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by grappler 7y ago
“cofounder” isn't “what you're doing now”; it's “what you did 20 years ago” but it's important because people put weight on what the founders say and think. “[large] shareholder” is sort of a role, and often goes togethe
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by grappler 7y ago
I knew I'd heard recently about someone brilliant who had obsessed over bus tickets. Thanks for helping me recall it. A recent episode of Radiolab, dated August 27, 2019, introduced a large audience (including me) to another podcast, T
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by grappler 7y ago
Other than multi-account containers, already discussed in the top comments here, another killer firefox extension that I think is largely undiscovered is SessionSync. I searched for a while for a decent way to deal with the "too many t
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by grappler 7y ago
> severe shortage on infra teams Seems like infrastructure/devops always gets short-staffed, presumably due to being considered a cost center. Interesting to hear someone observe this even as they're saying a company "over
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by grappler 7y ago
What has plagued me is not a notion that an experienced engineer needs to look stuff up, but a similar one that feels related: that as an experienced engineer I should be able to immediately incorporate a new thing I have no experience with
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by grappler 7y ago
As I type this, it has 565 points on hacker news. That's quite a distinction for a post that is just “SEO spam”.
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by grappler 7y ago
This is the kind of thing that drove me away from frontend development a few years back. I explicitly ignored the learn-the-javascript-framework-du-jour attitudes. On a project where I was doing frontend work, I just tried to think about th
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by grappler 7y ago
The Lord of the Rings contains a Red Book which is basically itself :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch I'll show myself out...
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by grappler 8y ago
I missed this scene by a few years but Netflix's recent interactive experiment Bandersnatch gave a good flavor of it :)
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by grappler 8y ago
Sounds like they made a very broad ruling (that the 8th Amendment does apply to the states) and left the narrow rulings (about the specifics of the case) to other courts.
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by grappler 8y ago
> I hope we can all avoid being the person who said to Boisjoly, when it appeared that Boisjoly's testimony might be fatal to Morton Thiokol, that he would leave his children for Boisjoly to raise if he lost his job. That's the
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by grappler 8y ago
yeah I didn't mean HN was softening it; the article itself was softening it.
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by grappler 8y ago
Headline says “Company”. Article says “Google”. Is this being softened in Google's favor?
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by grappler 8y ago
As I read this, I am vacationing in Hawaii for the first time. I can look out my window right now and see the island of Lanai. And that's what I'm doing as I'm read your post right now. Reading a few sentences, looking out at
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by grappler 8y ago
I think I'm in the market for something at least very close to what System76 is doing. But there's a niche that I'm not finding in their product lineup (or anyone else's, so far). The open hardware part is extremely appe
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by grappler 8y ago
Firefox with the "Multi-Account Containers" add-on is pretty great for managing multiple identities. Browser tabs get labels (with color-coded stripes) for which container they belong to. I can ignore identity switchers provided b
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by grappler 8y ago
there are probably worse ways to gain adoption for your domain name system than to get in the good graces of free software communities...
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by grappler 8y ago
If, as seems to be increasingly the case these days, someone's sincerely held belief is that some particular group of people should be marginalized, punished, deported, left to abusers, or even killed... is that all simply “politics”?
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by grappler 8y ago
Regarding the house, it's almost as if the message is “Don't make financial requests of me. If you do I'll find a way to use them against you.”
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by grappler 8y ago
In Myanmar, hate speech on Facebook just contributed to an actual genocide. So unfortunately that's something that we have to reckon with when considering these kinds of questions. https://www.reuters.com/investigates&#
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by grappler 8y ago
I hate it because every approaching standing meeting feels like an approaching "rejustify your existence" checkin. Even if I'm not going to be judged out loud in this meeting, I'm going to have to explain myself. I have
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by grappler 8y ago
My brief experience with MoviePass when they first opened... I've typically gone to Alamo Drafthouse. It's a somewhat upscale theater chain if you're not familiar. Pairs of seats share little tables, you buy a ticket for a sp
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by grappler 8y ago
Sorry didn't mean you specifically. Just the royal you.
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by grappler 8y ago
Can you quantify the quality-of-life boost you get by being at the top of the heap? If you're the head of state, or the head of a successful company, or the venture capitalist, or simply heir to a fortune, you know you're on top.
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by grappler 8y ago
Reminds me of an incident from my college days. An international student association put on some sort of cultural appreciation event. Students from other countries would perform songs or dances or poems from their homeland. This was around
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by grappler 8y ago
I've mostly done this but landed on still keeping a facebook tab on the laptop -- quarantined in its own container using the excellent Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension. Most "friends" unfollowed except a handful of
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by grappler 8y ago
The phrasing used in the article is “the fact that mortality among the poor increases during middle age”. Are you saying this isn't a fact?
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by grappler 8y ago
Some food for thought regarding old people leaning conservative: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/poor-people-oft...
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by grappler 8y ago
That looks like a nice desktop app, and that's certainly a start. If other users are anything like me, then to really revive RSS you have to think more multi-device. Assume the user will want to get to their feed of stuff to read from
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by grappler 9y ago
I've found myself in a "mid-level" limbo. I have lots of knowledge and a fair amount of skill from a lifetime of programming, but I have trouble keeping what feels like an insane pace some others around me seem to manage. I w

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