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by Smudge 12y ago
The issue of real name policies has come up many times before, most noticeably with Google+. From what I've seen, people tend to fall into these three camps (guess which one I fall into): - I don't get it. Why does it matter. Just
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by Smudge 12y ago
drag personas != standup personas, unless you're promoting your drag identity as a business (?) I'd equate it more to simply having multiple identities. Some people know you as John Smith. Others know you as Sister Roma. When they
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by Smudge 12y ago
Believe it or not, there are still people in the world who are victims of violence, abuse, and/or hatred, for whom revealing their legal name, or allowing their online identities to be revealed in searches for their name, might mean pu
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by Smudge 12y ago
So, by this versioning logic, Microsoft would also have to skip Windows 70-89, and many versions after 99, since 10-69 and 90-99 would be used by that time. They'd also have to skip 95 and 98, of course. Am I missing any other versions
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by Smudge 12y ago
Yeah, my intent is not to overly praise that particular department, as much as highlight the difference in their mission statements. Whether or not they adhere to those is another thing.
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by Smudge 12y ago
I understand the distinction and the philosophical differences. The USFS and USDA are, overall, a good thing for us to have, and they clearly serve a different role from the National Park Service, et. al. That said, having seen first-hand a
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by Smudge 12y ago
I don't doubt that Crossfit does a lot of good, but after reading this I decided not to try it personally: https://medium.com/@ericrobertson/crossfits-dirty-little-sec... https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by Smudge 12y ago
I recently tried to go hiking in Colorado with my dad in an area that he remembered being a great hike ~20 years ago. Well, we get there, and we realize the majority of the area has become an RV camp littered with dirt bike trails, despite
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by Smudge 12y ago
I'm probably dating myself a little, but this was true for me as well. Pre-college, everyone used AIM. During college, most social communication happened on email lists, with some 1:1 communication happening through the first version
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by Smudge 12y ago
Really? This is definitely not true in my experience. Most startup employees I've talked to absolutely know that 1%, 10% 30%, whatever, of nothing (or practically nothing) is still nothing. They're not in it for the rare chance th
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by Smudge 12y ago
One thing this methodology doesn't account for is company culture. It would be tough to predict in aggregate, though... You could start by crawling for key words in job board posts. Companies that value, for instance, 'vacation&#x
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by Smudge 12y ago
Not if you upgraded to hangouts.
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by Smudge 12y ago
I've started combining both approaches, with help from SASS's '@extend' directive. What I mean is, I have a section of my CSS for defining all of those simple, modular classes like 'button' and 'button-rou
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by Smudge 12y ago
Yeah I'll second this. You can also use the @extend directive to make selector definitions inheritable (kinda), in the case where 'rounded' and 'large' do have to be classes. .buy { @extend .large; @exte
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by Smudge 12y ago
> or disproportionately benefit parts of the population Wouldn't more people be able to afford internet access under this municipal connection's pricing than under Comcast/Verizon/Time Warner/etc? I have trouble
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by Smudge 12y ago
Does your `.dev` container access conflict with users of pow.cx? Is that configurable?
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by Smudge 12y ago
Yeah I found that loading indicator bizarre. What am I waiting for? Is it circumventing the browser's rendering engine and doing it all in canvas or something? (I mean, I know it's not, that would be silly. It's more likely h
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by Smudge 12y ago
I'm interested to hear you back up that point about modularity coming naturally in functional languages. Not because I don't believe you -- I've worked with both Haskell and Scala and found both quite refreshing. But I'v
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by Smudge 12y ago
Pshaw, those were just some protocols built on top of a network.
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by Smudge 12y ago
I consider the $100/hr designer and the Fiverr designer in two entirely different markets. At the low-end, you get what you pay for, which is not much. But sometimes you don't need much. You're not really taking business away
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by Smudge 12y ago
In order to be world-changing, Facebook and Twitter don't have to fundamentally change the way humans communicate and organize into movements. Because they don't -- as you pointed out, humans have followed these patterns time an
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by Smudge 12y ago
By that argument, no individual product or platform is truly important because everything is just built on what came before. Things that seem truly revolutionary are, more often than not, incremental changes on previous ideas that were ea
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by Smudge 12y ago
Interesting perspective. It's unfortunate that you can get bit even when trying to play fair. Even if LinkedIn's mistake was similarly unwitting, we should try to learn something from it. Maybe the rules have become too complex, o
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by Smudge 12y ago
> The DOM was filled with things like “ng-click” which reminded me of the spaghetti age of HTML and Javascript. This was actually my biggest complaint, and still is even after learning to use Angular and Backbone. It always feels like I&
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by Smudge 12y ago
The issue I have with ranking/review systems is that, more often than not, they become self-fulfilling prophecies. A negative mark will change the way a manager perceives an employee. The employee's positive contributions will sud
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by Smudge 12y ago
> This company has shown a great deal of integrity by fully cooperating with investigators and stepping up to the plate without hesitation to help make workers whole ... We are particularly pleased that LinkedIn also has committed to tak
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by Smudge 12y ago
Crunchbutton (.com) started as something similar (originally called "One Button Wenzel", named after a sandwich famous on Yale campus). It's an interesting idea, and might be particularly suited to orders like pizza, which ar
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by Smudge 12y ago
Use the right tool for the job. If accessing a meaningful subset of your data requires 14 joins and returns 600 attributes, your data model probably isn't going to be friendly to many ORMs. Just write the SQL, maintain the sprocs and t
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by Smudge 12y ago
Preprocessors often have prefix support baked in. It's not about explicitly testing your site for backwards compatibility. It's about casting that net as far as possible with minimal effort.
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by Smudge 12y ago
The trick is to make those 4 hours as productive as possible, so the rest of your day can be spent on more menial tasks. Finding the right balance comes with time and experience, so I wouldn't stress about it too much. Sometimes people

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