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by donw 8y ago
Alex has always been a bit... well, Alex. I'm not surprised that there is something different about his neural anatomy. Case-in-point: many, many moons ago, he hobbled into the climbing gym with approximately 50% of his limbs interred
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by donw 8y ago
Every use case listed on this article followed the following nominal pattern: (1) Start with a relational database. (2) Build product until you have a deep understanding of your market and their needs. (3) Move to a specialized data store.
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by donw 8y ago
Very true! It is difficult to understand what Good looks like until you experience it first-hand. Afterwards, Good is as obvious as water. Unfortunately, Good requires infrastructure, both physical and cultural, that most organizations lack
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by donw 8y ago
As opposed to most startups, which are tiny, unreliable organizations with a generally substandard management culture? Bad management is everywhere. Being able to do even a mediocre job at the scale of a major military is still not entirely
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The last day of linotype at the NYT (1978) [video](vimeo.com)
213 points by donw 9y ago|65 comments
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by donw 9y ago
Node is fine for the frontend -- I'd go with React and React Native personally -- but between NPM issues and a general cowboyishness, I wouldn't go near it on the server-side. Backend/API layer would be one or more of Ruby, P
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by donw 9y ago
It's not just news. I cut out mainstream media several years ago, and noted a definite improvement in my psychological well-being. As of the end of last year, I stopped engaging in mainstream social media. So much better. I still keep
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by donw 9y ago
Yeah, it's pretty hard to differentiate that from an MRE.
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by donw 9y ago
Between that and the keyboard issues, yeah, there's a reason I haven't picked up a new Mac in awhile.
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by donw 9y ago
Congress does regulate those weapons. There's a reason you can't just walk into a Wal-Mart and walk out with a machine gun, or a rocket launcher. That said, I don't much care for the fact that the requirement to have legal ac
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by donw 9y ago
> The idea that 'this is not a problem' is exactly the thing under dispute, so I don't think it should be cheerfully asserted. There are sixteen million Americans with concealed-carry licenses, plus fourteen states that al
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by donw 9y ago
Thinking of it as "guns" being a fundamental right is... kinda backwards. And, for the record, I think that "because the Second Amendment" is a horrible and fantastically lazy argument for gun ownership. Now, let us take
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by donw 9y ago
The average Joe or Jane gun owner in the United States can not purchase, and does not own, automatic weapons. Literally tens of millions of responsible Americans walk around, every day, carrying semi-automatic weapons, and this is not a pro
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by donw 9y ago
If I have taken only one thing away from living in Japan for near-on a decade, it is that the washlet (aka the cyber-bidet) is, quite possibly, mankind's greatest invention. The predecessor to the above were small squeeze bottles full
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by donw 9y ago
This could be a great tool for both detecting and prioritizing repair efforts as well, and robust even in the shape of shifting traffic patterns.
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by donw 9y ago
You can not purchase a gun without a background check online, at least not legally. Online or by-mail purchases can only be shipped to an in-state dealer, where you must complete a background check. This has been the case for twenty years
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by donw 9y ago
> At the very least the buyer does appreciate the art involved. Reminds me a little bit of when Jim Beam, and all of its associated brands, was purchased by Suntory, from a long line of face- and soul-less international holding conglomer
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by donw 9y ago
And Switzerland, Norway, Finland...
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by donw 9y ago
You do know that one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history -- Virginia Tech -- was done entirely with handguns, right? Against soft targets at close range (within about 25 meters), it doesn't matter if you have a rifle or a han
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by donw 9y ago
As always, things are a bit more complicated. Being largely for-profit is part of the problem with healthcare in the United States, but plenty of other countries have privatized healthcare that works, Japan being the first that comes to min
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by donw 9y ago
Sports- or activity-based meetups tend to be the best of the bunch, as do expat gatherings when you have just relocated to a new country.
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by donw 9y ago
I still carry my smartphone, but have disabled all app notifications, and removed anything that isn't a tool or a direct text messaging app. No Twitter, no Facebook, no Snapchat, etc. It's amazing how much happier I became after d
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by donw 9y ago
Perhaps a better way to phrase things is that top leadership is responsible for creating a set of environmental conditions where the right culture can thrive and grow. A not-insignificant chunk of that is in choosing the right people, which
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by donw 9y ago
Sadly, this is a result of deeply-rooted parts of Japanese culture. In Japan, you don't just walk up to people and strike up a conversation. Foreigners might, but native Japanese largely don't. To establish some sort of repertoire
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by donw 9y ago
> In Sweden this is effectively the only way you can make the "stack ranking": you move a bunch of workers to a special branch or factory. Stack ranking is one of the worst ideas to ever hit the corporate world, and is, in gene
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by donw 9y ago
This is maybe the thing I hate most about flying. I carry my Leatherman everywhere, and it's helped me more times than I can count. Maybe it's just me, but I feel better knowing that I have a pretty complete toolkit on me at all t
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by donw 9y ago
Prices aren't set by one thing and one thing only, though. Available cash flow definitely plays into the equation, and we can see this at work in a multitude of areas, from the skyrocketing cost of a university education, to the fact t
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by donw 9y ago
And in the interim, that overqualified person can help upskill the rest of your team. Assuming you are not a complete muppet and have built mechanisms into your company culture to provide for rapid knowledge transfer, of course. Or, it coul
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by donw 9y ago
Funnily enough, I live in Toyosu, and can see where the market should have been moved to from my house. The cause is simple enough: graft and corruption on all levels and at a massive scale, exposed in large part by Yuriko Koike (the relati
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by donw 9y ago
Malnutrition and starvation also have a strong impact on ovulation rate.

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