Arkdy

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by Arkdy 8y ago
I took two passes, and only spotted 2 black women on the teams. Which is unsettling because: 1. These are the people building the tools that'll be a part of _everyone's_ lives. 2. If these companies continue to be successful, thes
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by Arkdy 8y ago
In Trinbagonian dialect, "ducking" is the act of skipping work/school. See: https://youtu.be/2qunog47EVo for musical reference.
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by Arkdy 8y ago
I'll push back just a little and say that a lot of the first book was written from Quentin's perspective, so that's why it might have come off as clueless wrt how it handled sexuality. However, that might have been by design
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by Arkdy 8y ago
Wow, that's interesting. We must have approached Grossman from completely different perspectives. Last year (2017) I read the entire Magicians series and thoroughly enjoyed them because they made me uncomfortable. I was trash, in the s
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Climate change wiped out the 'Siberian unicorn'(phys.org)
1 points by Arkdy 8y ago|0 comments
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by Arkdy 8y ago
Turns out that sending mail is pretty straightforward, but receiving is messy. I was evaluating it for the use case where I needed to receive emails, and then respond based on the user's position in a decision tree.
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Ask HN: What are some email pitfalls in big companies?
1 points by Arkdy 8y ago|1 comments
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by Arkdy 8y ago
I never considered that the move away from ornaments might be a net negative on working class jobs. That's a little chilling. _From Bauhaus to our House_ was published in 81 (near the end of the movement), so it's completely possi
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by Arkdy 8y ago
While some of their ideas, like composable, modular buildings are even more feasible and relevant now, given how much fabrication occurs offsite these days, the aesthetics of the buildings can seem painfully dated (see the capsule building)
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by Arkdy 8y ago
The guys behind Hacker-rank tried something similar in India. Students would pay to practise interviews with someone from the company they were applying to. Their challenge was that the difference between what they had to pay an Amazon&#x2F
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by Arkdy 9y ago
You're right, I probably used the term wrong. I was specifically addressing text based therapy apps such as BetterHelp and Talkspace. [1] https://theoutline.com/post/3462/the-sketchy-world-of-text-t... [2] h
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by Arkdy 9y ago
I can't speak to Woebot specifically, but I'd exercise caution when investigating chat based therapy. I feel like if you care enough to ask on HN, you checking in on him would quickly surpass what a bot could do. As for chat based
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by Arkdy 9y ago
I absolutely second treating it like a regular medical problem and helping him find professional help.* I'd suggest looking for a good psychologist before considering psychiatry, just because meds are a much bigger long term commitment
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by Arkdy 9y ago
I highly recommend Laravel. It's php based and ticks all your boxes except the admin ui * . It's old enough to be stable and have a large ecosystem of plugins and stackeoverflow answers. The most important thing for me was the hig
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by Arkdy 9y ago
Habitica already exists which tries to use video game leveling and such to help you develop better habits. And I've been thinking about something similar that's specifically focused on budgeting. The premise is this: 1. Your bank
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by Arkdy 9y ago
A pet peeve of mine is that there are a bunch of punishments around driving, but almost no rewards for being a safe/model driver. The only thing I can think of is those insurance companies that offer trackers that rate your driving, an
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by Arkdy 9y ago
You might be interested in _friends(1)_ which is a cli implementation of something similar :) I really liked how it showed you simple stats on your interactions and did some clever text analysis so you could make entries as regular sentence