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by GuiA 8y ago
This is a fascinating map, thanks. Does anyone know why federal land is so concentrated to the western half of the US? Is the “empty land” in states like Texas state owned? Why?
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by GuiA 8y ago
50% refers to the mix of male and female people who get distracted by this; in my experience as a technical writer who would always use “he” when I was less experienced, perhaps 70% of women and 30% of men? It was certainly one aspect of my
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by GuiA 8y ago
You’ll notice that my previous post uses “they” as shorthand for “the user”. If your last remaining argument is that “he” is 2 letters and “they” is 4 and thus it’s unequivocally better to always use “he”, it’s not a very good one.
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by GuiA 8y ago
Except there is no such thing as “Correct English”. If we were speaking about eg contemporary France French, you would have a point - there is a governing body decreeing what is correct French and what isn’t. That is not the case for Englis
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by GuiA 8y ago
There is a user, they are using the system, and that’s about as much as we know about them.
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by GuiA 8y ago
No need to keep a tally; in 2018, any document that exclusively uses masculine pronouns for genderless subjects reads as outdated. When writing on technical topics, the chief concern is to be clear, accurate, and straightforward. Anything t
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by GuiA 8y ago
...You can also make Tracker show a window for a particular folder in order to show the user where a particular file has been stored and give him access to it directly.... ...By removing unneeded items from the file navigation window, yo
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"What researchers have learned so far is that writing systems vary extensively not only in their visual appearance (e.g., alphabetic vs. logographic and visual complexity) but also in many other factors such as orthographic depth and
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by GuiA 8y ago
You can do this right now for Open Street Map :) the pay is terrible ($0), but the resulting data is open! https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contribute_map_data
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by GuiA 8y ago
Good article; strikes a nice balance between a loving ode to a grandfather, and exploring how science is much more conservative than one might think. Reminds me of this article [0], and specifically this passage, which makes the point that
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by GuiA 8y ago
...buying theater tickets or books also increases the GDP?
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by GuiA 8y ago
Would love to read more about this.
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by GuiA 8y ago
It's touristy, but most travelers want to do the touristy stuff anyway. As far as touristy stuff goes, it's certainly far from the worst. I went there a few weeks ago because a Japanese friend had never been and wanted to go befor
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by GuiA 8y ago
French typographic rules prescribe a space before ‘!’, ‘;’, ‘:’, and ‘?’.
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by GuiA 8y ago
You’ve probably heard it without noticing - eg “Mesdames et messieurs” (ladies and gentlemen) is still in common use.
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by GuiA 8y ago
Do you think they care that techies get annoyed at Chrome? If you’re browsing google.com - which most people on the internet outside of China are doing - without Chrome, you get an intrusive notice telling you that installing Chrome is the
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by GuiA 8y ago
You made the best decision you could at the time. That’s the only thing and best thing you can ever do in life.
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by GuiA 8y ago
I was shocked to discover that many people making salaries amongst the highest percentile in the world are indeed a few months without paychecks away from being in an unpleasant financial situation. I’m not too sure what the overarching re
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by GuiA 8y ago
What does it mean, to “love” someone? Is it a prescriptive phenomenon - where if I say I love you, then we must take it at face value regardless of my actions towards you? Or is it a more descriptive thing, where my acts may show that I lov
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by GuiA 8y ago
Anecdata, but I see selfie sticks in Tokyo used for group photos much more than individual selfies. One presumes that the resulting photo is then shared within the group.
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by GuiA 8y ago
> ”He makes exposures at 1/5th of a second, has to junk two-thirds of his negatives,” That’s quite impressive especially given the subjects and shutter speed; if I get 1/3 of negatives I’m happy with on a 120 roll, it’s a ver
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by GuiA 8y ago
Makes you wonder why smaller family or close-friends type social networks don't work. Because they are run by for profit companies, operating in a capitalistic framework. That is one of the core pillars of free software as envisioned
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by GuiA 8y ago
The downside of course being the constant background noise of chewing, drinking, glasses clattering, lights under every table, and subpar quality projectors. Can’t have it all.
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by GuiA 8y ago
If you care about the compensation, go with Google. If you feel like the startup is doing something unbelievable and you want to be onboard, go with them. Google will still be around in a few years, and if you got an offer from them now you
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by GuiA 8y ago
The military is, for many, vocational training, even though you may disagree with its outcomes (I certainly do).
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by GuiA 8y ago
Mapping is a noble application. There’s probably more money to be made in the 24/7 monitoring of private citizens, including in their own homes.
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by GuiA 8y ago
A cursory google search seems to indicate those are prices for racing camels. In that case, not too surprising - one observes similar gaps between race horses and “every day” horses.
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Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel" https://en.wikipedia.
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by GuiA 8y ago
It would be wonderful if anyone commenting on HN with “studies have found...” would accompany their comment with links to said studies :)
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by GuiA 8y ago
Tech people were never very intelligent. By definition, they were (and are) informed/educated in one specific discipline, but that has no correlation whatsoever with being intelligent. This is true regardless of the discipline. You can

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