JonathanMerklin

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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
IIRC from when I first read this back in 2020, it's Lyft. The hint is at the end (emphasis mine): "In retrospect, there were many red flags. *Well, pink flags.* Whatever."
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
If I told you to your face that you were "sick and vile" for trying to do your job to the best of your ability - without a hint of play or irony - you would probably complain to HR. Name-calling doesn't have to entail the use
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
I'm not sure if "click" is intentional wordplay or not, but if it isn't, the word is "clique" FYI. I'm also strongly of the opinion that tying core business functionality and information transfer to a thir
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this. I'm a frequent jq-to-less piper and probably a more frequent mobile browsing opener of ESPN scoreboards/subsequent grumbler about ESPN's web performance and experience. I think I'
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
Throughout the overwhelming majority of the year, I wasn't in a position where I had a lot of "sit down with a good book and a good drink" reading time, but I've gotten some in during the winters at each end. I think bes
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
Oh, so they are! So what happened here, IYI: I did a paranoiac double-check that both domains resolved and showed content before commenting, but my (...)/.compact result was with smaller text/more "squeeze". I thought it
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/.compact There's also https://i.reddit.com which is a similar but slightly different experience. EDIT: per commenters below correcting my mistake, this is "the same" experie
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
Which is frankly still a wild concept to me because when I was of prime YouTube-binging age, the maximum length of a video was 10 minutes.
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
I apologize as well for the invective tone; I was a little cranky earlier in the day when I responded to this. I have no problem with your beliefs re: meat, the subtlety did indeed go over my head, and this just seems like a textbook case o
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
Because this is the HN crowd, I cannot tell if you're serious ("not only do I not support war criminals, I don't support animal murderers") or being snarky. If you're serious, you should also stop using software wri
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
Do you perhaps think that DNS log data could be valuable for Google? As always, when a product is free...
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
> npm, Inc. is a company founded in 2014, and was acquired by GitHub in 2020. https://www.npmjs.com/about > Headquartered in California, [GitHub] has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018. https://en.wi
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
I'll do my next reboot at nine, I'll do my next commute with wine.
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
I propose the alternative that death is instant disqualification regardless of game state, which incentivises murder as a strategy and adds an additional psychological tax but also a necessity to resolve disputes in a way that really makes
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
Corporate businesswave is so perfectly my aesthetic, thank you so much for the recommendation.
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
The generalization we're looking for here is Sturgeon's Law.
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
I think "less accessible" is a disingenuous way to put it. The internet has made his works more accessible, not less. The problem (for the Gardner estate, I suppose) is not availability, but discovery - there is significantly more
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
Two questions, since I enjoyed the few Stephensons I've read: 1) a quick search of FoDiH brings up that it's from the perspective of a character in Reamde, which is one of his I have not read yet. Is it a mandatory prerequisite, a
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
I was referring more to "the state of California" being the plaintiff, for which giantg2 gave me the minutiae I was interested in. I hope it's obvious that I didn't think this was the first sexual harassment/pay dis
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
On topic: Does anyone know if there is some precedent for lawsuits like this? From years of experience in the art of existing as a human, I would guess A-B can't possibly be the only organization with these problems, but if a lawsuit l
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
I think this depends on the artist (though perhaps you're already conceding this point with your "particularly for" qualifier). Caravaggio had masterful control of lighting and form, but was a murderer (manslaughterer). Someo
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
Then what was the impetus to switch off of Bitwarden?
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
For HN, you should know about: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=custom&page=0&prefix=false...
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by JonathanMerklin 5y ago
Thought I'd comment to note that (as of 2021-05-14T22:07:00Z) this just does the alert() POC and isn't nefarious, if anyone is deeply curious enough to click but cautious enough to avoid a deaddove.jpg situation
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by JonathanMerklin 6y ago
If this paper whets your appetite (talking mostly to grandparent comment, but also HN at large) OR alternatively if you think that this paper is a bit too advanced for your knowledge level, I implore you to read Scott Aaronson's book &
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by JonathanMerklin 6y ago
The best teams IMO have about a 10/10/80 split between people who do great work and know it, people who do great work and don't know it, and people who don't do great work (caveat: they should do ACCEPTABLE work) but are
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by JonathanMerklin 6y ago
Not necessarily "any strategy" - if you have interactive kingdoms it may be better to slow your opponent down (feed them curses, feed them junk, make them discard,outpace their Province/Duchy-driven victory points via alterna
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by JonathanMerklin 6y ago
As far as sportswriters go, if you're interested in the sentimental, I always used to flip to Rick Reilly's column in Sports Illustrated before reading any other part of the magazine (back when I was in school and could snag my da
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by JonathanMerklin 7y ago
alasdair_ might be referring to WotC's lack of support for the 1996 Netrunner. One major expansion that really did fix a lot of things, then the poorly-distributed Classic (which had mechanics that showed great promise; facedown runner
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by JonathanMerklin 7y ago
Honest question, really trying hard not to word it in a standoffish way: what do you get out of a therapist that can't be obtained from thought or general conversation outside of therapy? I don't think a "brilliant rational m

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