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by cirgue 8y ago
> But, because for most people who are 100lbs overweight, they have a very unhealthy relationship with food. They stress eat, binge eat, binge drink, purge... One of the points of tracking calories/ gamifying the process of loosing
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by cirgue 8y ago
Digging latrines by hand worked well for thousands of years, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t better technologies. The weirdest part of the tech industry by far is this frankly insane “but it works well enough” reaction to criticisms of J
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by cirgue 8y ago
This is what exploring the envelope looks like. New wasm stuff is going to look like hot garbage until new sets of abstractions and new conventions start to shape up. There’s a lot of ground to re-explore and re-cover before wasm starts pun
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by cirgue 8y ago
Also, being positive solely for the sake of being positive short-circuits our ability to process a decently large chunk of life. This isn’t to say that being a whiny grouch is good, but that sugarcoating things is not a healthy way to look
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Ask HN: What do you want out of social media?
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by cirgue 8y ago
Our best devs are consistently people who don’t have CS degrees and have good creativity, patience, curiosity, and who have some code to show that isn’t buzzword-chasing nonsense.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Develop the 'talk' part of your writing first: try to express your conclusion and supporting evidence verbally in a way that's engaging and easy to understand. Maybe even find someone to explain your idea to. Once you can do
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by cirgue 8y ago
Really, it all comes back to “am I just a hallucinating brain in a vat?” But the answer to that question doesn’t much matter really. If that’s the case, why not just pack up all the books and go to the beach? Same thing with language. It’s
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by cirgue 8y ago
All any of us have here are opinions, and yeah it’s my opinion that any time spent doing things that don’t lead to some better future state is the pastime equivalent of junk food: I eat junk food and enjoy it from time to time, but I also d
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by cirgue 8y ago
Don’t draw conclusions about peoples aggregate behavior based on comment threads. I don’t disagree that this topic touches a nerve for some people, but those people are garunteed to be over-represented here.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Because activities related to those things create sustained material security and personal fulfillment. Your efforts at building a strong network of friends pay dividends for decades, the equivalent amount of time playing video games has no
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by cirgue 8y ago
I think one of the biggest changes has been the visual deemphasis on individual identity in modern social media over forums, even on HN. Forums that allowed user large user avatars, flair, and the rest made it possible to easily visually id
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Music is, in the last 15 years, demonstrably homogenising though This is definitely a trend that isn't unprecedented: the popularity of grunge was in some ways a reaction to the homogeneity of music during the 80s. Rock was a rebe
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by cirgue 8y ago
No, at least not compared to some of the people that I work with. I really like the creative parts of programming, but I actually have a really hard time getting into a headspace where I can pick up a problem and just go. I can produce a hi
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by cirgue 8y ago
I don’t think that most people would take issue with the idea that diversity with no basis for common experience/understanding is a bad thing. The point of diversity as a social value in the West is the belief that by explicitly incent
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by cirgue 8y ago
No, they aren’t. Sweet potatoes are extremely flavorful when roasted by themselves, yams not so much.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Today, the focus seems to be on making sure that a product/system is easy to modify, integrate, or tear down completely instead of saying 'we need to build a system that can do x and only ever x really fast and cheap for a long ti
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Lobbying the government to restore net neutrality is far cheaper than building out an ISP. Also, I suspect that state-level legislative initiatives are going to be much easier to win than trying to sue executive agencies.
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by cirgue 8y ago
So I think “pile of trash” might be a bit too far, but JavaScript is a weird choice for one major reason: most languages have several objective technical and strategiec advantages. JavaScript has exactly two: it is the only language availab
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by cirgue 8y ago
I will abandon my skepticism of JavaScript as soon as JavaScript boosters abandon their infomercialesque “millions of people can’t be wrong!” attitude and make a compelling case for the language itself. JavaScript is all we have for web dev
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by cirgue 8y ago
Google is absolutely central to the overwhelming majority of the user experience of the internet in the US. From the perspective of most consumers, Google already does control the internet.
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by cirgue 8y ago
In the tech industry, our ability to obtain new tools and find new problems to solve vastly outstrips the speed at which we can properly understand either the tools or the problems. When relevance in an organization is tied to your ability
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by cirgue 8y ago
I don't whose ire you've drawn, but you're right. This is absolutely PR wank (albiet cheeky and well-executed). It's not like Dominos has a pile of cash big enough to make a serious dent in municipal infrastructure, but
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Economics is such a tragedy, because on the one hand it's so elegant and satisfying, but on the other it seems sufficiently incomplete to be considered broken. The study of economics is as much a framework for asking questions as
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by cirgue 8y ago
In already-populated areas, expansion of transit capacity increases local economic activity and thefore throughput. This is an observable phenomenon. Municipalities even occasionally plan for it. Property investors certainly do.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Not only understood, but widely accepted as the grammatically correct general reference gender. English isn’t the only language to do this.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Chatbots solve the same problem as a search interface, but in a way that is lower bandwidth, less intuitive, and mildly personally insulting (the attitude from the company using the chatbot seems to be 'our users totally will not mind
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by cirgue 8y ago
> We haven't yet learned the parallel with roads that more technologies help only temporarily, eventually leading people to use them and create more pollution. This is a false equivalency. Traffic is very much the limiting factor in
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by cirgue 8y ago
I can’t speak for SF, but some Korean groceries make their own on site.
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by cirgue 8y ago
'Painfully obvious' can sometimes completely non-obvious when you're in an environment where bad habits, political bs, and other human weirdness dominate the patterns of interaction. This is true for most organizations.

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