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by gerbilly 8y ago
I guess I get my biases from mountain biking, where there is a lot more acceleration/deceleration going on.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Rotating weight is the most important to minimize. If you can shave off 500g in your wheelset, it makes much more difference than shaving 500g off the frame or other 'static' component.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> rich people tend to love sports that you can win at without having to compete against anyone. That would explain all the rich skateboarders then :-)
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Meth, Murder, and Pirates: The Coder Who Became a Crime Boss(wired.com)
6 points by gerbilly 8y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I wonder how many people would run marathons if they had to do it in secret? See also: https://goo.gl/images/o1L8J7
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by gerbilly 8y ago
There are parallels with city planning. systemd reminds me of the efforts in some cities at clearing 'slums' to replace them with 'modern' apartment blocks.[1] sytemd seems like a similar technocratic, modernist effort a
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I still consider it a weakness of UNIX that "logout" doesn't really mean "logout" Ok, but UNIX and it's behaviour has evolved over forty years, and users have a certain set of expectations about it. Also,
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Ask HN: What's that pleasant smell on your skin after it's been in the sun?
3 points by gerbilly 8y ago|1 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> yesterday's factories and warehouses are being converted into coffee shops and homes that people love and pay a premium for. That's because in post industrial neighbourhoods, the first people to move in are artists, which nee
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I think a critical mass of people have bought into the belief that overwork is equivalent with success. Basically it's another one of those misunderstanding implication fallacies. They are saying: hard work <=>success (equiv
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> The issue of contention was whether or not understaffing of fact checking departments is the cause of diminished trust in the news industry. Sure, but people distrust things for irrational reasons all the time.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Yeah it's bad. But the fact that we are talking about 'this guy' and not hundreds of people means it's not as widespread as you might think. It's impossible to defend against, you have to trust your coworkers, or w
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by gerbilly 8y ago
>Their fact checkers evidently started with the assumption that their journalists weren't being deliberately deceptive. People reviewing pull requests at our company also have to assume that programmers aren't being deliberatel
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> CNN’s “Journalist of the Year” - who worked for Der Spiegel - was recently outed as having completely fabricated the majority of the articles Of course he's going to win awards. The rest of the journalists, who have to confine the
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I used to have a math teacher in high school who would say: "When a mathematician doesn't have what he wants, he re-arranges things so as to get it." Basically he meant, if the problem isn't presented in a way that make
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I have failed to find one important reason: all news are fake news now. This 'fake news' thing is just a recent meme that people strengthen through confirmation bias, and then pass around to justify their irrational behaviour
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I am not in the newspaper industry, but close to it you could say. Do you have any idea how many people have worked on a print story before it got printed? It's not just the reporter, but fact checkers, copy editors, editors, sometimes
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Replying to myself because I thought of more stuff. Some kinds had mini bikes, when we were about eight, but my grandmother forbade me from riding one, but she did let me drive her car when I was about 12 to go visit my friends. Also we&#x2
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I understand what you are saying, but you may be arguing from a marginal case. Not every kid who would prefer to play video games is going to grow up to be a professional game developer or programmer.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Man, we used to play outside from morning (dawn is really early in the summer) till lunch, then from after lunch till 9:30pm. We lived in the country so we rode bikes, built tree forts, explored the woods. We shot bows and arrows and ran ar
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by gerbilly 8y ago
People are afraid to let their kids play outside, and even if they did, there is no one out there to play with because all the other kids are in the house in front of a screen.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Not the OP, but so much about javascript rubs me the wrong way. 1) Mandatory javascript is making the internet a hostile place. Basically every site you visit asks you to run untrusted code to view it now. What could possibly go wrong? 2)
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by gerbilly 8y ago
- Mandatory javascript. - Spam and online ads (same thing really) - Free platforms monetized by analytics.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Obviously it's unfinished work, but my critique of it would be that so far, he has only attempted to identify individual words. To really be successful, he has to start looking for syntax and grammar in the text. He admits he's no
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I think you are conflating simple and easy. I like to state it as complex vs. difficult. Finding a bug in ten thousand lines of crappy VB code code is 'difficult', but not fun. Writing an space/time efficient implementat
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I much prefer people who are delivery focused to those who are overly idealistic or want to change everything out of the gate Do you have problems to solve or not? Often the problem isn't really a problem, except that your curren
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> The reason why some companies cannot figure this out is because they don’t value the problems at hand. They need bodies to put fingers on keyboards Exactly this. Too many companies are availability focused instead of ability focused. T
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> >Don't concentrate only on work, stressful and bad things in your life. Concentrate instead on creating good moments and being around good people, because life is so beautiful. I feel this sentence could also save a lot of live
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> People do stuff, they write it down for free and sell it to people. FTFY: People [in the public sphere] do stuff, they write it down for free and sell it to people.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
It would be so much easier to use git if there was simply a "git undo" that would cleanly undo the last git command (or last n commands would be even better). Then you could learn more easily via exploration and experimentation. A

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