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by awkward 14y ago
I know the issues around this, including brain drain from elite education, losing American dominance in the tech sphere, and the broad abuse that has been caused by the current set of regulations. I even have a colleague caught in an immigr
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by awkward 14y ago
"Huh. Hmm. Put a horizontal bar across the top. That's ok - maybe another one. That feature sounds great - it's horizontal bar can go right under the Google plus's."
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by awkward 14y ago
Super stoked to hear about those upcoming posts. What is the guiding strategy for dealing with these complexities? Hold on to everything and only present the relevant ones to the connecting client?
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by awkward 14y ago
Open Streetmaps is a great project, but it doesn't include orthophotography. Even if they were using it, it wouldn't fix the errors with missing or blurry images, cloud cover, or rubber sheeting errors.
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by awkward 14y ago
I think a lot of the work to put a quality UI on craigslist ignores something very important about user psychology - seeing your data that you willingly gave to one organization publicly available in the hands of another one is generally pe
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by awkward 14y ago
He manages to hit a lot of the terrible points that normally make his essays unbearable - comparing the 50s favorably to today, and an abject worship for a poorly defined patriarchal elite, but this part was spot on: "Everybody thinks they
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by awkward 17y ago
It's not a failure of literacy, it's a failure of URLs as a system. Which company has which URL is determined by a long set of events having to do with competing businesses, events and plain luck that even people here wouldn't care to unrav
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by awkward 17y ago
I'm pretty stunned by how bad the movie player on this site is. In terms of how handles buffering and showing the timeline to the user it's almost the inverse of what you would want to do.
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by awkward 17y ago
Not to completely throw up a smokescreen to hide the fact that I think you're better read on this debate than I am, but your challenge is pretty reminiscent of what bugs me about this debate: It's often framed as a debate between politicall
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by awkward 17y ago
Characterizations of Gould as a Marxist biologist are roughly as ad hominem as that article accuses Gould of being. As another non biologist, I understand that Gould's main contribution was punctuated equilibrium. he thought that the primar