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by captain_crabs 9y ago
Love that movie. The house is for a very specific purpose: it's how I want my life to be. Both to live with SO, but also to have space to get an aquaponics setup running. So that will be happening when it needs to happen regardless of
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by captain_crabs 9y ago
I'm imprecise with my language because I don't know what I'm talking about really. If financial institutions did something horrible that should've sent them out of business, and they got bailed out, then it stands to rea
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by captain_crabs 9y ago
To grandparent comment: great point. Didn't think of that. To parent: You too!
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by captain_crabs 9y ago
All right, I'll bite. If me and my SO wanna buy a house, how should we go about approaching the next financial crisis to get a good deal on one? Who predicted the last one correctly, and what are those people saying now? I'm under
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by captain_crabs 9y ago
Key difference between your comment, and the parent, is the distinction between now and later (time) along with "knowledge" vs "resources." If ai-driven technology produces new abstractions, or put differently, massively
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
Your comment made me want to watch the video. And she does "uhh" at 3:50. But I suck, this talk was great, she's a really good speaker, thanks for weirdly convincing me to watch this
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
I have pretty much the exact same experience with Dota. I think there's one thing it teaches better than any other game that's exemplified in your post. If you want to get good at Dota, you have to accept responsibility for yourse
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: St. Louis, MO I help startups get that surreal feeling when people actually start paying them for the first time. Especially good fit for startups that have some kind of funding, need to start addressing the problem t
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
Haha, beautifully put, but I often wonder the opposite. What if our capacity to perceive and think is so limited and narrow that most of the underlying workings of reality are completely missed by us? The what if being, we are not so specia
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
As one of the people who lived through/was affected by this, I can't ever in good faith support or work for Riot because I just can't shake the "this is the kind of person I would never want to work with" feeling Pe
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
You've characterized what the act of honing emotional intuition needs, then what one would actually look like: block distractions, go for a long walk, generally think about the things you're uncomfortable about but let your mind w
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
A friend linked just this comment to me, and as somebody amidst an existential crisis, this is such a great answer. That emotional intuition - have you noticed or observed any ways in yourself, or in others, to really keep this sharp?
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
Ah, I see your point about outsourced thinking. If you take a bunch of informed, critical thinkers who do their research and point them at the same group of sources, I wager you'd end up with a largely consistent set of questions being
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
When the ideal is more work than the default, most people won't behave ideally. So while I agree with you in spirit, who defines the reputable organizations? Individuals have an asymmetric losing fight here since the effort it takes to
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
In a strange way, I'm extremely relieved to see this. Having come from tons of soccer before touching FIFA, I can't play the game because I get so frustrated at the players behaving and acting against the unconscious instincts I h
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
The line between developer and designer has been blurring for some time and will only continue to do so (hopefully! if our tools and abstractions keep becoming better). Often I find myself on the other side of what you stated, where the des
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
Military books on human organizations are some of the most effective I've ever read. Any specific exercises that you lean on?
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
This is a great reply and strikes the heart of my question. Thank you! Just ordered that book. haha. therapists will tell you to use "I feel" language. Seems like the similarity in communication here is "The users." This
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How do you work with Designers?
4 points by captain_crabs 10y ago|4 comments
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
For all the people in this thread who don't feel like they have solid ground to stand on one way or another (more specifically, other me's, middle class white dudes who are bothered by this but don't even know how to start ap
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
I'm one of the (formerly) silent, happy masses who uses the default stack gleefully. Turbolinks is amazing, ujs is wonderful, and coffeescript is adequate until all the latest JS goodness is out for real. Make it so only the first page
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by captain_crabs 10y ago
I'm a full-time Rails developer, and I've run into the exact pains that he's talking about. By and large, I've fought with ridiculous things as projects grew, and run into extremely 'magical' bugs. It's fr
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Ask HN: Where would I start learning about holographic interfaces?
1 points by captain_crabs 12y ago|0 comments
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by captain_crabs 12y ago
This is so cool...I built a large part of this, and now it's everywhere!!
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Client wants me to be a cofounder
2 points by captain_crabs 12y ago|3 comments
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by captain_crabs 12y ago
Empathy being flawed is a startling insight. But why then throw it out and go straight to abstractions? What are the problems preventing empathy from being as good as the abstractions? Seems to me the whole shame vs guilt debate
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by captain_crabs 12y ago
You're the fucking man or woman
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How do you communicate if you won't hit an estimate?
66 points by captain_crabs 12y ago|50 comments