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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> People are expressing themselves and others are responding as they see fit: agreement, condemnation, silence, etc. It sounds like a marketplace of ideas in a free society. So to you, a marketplace of ideas is one side dictates what is
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
The Man in the Arena is almost obligatory at this point: > It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
If you're trying to build a system and a culture that deploys frequently and often, this is a great way to do it. You want engineers deploying smaller changes more frequently - smaller changes are easier to review, easier to reason abo
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> Moreover, I don’t have a lot of reserve energy in the tank to direct it at another startup after 10 years of blood, sweat and toil. > ...What are some things I should consider before switching? Take a break if you can afford it. I
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Do you get upset at other examples of people confirming their baiases? That's all comments like that are. Anytime you see someone take a complex problem and flatten it down into a simple, single platitude that neatly solves the entire
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> If you can safely handle the dangerous fuels it's a much easier route to a liquid fueled rocket engine. This kind of glosses over the whole hypergolic fuels are necessarily poisonous toxins that boil your skin if you touch them.
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
No. Avoid ColdFusion - it's a language from a bygone era when Adobe was trying to be what Microsoft is now. They failed and the ColdFusion community will die. The community, while made up of great people that I am still friends with, b
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Seller A is selling an item he bought for $5 dollars. He's trying to sell it for $10, for a 100% profit. The current bid is $7 dollars. He logs in to a remote desktop and bids on his own item to bump the price with a different MAC and
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I actually learned the bit about Raptors and Deinonychus from Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin would never mention velociraptors, but several times mentioned packs of hungry deinonychus. Being a 10 year old boy when Jurassic Park came out and bein
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
You have to earn 500 (or maybe 501) karma before you can downvote, and you're not allowed to downvote replies to you. The idea is, a person has to become a member of the community before they can just come in and downvote whatever they
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
The use of the word 'violence' felt odd and inciting and disingenuous and very loaded in these contexts. I think the word the author is actually describing is 'force'. Police have the legal capacity to use force , not v
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> That's why everyone should subscribe to at least two subreddits they don't agree with. So the solution to reddit's partisan and out of touch politics is to consume more of it, but make sure that you have a good cross s
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
React and the tools used to build React applications (mainly webpack) strongly incentivize engineers to create single page applications, but don't provide good routing and back-button support out of the box. To make a React SPA behave
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> Why not 4 astronauts? You've been in the teamwork game a long time, right? You know that each new team member added to a team does something like double or quadruple communication overhead. They're trying to work out the kin
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> They didn’t want both processors to share any code, and therefore potentially the same bug. They're not worried about bugs, they're worried about electromagnetic radiation (which is way more present when you get outside the
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I thought the Cambrian explosion was more closely related to the oxidization of the atmosphere by pond scum. Free oxygen becoming available in the atmosphere for organisms to use allowed the formation of collagen and chitin, both of which a
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> Below, you’ll find first-hand accounts of how essentially every major consumer app acquired their earliest users Did anyone follow through on the links? Some of these "first-hand accounts" just redirect back to this guy&#x27
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
A post with some examples: http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/1/26/google-pro-tip-use...
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By and large, most people set unrealistic goals, or set goals that are too large to accomplish without setting smaller goals. They forget the psychological aspects of setting and reaching goals and set goals that are unattainable, then feel
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> No one says that Why do people who say we need fewer humans on the planet always say, "no one says this?" Literally every discussion about population, pollution, global warming, fusion, farming, or social sciences has some t
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
https://e.elliott.computer/big-tree-map/7/up-1.html 404s for me
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This stuck out to me the most: > The authors seem genuinely surprised by recent developments and have distanced themselves from dark patterns Time and again, people just refuse to accept that there are unintended consequences to their w
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> And as always, eventually, while the option might be technically available, just like the TSA opt out, you will be basically shamed into compliance. What is this? In the past five years, I've probably flown 15 times and every tim
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> I've spent an insane number of hours wondering why being alive is a good thing. Still not sure I have an answer. Reminds me of this passage from Catch-22. One of the characters is saying he revels in terrible situations that las
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
You stop. Stop using $current_panic to justify trampling the parts of the constitution and the parts of the system you don't like. These are legitimate questions that need to be answered or we'll just be in a worse place in the fu
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
That's fine, enjoy your preferences all you want. Just realize when you use them as a justification for changing defaults which work fine for most everyone else, you're going to annoy people. Especially when your preferences tend
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Settings -> Accessibility.
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The Monkey Island games work really well on mobile devices and they re-released them a few years back.
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For context, this book was out of print for a long time and the only way to get it was via PDF. The recent re-interest in rockets has led to it being re-published. https://smile.amazon.com/Ignition-Informal-Propellants-Unive
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Red is kerosene, blue is liquid oxygen, orange is liquid hydrogen, the fuel that looks like fire is solid fuel (think compressed gunpowder). Left to right: Saturn V, Space Shuttle, Falcon 9 Heavy, SLS (still under construction). 2:22, you h

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