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by adjkant 8y ago
Maybe so in this case, but it's likely many new users will read your post, and defaulting to a friendlier tone benefits everyone yeah?
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by adjkant 8y ago
If you actually want posting and the community to get better, a more helpful and understanding attitude goes a lot father than the approach above. Example: "I think posts like this aren't really relevant here as many languages sha
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by adjkant 8y ago
I see comments like this a lot about Perl and PHP as if they are trying to justify why they shouldn't have fallen out of favor. Both languages had plenty of good things, but rehashing them in this way doesn't do anything because t
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by adjkant 8y ago
I think part of that lack of outward friendliness is both transplants generally as well as those people that don't actually want to be there. But yes, the monoculture is the key problem. I was considering moving to SF because I loved t
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by adjkant 8y ago
When I was a teen, my clock was 27 hours. I did the vacation and natural wakeups and rotated around the clock in 7 days. It's decreased a bit but I think it's still around 25-26 hours.
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by adjkant 8y ago
> As for using risk as an excuse to avoid it—nuclear power is orders of magnitude safer than air travel, but you don't see anyone deciding that we should continue to travel by boat. if you look at failure rate, there are only 450 nu
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by adjkant 8y ago
Eh, I think that's discounting it too far in the other direction. MBTI is a mostly arbitrary and limited categorization system with very shaky psychological/sociological grounding, but it still is grounded on parts of personality
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by adjkant 8y ago
Why the assumption? I'm very much a proponent of INTJ's developing their feeling side and tbh I prefer INFJ's to INTJ's personally. It doesn't change that the difference is in only one category, and not in one I wou
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by adjkant 8y ago
> my Myers-Briggs personality type is INFJ, but most programmers are not. Aren't most programmers INTJ? Debate about MBTI aside, that's really not much of a difference...
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by adjkant 8y ago
I'm not a nuclear expert or anything but can you cite this? Isn't a big negative of nuclear exactly that the waste lasts for so long? What exactly does "relatively harmless" mean?
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by adjkant 8y ago
You say afraid as if it is a bad thing. When you consider the timescale of nuclear power plants and how long nuclear power has existed, safety stats seem to have a pretty low sample size with a lot of uncharted territory. That fear you ment
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by adjkant 8y ago
I think your points generally stand, but I think Facebook open source raises some specific issues at least worth consideration: If your use of it contributes to its popularity, perhaps becoming the standard of X area, does that give Faceboo
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by adjkant 8y ago
no that's a meme lol
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by adjkant 8y ago
Google Home has this though it's easy for humans to beat. It would stop a parrot though.
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by adjkant 8y ago
ESPN had way better last I checked
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by adjkant 8y ago
I think you answered your own question - it's not targeting power users. IMO it's targeting a few groups: - Grandpa who wants to see all the family photos and is not completely behind technically - Grandpa's kids who are tire
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by adjkant 8y ago
Quip has a great interface for documentation/instructions and easily leaving comments, would highly recommend it. https://quip.com/ Disclaimer: Nothing to do with them, just at a company that uses it and finds it very
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by adjkant 8y ago
Anecdotally I have friends from 20-26 and not a single one is without a computer. Phones getting more powerful doesn't eliminate the computer. In fact, I know way more people without a TV than without a comnputer, as the computer repla
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by adjkant 8y ago
Yes. The acquisition of these companies frankly should have triggered anti-trust laws if they were actually written to their purposes.
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by adjkant 8y ago
In most cases I'd agree, but essentially JS has gotten to the point that it's only usable if you write an entirely new language on top of it, like React/Vue/Angular have. All of them are basically to avoid the confusion
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by adjkant 8y ago
I really don't get how JS on the client and the server is any real advantage - besides sharing some syntax, the models and paradigms are so drastically different it might as well be two different languages. Why make the server so bad w
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by adjkant 8y ago
This is when I really hate how much potential the US squanders :(
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by adjkant 8y ago
I'm not sure what ratio makes sense but let's say 50/50 taxes/paying. They are paying with taxes, there's no need for loans. It also means they have a cheap subsidized food option with the ability to socialize at th
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by adjkant 8y ago
Eh I'm not saying it's perfect but I think a few pieces are missing from your version: - The government subsidized price to make it a low enough cost because it's certainly can't be as expensive as a golden corral - The
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by adjkant 8y ago
The key point here though is that they are explicitly designed to consume you. Notification patterns, feed organization, how the online connection between two people is displayed, what gamification factors as included, what metrics are incl
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by adjkant 8y ago
I'm curious what would happen if municipalities tried to become like universities: - City sponsored interest clubs (over 300 and it only takes 10 people and a sponsor to start one!!!) - City created dining halls in every neighborhood w
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by adjkant 8y ago
Curious why this is downvoted as while I think there are probably much larger factors, the physical size of an officer compared to their use of force is certainly something that would make logical sense to correlate somehow given how societ
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by adjkant 8y ago
Just because race doesn't exist outside of social conventions doesn't mean it isn't a relevant factor. In fact, it's explicitly not irrelevant for things within our society, such as the conduct of our police force. For b
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by adjkant 8y ago
The nature/nurture party game is an incredibly fun and interesting idea. Tangentially makes me think that sperm donors are a ripe focus group for research on nature/nurture. Anything like this done already?
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by adjkant 8y ago
So you say there are some, you can identify them, and then fail to name a single one. Can you name them?

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