colmvp

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by colmvp 10y ago
I'm not sure how much this has to do with quantity of x as opposed to quality of x. I've worked in small teams where I was the only Asian person among a team of white men, and I neither noticed any hints of racism nor sexism. I&#x
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by colmvp 10y ago
Can't read the article at work but I'll just add this anecdote: Uber is so aggressively adding promos in my city that it's actually cheaper for me to to take a 15-20 min ride in an Uber in a suburb than using local transit. A
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by colmvp 10y ago
Depends on who you ask and your interests. Nearly every journalist/news junkie/policy wonk/social activist I know where I live loves Twitter, largely because you can follow other interesting journalists/writers/prof
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by colmvp 10y ago
HN tends to downplay every sort of achievement until it cures cancer,government inefficiencies, and works on all devices including screen-readers and morse code machines.
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by colmvp 10y ago
My rule of thumb: If the image has few colours, PNG is typically better as you can retain maximum quality with little degradation compared to JPG (e.g. a logo, an illustration). If the image is complex with a lot of colours/shades (e.g
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by colmvp 10y ago
Replace "Asians" with "Blacks" or "Women" in that sentence and see how much support you'll get with that statement.
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by colmvp 10y ago
Do we know that the non-Asians also didn't require visas? Also, I find it interesting how national average always seems to justify discrimination against Asians when it comes to jobs/college acceptance but then if someone brings u
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by colmvp 10y ago
Same. I'd argue the 2000 election was far more important especially given the creation of the PATRIOT act and the decision to invade Iraq, both of which were coincidentally voted for by one of the current candidates.
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by colmvp 10y ago
I'll second the pomodoro technique, which is also talked about in Coursera's Learning How to Learn course as a means of battling procrastination and tough tasks. It's great for building momentum. I've been using it throu
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by colmvp 10y ago
My hunch is that if there were more unicorns (amazing designers/illustrators who used GIMP and had the capacity to write code for it), you'd have more progress in this realm. For example, Figma (non-open source) is doing stuff tha
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by colmvp 10y ago
I came from a well-to-do family and well... my parents pushed me to go into medicine/finance/science, partially because they perceived those industries as making a lot of money and for the prestige. Science might not be as lucrati
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by colmvp 10y ago
I think though there's a difference between cliche/stereotyped characters and whether or not a character is interesting .
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by colmvp 10y ago
On a side note, has anyone here dabbled with practicing drawing/illustration? I have so far found it to be an excellent way of practicing concentration as it require an acute focus to minute details.
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by colmvp 10y ago
My occasional workaround has been to paste in a text editor as plain text. I agree though, that the paste and match style should be default.
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by colmvp 10y ago
I could see someone using it for an art piece. Or to make it easier to place and light a candle in hard to access area. Also being able to light/put out based on timer might be a minor QoL improvement. Personally, i'll stick with
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by colmvp 10y ago
The audio in the product video seems to cut suddenly at the end.
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by colmvp 10y ago
Ha! I've travelled to remote parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and the only times I ever experienced getting robbed or deeply fearing for my safety was in Barcelona and Philly.
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by colmvp 10y ago
Regarding the example in the Wiki page: Is it possible to use hex colors codes or rgb color codes? The example uses color name.
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by colmvp 10y ago
I remember reading a longitudinal study that was conducted to see if people could accurately recall the beliefs of their younger self. Essentially, every few years, they'd ask the same group of people to rate their stance on certain is
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by colmvp 10y ago
You just reminded me of when I went to a conference and watched Daniel Libeskind talk about a work in progress. I get that famous individuals enjoy talking about their work but this was the first time I nearly suffocated from such an overbe
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by colmvp 10y ago
But the living expenses in cities like SF and NYC are entirely different compared to the rest of the country. 100k is not really a magical number aside from the fact that it's six digits instead of five. You see similar things in other
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by colmvp 10y ago
Well yeah. That rings true for a lot of popular cities... is that really edifying? Fundamentally before moving to a new city, you can calculate your salary minus expenses and see how much you have to sacrifice to make it viable to save mone
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by colmvp 10y ago
I'd hardly call buying a car that's less than 40k "near-poverty.'
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by colmvp 10y ago
That's just the news cycle right? Until another terrorist attack happens on a favored Western city, Westerners will be ambivalent about ISIL. Until a newspaper prints another photo of a child dead in the sand, Westerners will be ambiva
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by colmvp 10y ago
You have to give it up that team: A lot of people complained about how simple Hearthstone is compared to Magic, but the reality is they did a pretty good job in creating accessible card game that works on multiple platforms. I certainly hav
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by colmvp 10y ago
To add to your point, some projects are simply not going to be profitable, but will certainly have a benefit to society nonetheless. A lot of civic tech projects help increase awareness to certain issues or aim to empower disenfranchised gr
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by colmvp 10y ago
> Does anyone else feel extremely guilty about this? Personally, I don't. In life, luck is always involved. Some people are born with rare diseases. Some people are born with physical attributes that make them more desirable by thei
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by colmvp 10y ago
This seems like an unnecessarily jaded/cynical view. I'm sure there are lewd incidents that every librarian has had to deal with but I'm also sure that the vast majority of visitors/members are civil and better because o
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by colmvp 10y ago
I'm honestly surprised Facebook cares. They make billions per year. Are adblock users really a significant amount of users on the social network (I can't view the article at work)? Furthermore, it's not as if adblock users do
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by colmvp 10y ago
That time will always have a place in my heart. An age where we were largely limited to a couple fonts, where Times New Roman was de facto, where hyperlinks were almost always blue with underlines, where quirky animated gifs were ubiquitous

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