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by bmpafa 8y ago
^ math checks out
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Looks cool. I use netlify's form capture a lot but I've always thought there should be a host-agnostic solution for 'fire and forget forms'
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by bmpafa 8y ago
I never felt like this story got enough coverage. This modern day Chuck Feeney[1] demonstrates the precise sort of selfless generosity we need more of, but most of my news feeds are busy baiting me with the latest bit of gossip. I don'
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Heads up, code snippet is overflowing on Mobile (at least on Firefox) https://i.imgur.com/lTLwd3U_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&f...
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Reflections in the wake of my first startup's demise(brandon.sh)
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by bmpafa 8y ago
I don't want to get too technical in my assessment here, but: holy shit that's cool.
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by bmpafa 8y ago
I think this is a class-driven norm. I grew up in a poor neighborhood and dropping by unannounced was the norm. If you called beforehand, it was likely just to make sure your pal was even home. Overall, I think most trappings of etiquette f
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Maybe for a _very_ specific subset of people, but I think by & large we can count on Americans' distaste for organizing our schedules to preclude any kind of hyper-optimized child-rearing from becoming too popular. That is: the car
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Well, yeah. Not for the profit of other parents, mind you--that'd be gauche. the money's just to cover the fees of whatever venue the play date's to be held at. That is, unless you're arranging play dates at free /
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by bmpafa 8y ago
I think the usual approach with these 'sprint' methodologies is to use software like InVision, Figma, etc. to mock-up a prototype. No sense coding before you've got proof positive that users will care, the thinking goes. See:
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by bmpafa 8y ago
PS OP: there's a small typo in this copy on the site that I've edited out here, 'the program is...'
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by bmpafa 8y ago
> The program charges a $30/week to cover costs and participants must be located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sidepact takes a 1% equity stake in companies from companies formed during program upon incorporation.
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by bmpafa 8y ago
I like it for curation of articles I'd otherwise not likely find (esp. ones that aren't new, which makes it feel like a temporally separate newsfeed). I also like the general distaste for clickbait, markety bullshit,etc. I guess i
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Similarly structured course on data visualization w/ d3. covers the fundamentals of the art (mostly Tufte) alongside a pretty decent intro to using d3. http://www.cs171.org/2017/index.html
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by bmpafa 8y ago
> Except that the top tax brackets pay way more in income taxes, both in dollars and as a percentage of income. My guess is that once you factor-in payroll taxes & regressive consumption taxes, the poor contribute a larger % of their
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by bmpafa 8y ago
I think a startup you bootstrap to generate a steady stream of revenue is just called a 'business,' or 'small business.' The all-or-nothing drive is, afaik, what makes it a 'startup.'
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by bmpafa 8y ago
> When a user asks a question on X, it would be better to first assume that he knows what he’s freaking doing. Yikes. SO is where I learned to program, and if this were the norm, I wouldn't have made it. If I ask a question the pre
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Unless you can short-circuit that system by convincing the lower tax brackets that their success hinges on minimizing the taxation of the top-bracket. Then the whole thing just sort of goes to hell.
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by bmpafa 8y ago
> Clockwise for Chrome, powered by AI , Can you share where AI fits in the product? It's not that I'm skeptical of every time a product vaguely alludes to AI in their copy, but... well... I can't think of a way to end t
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by bmpafa 8y ago
My parents and siblings live in this county. I moved from home before they emigrated there, but as my dad tells it, it sounds like the small Oregon town from Rambo, with the sherriff having near untouchable authority. The tragic part for me
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by bmpafa 8y ago
> reasons to think the CDC undercounts DGUs, most notably that they only asked people who had a gun in the home if they had used a gun in self-defense. Can you point me to something to back-up this claim? My gun-enthusiast friends often
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Yup-3 parts elbow-grease, 2 parts tears & sweat. I had a lot of data to work through, so I used that as an excuse. Not having to worry about performance, schemes, servers, users, etc., made learning a lot easier, I think. I started by r
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by bmpafa 8y ago
minor style thought: I think it'd be easier to scroll thru an article like this (ie, a list of things) if the item headers were more distinct from the body. e.g., a heavier weight, or maybe with more vertical margin.
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by bmpafa 8y ago
These are great. I feel like no matter how many PG tips & tricks I learn, there's always something new out there. I recently started learning PostgreSQL after ~2 yrs of relying on BaaS etc. (mostly of the NoSQL variety). I have to
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by bmpafa 8y ago
^^ this. even cursory x-ray inspection is a huge undertaking. I once worked for the USPS in a Middle Eastern country, and it was our job to assist local customs officials as they scanned / inspected every piece of inbound mail. They ra
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Agreed. I don't think they get enough acknowledgement. When I was in the service overseas, the USPS was a lifeline. Thanks to special arrangements between the military and the USPS, I could have anything shipped from the states to wher
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by bmpafa 9y ago
or rather, good for him he isn't poor? or would a black Harvard student have been prosecuted for this crime?
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by bmpafa 9y ago
If they lacked the foresight to be born wealthy and enroll in an ivy league college, that's their fault. Cyni-casm aside, yours is a crucial point I think gets forgotten too often. Just yesterday I was scrolling through the comments on
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I was using 'pimps' as short-hand for the people brokering sex worker transactions, be they platform admins or some guy named Icepick. My sense is that, in most cases, sex workers do not act as their own agents, so I see backpage
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I vacillate on this. On the one hand, I don't think prostitution should be illegal. On the other hand, it's not clear whether marketplaces like backpage bring the black-market closer to the light of day & make things safer for

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