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by alxp 14y ago
Much better to turn your notes from the talk into an article than to just throw up the slides.
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by alxp 14y ago
Beware of using biology to explain behaviours when those behaviours re-enforce the status quo. Evolutionary psychology is struggling to seem legit and using it to make 'that's just how things are' statements sound scientific is not helping
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by alxp 14y ago
> And large urban centers like NYC, SF, and Boston aren't driven by development companies with profit motives? They also have to contend with larger local populations, often with a stronger political voice. It's also more capital-intens
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by alxp 14y ago
That makes you solidly pro choice.
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by alxp 14y ago
Evolution takes care of itself. We've evolved a society where the majority of our children survive to adulthood, so now it's expected that there will be people who don't care to have children of their own and the tribe will survive.
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by alxp 14y ago
Angry white adult males don't go to the doctor. Get their guns.
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by alxp 14y ago
> pulling out a checkbook will reverse people's party alliances in an instant A team of dedicated startup employees who really believe in what they're working on vs. throwing money at consultants 9-to-5er programmers? Pardon me while I
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by alxp 14y ago
That can certainly be their goal, but finding sponsors for a conference that is seen as exclusionary is going to be tougher. Another insiders club meeting isn't something I'd want to sponsor, with or without the bad press.
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by alxp 14y ago
I think the opportunity Twitter is leaving behind won't pay off for Twitter's investors, but it is enough to be worth Dalton's time and effort to scoop up in Twitter's wake.
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by alxp 14y ago
> It is racist by the fact that it is based on race. Your definition is too simplistic. Racism isn't just prejudice based on race. Racism requires a power imbalance. Acting to counteract an institutional imbalance caused by racism is no
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by alxp 14y ago
I believe this is deliberate - giving a user a sense of what they did which results in the next action. This is especially important if the button you've pressed takes you to another screen.
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by alxp 14y ago
The original MacOS design wasn't 'perfect' but it was very, very good. And Apple messed with it at their peril. They gave themselves a similar bar with iOS 1.0 - they know a lot about interaction design, and how to make a UI feel smooth and
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by alxp 14y ago
> If you live in the Valley, I'm sure it's fine, in fact I'm sure it's great The Menlo Park public library is shown located on top of the train tracks in Palo Alto, so no.
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by alxp 14y ago
And remember that a solution that requires building big BART-like stations to prevent you from just walking away without going through a gate would be a terrible solution to a nearly non-problem.
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by alxp 14y ago
Working full time for a single company is a huge risk.
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by alxp 14y ago
And if you get RSI from always using a bargain basement keyboard then the utility gotten from paying extra for an ergonomic one would be lost.
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by alxp 14y ago
Your browser history doesn't update itself when you scroll to a new section in a long page.
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by alxp 14y ago
No need for scare quotes around "privilege" and "over-represented". These are real things that you can't hand-wave away for the sake of your theoretical exception.
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by alxp 14y ago
"The right environment" is key to your statement above. A slightly different environment, one that tolerates and is aware of the effects, both beneficial and otherwise, of stimulant and opioid use, would produce some number of people who's
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by alxp 14y ago
I wonder how many food service workers get canned for not smiling enough at the important people.
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by alxp 14y ago
"shit hole" is extraordinarily relative, apparently, and reflects more on the person using the term than the place being described.
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by alxp 14y ago
Unions in Hollywood have made it so that an actor can get non-leading roles semi-regularly and still be able to make an OK living. The adjunct and post-doc system in academia is exploiting the hopes that an ever-shrinking pool of tenure tra
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by alxp 14y ago
Performers now know that they lose good will when a fan has to pay a scalper to see them. Louis C.K. is earning tons of good will by doing this, and the only person who loses out is the scalper. Wealthier fans have always been able to work
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by alxp 14y ago
Most PHP developers don't start their first programming project from scratch using PHP to write their first web app. It's far more common to start because you are running a blog on WordPress and you want to make some small change. Then you
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by alxp 14y ago
The only time that a "single boss" would know better than the team would be if the single boss was as knowledgeable about the development process as the team was, and knew that the team was, for some reason, cooking up a conspiracy to fire
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by alxp 14y ago
"It won't scale." generally means "I hope this doesn't scale, because I'm invested in the current system." The same arguments get made against replacing the industrial food system with local farming.
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by alxp 14y ago
But the difference is that in a structure like Valves the inertia of those structures is much lower. So institutions don't stagnate into structures concerned with preserving their internal structure. Some unit starts to become irrelevant ex
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by alxp 14y ago
Is "nutrious" a Britishism I was not aware of, or a typo, or a way to avoid saying their foot is actually nutritious if it isn't?
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by alxp 14y ago
Not holding my breath. Cash-strapped transit authorities are not going to be able to drive innovation here and losing the integration with maps will mean you'll have to know ahead of time that a transit route is available on your journey.
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by alxp 14y ago
Whoever was speaking at the time (Forstall?) mentioned that they would showcase existing 3rd-party transit apps. Taking a look at the sketchy VTA, BART and CalTrain apps I've tried this is not an adequate replacement. Hopefully there'll be

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