boredguy8

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by boredguy8 17y ago
"Gender is a word to be applied to grammar, not people. If someone is female, that is her sex, not her gender. (The gender of Mädchen, the German word for girl, is neuter, as is Weib, a wife or woman.)" That's doing some pretty hard core id
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by boredguy8 17y ago
That's actually not true, but I'd have to do some digging to find the article that examines this across a broad spectrum of services. Paying monthly for a product/service tends to make that product or service used more, because people feel
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by boredguy8 17y ago
It started yesterday for me, not today. Probably about 2:30 pacific time. I noticed some rather intense latency on loading gmail.
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by boredguy8 17y ago
Of course students who 'sit still' and 'do as their told' do better in an educational system which prioritizes conformity. The kid who decides to open the drawer to find the toys: that's the guy I want on my team. I'm more than willing to f
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by boredguy8 17y ago
Thank goodness HN links are embedded with the 'nofollow' tag.
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by boredguy8 17y ago
His addon is why I still use Firefox. And you can restart whenever. It doesn't have to happen immediately.
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by boredguy8 18y ago
Or, slightly more moderate: suppose the delay is depth^1.75 seconds: each upvote could be a slight reduction in the 'depth' factor: (depth-score/3)^1.75 or something like that. Could also be useful because becoming more "flamey" means you'r
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by boredguy8 18y ago
Are you serious? I want a solid relationship with everyone, no matter what they've done in the past. I'm also going to protect that relationship in a legally binding way, and not just take someone's word. But I work with some great people t
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by boredguy8 18y ago
Collection agents aren't how you want to resolve this. Instead you have an opportunity to solidify a relationship and create opportunity by showing you're serious about what you do, and you are worth being paid. Threatening people is hardl
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by boredguy8 18y ago
So when my mom asked, "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?" I wasn't merely being snotty when I said "Yes!" I was right, too! Instead she'd have been better served by asking, "Do you realize that out of dozens of fr
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by boredguy8 18y ago
I'm pretty sure he means "work together to keep you here" not "work together on your new project". Noodle's suggestion of offering to stay on as a consultant for less than 40 hours a week is probably the best suggestion.
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Data Breach Investigations Report 2009(verizonbusiness.com)
1 points by boredguy8 18y ago|0 comments
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by boredguy8 18y ago
The irony struck me as well. Jobs didn't want to do native apps for many of the reasons we've already seen (management complains, quality control issues). He wanted web apps. People moaned. Then a web app is called 'sidestepping' the app st
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by boredguy8 18y ago
Where's the follow-through, the conversation where you say, "I'm mad at you for being vindictive when I shared my life goals. It seems we can both benefit by what I shared, but you're just being petty." How did that go? Or the conversation
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by boredguy8 18y ago
4. Use "they" as a gender-neutral third person singular pronoun.
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RFC: Three Letter Acronym (TLA) exhaustion: enjoy(ietf.org)
1 points by boredguy8 18y ago|0 comments
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by boredguy8 18y ago
"Twi.bz: the transparent URL shrinker" (or shortener, if you're tied to that name) or "Twi.bz: transparent and short URLs"
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by boredguy8 18y ago
If you haven't played the "Exile" games, you should (if you can get them to work on modern systems). They're very non-linear and a lot of fun. I remember when I first bought these games in middle school.
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by boredguy8 18y ago
Because my office is spun about its axis while I'm not around?
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by boredguy8 18y ago
Congratulations. Cash is king.
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by boredguy8 18y ago
Some of us read on screens that have thousands of pixels horizontally. More than 80 characters on a line is just bad form.
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by boredguy8 18y ago
I really hate to be the prude, but do we need titles like this on the front page?
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by boredguy8 18y ago
Additional advice: 1) Video tape yourself giving your talk. Tape off a section of your floor, set the camera up on a tripod, and give your talk (complete with powerpoint or whatever you're using). Then watch it. Ask yourself, "Would I want
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by boredguy8 18y ago
Ratatouille: Peter O'Toole, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm, Brian Dennehey Cars: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Cheech, George Carlin Incredibles: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson Finding Nemo: Ellen DeGene
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Artificial flagella move nanorobotics one tiny spin forward(arstechnica.com)
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Amazon dropping text-to-speech (arstechnica.com)
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by boredguy8 18y ago
There's huge potential here, especially if there's some sort of even imperfect high-level 'glomming'. How often have you written a clever turn of phrase, an insightful paragraph, or a poignant witticism, gone back and removed it to fix flow
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by boredguy8 18y ago
I think you've missed the point. I don't think anyone is saying, "Use lots of windgings, lol!" Instead, we're talking about the entire mise en scene. The point Glenn (and others) are making is that every non-cog position requires 'style'.
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by boredguy8 18y ago
His point is past-tense action verbs. Get over it.
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by boredguy8 18y ago
But you're probably looking for a cog. You'll get what you look for. As an applicant, you get what you apply for. That you wouldn't have liked my style doesn't really matter: the person that wants to employ me would like my style. The probl

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