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by gyardley 13y ago
Right. I should be ashamed of myself for putting my money with a bank large enough to have a chance of getting its own way vs. the federal government when push comes to shove. Instead, I should put my money with a small credit union with no
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by gyardley 13y ago
Speaking of etymology, from https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv/#readme : Why is it called a shiv? The term shiv originates from John Resig, who was thought to have used the word for its slang meaning, a sharp object used as a knife-like
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by gyardley 13y ago
Why oh why do people throw non-default templating languages into their tutorials when it's not relevant to the tutorial at all? When you write your views in ERB, your tutorial's accessible to everyone who's used Rails, and the HAML / Slim /
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by gyardley 13y ago
No current debt could be you having a credit card, using it to buy groceries, and paying the balance off every month. Your credit score will be fine. No credit history could be you never having a record of having a credit card, because your
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by gyardley 13y ago
Never regret something you did; at one point its what you wanted. At times in my life I've behaved like a completely immoral asshole. Are you seriously suggesting that I shouldn't regret these times, just because I wanted to be an immor
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by gyardley 13y ago
Yeah, that just doesn't sound right. Perhaps he's also counting additional organic installs, which he attributes to the increase in rank he got from the paid installs? This is how installs are sold, after all - 'yes, X per install sounds
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by gyardley 13y ago
Yes, pervasive monitoring might be absolutely inevitable, technology is hard to suppress, and I may not be able to keep you from OCRing my license plate. However, the people do still have the ability to keep the government from doing th
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by gyardley 13y ago
I don't dislike or otherwise feel viscerally towards the default Octopress theme - I can just remember the way a website looks far more easily than I can someone's name. When I see a visually distinctive site for the second time, I think 'a
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by gyardley 13y ago
Sure, but in both cases that's because when there aren't as many cops, these protests result in widespread property damage. This has unfortunately been the case since the WTO protests in Seattle in late 1999.
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by gyardley 13y ago
"I can't do math" actually means "I both don't like to and don't believe I really need to do any math, so I'm going to say 'I can't do math' to cut you off before you propose I do any." Of course college-educated people can do a little ma
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by gyardley 13y ago
As long as you spend a bunch of time customizing the theme, no. Default-theme Octopress users all automatically get lumped under 'some dude using default Octopress' category in my brain - it's as close as you can get to publishing completel
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by gyardley 13y ago
No trouble whatsoever. Sorry on my end if the tone came across the wrong way - on re-reading my comment, it sounds snarkier than I intended.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Just enter 'meditate' in the search box at the bottom of the page. From just a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5432713
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by gyardley 13y ago
No matter what SaaS offering you decide on, plugging holes in your conversion funnel will be one of your top priorities. 'Not much I can do though' is the wrong attitude to take here. At the very least you should be getting in touch with y
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by gyardley 13y ago
I don't see the connection between being anti-banker and the NRA at all - being anti-banker is generally a left-liberal political position, a feeling more at home at Occupy Wall Street. I'm going to assume you didn't bring up "bankers" just
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by gyardley 13y ago
Uh-huh. Look, within living memory of people I've shared a siddur with at synagogue, a decidedly first-world population attempted to try and stuff my entire people up a crematorium stack. And people wonder why I'm a life member of the NRA.
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by gyardley 13y ago
He put some sort of device that would make a loud boom up on a roof, intended to coincide with his graduation ceremony. Another kid found it and reported it to an authority, who put it in his small enclosed office (thereby making it much le
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by gyardley 14y ago
Both of your polls need a "it's far too soon to tell" option. None of us know how use of a Glass-like product will impact our behavior over the long term, so we've got no way of objectively evaluating its pros and cons. Buying and using Gla
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by gyardley 14y ago
Not at first, because you look like a damn fool when you wear it, and because I don't have a handle yet on the ways it'll change my behavior. Should they become more common and more attractive (seems likely, over time) and should there be a
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sure, you're thinking of Mark Steyn's "America Alone". Great book, and not at all fringe material. Christopher Hitchens had a favorable review, here: http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_1_urbanities-steyn.html The book itself was not foun
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by gyardley 14y ago
Of course a lot of recruiters suck and are annoying, but when you translate that into "all recruiters suck, fuck them, I'm not talking to them", frankly you're hurting yourself. If and only if the benefit you receive from the good recruit
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by gyardley 14y ago
An experience mediated by technology is not the same thing as the original experience - we can debate whether it makes the experience richer or poorer, but it certainly makes the experience different. Even a UI-less, effortless experience t
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by gyardley 14y ago
Nor did anyone force countries like Germany to share a common currency with them. I've never really gotten why one country would want to share only a currency with another country, while leaving their social and economic policies independ
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by gyardley 14y ago
Perhaps he's referring to a product manager - who if he's doing his job right is the guy with the deep domain expertise who spends his time talking to customers instead of dealing with project-management administrivia. I do know lots of dev
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The Misnamed Marketplace Fairness Act (nationalreview.com)
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by gyardley 14y ago
Yelp, obviously, but 'greedy lying sales guy' is a different class of problem than 'company-wide extortion scheme'.
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by gyardley 14y ago
One recording of a Yelp rep saying something like that is one instance of a sales guy lying to make a sale so he can get a commission or make a quota. You know, something that happens all the time. Yelp could never manipulate reviews and
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by gyardley 14y ago
When your business is dependent on Apple, making and having good relationships with Apple employees can be very, very useful.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Isn't destroying evidence obstruction of justice?
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by gyardley 14y ago
I assume you're referring to the Priceonomics blog post, while the comment you replied to was talking about Ron Unz's article in The American Conservative. In the article from The American Conservative, the claim that Jews are over-represen

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