goblin89

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   by goblin89 12y ago

   > Stop there. What would lead you to this speculation? First, I should've put “constant and full attention” there. My phrasing was off. As to why I came to this conclusion: 1. People often ride for a few hours without breaks. My a
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   by goblin89 12y ago

   > Cell phones are not dangerous because the driver was looking at his phone or playing with the buttons when he had an accident. They are dangerous because they encourage your mind to wander. I'm going to speculate that driving is s
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   by goblin89 12y ago

   http://backspace.fm/ is a tech podcast in Japanese, in case anyone speaks or learns this language.
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   Why is U2 so popular?(quora.com)

   2 points by goblin89 12y ago|0 comments
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   by goblin89 12y ago

   > I most states its legal for cycles (motor and non) to pass cars and pull to the head of the line at a light. Not sure why; but that's the way it is. Try staying for a minute or two behind a vehicle that has its engine running and
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   by goblin89 12y ago

   Thanks for clarification. Now that I think about, I used to care about my resume appearance—I guess since then I've become more pragmatic (and expect from any potential employer the same).
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   Magdeleine: a free high resolution photo every day(magdeleine.co)

   2 points by goblin89 12y ago|0 comments
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   by goblin89 12y ago

   Seems like it's obvious to everybody else, but perhaps someone will clarify—how this is better than hitting Ctrl+P on my LinkedIn profile page? (Except not having to have a LinkedIn account.)
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   by goblin89 12y ago

   > I currently follow the Firefox pattern/language choice: > [ ] Share performance, usage, hardware and customization data anonymously with the developer to help make ___ better. <<Learn More About Data Collected>> IMO
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    > Fact: Recording user behavior most certainly is a privacy issue... > My opinion: ...and it should be both disclosed and opt-in. And, perhaps, avoided completely–once your shop has resources to spare for in-house testing and usabilit
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    That's precisely why, IMHO, if you aren't prepared to make a complete well-thought-through argument, then you should think twice before venturing into a philosophical discussion. On the other hand, due to the nature of HN, one has
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    I didn't downvote, but if you ask me I'd say others did it mainly because grandparent brought philosophy into scientific discussion. (And with reasoning or phrasing issues at that: “we can't do something even if we can”, for
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    Those not personally involved in the conflict would lack the motivation to develop a service like this, and for those who are involved it must be difficult to remain neutral given the circumstances (though I personally would appreciate if
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    > So like a love hotel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_hotel ), but sans coupling. Or like a capsule hotel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel ), but with attached shower. To be fair,
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    There obviously is some bias. Meanwhile, independent coverage (or a convincing attempt at one) could have more pronounced media impact, I think. Recounting facts without any apparent prejudice can ‘win’ the thinking reader who is wary of be
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    > Uber and Lyft are competing to become the first app you think of when you need a taxi, and the service with the most drivers likely stands the best chance of winning. Aren't there other differentiating factors? Quality of service,
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    > I need some sort of simple contact rolodex that simply shows who I know, why I know them, and why they're important… Would you be one of them? Would you actually keep and update yet another online profile, so that other people c
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    I'm a Backblaze user, became one right after another post from their blog hit HN front page about 8 months ago. Backblaze almost saved me once when my external HDD died due to dropping—the reason it didn't actually save me is beca
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    Thanks for pointing out that active record is a generic pattern. I didn't know that (and judging by angular-restmod's README its author may not know it too). You say active record is anti-pattern, but can't it be combined wit
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    > If an adverb disappears from a sentence and the most likely meaning is unchanged, toss it out. Indeed. The same basic principle—get rid of junk—covers every other bit of text (or any composition, really). I don't like the essay be
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    I wish Sherlog.js had pluggable backends, so that one could send metrics to Hekad server, for example. That way one storage can accumulate stats from across the whole stack (server-side and client-side events, infrastructure metrics, etc.)
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    > Why would you be buying a board with 192 CUDA cores to run a server? This is the strongest point of this entire concept - desktop grade GPU to do GPGPU work, and yet you would use it as a server? Why? GPGPU isn't limited to deskto
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    > Those are pictures of an adult, not a child. When you use the word "girl" to describe an adult woman you're implicitly belittling her. Don't be that guy. Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker (so I'm not
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    Neither understood I, until I read carefully the copy on zenmagnets.com and found: > Zen Magnets may cause fatal intestinal pinching if swallowed. > Don't leave them around animals, or children who don't understand this. &gt
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    I'm going to play devil's advocate for a moment here, but: This thread brings up many different hazards from our everyday lives and compares them with neodymium magnet toys. Is this a fair comparison? We interact with most of thes
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    > That's 11 injuries and 0.3 deaths per year. Bathtubs claim about 80 fatal and 100 non-fatal drownings per year. I'm not a stats guy, but it seems like this comparison would be more useful if we somehow account for the differe
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    This is a fun property of scale-free networks in general ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network ).
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    > Ok, ok, ok. You can’t extract text from any document at the moment, but textract integrates support for many common formats and we designed it to be as easy as possible to add other document formats. There go my hopes to see painless O
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    > as an advertiser on Twitter I'm surprised that I'm not allowed to create ads to be displayed to users in countries like India, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Ukraine, Argentin
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    by goblin89 12y ago

    > If I was in the market for a product, I'd buy mine from the EFF. Simple sticker covers the camera, and supports a good group. So the market's valid, which is good. ;) Perhaps there's a place for something less disposable