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by GuiA 9y ago
A big problem with the current incarnation of democracy is that there is no accountability over time of the various goals that officials claim to pursue. If someone running for office says that they will make sure the local firehouse gets a
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by GuiA 9y ago
The author seems to be well in his middle age, and wears glasses. His visual acuity might make his subjective experience irrelevant on that specific point. I can tell the difference between retina and non retina 27” on a desk (but I have 20
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by GuiA 9y ago
“Coup de foudre” is love at first sight.
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by GuiA 9y ago
See also: https://www.wired.com/story/selfie-factories-instagram-museu...
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by GuiA 9y ago
Trump got 62,979,636 votes. That's 46% of voters, but 24% of the population eligible to vote (and 20% of the total population).
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by GuiA 9y ago
Design teams at large companies that have a strong design culture, ad agencies, and design studios working on contract work (particularly installations for music events etc) are the kind of day jobs where you can work on these kind of thing
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by GuiA 9y ago
This is an amazing anecdote. Spinning up a side company to solve a need you have as a company that isn’t addressed by the market is the winning lottery ticket of entrepreneurship (you have validated the product/service because you need
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by GuiA 9y ago
Artists will often do things by hand that take them countless hours. Occasionally, a programmer will see that and exclaim “I could write a script to do that in an afternoon!” I have been both on the programmer side and the artist side. Whil
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by GuiA 9y ago
In general, there’s more to gain by putting something out there than not, even if you think it’s unfinished/no one will care/etc. I’ve published things in the past that I thought were utter crap. Most of them never got any respons
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by GuiA 9y ago
$15 is expensive! I can cover a 40 mile stretch of land in Tokyo using public transit for about $5. And I'll be supporting a transit company that serves the entire community, instead of an SF startup that is abusing contract workers. I
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by GuiA 9y ago
There are a few niche venues, but overall yeah I agree with your assessment. One compounding factor is that public transportation in SF has terrible coverage, stops early, and just kind of sucks all around. In Tokyo or Paris, spending the n
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by GuiA 9y ago
The HTML/CSS/JS split is great ideologically, but have you looked at the source code of any web app lately? It’s a jumble of all 3, with modern frameworks like react encouraging you to work with the whole, injecting things as need
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by GuiA 9y ago
>Maybe the lifestyle is different as a VC, but as an engineer, this seems so disjointed from reality that it's almost farcical. I can barely get some of my coworkers to stop talking about code for more than a breath. There's n
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A beginner's guide to longevity research(ldeming.com)
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by GuiA 9y ago
The one preinstalled on their phone, as long as it has a text field at the top where they can just type where they want to go. Most people don’t give any thought to these things.
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See the blog post. Other sources are used. https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...
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by GuiA 9y ago
Buying used is fantastic. Even setting a few Craigslist alerts can lead to wonderful things happening. I had a friend shopping around for a professional level digital camera recently, and he didn’t realize until I told him that he could buy
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by GuiA 9y ago
Is this a Jason Rohrer game? Because if not Jason Rohrer probably wishes he had come up with it.
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People who frequent these French villages do not have incomes that let them dine out in such a place 10-15 times a year.
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I work as a designer, and this golden ratio thing is hilarious. The only designers who consciously use the golden ratio are junior designers eager to find some deep, mystic design rule that will guarantee all their designs to be beautiful.
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by GuiA 9y ago
I quit academia, frustrated at how bureaucratic it was and how impossible it seemed to become a Great Scientist. Very inspiring to read about the lives of those who make it against all odds. May the work and memory of Ben Barres carry the n
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by GuiA 9y ago
I agree with your assessment, and came to realize these things when I did my first internship in a company, as my university requires this to graduate (that was almost 10 years ago now). At the time, I felt quite depressed by it. The person
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by GuiA 9y ago
+1, text diff highlighting would be a great usability win.
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Toki Pona (a minimal language)(en.wikipedia.org)
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So, in other words, "gadgets". Kitchen gadgets (rather than tech gadgets) are also a popular choice for that kind of gift. There are 2 kinds of gifts I like to give that aren't "purely sacrificial gifts": either a b
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A Tech Pioneer’s Final, Unexpected Act(newyorker.com)
20 points by GuiA 9y ago|1 comments
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Vi Hart is an amazing math communicator, and is a model of what teaching math in fun, hands on, intuitive ways looks like. I’d pay a lot of money to see what she could do with a full television crew to produce a PBS style math show. https:
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Tweetable Mathematical Art(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
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Hard to give concrete advice without knowing your specifics (how many months/years of savings do you have? Do you have any dependents? Any debt such as a mortgage? Etc). As other commenters point out, not working a regular day job is p
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by GuiA 9y ago
4% withdrawal rate is a conservative figure often used to live “forever” from a portfolio (use 3% if you want to be more conservative, 5-6% for more risk friendly). To get $30k a year, that’s a starting portfolio of $750k. [0] If you’re mak

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