adriand

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by adriand 12y ago
I agree but it depends what you want the surface for. If you don't care about using it for outdoor stuff like sports, kids playing, picnics, etc., then ivy is totally the way to go. Periwinkle is nice. The ultimate in hardy and tenacio
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by adriand 12y ago
Personally, I'm impressed by your work. These folks are missing out.
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by adriand 12y ago
My next door neighbour is a scientist who researches the connection between gastrointestinal microbes and mental wellbeing. Essentially, he believes that it may be possible to treat anxiety and depression by encouraging the growth of certa
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by adriand 12y ago
Why can't Google just apply a different algorithm to link farms that have appeared recently? Presumably anything relatively recent is either someone who doesn't know about the changes to the algorithm that penalize link farms, or
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by adriand 12y ago
I agree, this is what I find intriguing (although I've never experienced it). It seems to be a little bit like thinking, "okay, we have these various very sensitive chemical and touch receptors in our mouths, what else can we do
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The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable(nytimes.com)
79 points by adriand 12y ago|173 comments
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by adriand 13y ago
I agree. I love this guy. I bet that very few of us on HN would have done what he did. I certainly wouldn't have. I'm not saying that what he did was right, but it was right for him, and what is impressive to me is that he real
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by adriand 13y ago
It's not used in place of "very", it means "somewhat" or "mostly". "Pretty good" means not all good but not all bad either. If a server at a restaurant asks you, "How is your meal?" a
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by adriand 13y ago
> By then I realized that these episodes were panic attacks. I read up on the topic and basically went through a lot of cognitive self-therapy and after a year or so I was able to drive without issues and life was good again. My advice (
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by adriand 13y ago
I've had a somewhat similar idea related to storing memories and I suspect that it's a fairly common idea that's occurred to lots of us. However, this sounds ridiculous. The worst and most tone deaf example of how ridiculous
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by adriand 13y ago
> I did a vacation a few years ago where my wife and mother in-law went to Spain. It was awesome, my first time there, but I was 'pressured' by work to keep crankin on our app. It was such bullshit and I was really pissed about
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by adriand 13y ago
I wonder if you can feel the waves with your hand. Presumably you can - anyone have any idea what that feels like?
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by adriand 13y ago
You can kind of see how you could get sucked into this, though. Suppose for example you start out simply participating on the forums. At some point someone reaches out to you and says something like, "Hey, you seem like a fair and di
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by adriand 13y ago
Minor quibble (and yes I'm as outraged by this as you are) - but "rouge" means "a red powder or cream used as a cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips", whereas "rogue" means "a person or thing that
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by adriand 13y ago
Interesting idea. Here's a twist: what if the committer could set the value of their commit instead? Social pressure would dictate that most people would not overreach. Then those who make small but useful commits could recognize in
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by adriand 13y ago
> The libertarian and anti-government sentiments aren't saying that we shouldn't be all in this together, but that we shouldn't be forced to be all in this together. That difference is what the entire argument is about. Th
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by adriand 13y ago
> If I already have many lifetimes' worth of oxygen for my breathing apparatus, I might have no interest in and place no value upon your stock of oxygen. And yet, clearly you value oxygen enough to stock up many lifetime's wort
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by adriand 13y ago
> Nothing has intrinsic value. I think what you are actually saying is that "intrinsic value" is actually meaningless. If "intrinsic value" is actually a meaningful statement about something (even if you believe that
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by adriand 13y ago
Neat - earlier today, I was just experiencing the pain that assistant.io apparently alleviates.
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by adriand 13y ago
Thanks for the tips, I'll dig into it a little more.
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by adriand 13y ago
Let me start with the positive: the Nest is beautifully designed and easy to install and in every respect appears to be a high quality product. The negative, for me and my coworkers (the Nest is at my office - it was a gift from a client),
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by adriand 13y ago
Dear god no. I have a Nest thermostat and it drives me nuts with its inappropriate learning behaviour. I can just imagine the toaster learning, incorrectly, to what degree I wish my bread to be toasted and thus giving me levels of crispin
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Designing a RESTful Web Application(quandyfactory.com)
2 points by adriand 13y ago|0 comments
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by adriand 13y ago
Thanks, that is a super interesting talk! He posits one mechanism for how the octopus might be able to colour-match while being colour-blind, which is the presence of distributed light sensing pigments in the skin - a molecule for this, &q
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by adriand 13y ago
You sound like you know what you're talking about, and I really like Franzen. What other authors can you recommend?
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by adriand 13y ago
Or you can simply load (or refresh) the page and when you can see the article, but before the overlay appears, hit the stop button in your browser.
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by adriand 13y ago
> I feel like it used to be a much higher standard, but is quickly becoming the new 4chan... I joined Reddit seven years ago ( http://www.reddit.com/user/adrian/ ) and I started finding it stupid and annoying app
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by adriand 13y ago
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out!
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by adriand 13y ago
> using Xcode is a far superior experience to RubyMotion and any editor. XCode is not ideal for people accustomed to, say, vim. I love the static code analysis and the autocomplete and storyboards are pretty cool too. But having to edi
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by adriand 13y ago
Your example doesn't invalidate my point at all because it's restricted to one particular situation: signing up for something. If you were selling shoes online instead, I think you'd be much more likely to agree with me on t

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