DanielStraight

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by DanielStraight 11y ago
Many more options here: http://writeordie.com/
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What trackball is that? Does it have scrolling capability?
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Suggestion from the third (non-quote) paragraph: "Tipping marginalizes those who depend on it." This seems to be the central thesis of the article. Or at a higher level: "Interview with Saru Jayaraman about tipping".
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
Indeed. This has been the wording since at least May of 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20130518184355/http://www.sublim... It's just saying that licenses don't automatically carry over to th
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David Parlett's Original Card Games(davpar.eu)
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Class A Game of Phonetics, Phonology, and Classifying Sounds(opencuny.org)
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
See also: http://opencuny.org/laurenspradlin/the-morphophonology-of-to... The presentation is really good: http://opencuny.org/laurenspradlin/files/2016/01/Totes-LSA-S... This is re
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
I don't mean to be dismissive, but I really don't understand what you're trying to say. My understanding is that we are talking about face-to-face interaction with a clearly frustrated person. Why wouldn't you know they
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
You can empathize with their feelings regardless the reason for them. If they are frustrated, you understand feeling frustrated, so empathize. If they are angry, you understand feeling angry, so empathize. The precise reason doesn't ma
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
This is a pretty good list: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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If we could rebuild the internet from scratch knowing that someone would try to do this, what measures could be put in place to make it impossible to MITM traffic (in other words, make it so the only option is to install monitoring software
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This is really cool and really well done. You should probably put the link to the GitHub page on it and add a LICENSE file to specify if it's open source though! It would also be really nice to have a feature to hide the points and con
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
Worth noting that the Dechoker covers a wider age range. LifeVac says not recommended under 40 pounds (probably age 3-5), Dechoker goes down to 6 months with the toddler version.
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To clarify, my intention wasn't to say that the criticism wasn't warranted, just that it wasn't the right way to phrase it as a letter to the people involved. In a blog post directed to a general audience, it wouldn't
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
I appreciate the effort and kudos on being proactive, but this is not an effective way of talking to someone whose mind you are hoping to change. This will be read in a positive light only by people who already agree with the author and are
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
> Just because we have found a way to uniquely identify cords does not mean it will lead to a uniform distribution. This is the sentence that helped me understand the paradox. Perhaps this analogy will help. Think about how technically p
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
Does it dispense directly into the cup or into a bag? I know some people leave their tea in their cup the whole time they're drinking, but I find it's really best to control steeping time and limit it to a few minutes.
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
Original research has much better information: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... For example, the far simpler method of soaking and then just using more water and draining the rice. &
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
When it was colored orange, nearly half thought it was flavored orange. When it was colored green, none did (think it was flavored orange). So the color alone made people perceive an orange taste in an actually lime-flavored drink.
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
"Who's hiring" is now an official feature of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9635551
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
I'm not saying whether I agree or disagree, but this is worth reading: http://tomkow.typepad.com/tomkowcom/2012/07/a-few-short-step... Note: I know absolutely nothing about the author of this piece. The
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
The classic essay Big Ball of Mud is relevant as well: http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html
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> You're probably going to need to deal with the WhatsApp legal team very soon. And for good reason. Remember that trademarks are a consumer protection policy to avoid confusion. I was certainly confused at first. If it wasn't
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
You need to talk to a lawyer, not a random assortment of anonymous HN readers.
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This is addressed in the article. "However, if potential cyclists see everyone else in their community wearing helmets while riding a bike, it communicates that biking is a dangerous activity that requires special protective gear.&quot
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If you were writing the code on a contractual basis for the company, then they presumably own the code. If you produced a piece of software and then licensed it to them, you would still own the code, but that does not sound like the case he
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Thank you for putting into clear words my gut impression that this wouldn't produce the intended result. I wonder if you couldn't do better with binary questions. I'm reminded of the site http://www.correlated.org&
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
So... is this group text to contacts who are within some radius by GPS position?
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Java is widespread. Whether it's important or not depends on the project. It's not so much that Java has a steep learning curve, it's that Java has the Java way of doing things (namely, object-oriented programming taken to th
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by DanielStraight 11y ago
Python 3. It is fairly simple to learn. It is cross-platform. It is suitable for server-side programming. It has an extensive standard library and an active ecosystem for additional libraries. It has IPython. It uses, and therefore helps yo

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