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by adrianparsons 10y ago
Similarly, I wonder what awesome things could be done if we didn't spend such a high percentage of our GDP on health care.
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by adrianparsons 10y ago
From the article: According to laws in every state in the U.S., Walmart has a duty to protect its customers from violent crime while they’re on store property. Under an area of the law known as premise liability, victims and their lawyers
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by adrianparsons 11y ago
I totally agree. I think your idea is really pragmatic and we should probably execute it. I just wish the current system, which we're deeply invested in, would work for the good of the country (which is the point of having a government
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by adrianparsons 11y ago
That could work. You could also establish a committee to resolve disputes between two or more members. Of course, members would have to agree by the operating rules of the organization, and would have to agree to abide by the decisions of t
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by adrianparsons 11y ago
I've also lived in both New York and Berlin. I completely agree that the US has a more powerful "car culture," but the cities are very different -- New York is incredibly dense while Berlin is pretty spread out. Wikipedia say
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by adrianparsons 12y ago
It's true that cocktails are extremely high quality in NY and generally the same price as they are elsewhere. That said, you can't get a $2 Shiner Bock here.
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by adrianparsons 12y ago
I don't think Title II classification requires a vote from congress, just an action by the FCC.
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by adrianparsons 13y ago
Great point. Our API is awesome and not enough people know about it, which is why we just announced that we're hiring a developer evangelist. http://www.meetup.com/jobs/developer-evangelist#job-title
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by adrianparsons 14y ago
A while back I created a project to scan a single repo for cursing and chart it by commiter. http://making.meetup.com/post/21273810443/cursemetrics
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by adrianparsons 14y ago
I'll second 'Javascript Patterns', and add 'Maintainable Javascript' by Nicholas Zachas [ http://www.amazon.com/Maintainable-JavaScript-Nicholas-C-Zak... ]
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by adrianparsons 14y ago
Twilio's getting started documentation blew me away. A focus on what you can build, and what you can get working quickly ("I just sent myself a TEXT. Sweet!"). It's also better designed than most consumer web apps.
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by adrianparsons 14y ago
I like that bad namespacing is what you find disturbing here.
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CurseMetrics: profanity in your repo(making.meetup.com)
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
I completely agree. This thread is full of guys like me hypothesizing about what it's like to be a woman in the workplace. I'd love to hear more examples. I could be completely wrong.
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
Woah, not the same at all. If you wear a low cut top in a room full of guys and are seen by some as a sexual object, it's taken on a new dimension. I appreciate the subtleties of male dress (I deal with the same issues you raised), but the
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
A female friend who worked in an office setting described it this way to me: "I can't wear anything too revealing, because I'm perceived as easy or slutty. I can't wear anything too modest, because it makes me seem prudish or not fun. I hav
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
Facebook and Twitter now have NYC offices. Ebay is opening an office here, too ( http://www.commercialobserver.com/2012/03/ebay-in-talks-for-... ).
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
"Good Luck Paying Off That Hospital Bill" Generation
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
The "Good Luck Paying Off that Student Loan" Generation
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
According to this article you're doing it wrong and should move to North Dakota.
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
I like how he goes after Facebook, a company run by a 27 year old Millenial with $3.7B in revenue last year ($1.3B more than the New York Times)
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
In Design school, we learned how to criticize without being jerks. We also learned to trust other people, and take criticism without being offended. After 4 years in an environment like that, I'm amazed at the design process in the startup
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
Maybe smaller online banks (Banksimple, ING Direct) pick up the slack? Without physical branches to operate, maybe these kind of operations are more likely to make money off of checking accounts.
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
What would have been the correct approach for Tom? Admit early on that something wasn't working? Alert you that there was workflow problem?
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
Wow, Looking forward to reading this. A primer on 'Wicked Problems': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem It's a really powerful concept that describes many extremely complex systems like, say, health care in the U.S.
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
Really really important note: there are no 'breakfast burritos' in Austin, only breakfast tacos. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/dining/10united.html?pagew...
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
Similarly, we concatenate our JS with sprockets[0] -- so what's on line 50 of module.js in the pre-compiled code base may be on line 1350 of app.js in the browser. 0 : https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
I have a lot of trouble finding the desired code block in, say Firebug or Chrome dev tools. Especially if a page has multiple concatenated JS files. The search box is helpful, but often unreliable. If I'm working with the code in a text edi
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
I'm always surprised more people don't know this. I haven't seen it any books and only occasionally in tutorials. I use it dozens of times a day -- it's critical for writing and understanding JS.
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by adrianparsons 15y ago
This library is great (and it's been around a while). It even abstracts relatively easy tasks (like product search), making them ridiculously simple to execute.

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