austinjp

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811.
by austinjp 6y ago
Horses for courses. Some people will respond better in one environment, others won't. There's no One True Way.
812.
by austinjp 6y ago
I spent a bit of time yesterday installing Proggy fonts on my T420 to get crisper characters while cramming more on the small screen :)
813.
by austinjp 6y ago
Thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23103386
814.
by austinjp 6y ago
So, unless I've missed it in the comments here, what are the alternatives? Where are people putting their keys?
815.
by austinjp 6y ago
Perhaps "playing to the gallery", although the strong-arming aspect isn't quite there.
816.
by austinjp 7y ago
freshmeat.net
817.
by austinjp 7y ago
I'm genuinely curious how it came about that user-experience is now "try clicking, tapping, swiping, hitting a key" until something happens.
818.
by austinjp 7y ago
You're going to love pushd and popd.
819.
by austinjp 7y ago
Please feel free to explain the down vote(s).
820.
by austinjp 7y ago
The large businesses have priced the smaller businesses out of 99% of the market. They leave only the crumbs from the table and pretend that's how "advertising" works now. It's not advertising, it's commodification
821.
by austinjp 7y ago
Can't tell if sarcastic.... squints How about this: everyone already knows what they need and where to get it. That really reduces the infernal waste of advertising completely.
822.
by austinjp 7y ago
Or discard the project, since the key variable will remain forever unknowable.
823.
by austinjp 7y ago
Agreed, it's always refreshing to read candid posts like this. A useful term for Google is "startup post mortem" although you still have to do plenty of sifting.
824.
by austinjp 7y ago
It seems to mean that if someone with coronavirus goes on to have a fatal heart attack, they'd still be recorded as dying "of" coronavirus. (Silly example, of course.) I'm not sure how much of a blanket rule that is, or
825.
by austinjp 7y ago
What a wonderful thing to read on another day in covid isolation. Very sorry to hear about your father. He must be beyond delighted with what you've made.
826.
by austinjp 7y ago
Odd. I've always interpreted these tropes as caricatures of people who act _as if_ they're at war or at peace, not as binary exemplars. The world's a lot more complex than war/peace, surely?
827.
by austinjp 7y ago
Depends on the city. Also, the scooters and motorbikes might be part of the solution, and larger vehicles part of the problem.
828.
by austinjp 7y ago
You're right to still feel suspicious. Who's to say they didn't try 1,000 different post-hoc ideas? They declare only one, the may have been others. I'd be looking for preceding research and any published protocols, if I
829.
by austinjp 7y ago
> days 6-7 show some ugly symptoms of previous diseases Could you describe this? I'm not sure what it means.
830.
by austinjp 7y ago
> A currency without an army is nothing. Can you expand on this? What's the financial function of an army? What's the military function of a currency? I can imagine what you might say but I'd like to read it to know for su
831.
by austinjp 7y ago
> I think that the reason why SaaS have problems all the time is that typically devs are changing stuff all the time and accidentally breaking things left and right, not that software is inherently unreliable. While I'm sure that so
832.
by austinjp 7y ago
Is it rare? That's not good to hear. It's certainly how I used to try to operate.
833.
by austinjp 7y ago
Everyone expects designers to work for free. Don't be a dick. They can do something you can't. Pay them.
834.
by austinjp 7y ago
From a startup perspective: Getting new combinations of stuff to work, even "enterprise" grade stuff, can be a messy horror-show, at least initially. There's no point-and-click, no slick GUI, no whizzy installer. Instead ther
835.
by austinjp 7y ago
The Wikipedia entry on prism lighting is... illuminating: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism_lighting
836.
by austinjp 7y ago
Bingo. It would certainly be wrenching for GP to move from their current life to somewhere less car-centric. But the issue (predominantly in the US, apparently) seems to be that a car-free life simply isn't on the menu when people are
837.
by austinjp 7y ago
Genuine question: what is a tracking watermark, in the context you're discussing?
838.
by austinjp 7y ago
Prions do lead to certain degenerative brain diseases. Alzheimer's is caused by different factors, though. Perhaps you're thinking of beta amyloid tangles, which are a different matter.
839.
by austinjp 7y ago
Or "three rings means I'm staying over, any more means come pick me up".
840.
by austinjp 7y ago
Indeed. Hard to design a double blinded, randomised, placebo controlled trial for suicide prevention.

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