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by awkward 8y ago
It's worth knowing that his family had made their money on textiles and rugs. Many of the most out there paintings Wain did are not denovo, but based on synthesis of Persian rug patterns and his cat drawing.
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by awkward 8y ago
> How do I tell my employees who are suffering from PTSD from being attacked by crack-zombies right outside our office that they need to keep coming in? Putting that line right before a couple hundred words about the increasing viability
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by awkward 8y ago
It seems to be closer to saying that the Red Hat model - essentially being a professional scapegoat, with some consulting on the side - hasn't succeeded to keep up with the returns venture capitalism expects. The flip side is that comp
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by awkward 8y ago
Isn't there a documented phenomenon that attaching praise or compensation (likes) to a behavior people would do anyway (tweeting) will essentially grind that behavior to a halt if the compensation is removed? Intuitively I can't i
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by awkward 8y ago
iPhones have hit the point that their main target audience is people who have 4+ years of experience using iPhones.
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by awkward 8y ago
The two main pillars of the stack overflow experience as a contributor: - Gameify all metrics to an absurd degree, using gold-star-sticker style incentives for every given interaction type. - Take the metrics a seriously as possible, creati
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by awkward 8y ago
It might be accurate if you include every tracker on every article page. If that still doesn't get you there, you can pad it out with youtube and netflix.
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by awkward 8y ago
I'm surprised at the US number of trackers count - I would have expected some degree of free rider benefit for US based consumers. Otherwise, the numbers seem to bear out some consolidation, with web pages giving up trackers but more l
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by awkward 8y ago
One thing that I didn't realize until I was in a work environment that prevented it - I need procrastination or I can't get things done. Without multiple irons in the fire - not that there can't be too many - I can't kee
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by awkward 8y ago
Good thing he has you to shrink a bad faith argument to a radically smaller set of claims!
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by awkward 8y ago
So if people REALLY believed in global warming they would give up their relatively low impact apartments to take up industrial farming?
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by awkward 8y ago
Directly trapping carbon for over 50 years is pretty good, and the main CO2 release in concrete is the cement - both in heating it and the actual reaction necessary to create it. Aggregate availability isn't the issue there. On top of
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by awkward 8y ago
Using wood for building is a carbon sequestering process. Compare it to using cement, a process that massively releases carbon.
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by awkward 8y ago
The obvious pull quote, already in this thread, seems to say that this is a case of looking where we have the tools to look rather than where it makes a difference. Because you can get DNA with a swab and a MiSeq, you should try to determin
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by awkward 8y ago
I spent a lot of time getting a distributed team that was on a terrible proprietary source control system onto mercurial. Being able to just have them force push their changes and then fix it on my end was a great way to get people on board
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by awkward 9y ago
FALSE: Place names are a neutral fact, and using one source without interrogating what it names what and where it draws borders will never cause an incident.
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by awkward 9y ago
I keep mine in the sitting position 80% of the time, but as I've been getting more into fitness and trying to work on my posture I've been using it more. I tend not to really get into a flow state while standing, but it's goo
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by awkward 9y ago
On the other hand, PG built Hacker News specifically to get a reddit-like that has it's own culture, identity and moderation policies.
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by awkward 9y ago
More likely to be solved in hardware, eg a giant spring placed under the coach seats.
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by awkward 9y ago
Opportunity costs don't get written on a ledger. Raising the risk to starting a patent troll company might be strategic in stopping other lawyers from starting, but it won't win this case.
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by awkward 9y ago
This is a good scary story for anyone who complains too much about the complexity of modern javascript.
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by awkward 9y ago
Marketing creates value for amazon, but it's externality is a thin layer of shit over everything else.
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by awkward 9y ago
I use pocket casts on mobile and soundcloud on the desktop. Soundcloud's better for discovery and it lets me listen without going through a subscription workflow.
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by awkward 9y ago
I signed up years ago, but only became a user in the past year or so. It's never really appealed to me for music discovery but it's been great for checking out new podcasts.
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by awkward 9y ago
One thing that they did right was their use of HTLM5 to keep what you're listening to playing while you browse the site. Especially for long running podcasts it's nice not to feel like you would drop the thing you were listening t
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by awkward 9y ago
It's a surprisingly good leading indicator.
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by awkward 9y ago
All of those examples happen with far less frequency, though. As measurable fact, paychecks get spent faster than increase in stock value is liquidated.
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by awkward 9y ago
Any rollback of free food perks is a bad sign. It's not always a sign of bad health, but if it's not it means the company is softly lowering the status of it's rank and file in order to put in another layer of management.
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by awkward 9y ago
AMP is a horrific web standards breaking power grab but if there's one thing that's going to kill it it's that google can't help but put a dang sticky header at the top of every page.
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by awkward 9y ago
This article is a pretty big turnaround for Richard Florida - he's credited with the ideological underpinning of a lot of the urban renewal that has caused gentrification and other problems.

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