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by ellard 7y ago
Probably. This is generally the correct way to handle an upgrade while minimizing breaking changes to the user. Changing a user's settings during an upgrade will erode users' trust in doing so in the future, even if it's &quo
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by ellard 8y ago
The study that I remember off the top of my head is the one that came out of UC Berkeley. News article: https://news.berkeley.edu/2015/05/29/motorcycle-lanesplittin... There's been a couple of others tha
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by ellard 8y ago
I'm disappointed that motorcycles/scooters and lane splitting aren't brought into the conversation more when discussions about traffic congestion come up. It feels like a win/win for nearly everyone to promote two wheele
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by ellard 8y ago
I don't know what Google's contracts and agreements are with local municipality, so the short version of my answer is that I don't know how i'd classify Google Fiber myself. For a more general point of view, i'd tak
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by ellard 8y ago
One is contracted by the US government to provide public infrastructure (and AFAIK still hasn't fulfilled their end of the agreement), and the other is an entity that operated and grew organically to provide a service that the governme
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by ellard 8y ago
Serious question: Isn't Java still one of the default languages if you are choosing a "safe" language to build and maintain a large piece of software? Considering how long it's been around and how many libraries exist fo
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by ellard 8y ago
You've already touched on it a bit, but yes there are responsible off-roaders out there that work to minimize the amount of impact that they have on the lands that they traverse through. A lot of these folks will avoid areas that hiker
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by ellard 8y ago
I'm a short guy who has driven my manual car while my right hand was basically a stump from having a knife put through it and having it bandaged up. I did drive slower in general as I couldn't shift as fast and it hurt to do so us
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by ellard 8y ago
I think that we've gotten some fantastic UI/UX designs that came from having to work within the limitation of pre-existing controller inputs. You also have the benefit of being able to assume that the user has some level of compet
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by ellard 8y ago
I don't disagree with your sentiment. That said, these kinds of jobs are generally poorly paid positions relative to the amount of bullshit that they have to deal with pre-employment and during employment. If we want a higher volume of
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by ellard 8y ago
It's not about yourself, but about understanding others. People grow up differently, have had different experiences, and hence have different risk assessments on who they trust and what they're willing to lose when that trust is m
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by ellard 8y ago
I'm not sure why it's hard to understand why someone could be convinced by words that match their bias backed by confidence. That's sales 101 and there's a reason why it works. Now, yes, the medical breakthrough part sho
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by ellard 8y ago
I've generally viewed large organizations at the best as being better at refining, expanding on, and scaling ideas more than creating brand new ideas on their own. After a certain size, companies tend to favor working on things that ar
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by ellard 8y ago
If you want to look at it that way, sure. Most communities ban certain behaviors to cultivate a welcoming culture for their target audience. Even HN has the guidelines which highly discourages certain posting behaviors to keep comment threa
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by ellard 8y ago
It's the difference between a tolerant atmosphere vs a welcoming one. A simple example is that when i'm with mixed company, I speak in English even if everyone i'm currently talking to can speak another language that i'm
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by ellard 8y ago
They probably have a system in place that automatically flags pages that look suspicious until a human approves of them.
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by ellard 8y ago
On the flip side of this is David Foster Wallace's essay. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/anthony-bourdain-... If thinking about suicide as a form of giving up helped you our of your funk, then more pow
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by ellard 8y ago
Validity of a complaint is also a hard problem to solve as it's mostly one's word against another. Crafting a well-worded negative review isn't difficult and there's been enough anecdotal stories from systems such as Yel
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by ellard 8y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/us/san-francisco-firefigh... You're not wrong, but it's more that they are in a position to help and the city doesn't seem to want to have another organi