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by always_good 8y ago
Doesn't seem like a very useful measure of uniqueness. What if you had one-day retention of IP addresses for per-day unique views? Seems like too important of a metric to eliminate completely, and one-day retention seems like a decent
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by always_good 8y ago
Five months ago: > It's funny how often that comment—which I made as a 22-year-old undergrad—resurfaces. Someone even reached out to me 2 weeks ago because they wanted to use it in an article as an example of "the disconnect be
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by always_good 8y ago
When people ask me why I like living in Mexico, this is one of the main reasons: The other week I walked around my neighborhood in Guadalajara to do some errands. I got my knives sharpened, picked up my repaired shoes from the cobbler, some
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by always_good 8y ago
You can see this in action on HN when people constantly use big publications like The Verge and NYT when complaining about ads or suggesting that everyone needs to find a new business model. Meanwhile my forum now costs more money than it b
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by always_good 8y ago
I would've thought most people eat within a ten hour window (8-6p, 10-8p, etc), though probably only if you ignore snacking.
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by always_good 8y ago
What's the difference between fasting (especially extended fasting) and "literally starving yourself"? I only hear good things about the former.
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by always_good 8y ago
Agreed. The second you use `==`, now everyone else who encounters it has to do their own research to see if you indeed meant it. It's like every time you defensively throw in a nil-guard just in case: everyone now has to go "wait,
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by always_good 8y ago
It's a bit sad that you have to get in the last word when disparaging Node.js along with your "DAE hate node lol"-style posts. Remembering your contributions to the "Cycling is key to healthier cities" submission, y
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by always_good 8y ago
That's the first thing I tried but it didn't work. Maybe it would've worked before I booted Steam in the first place, but you'd think Steam would've coded around that obvious circumvention.
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by always_good 8y ago
Dog walking is a good example of how over-regulated Canada is. To walk a dog for money in Vancouver, you are required to have a $2 million insurance policy. https://i.imgur.com/ZEVBBuD.png Saner cities covered this liabilit
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by always_good 8y ago
I don't understand this reasoning. People use this same logic when others suggest eating healthy and exercising. "And if someone works three jobs and has ten kids? Hmmmm? Then what?? Gotcha!" Begins to reek of someone using t
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by always_good 8y ago
I found out the hard way that you can't play a single Steam game if you haven't connected it to the internet in 30 days. Nothing clarifies the difference between purchase and rental when you try booting Steam up on a laptop for a
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by always_good 8y ago
I don't understand how you are inferring the weight of each thing in a list. In fact, that quote directly contradicts you.
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by always_good 8y ago
> they have Patreon people to keep happy Reminds me of when I briefly accepted donations from users of my forum. Suddenly it was like my life was beholden to people that had once given me $5. At least when they'd given me $0, it was
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by always_good 8y ago
Or they realized that there isn't much value in building their own CMS.
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by always_good 8y ago
Isn't this just a feel-good post? I have no clue what you expect to do with police phone number to prevent train suicide. People don't just camp out on the track for an hour before the train comes. It's a last second ordeal.
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by always_good 8y ago
Only if you are referring to perfect tests which cost zero time to write/maintain and only the tests written that eventually will catch an issue. Otherwise, tests have a cost just like any other code. You can see this by looking at bot
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by always_good 8y ago
It matters because deep-linking is possible on the web. Hiding it just seems like a trivial UI matter that makes things slightly more obnoxious when you do care. I'd be surprised if only showing the domain vs domain+path made any diffe
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by always_good 8y ago
Right, what I meant is that you aren't taking the "eh, this is too controversial to make a decisive health decision" route when you're still going out of your way to consume things you otherwise wouldn't. The parent
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by always_good 8y ago
Yeah, the whole appeal of the supplement industry, exercise infomercial contraptions, and insulin regimens for T2 diabetes is that they don't require lifestyle change which is the whole challenge of being healthy.
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by always_good 8y ago
Well, the issue is that people will buy things like probiotics with the belief that it's helping them, and probiotics being universally healthy is one of the most dogmatic nutrition facts that anyone can recite. If there is controversy
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by always_good 8y ago
Last week my bandwidth grounded to a halt which is usually the result of someone uploading on my network. I went to my girlfriend's computer to see if she was syncing with Dropbox or something. Nope. She quit all of her applications ju
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by always_good 8y ago
Well, Elm is clearly still figuring out its core APIs. 0.19 refactored a lot of things into https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm/browser/1.0.0/ , for example. And Elm's package.json equivalent w
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by always_good 8y ago
You could've perfected this comment if you mentioned that you toss your own shopping bags into the ocean to fight global warming.
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by always_good 8y ago
Once again, the quote is talking about slow network, not the server taking seconds to process an OPTIONS request. Yes, two seconds and more can absolutely be network latency. If you don't think this is possible nor a regular occurrence
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by always_good 8y ago
Interestingly he walked 16mi and died just 1mi away from their intended destination. Can't imagine the horror of trekking through the wilderness, your family waiting in the car, to find help.
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by always_good 8y ago
> You'd standardize it once via an RFC and you'd be done with it. If you think something like this is easy much less "you standardize it once and you're done", then you are only cheating yourself out of an essent
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by always_good 8y ago
For example, you can an approximation of some ClojureScript abstractions with Javascript's MobX: a datastructure that you access as normal and it reconciles render()'s for you. Clojure's simplicity tends to package things up
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by always_good 8y ago
I played Threshold too. I must've been 13. The level of in-character roleplaying I saw was so convincing and thorough (and intimidating), like when someone gave me a tour of the Fighters' Guild (iirc), that I thought I was on an o
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by always_good 8y ago
How often do you see this happening? And how do you know why they are grinning?

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