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by genmon 7y ago
It's more specific, not less: having he/she/they allows us to refer to male/female/unknown instead of overloading "he" to mean both male/unknown. Similar reason to why you sometimes want to allow NULL
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by genmon 7y ago
Because "they" in text has always been common for me, it's not a change and not forced -- it's been like this as long as I can remember. I can't speak for the British writing you've read, but as a Brit living i
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by genmon 7y ago
Well there are two entities: the character and the player. The character is female, but a player doesn't need to identify as female to have a female character. Since the article is about the player more generally (the article discusses
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by genmon 7y ago
It might not be that "no one dares say it too loud," it might be that people don't hate it or even (like me) like this work towards rebalancing. btw being from the UK, "they" singular in text is normal, especially i
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by genmon 7y ago
Ha! I did the same in 2014, interesting to see how it has changed in that time http://interconnected.org/home/2014/12/12/billy_joel
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by genmon 7y ago
Interesting given the kudos Monzo is getting for the clarity of their bank transfer postmortem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20231845 The tone of voice guide is written in such a way that any team could adopt it. It
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Monzo’s tone of voice guide – how they write clearly, with examples(monzo.com)
5 points by genmon 7y ago|1 comments
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by genmon 7y ago
Is WebKit sufficiently separate from Chromium now that we can regard it as competitive? Safari seems to be doing well at keeping Chrome's "embrace and extend" in check.
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by genmon 7y ago
Reminds me of one of my favourite stories: > A US nuclear laboratory is said to maintain a "heavy dog"--fed with heavy water and "heavy" food, and with the heavy isotope deuterium replacing normal hydrogen throughout
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by genmon 7y ago
I love black: formatting isn't a _big_ thing to think about, but it's always there. Until black. For [current project] it's hooked into VS Code as the default formatter, and (inspired by simonw) we've incorporated a blac
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by genmon 7y ago
Betteridge's Law applies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by genmon 7y ago
Ironically, sitting where I do (in the London bubble), it feels pretty uncontroversial to me that the right to have an abortion is self evident, whereas free speech is not clear at all--the competing interests of the individual and society
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by genmon 7y ago
Reading between the lines, looks like they were paid for the name? > And then, incredibly, a new Coda arrived on the scene — a reimagined document at coda.io — and we reached an agreement to let them have the name. And the email newslett
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by genmon 7y ago
Blackmail
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by genmon 8y ago
Anyone use both Transit and Citymapper and able to say how they compare?
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by genmon 8y ago
The front page of Wordpress.com claims "WordPress powers 31% of the internet." A lot of mileage in the "boring" frameworks!
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by genmon 9y ago
Respect for the fact you give generous credit to Dynamicland while also saying honestly how your project is differentiated. It would have been easy not to
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by genmon 9y ago
Why did you pick that specific example (power leakage)? Is there a proof of concept that does something similar?
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by genmon 9y ago
There are a few theories detailed here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/24578/why-do-some-clocks-use-... The reason I always heard is about ease of casting: it requires a more complex mold if 4 is written as IV ins
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by genmon 9y ago
It's also a feature in Citymapper. Only front/middle/back but the integration means I use the information more often https://citymapper.com/news/726/where-to-get-on-the-train
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by genmon 9y ago
Do you have a source for this? All I can find online is the occasional use of RFID for stock management or the odd marketing campaign. But nothing about customer tracking
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by genmon 10y ago
It pre-dates Brexit. It's coming into force now, but legislation passed in Nov 2015, and was being developed for some time before that
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by genmon 10y ago
I can't tell whether you're referencing a movie or talking about some interesting fringe science. If the latter, do you have any recommendations of papers I should check out?
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by genmon 10y ago
And just to add to this, Manifest Destiny had some very concrete related beliefs. Such as "the rain follows the plow", the belief that if you settle and farm somewhere, the climate will magically change to make this workable http
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by genmon 10y ago
Airbnb recently announced they have a hardware and software design lab... Maybe they're planning to introduce new strands to the business and that's what this money is for? http://www.fastcodesign.com/3062246/
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by genmon 10y ago
Uber is pretty formidable in building and growing a two-sided market. I suspect it's tuned continuously, at high resolution (in space and time), with levers I mostly don't know. And that's got to be a big contribution to the
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by genmon 10y ago
I think idlewords saying he did nothing is a little tongue-in-cheek disingenuous... shooting his mouth off on Twitter is super effective marketing, and absolutely vital the first year of subscription renewals.
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by genmon 10y ago
This is a smart response. The insurance company could also review the contract code in order to provide cover -- this would give investors extra confidence.
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by genmon 10y ago
They should have called it Pinboard
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by genmon 10y ago
Interesting, thanks! I've not noticed that myself, but maybe that's because I'm in London and fintech is particularly strong here (I'm guessing fintech folks are more au fait with the difference between blockchain and bi

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