davidthewatson

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   by davidthewatson 5y ago

   > Real Translation: Covid has made people miserable in their jobs. No, people were miserable in their jobs prior to the Covid era. The Covid era just gave them the repose they needed to reframe their job experience and their relationship
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   by davidthewatson 5y ago

   Alan Kay has been saying this for at least 25 years: "Television should be the last mass communications medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon general's warning!'
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   by davidthewatson 5y ago

   Indeed, Novid did have promise. Po's work should be celebrated. The problem is that Novid depends on self-report. Self-report is not reliable, or else we'd have seen success around this kind of self-reported contact tracing, which
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   Is the default mode of the brain to suffer?(thecut.com)

   2 points by davidthewatson 6y ago|0 comments
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   by davidthewatson 6y ago

   I had been running Manjaro on an acer swift 3 but decided to try Garuda qtile this evening. The install had one hiccup near the end which looked like this: https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=garuda+linux+qtile+install... I s
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   by davidthewatson 6y ago

   With a tip of the hat to Alan Kay, it's not that great leaps haven't happened since 1996 (or 1980). It's that those things were not part of the story until they were subsumed by the pop culture: https://news.ycombi
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   by davidthewatson 6y ago

   I upgraded to the 4a on Fi with the pre-order. The interesting part is that the tear-down doesn't go into the audio design, or perhaps I missed it. The pixel 4a is by far the loudest phone I've owned from the G1 on - I run calls w
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   by davidthewatson 7y ago

   I'm not sure what to take away from this: "In the domain of complex disorders, sequencing revealed putatively functional alleles at a gene previously implicated by GWAS of Type 1 diabetes." Does that mean that the same gene i
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   by davidthewatson 7y ago

   I'd have an easier time evaluating pipedream if I got something other than a blank page when clicking through to the website from my mac running chrome.
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    by davidthewatson 7y ago

    I fail to see how an operating system causes 2 or 3 decades of divergent software engineering to coalesce. That's only probable if numerous components descend from the operating system group in an architectural style that is unified,
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    by davidthewatson 7y ago

    Firefox/Linux doesn't seem to like tandem.chat: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to tandem.chat. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity o
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    by davidthewatson 8y ago

    Neal Stephenson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co...
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    by davidthewatson 9y ago

    I have worked on software in domains including DARPA, defense, and robotics, among others. While I agree with many of the things said here, from my experience, the single biggest factor affecting the cost of software is complexity. When I s
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    by davidthewatson 9y ago

    There's one thing that leads me to a no every time: if you use an acronym on your resume and you can't at least explain the abbreviation, I'm done. This is a specific case of a more general principle, but don't use words
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    I have the best words(github.com)

    1 points by davidthewatson 9y ago|0 comments
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    by davidthewatson 9y ago

    How is this different than zerovm? http://www.zerovm.org/
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    by davidthewatson 9y ago

    Chrome has enabled Google to move beyond the link as the primary currency of authority (PageRank) and toward click-throughs as a more robust proxy with respect to search rankings, ads, etc.
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    Contribute to Open Source Without Coding(benv.io)

    3 points by davidthewatson 10y ago|0 comments
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    by davidthewatson 11y ago

    I tried this on one of my projects today. Created account via github, enabled the project, watched the wheels spin. I'm approaching 12 hours now and it still says: "This project will be analyzed soon. Please check back later.&quot
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    One git commit per pull request(ndlib.github.io)

    3 points by davidthewatson 13y ago|0 comments
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    by davidthewatson 14y ago

    Good question - the answer to which is probably that he doesn't have to since others have filled in the gaps. I find hacker news illegible and not very user friendly. So I use this on my Android phone: http://hackerwebapp.com/
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    Control the robotic tree decorator for charity(thecommunitree.com)

    1 points by davidthewatson 14y ago|0 comments
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    Church of Kopimism holds that file sharing is sacred(nytimes.com)

    5 points by davidthewatson 14y ago|1 comments
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    by davidthewatson 14y ago

    Well-stated retrospective that gets at a common point between great art and great design. Charles Mingus said, "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." I only wish t
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    by davidthewatson 15y ago

    Running postgresql on os x is a bit of a pain but brew gets it right. I don't care much for the heavy weight virtualization on mac osx. I have a separate proxmox box for that. On the mac, I use: python, virtualenv, pip, flask, postgresql, a