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by andykx 6y ago
I touched upon this in another comment, but I miss "profile-based" social media sites. No feed. Ex. I have a profile that I can update with photos, etc. If you want to see those things, add me as a friend and navigate to my profil
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by andykx 6y ago
That's really interesting to me. I grew up with MySpace. Facebook wasn't a thing until high school. I used them similarly, but for different reasons: I spoke to new people on MySpace and people that I already knew on Facebook. I m
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by andykx 6y ago
I'm curious, do others perceive undeserved upvotes as an issue? As far as communities like this go, I think HN is pretty fair about what kind of content is valuable. Sure, maybe some high-quality niche articles don't get a ton of
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by andykx 6y ago
I took networking courses at a community college. The professor was fantastic, a former IBM employee who'd been doing network stuff at AT&T for 20 years. He wasn't a professor, but this guy knew his stuff. It was the perfect w
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by andykx 6y ago
Why just those two countries then? Why don’t I see a thousand get requests for /wp-login from countries all around the world? Wouldn’t that be significantly more effective since you can’t simply block a range of addresses to mitigate i
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by andykx 6y ago
Sounds great until you consider that the vast majority of users just tap/click “yes” at every prompt. End users don’t even know what’s best for them. My family acts like I’m a conspiracy theorist when I talk about privacy. Yes, that’s
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by andykx 6y ago
It is possible to convey much more nuance through speech. I like to think of myself as an effective writer. Nonetheless, it is incredibly difficult to express nuanced emotions through writing. This is particularly true in “professional” con
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by andykx 6y ago
You’re spot on about the diversity. I did not grow up in a very diverse place and it’s one thing I feel that I really missed out on. But parks? In the NYC suburbs (maybe exurbs is more accurate) where I grew up, I had like 5 beautiful state
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by andykx 6y ago
One thing that will keep me from living in the city for the rest of my life is how much I enjoy having private outdoor space. Being outside by myself is one of my favorite feelings in the world.
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by andykx 6y ago
I returned to college after 10 years in the insurance industry. I’ve always viewed programming as a hobby, but decided to take the leap and pursue a career that I might actually enjoy. Anyway, I notice a lot of younger students have this at
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by andykx 6y ago
I love that area.
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by andykx 6y ago
But how many of those friendships with neighbors really boiled down to friendships of convenience? I’ve always liked the people I live near, but I’ve never felt that I connect to them on a deeper level. If I couldn’t spend time shooting the
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by andykx 6y ago
Part of a previous internship of mine involved teaching Scratch to kids in 2nd to 4th grades. We taught Python to kids around the 7th and 8th grade. Scratch is much better suited to younger children, imo.
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by andykx 7y ago
I suppose the obvious answer is web back-ends, though that is true of practically every language.
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by andykx 7y ago
I recently decided to, for the sake of practice, build some single page apps using Vanilla JS. It was such a pain. Maybe some of it is due to my relative lack of front-end JS experience, but I found it nearly impossible to avoid duplicate c
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by andykx 7y ago
Yes. They play on a heavily modified client as well. https://www.engadget.com/2014/01/17/wow-archivist-wow-in-chi...
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by andykx 7y ago
From another non-lawyer perspective, might it be different since there is money involved? I view it as potentially infringing on some people’s livelihoods. Again, just spitballing. I have no idea what the reality of the situation is.
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by andykx 7y ago
While I appreciate the firsthand information, I think this is true of practically anywhere. Frankly, trying to prevent catastrophe through changing individuals’ behavior is practically impossible. Consider the amount of people who still smo
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by andykx 7y ago
If I am being frank, I mostly use DoorDash/Uber Eats when I’ve had a couple drinks and I can’t drive somewhere to get food. Pizza is the only delivery option if I don’t want to use an app. Most restaurants around here forgo offering de
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by andykx 7y ago
I love Clojure, but I felt like 90% of the time it took me to “learn” Clojure was spent actually learning how to use emacs and working with a REPL. Once you get it down, it’s easy to be super productive, though.
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by andykx 7y ago
I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding, but you will need a Real ID to board domestic flights as well.
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by andykx 7y ago
Oh, very cool. Sounds like something I’d love to use. I always loved the Clojure REPL.
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by andykx 7y ago
I don’t do data science and I really don’t understand what Jupyter notebooks are used for. Are they just a way to explore ideas with immediate feedback?
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by andykx 7y ago
As the years go by, I find myself craving a job with a physical labor component to it. A friend of mine studied enology (wine making) at Cornell and his job is about 50% business management and 50% wine making. Some days he has to wear a su
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by andykx 7y ago
For better or worse, UX is as much about curating a company “image” as it is about creating user-friendly interfaces. When users see that your website looks like Apple’s, they immediately think, “Wow, this company is the real deal.” This pa
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by andykx 7y ago
I am not lonely. I'm lucky enough to have had the same group of close friends since we were like, 5 years old, a girlfriend, and family about 35 minutes away. That being said, we live in a relatively rural place and I see a lot of peop
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by andykx 7y ago
I'm not sure what the numbers show, but I think, as people who are interested in tech, we often forget a large segment of the population needs some in-person assistance when choosing new devices. My dad asks me every time he needs a ne
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by andykx 7y ago
meaningness seems really interesting, thanks for sharing!
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by andykx 7y ago
Some of these ideas are not too far-fetched. Lab “grown” meat, for example, isn’t too far from becoming a commercially viable product.
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by andykx 7y ago
I think it had an effect, but it is possible that, through meditation, he had already achieved similar states of mind and become adept at controlling/navigating them. This is totally anecdotal and based only on experiences I've ha

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