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   by finnh 10y ago

   This is a great question, and you're right - you may want to defer full-time remote work until you're most experienced. As a somewhat junior developer (don't take that the wrong way, I'm just talking about years-in-indu
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   by finnh 10y ago

   thank you, i couldn't agree more. The entire first book was boring. People playing a contrived video game! which sounds boring! but they are strangely fascinated! The very first chapter, introducing the characters during the cultura
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   by finnh 10y ago

   I love the scene in Adaptation where a tripping Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper harmonize the dial tone chord while talking on the phone.
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   by finnh 10y ago

   I'm with you. The author just keeps returning to his reflexive self-cringe, and (for me) it distracted a lot from what is otherwise an interesting piece. Gonzo journalism doesn't really work if the narrator has no self-confidenc
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   by finnh 10y ago

   The "Invisibilia" podcast devoted an episode to discussing Geel: http://www.wnyc.org/story/invisibilia-problem-solution/ Some great interviews in there, IIRC.
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   by finnh 10y ago

   At this point, isn't that responsiblity larged handled by server-based autosave? GMail / Google Docs being the big ones, I assume FB and other social networking sites do the same.
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   by finnh 10y ago

   That's felixgallo's point exactly.
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   by finnh 10y ago

   picture two friends in a car: "oh hey this music is the jam, let me play it for you." 5 minutes of dicking with bluetooth pairing later: "FUCKING BLUETOOTH GODDAMN IT. welp, never mind" (conversational lull follows)
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   by finnh 10y ago

   google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YJOLQe...
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    by finnh 10y ago

    > It's valued at more than $2 trillion — or about four times the biggest technology giants Powerful reminder of how pervasive & huge the energy economy is. ... now imagine that, if you refined oil to reduce its mass by a factor
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    by finnh 10y ago

    GP already replied to this exact claim: But that's the point: we've seen that this balance doesn't exist, because if the service providers have access to the plaintext, the State will not contain itself to issuing case-by-ca
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    by finnh 10y ago

    Thanks for the context. This article is a huge list of "and then these people quit" without mentioning a move to Novi, MI?
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    by finnh 10y ago

    You may wish to read the article we are discussing, then.
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    by finnh 10y ago

    I just did the greenwich one. That was fun - thanks. One complicating factor is that they re-use faces in the lineups, so you end up recognizing people from two faces ago. (intentional, no doubt).
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    by finnh 10y ago

    I want micropayments for web content to happen. I much prefer that future to the advertising-supported present. Getting there has a massive chicken-and-egg problem, of course, as you need a viable mass of both users and sites for it to get
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    by finnh 10y ago

    Not really, I don't think. That's basically the idea behind deniability - you kinda sort know about something, but you kinda sort make sure you never actually know about it. Gross negligence is often more along the lines of &quot
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    by finnh 10y ago

    Except that the Ice Bucket Challenge did not misappropriate research dollars. They created new research dollars out of thin air. There is not much reason to believe that the people who donated in response to the Ice Bucket Challenge would
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    by finnh 10y ago

    In a perfect world, we wouldn't need insurance (everything would go right all the time). The closer we get to that perfect world, the better.
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    by finnh 10y ago

    IIRC, windows has a dialog that shows their full list of disallowed characters if you try to use one of them ... so try to make a file with (eg) "\" in the name and see what the dialog says. disclaimer: i'm remembering someth
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    by finnh 10y ago

    I think the "other website" is HN.
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    by finnh 10y ago

    agreed.
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    by finnh 10y ago

    If I'm reading you correctly, you eat nearly a pound of sugar per month? And your doctor recommended something called "Metformin" instead of saying "don't eat so much sugar"? Maybe you need a new doctor to go
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    by finnh 10y ago

    Ah, thanks for the clarification. But I think those 17-and-unders are still children, and I'd prefer them alive and with a chance to regret their gang-banging ways.
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    by finnh 10y ago

    > In fact, children under 15 are about 40 times more likely to die by swimming pool than by an accidental firearms discharge [0]. You know, it's not really the accidental discharges I'm worried about. It's the mass shooti
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    by finnh 10y ago

    The article references a mushroom body as the largest on earth [0], which is true by area. But the largest by mass is a stand of aspen trees [1]. Because aspen clones can regenerate vegetatively from their underground roots, they in some
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    by finnh 10y ago

    "All the capital you raise?" They've raised 190K. Uber has raised 12.5 Billion dollars.
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    by finnh 10y ago

    How will you maintain high quality if you don't train your workers?
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    by finnh 10y ago

    good eye! if I could up vote you a thousand times I would.
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    Now It Is Official: The 'Internet' Is Over(nytimes.com)

    3 points by finnh 10y ago|1 comments
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    by finnh 11y ago

    But what about ... exactly 180 days old? =)