hannele

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by hannele 8y ago
\e\ is a sound that is basically impossible to represent unambiguously to English speakers, without falling back to how it's used in words ('e' as in 'ten', for example). `eh` and `ay` can both easily be read as a d
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by hannele 9y ago
There are plenty of places that already offset by half an hour (Newfoundland for example) or even a quarter of an hour (Chatham Islands in New Zealand) so any dropdowns should already handle this.
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by hannele 9y ago
It's still fun to read about, although acknowledged I have the privilege of not being directly affected by Alzheimer's. It's also really useful when there's comment on Hacker News pointing out the things that have been g
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by hannele 9y ago
I've been using a standing desk for about 2 years, and I definitely focus better while sitting - sometimes I'll even grab a random table to really pound things out, because perching on a high chair isn't quite the same. But I
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by hannele 9y ago
If you have an interview at their office (and you should), keep an eye on the decor and the body language of the people working there. Ask to see any common areas, the places where people hang out at lunch time. What kinds of posters do you
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by hannele 10y ago
i.e. learning styles may still be bullshit, but they can get you to self-reflect on how you learn.
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by hannele 10y ago
I've been there. I was missing the "I" tiles for a scrabble game and it was the funniest thing ever.
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GeoVisual Search: searching for similar images in satellite imagery(cbc.ca)
12 points by hannele 10y ago|2 comments
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Combating controversy by connecting counterpoints(blog.acolyer.org)
1 points by hannele 10y ago|0 comments
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by hannele 10y ago
Companies should have an incentive to invest in the training of their employees - it seems they're always claiming that the people they're looking for just don't exist, and it comes off like they want people to emerge from
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by hannele 10y ago
I hear it. I feel the severity of the burns, the requirement for skin grafts should come into play, but I can put that aside. It should also be clarified, it was not 700 previous reports of burns, it was 700 previous lawsuits . That implie
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Stop Calling Everything Fake News(slate.com)
3 points by hannele 10y ago|0 comments
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by hannele 10y ago
In particular, starting with their oldest and working towards their newest: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FB9262CF878A34A
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by hannele 10y ago
I think it surprised a lot of the world outside of America, too.
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by hannele 10y ago
I'm curious, why is it allowed to register domain names with mixed character sets? I am behind allowing Unicode characters in domain names for the obvious reasons, but are there compelling use cases for allowing them to be mixed?
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by hannele 10y ago
Ahh, the old classic, PayPaI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPaI (uppercase 'i')
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by hannele 10y ago
Find excuses to learn things outside your comfort zone, at your work or through pet projects. The pet project can be easy, as long as you have the time and motivation - pick a tech and make a small hacky thing. (I must admit to being an unr
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by hannele 10y ago
It's not actually _that_ nonlinear - follows philosophy on time travel through Aristotle, then Godel & Einstein and then through to Hawking. That said, the nonlinear part: picks out every now and again a pop culture echo of the cur
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by hannele 10y ago
Walking Dead, I just wish they could find another model for a season. "Oh, we're walking or driving through the woods" "Cool, we found a place that looks cool and has cool people" "Oh, the cool people were actu
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by hannele 10y ago
Brevity is the soul of wit - I try not to make long variable names if I can help it.
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by hannele 10y ago
The article makes good points but if that isn't the most awkward title...
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Joist lays off 60 employees in Toronto as company relocates to SF(betakit.com)
145 points by hannele 10y ago|132 comments
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by hannele 10y ago
Also involves C, so: C Python, C Python Go, Go Python Go
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by hannele 10y ago
I guess, we'll see how that turns out for Blackberry.
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by hannele 11y ago
Heh. Well, so do sperm donors.
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by hannele 11y ago
FreshBooks | Toronto, ON | ONSITE FreshBooks is cloud accounting for small & medium businesses that don't want to learn accounting. Pretty simple :) We support invoicing, automatic expense import from your bank account, and a varie
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Why one company set up employees on blind dates(fastcompany.com)
6 points by hannele 11y ago|1 comments
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by hannele 11y ago
The parent comment from @js8 talked specifically about why women might self-select out of doing technical work, which was the point I was addressing. I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make in contrast - could you qua
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by hannele 11y ago
Imagine how you would feel if, to stay relevant and in-touch with the major decisions at your work, you felt pressure to get involved in things that you have literally no interest in. Going on wine tours, maybe some yoga, trashy soap operas
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by hannele 11y ago
How you get better at anything: practice. Try to catch yourself the next time you put your ATM card somewhere other than in your wallet. Try to catch the moment where you think "I'll just put this here for a second so I can juggle

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