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by caseyross 4y ago
Ok, after reading this and also your top-level comment, seems we're talking about the two different types of tagging ("personal curation" vs "collaborative") which you list in that comment. That makes more sense. De
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Ah, interesting! I never used del.icio.us myself, but from what I understand, it's fairly similar to Instagram (for example) in how tags work, optimizing for ease of use rather than ease of finding specific content. In my opinion, this
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by caseyross 4y ago
Some good examples have been posted prior to my reply here --- I'll reiterate Archive of our Own (fanfiction) and Danbooru (anime porn) as two fairly big sites with well-maintained tagging systems. Both sites have abundant guides and d
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by caseyross 4y ago
Besides what the article goes into about auto-curation of social feeds reducing self-curation, the counterintuitive answer is that decentralized tagging requires strong centralization to work. You need: - agreement on what should be and wha
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Some previous discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25333350 This site is IMO the best reference out there for modern JS/DOM fundamentals. It's concise, clear, consistent, accurate, and well-o
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by caseyross 4y ago
I started using alphabetic ordering for CSS some time back, and have found it much easier and more reliable than trying to keep CSS organized by importance / relevance / semantic content. One correction to the article I want to ma
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Moreover, everything on the website implies that Actual was a high-end, exactingly designed product for discerning, well-off people. But it was priced like general-audience commodity SaaS. My guess is that most subscribers would have been m
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by caseyross 4y ago
(2018) Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18256660
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I think for people like us engineers who don't spend a lot of time developing our "visual sense", it can be hard to understand what the big deal is about painting and other visual arts. For me the breakthrough was when I real
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This, in my opinion, is the right answer for the problem identified in the parent blogpost. Rather than trying to get every single package author to adopt some unified capability token scheme in their code, just statically analyze all depen
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It depends on the person. Some people see net worth as an ends in itself (boring, IMO). However, for other people, the point of more money is really to play other status games exponentially better. For example, money in itself won't ma
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What's also interesting to realize is that the standard HTML button is a sort of unholy chimera that doesn't model any sort of physical button in common usage. Physically speaking, we generally have either: 1. a "push" b
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Indeed. Admiration of human industrial progress is the foundation for every mecha show, but Evangelion really makes it visual and in-your-face, down to the most unheroic pieces of machinery. Power lines, payphones, escalators, elevators, fu
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Dating apps are in a weird place because they invariably use a subscription model, which means they're incentivized to provide a long-term drip of temporary and mediocre matches rather than finding each user a single good long-term par
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The physicality is essential. The typewriter is the most unforgiving writing device known to man. There is no erasing, like on the computer. You can't just try out sentences willy-nilly and Backspace your way to something decent. When
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by caseyross 5y ago
Many people here are discussing gun safety, which is orthogonal to the actual causes of the shooting. There are hundreds of specialized pieces of equipment on a film set and a gun is just one of them. It's not anyone's job but the
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Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting(baldurbjarnason.com)
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> Automation not only saves you time, it changes what you do. This bears repeating. When you automate a task, you often push it over a "breakpoint" where it suddenly makes certain things profitable in terms of effort. For examp
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Streetsblog 101: How Media Help Build Car Culture (2020)(usa.streetsblog.org)
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by caseyross 5y ago
Not an expert, but I would guess it's a combination of: 1. Shinkansen trains are run on an extremely tight timetable (often 5 minutes or less between trains). It takes twice as long to load or unload a double-decker car, so this presen
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by caseyross 5y ago
When you ask people to imagine a feature, they're going to imagine the absolute perfect version of the feature, for them personally. A feature that requires no effort to set up or use, provides exactly the information or functionality
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Absolutely this. Don't build the ship and then run around plugging leaks --- plan out the ship well enough to prevent leaks in the first place. This is hard, and rare, because it requires predicting how all sorts of different people ar
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Age of Invention: The Origin of Patents (2020)(antonhowes.substack.com)
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> "Before the pandemic, a batch like this would typically arrive in Chicago in April, just in time for growers to use during planting season" Hard deadlines are a really underappreciated factor in JIT supply chain issues. When
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According to the article, the officer directly asked him if he had a large amount of US currency in the car. There's no way to weasel out of answering that kind of direct question if you've already been cooperative with other ques
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My first reaction was "yikes, that's super unethical to use users' bandwidth, storage, and processing power without their knowledge". But after thinking about it a lot, I have to say I've come around. As users, we a
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by caseyross 5y ago
While I agree completely that "human work and relationships building" in organizations is a more practical way to work with people than the author's strategy, if I were to call any of the people in the story "awful [...]
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Netflix by Bots(davidcharlesebert.com)
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The people who would most benefit from this being priced in - American working class & global poor - have no way to influence the "price" in any broad sense. Those who do have pricing influence are riding the wave for short-te

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