dkersten

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   by dkersten 10y ago

   You need a dedicated person to take meeting minutes, ideally someone who isn't otherwise part of the meeting because humans are bad at multitasking. I especially find it hard to take notes and focus on the meeting (nevermind actually c
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   by dkersten 10y ago

   a paragraph that won't communicate what I'm trying to say as clearly as I'd be able to in 10 seconds talking On the other hand, I personally appreciate when someone sends me some written conversation rather than verbal as i
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   by dkersten 10y ago

   I agree with what you say. My point is just that "whatever you like the most" is biased by your upbringing, culture and media. Hence my "girls prefer pink" comment - that's not nature, its nurture - because we&#
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   by dkersten 10y ago

   You are insane if you think auto mechanics, miners, truck drivers, plumbers, construction workers, landscapers, or working on fishing vessels, or other physically demanding, laborious jobs, are not preferred more by men than women. Yeah,
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   by dkersten 10y ago

   RethinkDB themselves pivoted away from this I believe the storage backend remained largely the same (ie current RethinkDB, IIRC, is still optimised for SSD). Maybe I'm mistaken.
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   by dkersten 10y ago

   If you're "Social startup of the year" it doesn't matter if one post appear to some followers 100ms later than they should be. That's latency, not correctness. I think even "social startup of the year" c
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   by dkersten 10y ago

   For me, this was very important and I think I was very much aligned with the teams goals, which is probably why I like RethinkDB so much. The problem is, I wasn't (and still am not) in a position where I could have paid a bunch of mone
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   by dkersten 10y ago

   That's strange. I've ran it on ubuntu (using the .deb, I believe) since 2014.
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   by dkersten 10y ago

   although I'd be less rigid about the particular structure of the arguments. My reasoning was for conpatibility and consistency. If everyone makes up their own argument structure, it becomes very difficult to maintain and puts the onu
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    Rodale is a non-profit. Many conventional farms live off subsidies. They're not necessarily any more sustainable. (I'm not from the US so can only speak of local farms. I believe its the same in the US, based on stuff I've
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    Its also worth noting that you can use re-frame with react-native to write apps with the re-natal project: https://github.com/drapanjanas/re-natal
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    I don't know what DHH meant, but the idiom "in anger" is used to mean "in seriousness", "for real" or "properly". Whether or not DHH meant the idiom, I do not know. But its likely. For example:
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    It depends on what you mean by component. Reagent components (ie UI widgets), I agree. Components should be self-contained and as re-frame agnostic as possible. So instead of subscribing to the data they want, they could take in a ratom as
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    I fail to see the relevance. Could you explain what you mean?
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    React is a rendering library. That is, you create a tree of widgets (components in react lingo) and feed them data. React then manages the rendering (turning it into the DOM) for you whenever this data is changed. It does it in a generally
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    How are "taxes theft" but landownership is not? Why does someone get to claim exclusive ownership over some land and another person does not (just because the first persons ancestors reached the land first (in some cases, only if
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    "fairly certain they don't beat them anymore." That sounds an awful lot like an opinion stated as fact.
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    Complete strawman argument.
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    They don't call them Zelda Boxes for nothing. I'll admit I'm biased, but I see nearly every Zelda game as easily in the top 3, if not the killer app of each Nintendo system. Maybe so, but there's no way[1] I would by a
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    DRM only means that the pirates, with their fancy DRM-removed cracked copies, have a more pleasant experience than the legitimate users who have to put up with whatever fuckology the DRM forces on them.
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    Playstation 1 had the PocketStation. This predated the Gamecube by 2 years, but the Dreamcast beat it by two months.
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    Can you recommend any good RTS games for iOS? Personally, I use my iPad for games when I travel (and sometimes during my twice-a-week commute) and at home I play games almost exclusively on PS4. I rarely, if ever, play games on my laptop no
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    I think it's an "acquired taste" kind of thing: it doesn't smell nice... until it does.
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    Water fluoridation is just a way to get to the people who refuse to brush their teeth. That's not really true in and of itself -- fluoridation won't fix damage done by bad hygiene or diet. As someone else mentioned, genetics an
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    I didn't say that there was no useful work to be done. I said that I believe there to be a limit to how much there is and that I believe that, if automation continues to grow, that population will exceed how the amount of useful work.
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    You need access to infrastructure of ISP. You don't even need that. You could spoof a wifi network with a PineAP or similar and MitM at that level.
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    Note also the submission about how routine jobs are disappearing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310423
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    There is limited demand for the jobs you list. If population continues to grow and automation continues to grow, I believe there will soon be more people than we need for domestic labor, mechanical turk, selling things on the roadside, fash
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    I've had problems connecting by MBP to the projector system in a company that uses predominantly macs... (but not using Apple TV - that's always worked flawlessly for me). So I definitely disagree with the no trouble connecting to
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    by dkersten 10y ago

    Also, as a mac user for the past year and a half, I still can't figure out when the three coloured dots are useful. Just give me windows-style minimize/maximize/close buttons please... Every long time Mac user I've asked