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by dpau 8y ago
I'm not sure that's the case, there are a number of the sites on this list, like Facebook and Reddit, that I definitely wouldn't categorize as document-oriented . It seems more of an issue with both how resource intensive t
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I've been wondering how much climate change is taken into account in decisions such as these? If I were planning where I built my headquarters it wouldn't be in the South. (In fact I'm trying to convince my mother to move-
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I also find Material Design abhorrent. I've read the specs and feel that I understand and agree with Google's motivations for creating such a system, but the result is just plain ugly to me. Material Design has become the "Bo
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I wonder if the presence of a controversial subreddit like the_donald is good for business, increasing discussion, site traffic and thus revenue? Perhaps Reddit has a financial incentive to encourage (or at least not punish) subreddit dram
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I've been wondering why I even needed Patreon in the first place. My users who choose to donate via Paypal can choose either a one-time donation or recurring. So all I need is a supporter mailing list and blog (perhaps with member-on
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There’s an analogous situation with the Chinese color “qing” (青), a complex and nuanced issue debated by antique collectors and linguists alike. There was an interesting discussion on reddit a while back in regards to Chinese colors (inclu
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Nice article, but I find it strange that not once was the gorilla in the room mentioned- China. Wedgwood was working in a world that had been re-shaped by Chinese export porcelain, one of the first examples of a truly global product and ma
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It's not unjustified "outrage culture". It's Facebook's actual outrageous, egregious behavior, repeated over and over again, that is getting to be too much.
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If your work is that valuable then perhaps you’re selling yourself short? In my 40s now and have definitely encountered age discrimination but found remote work once I updated my skills. I hope you get out of that dump!
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I agree, incredibly creative. Definitely worth the read for anyone who enjoyed 1984, Brave New World, etc. I don’t recall it being boring in the least, perhaps the translation is partly to blame.
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> we are effectively rewinding the climate clock by approximately 50 My, reversing a multimillion year cooling trend in less than two centuries. It’s the unprecedented suddenness of this climate change that makes it doubtful organisms wi
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Completely agree! Patreon misses the point of Patreon. I guess people are more likely to become patrons if there's some reward, and Patreon wants to encourage growth. But in doing so they are creating an environment where there'
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I'm concerned because I feel that society has already decided that blind people can only do these certain types of menial jobs, that these jobs are "good enough". They neatly tuck away blind people while giving them a func
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I feel the same unease. In China, blind people are often given jobs as piano tuners and masseuses. In a country with few resources and opportunities for disabled people, I first viewed these types of jobs positively. However, people can
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Thank you for this. Can we start backwards from a model of what we believe a rich, healthy society should look like, and then figure out how to get there? A society that depends only upon "market signals" to determine which jobs
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I understand the utility but am completely mystified by these redesigns. The results look like those generic, standardized tobacco packaging labels or even Squarespace website titles. In each case- Burberry, Rimowa, YSL & DVF- I reall
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By all means be frugal and live as debt-free as possible. But I think the issue raised by the article is that in today’s economy even “reasonable” people making rational decisions are screwed once they pass 40, age out of the workforce and
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Can't speak for OP, but personally I decided that I would follow my dreams as best I could while I could, and despite not having many resources I had a good run. Now 40+ and facing worsening job prospects with no hope for retirement,
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Greenpeace has made a few high-profile mistakes over the years which unfortunately seem to make more headlines than their protests, research and educational work. The Rainbow Warrior II ending up in a shipbreaking yard is particularly surp
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I just cringed a bit remembering my idealistic but ultimately doomed mission in the early 2000’s to convert an entire organization to Linux on the desktop, complete with a test group of forward-thinking, masochistic users who I encouraged t
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Yes, everyone knew, especially the ceramics community. Back in 2006 a potter successfully sued Vanderbilt for contracting mesothelioma due to his use of Nytal, a talc widely used in the pottery community [1]. As of last year this brand of
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I’m interested to know how others are preserving websites. Due to incomplete snapshots, broken links and spam companies taking over expired domains, it’s often difficult to browse or get a complete image of a website using the Wayback machi
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For my research I have scripts that scrape various sites, downloading images and encoding the web page info into the JPG IPTC metadata fields. Upon opening Picasa, it automatically detects the newly scraped photos and imports them along wi
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I used to help artists with setting up Wordpress portfolio sites. But the constant maintenance required (updating Wordpress & plugins, making sure that all plugins are secure and maintained, and checking after each update to make sure
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Once while logged into my Udemy account (with three past purchases) I was disappointed to see that classes were no longer on sale. But opening Udemy in a separate incognito window showed the classes at their usual heavily-discounted pricing
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I'm still going through the exercises but as an old SVN user I completely agree, the visual aids in the tutorial are excellent. It would be great to have this resource integrated into a git client.
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Groups is the only reason I signed up for FB three years ago. These groups are very important for my open-source projects and professional life. FB is the only platform that offers a common place where these diverse communities exist.
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I'm wondering if the presence of fakes on Amazon (and the many complaints of them) are in fact helping Amazon's own branded items? Personally when I'm shopping for basics on Amazon I often just go for the AmazonBasics vers
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If you're just rendering HTML, you might as well do it on the server with your choice of language/framework. The power of Vue and other Javascript frameworks is in their reactivity and the ability to create extremely powerful int
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How long until Microsoft starts inserting ads into our Github repos?

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