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by combatentropy 9y ago
It's called the Inverted Pyramid structure, and it's how articles are supposed to be written. I learned it in junior high [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism) ]. But yeah, it's no
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by combatentropy 9y ago
I came here too just to remark how well-written it is. Simple writing isn't easy. It doesn't just flow out. Garbage flows out. Well-chosen words in just the right order lie in the tenth rewrite, by the person who has studied writi
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by combatentropy 9y ago
Midsentence injection deserves its own thread. Is it a trend, or am I just noticing it more? It's hard on the brain, because you have to hold the first part of the sentence in memory while you take in the interruption. Your example is
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by combatentropy 9y ago
The em dash is the most beautiful punctuation mark, all the more because it is rare --- and it is best kept that way. Certainly a sentence with more than two is imparsible. In fact, more than a few in a whole article is probably getting ann
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by combatentropy 9y ago
Everything is a remix, https://vimeo.com/14912890
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by combatentropy 9y ago
This reminds me of the story of the fisherman and businessman, https://www.becomingminimalist.com/recognizing-happiness/
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by combatentropy 9y ago
> what prevents a bigger player to copy it, improve upon it Its size can be as much a hindrance as a help. Big companies turn more slowly and are less likely to put out elegant ideas for the same reason a committee is. Paul Graham writes
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by combatentropy 9y ago
> What to Submit: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual
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by combatentropy 9y ago
It doesn't make sense to me to discriminate against people with more experience. Can someone explain it to me? I have heard that companies like recent grads because they are (1) more malleable and (2) can be paid less. But neither of t
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by combatentropy 9y ago
Arnold Swarzenegger suggested tiered pricing 25 years ago, that a big-budget movie like Terminator 2 should be $25. The problem is that movie budget is inversely proportional to audience budget. A big, special-effects movie appeals to kids
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by combatentropy 9y ago
Let us not forget that the best part about going to a movie was never the big screen. It is shared emotion. Despite complaints about others sometimes disturbing us, I think we enjoy a funny moment more when we hear others laugh, a thrill mo
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by combatentropy 9y ago
The old spec, https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html , seems to say that 401 can mean either unauthenticated or unauthorized. If you haven't signed in, it means unauthenticated. If you have si
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by combatentropy 9y ago
Based on the other replies about MySQL being simpler and faster, it makes me wonder again why SQLite didn't win.
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by combatentropy 9y ago
On the contrary: - Chapo Trap House, a podcaster, makes $88,074 a month - Philip DeFranco, a commentator and YouTuber, has 13,823 patrons (amount kept secret) - Nerd3, a gaming YouTuber, rakes in $8,003 per month - 1,393 other mem
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by combatentropy 9y ago
1. Put yourself in the reader's shoes. Imagine getting your email in the midst of all the other emails they get, all the other things they're thinking about, all the other problems, in and out of work, that they might be dealing w
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by combatentropy 9y ago
> mastery, and its use for effect, can replace the ideas that they generally prescribe Is there any field for which this is not true?
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by combatentropy 9y ago
I worked with HR a bit. The people were the sweetest I've worked with, but the forms they had me make were full of legalese, and their procedures were algorithmic, military executions. My theory is they are battle-scarred by a few bad
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by combatentropy 9y ago
I like minimalism too, but people associate that with laziness. You can't win!
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by combatentropy 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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by combatentropy 9y ago
But it's twice as long as saying "ten times." "The server is an order of magnitude faster than our old one." "The server is 10 times faster than our old one." -- More often heard: "The server is an or
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by combatentropy 9y ago
"In science and engineering, some of the greatest discoveries seem so simple that you say to yourself, I could have thought of that. The discoverer is entitled to reply, why didn't you?" --- http://www.paulgraham.c
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by combatentropy 9y ago
What about an entry-level job at a web-hosting company?
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by combatentropy 9y ago
Yes. I wish SQL select-statements put the select-clause last: from people where name = 'Joe' select upper(name) as bigname 1. It would mirror the other clauses (insert, update, and delete) which all begin with the ta
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by combatentropy 9y ago
Wikipedia is great, but it doesn't always treat a topic in the funnest or even fullest way. Random article from Google search results: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/
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by combatentropy 9y ago
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-feelings-the-...
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by combatentropy 9y ago
Yes. I think it's related to the Pareto principle, in that the last 20% of a project takes 80% of the time.
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by combatentropy 9y ago
There is such a wide range of apps among visitors to this forum. It's hard to recommend something without more background. For me, PHP is all right. But I don't follow the elite crowd's advice. I don't write classes. I d
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by combatentropy 9y ago
> Would anyone recommend it Slack would, https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329
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church
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by combatentropy 9y ago
This sounds like yet another thing that Amazon built for itself and then decided to release it to the public. That's the story behind a lot of things, isn't it?

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