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by incision 14y ago
As I've surely alluded to on HN in the past, I have too much experience with Government work. I generally consider most of the list of positives as negatives. 1. Huge sense of purpose. Makes it even more frustrating when work which would
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by incision 14y ago
>Kids like this are usually doomed unless they can get proper mentorship. In an academic environment where the outliers are picked on relentlessly, they'll develop a talent for appearing "adequate" and nothing more. Being unusually sma
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by incision 14y ago
Back in 2007 or so I realized that it had been many years since I'd read anything but work-related technology tomes. I decided to start reading each of the Hugo / Nebula award winners [1]. Growing to accept and enjoy the utility of eBooks (
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by incision 14y ago
Dorman has lobbied his school district to provide special advanced education for his son. But Dorman said it’s unlikely Gus would receive special treatment. “I know there’s no money for gifted programs in Illinois,” he said. That's unf
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by incision 14y ago
"Consider Phlebas" http://www.amazon.com/dp/031600538X "Chaos: Making a New Science" http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143113453 "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't" http://www.amazon.com/dp/159420411X
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by incision 14y ago
>If Pocket goes away in the blink of an eye, what becomes of your archives & favorites? Seems like the type of thing to be proactive about it. Pocket has an API that you could use to sync with another similar service , or roll som
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by incision 14y ago
> If you have unread items going back for more than a year, chances are you are adding more to the list than you are removing. I think you're missing the point and stuck in the use case of these tools as simple bookmarks or reading lis
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by incision 14y ago
>And I have hundreds of "important" bookmarks in Chrome that I'll probably never check again. That's a pretty terrible analogy. What I have in Pocket is more than a bunch of bookmarks, it's a local archive of everything I've added. I ca
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by incision 14y ago
>I don't understand why people care so much about the "longevity" of an app that at most saves their data for a week, like Pocket, or something like Google's Keep, a notes app. I have thousands of items in Pocket going back a year and a
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by incision 14y ago
>uhh… No it doesn't Please read the whole post.
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by incision 14y ago
>Pocket, although having its own benefits, is free. Any service with ongoing costs (parsing servers) that charges nothing for their app has me questioning their longevity. Prior to the name change, Pocket offered a $3 "Pro" version. I'm
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by incision 14y ago
Well, cosx summed it up nicely [1]. I would add, in all seriousness, that it can make dealing with women a problem. I think it's widely accepted that some men are apt do all kinds of foolish, prideful things in response to working with a wo
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by incision 14y ago
>They don't want to become a de-facto mirror for the content, they want to provide it only to people who are actually their users. Surely there's a way that could be prevented while retaining the benefit of exposing potential new users
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by incision 14y ago
I actually signed up for Kippt when initially searching for a Pocket alternative and there's a lot to like about it. I didn't stick with it or sign up for pro for a couple of reasons. Namely, lack of an app and what I find to be a "cluttere
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by incision 14y ago
>I'm not sure what you're talking about. That probably has something to do with failing to read what I wrote. I'm talking about a link to the "read later" view. I even described the original URL functionality you're confusing it with.
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by incision 14y ago
Speaking of Pocket, I'm baffled by their lack of (recently upgraded to simply lacking) sharing functionality and full-text search. Passing a Pocket link to someone without a Pocket account leads to a sign-up page. If the recipient already h
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by incision 14y ago
I'm surprised there's no mention downsides to being an attractive man. I think they certainly exist, but perhaps the net is positive?
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by incision 14y ago
I second that, great book, discovered it via HN Store[1]. I was first introduced to cancer and the methods used to combat it about 10 years ago via unfortunate circumstances. It's fascinating stuff with surprising parallels to my work in IT
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by incision 14y ago
>Possibly because while we have a rich ecosystem of tools for dealing with text in myriad form and ways, and have conditioned ourselves over the years on how to read text in a general form, I don't think the same can be said for more g
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by incision 14y ago
Forgive my ignorance - IANAP. Why can't/don't we have more tools along the lines of App Inventor [1] that provide a visual structure for programming? The vast majority of time I've spent writing anything has been spent struggling with speci
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by incision 14y ago
Those are extreme examples. A $10k SpaceX is obvious, virtual panhandling with a $1 goal is just as obvious. I think "gaming" a system implies a reasonably intelligent exploitation. Something like creating a Kickstarter "for" a sequel to a
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by incision 14y ago
Just replace the embezzling co-director with defecting technical leads and I've seen something nearly identical. I think it's simple denial. They've decided that they know what the problem is/was and being in a position of power surely ha
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by incision 14y ago
I've grown to distrust all but first-hand assessments when it comes to this. I find that people are often quite at ease with judging, if not pre-judging a person's intelligence on the most minimal impressions, appearance, accent, a single o
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by incision 14y ago
Not a problem, I imagine many people don't know that. After all, Kickstarter's business is taking 5% rake on those donations so it's not in their interest to make it apparent.
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by incision 14y ago
> I wouldn't mind so much if there was a reward structure in place. GS made like 30 million dollars in gross profit. Okay, so if I give Zach 10k of my money and he makes 10x on his investment, why am I not going to get 100k from him? Oh
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by incision 14y ago
>But if it's not delivered they get their money back. . . Nope. Backers get refunded if a project doesn't meet the stated funding goal [1]. Once the goal is met and the money has been collected it's between the backers and the creators.
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by incision 14y ago
> It should be for startups and good ideas that can't get funding elsewhere. Not sure how I feel about this. Kickstarter does seem to cultivate a wonderful image of taking backers who support projects "to help them come to life, not to
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by incision 14y ago
Speaking of bubbles, I wonder when food trucks are going to start disappearing or whether it has already started and I'm just missing it?
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by incision 14y ago
Perhaps it is the most realistic, but I've yet to see a fluid demo, this one included that didn't look like overly "energetic" shampoo.
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by incision 14y ago
Very nice, hadn't heard of that one. I've spent some time on SETILive [1] which does something very similar for signal classification and found it to be almost meditative. It's not quite the same thing, but also I get the same kick out of f

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