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by gotthemwmds 9y ago
s/difference of a few yards/difference of 1 yard/ signed, this totally not still upset Seahawks fan. (re: 2015 Superbowl)
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by gotthemwmds 9y ago
How can anyone make an empirical statement about AA -- an organization that does not collect any sort of statistics about itself what so ever?
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by gotthemwmds 9y ago
Actually, after reading the whole article, he was picking an unidentified mushroom that later proved to contain psilocybin. This point seems relevant.
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by gotthemwmds 9y ago
30% feels like a decent bargain if you finally get to take the other 70% out of the duffel bags/safety deposit boxes. Especially if that enables you to spend it on things that mitigate risky behavior, such as lawyers. Consider most peo
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by gotthemwmds 9y ago
Check out something the historians call "presentism". It's really enlightening in regards to helping think about why past breakthroughs were not fully realized.
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by gotthemwmds 9y ago
Etsy anecdote from someone generally outside of their main market: I have ordered something off of Etsy 3 times. 2 of those times, there was a minor "customer service" level issue. Once, I accidentally put in the wrong zip code an
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by gotthemwmds 9y ago
For some commutes, particularly to Capitol Hill and the University District, or into South Seattle or the airport, Link Light Rail is much better than the buses, largely due to it being entirely separated from street traffic for its entire
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by gotthemwmds 9y ago
http://ghdx.healthdata.org/ihme_data too
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by gotthemwmds 9y ago
https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/ enjoy
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
I think the bigger problem with naming is simply being consistent. Ask 5 developers what the variable name for an important filehandle should be and you'll probably get at least 3 answers. As long as everyone is consistent, even if the
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
I'm sorry but I am not reading an article that says, "You're lucky I wrote it," in the first paragraph. And from the comments, it sounds like I'm not missing much. Author, don't treat your readers like idiots.
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
Well I'm not trying to troll you or anything but my friends haven't named their 2 day old baby yet. That's a person, right?
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
Obviously you've never read a Steinbeck book.
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
Evergreen is a cool school.
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
English degree with focus on "modernism/postmodernism" literature, literary criticism, and philosophy. University of Washington, Seattle, 2006. I never expected to go back to school after high school because it was so boring.
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
Anecdotally speaking, in the last 2 years, I've seen 3 ex-Twitter (as their most recent position) people apply, and none of them made it passed the second phone interview, which was the first real technical one. I didn't do the in
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
Might be a Chrome issue? There is something that locks scrolling about 500ms after the page loads. No overlay or anything, just a totally unresponsive picture of some sad kids. Overall though, this is pretty pathetic on their part.
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
This page is so poorly designed that I -- an engineer with 15 years experience and a mid 6 figure salary -- can not figure out how to read the actual article. Why are newspapers trying this hard to implement shitty webUX gimmicks? Give me t
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
What a great example of why Twitter is a terrible communication platform!
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
This was definitely the first thing that came up, as you found. To be honest, I just don't remember. There was something about something that made something scary to the PM who was in charge of it all? That is about the best I can come
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
I ran into this at a consulting job recently... MySQL claims to support utf8, but in reality, it doesn't. You need utf8mb4 to support certain common Kanji characters. This company had spent untold thousands (possibly millions) trying t
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
I hope I am wrong, though! Doctors are already fighting the good fight every day -- carrying the fire (the vast majority, at least). I have always mostly lived in a liberal bubble and over my life I'd say 90% of the people I have inter
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
My dad recently retired after 30 years of practicing oncology and hematology in a private practice ran with a female colleague, located in an office building adjacent to a very large regional hospital. He also worked a supervising shift in
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If ad companies promised to be friendly, I might disable AdBlock(tembark.blogspot.com)
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
This. I was going to say culture instead of history, but right on. If everything you know about black people is from the internet, TV, rap music, and pop culture in general, you are missing a lot of what being black in America is really abo
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
On a related note, if you're ever in Seattle and enjoy these types of things, the Northwest African American Museum (naamnw.org) is worth checking out, and it's right next to the just-renovated Jimi Hendrix Park, since he grew up
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
Similar to MRE, I guess. I honestly haven't eaten one. I got them via the advice of a sorta crazy friend of mine who has a bunker full of similar things (and guns) on his farmland.
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
Really? I haven't seen one and I've had six figures in brokerage/checking/savings for a decade. I know someone who worked at their datacenter a while ago and, well, heh. Also, do they support e-statements for savings acc
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
Having lived on big fault lines my entire life (Salt Lake City and Seattle), I have been trained from kindergarten on about what to do in an earthquake. In the closet of my 7th floor apartment I have 1 small-ish backpack full of a handful o
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by gotthemwmds 10y ago
What I'd really like to argue for is twofold: 1) meeting people where they're at and making no demands of them, 2) lessening the day to day misery of anyone by any amount using practical means that can be implemented immediately.

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