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by adiabatty 11y ago
I'm on the other side of the pond, but: If London mostly ignores things outside of London, what makes you think Brussels will be more attentive?
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by adiabatty 11y ago
This sort of thing — grouping incoming students based on prior ability — is fairly common in introductory foreign-language courses. If you don't do this, it's extraordinarily difficult to teach at a pace that isn't generally
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by adiabatty 11y ago
Relatedly, there's a Code of Merit that has vaguely similar aims: < http://code-of-merit.org> . I don't expect it's everyone's cup of tea (I'm not even sure I'd use it unedited, if at all), but
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by adiabatty 11y ago
For the uninitiated: the last paragraph of the parent post is a fairly old copypasta (chunk of text that gets copied and pasted into different places). The substantive — or at least original — portion of the comment is in the first two para
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by adiabatty 11y ago
That's the risk of putting yourself out there on the Internet — someone might threaten to kill you/rape you/make you unemployable. I tend to keep a low profile for this reason. That said, what's p(murdered and/or ra
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by adiabatty 11y ago
I'm happy I have a habit of clicking through to the HN comments before reading the article, then.
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by adiabatty 11y ago
On the other hand, why should your tax bill go up simply because other people are willing to spend increasingly large amounts of money to buy a house like yours? It's not like income tax where your tax bill only goes up when you get mo
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by adiabatty 11y ago
Sort of. App.net's big experiment was "charge users money instead of monetizing their eyeballs". Twitter outages and developer alienation helped fuel its initial rise.
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by adiabatty 11y ago
A bunch of game developers had .plan files back in the late 90s, but we Windows users had to visit a third-party site to view John Carmack's .plan because Windows didn't have a finger client. This is better than finger in some way
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by adiabatty 11y ago
It's not hard to imagine 20,000 people who want five things each…but all of these people want a different set of five things.
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by adiabatty 11y ago
> maybe there are all kinds of ways to elucidate the useful tools of rationalism, and the format of CFAR might not even be close to optimal unless your goal is to vend a status merit badge to a certain set of semi-wealthy people. I'
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by adiabatty 11y ago
It sounds like some people forgot a `Vary: Cookie` header while they were all running around with their hair on fire because of the DDoS.
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by adiabatty 11y ago
If it were just "cult" I'd wonder where the meetings are being held, what the initiation rites are, and if there are cool-looking robes worn at them.
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by adiabatty 11y ago
Do microbeads show up in products like Gojo Fast Orange and other degreasers — that is, things a mechanic would use to clean gunk off his hands?
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by adiabatty 11y ago
"There is a lot of ruin in a nation." — Adam Smith This seems to be true of all sorts of large, complicated systems. Smith naturally focused on countries, but large organizations like companies and nonprofits can waste resources l
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by adiabatty 11y ago
Nowhere in that post did I see the opinion that good patches be rejected on the grounds that the author is an SJW — ESR appears to say he's quite happy to accept good contributions from anyone. What am I missing?
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by adiabatty 11y ago
Sort of. http://vigor.sourceforge.net/
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by adiabatty 11y ago
My hunch is that they see "show people fewer lame ads" is merely a side effect of interesting research.
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by adiabatty 11y ago
> > large amounts of low-quality advertising. > Is there any other kind? I'd say The Deck manages to be high-quality, low-volume advertising. One of their rules is "our ad is the only ad on the page". http:/&#x
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by adiabatty 11y ago
Not really. Instapaper's design was such that you had to look at the site — with all the ads — at least once to save the page to it. This was by design. Instapaper users wouldn't see ads on subsequent pages or on subsequent viewin
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by adiabatty 11y ago
Someone did start from scratch, almost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITALY
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by adiabatty 11y ago
My first thought after seeing the video was "you could make a really cool James Bond-movie introductory title scene or five with this".
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by adiabatty 11y ago
With Omni apps I have a habit (N=2) of the following: - download desktop trial - buy iOS app - begin to like the combination - buy desktop app
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by adiabatty 11y ago
Assuming you dislike carrying splitter dongles, it sounds like the new MacBook isn't for you. (It's not for me, either.)
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by adiabatty 11y ago
The thing about the arguments to an http.HandlerFunc is that everyone uses w and r for the argument names because everyone else does. Additionally, if you're writing a http.HandlerFunc, you're likely repeatedly exposed to a bunch
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by adiabatty 12y ago
> Why should it matter to you if other people up or down vote your comments and submissions? If I'm not getting any votes or other feedback, I take this as evidence that I'm shouting into the void and wasting my time.