iamdave

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   by iamdave 12y ago

   >It's pretty remarkable how buses in other cities manage to adhere to the published schedule Avoid Austin Texas at all costs then. We don't have a transit system, we just have these strange oblong boxes that look like buses.
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   by iamdave 12y ago

   It's mostly a sound-byte of cynicism targeted at people who promulgate 'person first' correctness without the backdrop of understanding the nuanced impact rhetoric has, or the willingness to dig into those impacts like you ha
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   by iamdave 12y ago

   >Why not "human fonts" or "people fonts"? If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then the lanes are striped with "person first" language (and all of its mutations).
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   by iamdave 12y ago

   This is neat, it reminds a lot of the Ghost blogging engine in interface and simplicity. I can see myself using this a lot to store thoughts/braindumps quite easily. A couple of questions: - Do you plan to support keyboard shortcuts i
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   by iamdave 12y ago

   *points to the fourth sentence The joke.
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   by iamdave 12y ago

   Define: "Hard". Technologically "hard" or Politically "hard" ?
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   Ask HN: Is the skills cap in tech as wide as we think?

   11 points by iamdave 12y ago|7 comments
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   by iamdave 13y ago

   Heh. Ironic, a thread about consultant salaries and someone posts a link to the company I'm currently consulting.
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   by iamdave 13y ago

   I'm checking out your links before commenting, so I'll remark on one specific thing in your post that I feel a bit wary about: No one's saying he doesn't have the right to say it. Free speech is not freedom from consequ
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    I find the demagogy of the American political left to be reaching levels that are disheartening at best and sickening at worst-especially given that the left continues to see itself as 'enlightened', 'progressive' or &#x
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    I'd lean towards saying a complaint without ends to improve is whining. On the whole though, we agree.
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    Or it may just be a matter of perspective; a manager might call a customer raising a complaint about terrible service someone whining for rebates on their next meal. Does the customer see it that way? Are they venting to feel better or ar
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    I call bullshit to the highest rank on that line. A complaint gets eyeballs on the problem, a complaint opens ears to the problem. Complaining is not whining . Complaining is not furtive. Complaining is speaking up.
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    Kyle Katarn would like a word with you ;)
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    Ha I did this once with Outlook except I changed the icon and the shortcut name to Half Life 3 Beta. People on my friends list were freak. Ing. OUT
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    I was busy writing a comment while you cranked this out, so I'll just reply underneath yours since we more or less agree. The premise of the article is a valid one but the arguments underneath are incredibly weak. Perhaps a question o
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    That's exactly what I thought this was from the title; I thought MIT had obtained a license or somesuch.
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    "If the common good justifies killing X agent, then it must be ok for a doctor to kill a patient in their sleep, take his organs and save three people with his two kidneys and heart." Isn't that a variation of a semantic sh
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    >Manning is in the military, UCMJ applies. Can you show me what the UCMJ has about detention, and treatment of the detained?
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    yet I find myself not blaming Obama much for this. That's fine. Will you blame the next president who does it?
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    I didn't think about it that way, I guess it's time to put away the pitchfork then. Sidebar: It's not.
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    Who cares how long it’s been going on, you need to take severe umbrage that at multiple points in our nation’s history the Government has taken the 4th amendment out back and beat it with a lead pipe. The difference is now, a court is all
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    I'm sure it's all shrouded in "classified" and "top secret" tape, but I'm intensely curious to know what President Obama knows that Candidate Obama doesn't. Maybe it's the same thing all presiden
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    I sympathize, 100% with that. So I suppose this is just a way of automating the hide feature of FB then?
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    Why? (Editor's note: This is not a "why" in the sense of "why did you build this" but instead "why does this need to be built when Facebook has an option for objectionable content: The hide feature" why)
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    I wish I saw more people hammering home the point you made in the first paragraph. Too many people are looking for ways around discussing what is just as an important piece of this puzzle as the leak itself: The director of National Intell
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    If you are not American, our laws apply to you Huh?? Even if someone is physically not in the US? Have I misunderstood something for a very long time?
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    Metaphorically speaking, it sounds like you're convicting the guy without even giving him a trial. The political system is by-and-large a big bowl of FUBAR, but I'd rather see a politician give the other side a dose of their own m
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    Only cup and paste the code provided in your website. I think you spelled copy wrong ;) Otherwise, neat idea!
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    by iamdave 13y ago

    The product of your work goes directly into my eyes; show me something I haven't seen before (an interface, design style, interaction point, etc).