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by apatters 10y ago
No, he's right. If you abandon the notion that there's anything which possesses an intrinsic or higher meaning, it's almost inevitable you'll end up gratifying your most basic instincts first because they're the str
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by apatters 10y ago
The merits of a Slack PM over email are few and debatable, I agree. However only a member of my team can PM me on Slack and anyone can email me, so my Slack messages have a better signal to noise ratio. Slack adds much more value in the are
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by apatters 10y ago
This happened to me as well after disabling notifications. Semi-obsessive polling at the beginning but eventually I got busier with more important things and the habit disappeared.
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by apatters 10y ago
Slack is good, notifications are bad, and this is a rant. This post reads to me as another snowflake in the very justified avalanche of "Internet is drowning me in pointless chatter" complaints that define our time. I use Slack th
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by apatters 10y ago
True so far in my experience (35 with friends of every age level.) But there are also many solutions to loneliness. My engineery brain solved it for me by figuring out that inviting people to group events, preferably ones that represent mut
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by apatters 10y ago
With all due respect: your approach here is to tell a billion people to jump over the Grand Canyon or kiss your ass and die. My approach is to go as far as I must to meet them halfway because I know I wasn't born perfect either. Engine
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by apatters 10y ago
I can't believe I never thought of this! Brilliant idea. Now just to solve the viewing problem...
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by apatters 10y ago
I love the snappiness and power of mutt but when I tried to switch to it as my full-time mail client it didn't end up being an improvement. Not really due to any fault of mutt's but because I disagree with the common POV that HTML
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by apatters 10y ago
Very very insightful, can't upvote this enough.
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by apatters 10y ago
I haven't tried it. I think the idea is really interesting but it always seemed to me like it was somewhat in contradiction with why people become employees in the first place. My perception is that people ultimately sort themselves in
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by apatters 10y ago
> companies have, almost always, zero loyalty towards their employees I think this belief is wrong. There are very few successful companies that don't go to great lengths to minimize employee turnover because it's economically
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by apatters 10y ago
I have managed remote employees for years and while I still think it's a good tool in the box for providing a healthy and happy workplace, as well as recruiting/retaining talent in situations where you couldn't otherwise, I&#
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by apatters 10y ago
Not saying this is wrong, but I think a less cynical rephrasing which explains a superset of the problem is that RSS failed to win adoption from a critical mass of content producers. You can go to pretty much any website and assume there
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by apatters 10y ago
And this future would be even less evenly distributed than the one which exists now, which would lead to even more unrest which the state might try to quell with even more violence. So let's spend a quarter of the money spent on state-
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by apatters 10y ago
What I got from it was that adherence to a dietary rule IS a matter of state of mind and for most people it's easier to adhere to a more moderate dieting regime. All rings true to me and a moderate shift in diet can have a big impact f
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by apatters 10y ago
This was a good read as the author approaches the problem from a unique direction, but the outcome is hardly surprising: a very obese man who eats large amounts of carbs starts eating a moderate amount instead, and loses a lot of weight. No
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by apatters 10y ago
How do you do this with Chrome? At least the impression I got from the cached copy of the site is that you can basically have multiple windows which each have a different... something that is similar to a profile in Chrome. That sounds hand
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by apatters 10y ago
Point and click adventure games seem like a good example - the mechanics for these are usually a pretty small part of what makes them fun. Awesome and polished art, sound, plot etc. are what matter.
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by apatters 10y ago
At this point I can recall reading starry eyed articles about future life extension technologies 10-15 years ago. My question is simple: what products have been brought to market that can be classified as "life extension" and are
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by apatters 10y ago
> Otherwise, i have trouble seeing what the hullaboo is about. In every regulated industry there tends to be a small cadre of people who rotate through the most elite jobs in both the private and public sector. So if you're aware of
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by apatters 10y ago
My childhood was a lot happier and more social because our neighbors had a big front lawn we could run around and play on. It was effectively a meeting space for all the kids on our street. Instead of a front lawn our property had a dense g
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by apatters 10y ago
My mind was blown when I discovered this little gem recently: http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ucalande.htm Place a text file at ~/.calendar/calendar with one event per row, containing the date and the title
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by apatters 10y ago
Hotkey use is a very habitual and personal thing. Everyone has a scheme that works for them and it's hard to adapt to something else. So why don't modern browsers just add a screen where you can customize your hotkeys? Like, you k
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by apatters 10y ago
Is it possible that some things are just a lot cheaper than they used to be, and from a macro perspective focused totally on dollar figures this looks like shrinkage? I used to drive to the bookstore and spend $22 on a brand new hardcover b
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by apatters 10y ago
If the concept here is a social network which brings us closer to people who have similar interests and are geographically close to us then that is really cool. But a couple things don't feel right to me. 1) No web app - honestly I&#x2
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by apatters 10y ago
This comment reflects a general philosophy of making things as simple as possible in consumer UX for the past 10-20 years. That principle is generally sound and arises from a problem where UI was being created by developers for developers,
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by apatters 10y ago
This might just be me, but I feel like the big win would be exposing the permissions an app requests in the Play store search/browse experience. The store often returns 5 or 10 apps which all seem to do basically the same thing and I d
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by apatters 10y ago
No, I am saying she comes across as overbearing and this may not be the best way to help her child learn.
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by apatters 10y ago
I think the most important lesson here is that you need to have really good accounts receivable to survive in business. In a small business AR is a founder/owner-level concern. You should spend some portion of your time personally maki
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by apatters 10y ago
Where else in Thailand would you recommend? I have traveled around the country quite a bit and still like Bangkok best, probably because I like big cities, but I'm open to trying other places.

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