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by hnzix 8y ago
Can you please recommend an introductory Jin Yong book or two? I'm a Western Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest fan and this sounds right up my alley. (Thanks SBS Cult Movie nights). I've read and enjoyed The Water Margin fwiw
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> That's what I said. And that's my point. The web is supposed to be an open platform but no longer, you just married Sergey. Make an iPhone app? OK understood you're in bed with Apple now. But a website should be a free
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> pretty simple, [] let Google do their thing Unfortunately El Goog is now a de facto monopoly both for makers (organic traffic) and users (AMP, discovery, federated logins etc). I'm not angry at Goog for winning, they did it
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I'd settle for decent nested playlists and/or tagging coupled with reasonable discovery. Hypem used to be okay for discovery but has been gamed to death.
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Oz has a fairly hard and low dev salary ceiling for smaller companies, excepting maybe some Melbourne hotspots. If you want decent scratch you have to go corporate, but the content often sucks.
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It's not that people are writing SPAs badly so much as it's often unnecessary complexity. Like the "microservice all the things straight away" trope. Sometimes a CRUD form should just be a CRUD form.
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Sure rationally the products should be a success, that's why IBM bought them. But GloboMegaCorps have a consistent record of acquiring great products then running them into the ground by smothering them with shitty internal policies. I
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curation != censorship.
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It's also worth noting that Twitter's feature velocity fell off a cliff when they moved to Scala.
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Is Texas much different to Rails Turbolinks? Or is it like Turbolinks for Phoenix? PS I'm really happy that you called out "graceful degredation to an application that continues to function in the abscence of any JS.".
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Thanks I noticed that part, it was right before everyone took Mescaline.
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> "I'm being fellated, he says, by a young girl known as a groupie". 1994 Cheezus can you imagine them trying this stunt today? Elon smokes a joint on air and it's a scandal. Incidentally the transcript of "Th
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by hnzix 8y ago
> Gentrification is a side effect of not building housing. The pattern I've seen (excluding SF) is that an arty area becomes trendy because of its culture, then a bunch of real estate developers kick out all the artists to build h
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That's my point - it's a misleading statistic. If you have a cohort of geniuses, half of them are still going to be very smart. The premise of stack ranking is you fire the bottom tier.
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stack ranking != ranking. Even at El Goog, 50% of the headcount is performing below average.
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If you don't have any inside intel, the next best thing is to ask for "a tour of the office" and take a big sniff of the atmosphere. Trust your instincts.
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I mean, pornhub have created "The Twerkin Butt", a crude sexbot paired with VR glasses.
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by hnzix 8y ago
I loved this quote about the music: I had wanted to sample the sound of an industrial piston in a factory, but was unable to get it, so instead I just sampled it off a YMO song. (laughs) That happened numerous times, actually. I'm as
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by hnzix 8y ago
Here's a fun collection of ribald Pompeiian graffiti (NSFW): http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%2... "O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you
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Along with selenium. After reading on the internet that it may help prevent prostate cancer, an Australian man took 10g of sodium selenite which he mistakenly purchased at a very high purity, and died shortly thereafter. [0] https:/&#
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>It died because it had absolutely no protections against spam or abuse of any kind whatsoever. Abuse aside, there is signal vs noise. The Eternal September will overwhelm any system that cannot self-regulate its own content.
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I mean YouTube is bad but nothing can compete with the existential horror of Barney or the Teletubbies. Again again! three minute video loops to infinity Plenty of my fave 80s cartoons were basically extended toy commercials. He-Man, Volt
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1. Is a frankly a Google lie. Matt Cutts likes to bang the OC drum but in my measurements it is only one fragment of the SEO picture and not a big one at that. Google rewards content volume and freshness waaaay more than uniqueness and qual
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> Try to be as independent as possible. Having worked SEO for a number of midsized e-commerce companies, their revenue lives and dies on the latest Google dance. These are regular shopfronts running regular websites. Non-Google organic
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You can have the best of both worlds and use webpacker to mix React or VueJS into the Rails frontend where it makes sense, eg complex forms or widgets. Many webapps are not Facebookish and don't need to be SPA blobs, with all the addit
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Thanks so much for your screencasts. I'm cooking up a MVP in Rails on a really tight timeframe and they've been invaluable. To address OP, Rails is now a boring tech and that's a good thing. I can move quickly and for every r
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Micromusic.net chiptune radio (1999)(micromusic.net)
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I remember Fjord Of The Net Vikings. Dan's Gallery of the Grotesque. I was too young for BBS culture but then I found the Hotline protocol, which gave me a new horizon of musical styles and I even made a music video with some random Ge
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I'm told that the strippers in Vegas now have Bitcoin QR tattoos. What a time to be alive
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>Weird framing as a “rap crew.” Studio time is expensive. Puffy, 50cent, Jay-Z all used drug profits to kickstart their music careers.

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