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   by chadlavi 7y ago

   Yeah I thought the same thing. This one does have a better homepage though, so props to the design team/FE engineers/marketing team for that.
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   by chadlavi 7y ago

   sure, but I was specifically refuting > The root of the word “Chai” is in fact the country of its origin —- which is not india. which seems to imply that cha somehow is related to the name of the plant's country of origin.
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   by chadlavi 7y ago

   The etymology of the word Chai is from Hindi-Urdu चाय (cāy) / چای‎ (cāy), from Persian چای‎ (and Turkish çay, and cognates) from Sinitic 茶 (chá).[0] It has nothing to do with its country of origin (I assume you meant China?). 0: https
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   by chadlavi 7y ago

   There's an episode of the excellent late-70s documentary Connections series 1 that talks about this as well
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   by chadlavi 7y ago

   Is this a joke? Of course books are worth it, and no, you are in no way whatsoever getting equivalent experiences reading stuff on the internet. Books are not a "big time commitment" any more than, say, watching a TV show or minis
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   by chadlavi 7y ago

   I recently read this book in English translation. It was a fun and informative read, though frankly I don't know how much I really retained.
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   by chadlavi 7y ago

   Kind of annoying that you can't get it without the windows logo on the meta key when buying it with Linux.
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   by chadlavi 7y ago

   This just sounds like typescript with extra JS code
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   by chadlavi 7y ago

   Oh, it's tips about running. I'm embarrassed to admit that I assumed it was going to be a blog post about running some software I hadn't heard of yet called Tips.
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    Are mice a good analogue for human circadian rhythms?
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    > reading a book in one format or another in the last 12 months That study is a binary "read at least one book at all or read 0", doesn't indicate how many books the people who made it through one book finished. I would no
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    Only in US. In the rest of the Anglophone world, it's always plural.
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    So... you don't have an answer?
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    It's not the end user features. It's the admin features. You can very easily read everyone's messages, see stats on who's talking to whom the most, control who has access to what channels. The customer is the business ow
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    Step 0: never connect a smart tv to the internet in the first place. Their software is inferior to dedicated media devices like Apple TV anyway.
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    Or more importantly, product design tools. Sketch is the main reason I use a Mac.
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    This kid gets it
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    I've been too busy eating avocado toast and taking out more student loans
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    > because Millennials are killing Unix How is this our fault?
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    this version from his site is somewhat better, at least it recognizes that there's water south and east of Brooklyn: https://www.inat.fr/metro/new-york/
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    I can only speak to my local system, but the NYC subway map there is a travesty. Everything outside Manhattan is more wildly inaccurate than even the Vignelli maps of the 60s and 70s. I would expect tourists to get much more lost with this
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    If the card still has a mag strip, then a skimmer can still be introduced into an American chip reader, since you still have to shove your card in the slot.
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    They already charge more than a regular yellow cab in New York. Hopefully this price hike will inspire folks to turn back to the cheaper local option.
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    Few bucks? You ever taken a Lyft or Uber between boroughs in New York?
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    is proprioception really a sense or just the persistence of spatial info in our short term memory gathered from our senses of touch and sight? If I touch something several times with my eyes open then try it with my eyes closed, I can touch
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    No thanks!
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    > Good contrast > Automatic contrast of text if I pick a dark/light background These are not preferences, these are minimum requirements. Programmers should care about this.
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    Big giant plus one on this whole comment
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    I have remove coworkers, and we learn from each other all the time -- it's mostly through code reviews, design discussions, and pair working on tough problems. We also recommend resources to each other when we find useful stuff (books,
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    by chadlavi 7y ago

    That's pretty messed up. What about the elderly and the poor? My grandmother (American) has never done one thing online in her life.