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by O____________O 12y ago
It's like that always - small boats have to give way to large ones for example. Boats traveling through fluid, controlled by a relatively tiny prop, are in no way comparable to road-going vehicles that enjoy the static friction of ru
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by O____________O 12y ago
in my home of Vancouver the construction of towers has been constant for decades and prices have only skyrocketed in response. My friends in Vancouver have told me that many of the modern buildings only have something like a 35% year-roun
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by O____________O 12y ago
There's nothing wrong with voluntary, safe circumcision for the purposes of lowering HIV transmission There is when that's a highly contested claim! And when condom use or strict monogamy overshadow it in effectiveness. The be
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by O____________O 12y ago
I have a family and the job pays the bills. Sounds like you have a pretty good life! If we spent more time appreciating the things we do have, and less time lamenting the things we don't (promotions, specific career trajectories), th
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by O____________O 12y ago
Who needs to upgrade to the next device? More likely, you'll upgrade every N devices, where N depends on your personal needs. This, incidentally, is almost certainly the purchasing behavior of the vast majority of computer owners.
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by O____________O 12y ago
Why, me and my friends and colleagues, Chinese and South African and Ghanian and Kenyan are on github. I'm very offended you suggested only white people can afford to be on github. That's not what I said. Go back and reread my
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by O____________O 12y ago
There are plenty of non-white people in github. I'd like to see how you analyzed the race of github contributors. I'd also like to know what "plenty" means. Personally, I strongly suspect that you'll see fairly
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by O____________O 12y ago
objective and meritocratic nerd hiring practices (e.g. hire-by-github, death by brainteaser) That selects for adequately privileged (generally) white males with the spare time to create projects on github and a particular interest in brai
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by O____________O 12y ago
This reminded me of the Swedish study that noticed a correlation (they were very clear about this!) between vinyl flooring and autism in their data: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/link-between-autis... Tha
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by O____________O 12y ago
Not all things are about speed. Are you kidding me? You just wrote: The user perceives lag after 300ms, and switches thought in less than a 1000ms. If your screen doesn't engage the user while it's making the switch, you ris
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by O____________O 12y ago
I don't know why asking for a counter-argument would get me banned You didn't do that. You wrote snark about downvotes. or how you know anything about being banned from HN when you've been a member for 86 days What, you
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by O____________O 12y ago
What we wanted wasn't for the big telecom duopoly to be forced to either run their business as a tiered service or as a regulated utility. That's exactly what I wanted. It will lead to more consumer-facing competition. What
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by O____________O 12y ago
The Affordable Healthcare Act was ... created by morons Really? I thought it was drafted by very clever, largely self-interested people. I treat down-votes in the absence of a counter-argument as up-votes. Good luck with that. Sounds
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by O____________O 12y ago
Interesting video. It looks like the Chromecast can be used to mirror an Android phone's display, which might help with the HDMI vs USB connectivity trade-off. https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/605
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by O____________O 12y ago
The user perceives lag after 300ms So write efficient, responsive software. If your screen doesn't engage the user while it's making the switch There are many ways to "engage the user" without wasting cycles on anima
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by O____________O 12y ago
Yes, I misread. So now I'm not really impressed with anything about the product. ;-)
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by O____________O 12y ago
Do you just desire UI to not be animated at all? In general, yes. Here are some examples: MS Word (2013? I honestly have no idea what version I have installed what with the new UI) does a horizontal page-turn animation when viewing docu
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by O____________O 12y ago
I think animated transitions are the skeuomorphism of 2015. Mind you, I'm technically impressed that an E-Ink display can now be animated, but I can't wait for the end of the animated UI boom.
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by O____________O 12y ago
in order to pick the "right" value of N, you have to know what value of N will maximize the greater good. What? No. The comment said nothing whatsoever about 'N'. GP's comment was exactly this, and nothing more
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by O____________O 12y ago
I distinctly remember the day at my first job out of college when my boss realized that I didn't know how to effectively use a debugger. He proceeded to sit down with me and demonstrate proper use of breakpoints, conditional breakpoin
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by O____________O 12y ago
Not my problem. I'm only pointing out that the parent comment asked a question that implied a misunderstanding of GP.
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by O____________O 12y ago
Come up with analytics to support your findings Analytics are irrelevant when you're writing some huge internal service for a company whose conservative upgrade policy dictates that only one older browser will be installed and used c
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by O____________O 12y ago
He indicated that the law would limit a company to N employees. The stated goal was to benefit the greater good, but the metric was simply a number.
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by O____________O 12y ago
They probably tasked a junior programmer with working around SSL I don't think I've seen a junior anything who was informed and insightful enough to write a network proxy, including SSL support, and the necessary certificate wor
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by O____________O 12y ago
That's a good point, and an idea I hadn't thought of.
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by O____________O 12y ago
Usually closed as non-constructive (I think that's S.O.'s wording).
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by O____________O 12y ago
Working on a tourist visa is illegal in most countries I've been to. It was just discussed the other day that Thailand now allows remote work on a tourist visa. You've provided a pretty good example of why such a site would hav
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by O____________O 12y ago
Every time I work on a project dealing with unusual C++/Windows/COM topics, I end up hitting a high percentage of highly relevant, closed questions. The worst are the ones where I figure out the convoluted solution, but I can&#x2
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by O____________O 12y ago
The fact that you work online while travelling to a foreign country? That alone represents a huge swath of possibilities. Which countries have no problem with foreign workers on tourist visas? Where are co-working locations? Who's
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by O____________O 12y ago
but I'm a bit older (late 30s), I don't want to do the "hostel" thing Assuming you haven't done much traveling, you'd be surprised at who shows up at hostels. It varies greatly by area, but it's not all

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