the main version (bigger, literally the first thing listed)is not pdf: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti...
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by 21echoes 12y ago
that's what's at the end, but you skipped the beginning juicy bit: don't try to multitask. make a clear and concrete to-do list, and chunk out time to focus only on completing one item at a time. not answering your emails&#x2
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by 21echoes 12y ago
I don't think "theoretically" is the right word to use here -- it is literally the theory of Communism that it is without a state. Semantic quibbling aside, there are, as stated in my other comment ( https://news.yc
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by 21echoes 12y ago
All cultures prior to the invention of the modern state. Basically all current "native" cultures, including but in no sense limited to: the Bemba, the Nuer, the Iroquois, Polynesians, Melanesians, etc. etc. etc. Almost all day to
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by 21echoes 12y ago
There are plenty of alternatives to Capitalism that do not involve State-heavy mechanisms. For instance, in Communism, despite your assertion to the contrary, there is actually no state at all.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
such as? not disagreeing, just wondering what you consider "must have" features that Firefox currently lacks.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
and you'll also notice that the linked article says the same thing (that the model and view never touch each other but instead communicate through the controller)... I've always learned MVC as strict separation of model and view,
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> So why are we hiring designers mainly on their Photoshop skills and maybe knowing a few tricks for optimizing conversions on landing pages? What a waste. > Of all the social sciences, the following seem to be disproportionately valu
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by 21echoes 12y ago
To be a bit pedantic: NSImage isn't part of a GUI toolkit -- don't confuse NSImage with UIImageView! The NSImage is more equivalent to a .png, not to a web <img> tag; it's completely separate from a framework for routin
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by 21echoes 12y ago
my impression is that, regardless of outlook, economists have overwhelmingly praised the book as extremely thoroughly researched, setting a new bar for evidence presentation in economics literature.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
wait... ads, photos, and niche social networks, are "ripe" for disruption? haven't those three industries been the focus of some 90% of startups for the last 10 years at least?
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> Desktop Firefox, for example, has gotten progressively worse over time. by what metrics? it uses less RAM, runs faster JS, renders faster, is easier to write add-ons for, is more in line with the HTML5 feature-set... > Mobile Firefo

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