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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
More accurate title: "Race is a psychological phenomenon" And of course that means that silly, knee-jerk reactions to it prevail in human culture ...as well as silly concepts such as "one-drop" (as in: of blood) - wherein Obama gets called
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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
Or maybe make viewing it optional ? I really appreciate the cleanness of the pages under the current system.
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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
Nope. There's lots of places for designer news. I visit them for that. If you raise "designer issues" that have broad appeal to the somewhat geekier HN audience, they'll get addressed here - and probably with more explanation of arcane und
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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
What makes HN valuable (to me at least) is a higher-grade pool of tech-savvy commenters - folks who'll bring new perspectives to a problem/issue being discussed. ...and not filling up the pages with "comments" like >>Awesome post!
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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
But it always hot where you've got a T1 ... But then the sunshine is sweeter along our Front Range. [ Colorado ]
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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
My question would be: why the secrecy? HN worried that transparency about the processes of ratings & their "rewards" (which (plus + $5.00) will buy you a cappuccino) would lead to abuse of the system? I think openness system would all
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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
Help needed: Maybe it should be obvious, but I'm missing it: what's the interest group that's "meetingup"? HackNews fans?
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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
What about University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)? My graduate school. Anyone remember when they built their own campus-wide system - wasn't it a rather unique hardware - early Amdahl or something?
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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
Yah (alum). Majored in psychology, if you can believe it (early Pleistocene Era: Programmed in Fortran, if anyone has ever heard of that;) ).
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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
Well college can expose you to good communication practices... For example: remembering to spellcheck or even to proofread -- the latter helping with the impression you make by adopting conventional presentations (like "business") rather
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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
The world email system is broken... Makes me wonder about proposed "solutions" such as the mini-charge per email sent. I'm not sure I see the fix in this post, but at least it's forewarning us about some temporary workaraounds - and som
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by CalmQuiet 18y ago
Lots of costs, risks, benefits... to be weighed. And certainly a lot of them are NOT about salary and security. It's worth taking a look at Scott Shane's January 2008 “Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths that Entrepreneurs, Inve