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by jcahill 6y ago
We use webrecorder for some interactive work at my workplace, a web archival nonprofit. If you're new to web archival, expect a learning curve.
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by jcahill 6y ago
I elaborated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23140556 Parent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23124327
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by jcahill 6y ago
To say that is a stretch is an understatement. I'll explain why it sounds preposterous to me, and why the idea that google could change the fate of cancer research or missions to mars if not for its profit motives is patently unrealist
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by jcahill 6y ago
People who dedicate their lives to curing cancer and putting people on Mars are titans for making verrry verrry wee little dents in those problem areas. Your typical software engineer slept through the minimum amount of biology coursework r
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by jcahill 7y ago
Business logic fades. Being on the list of companies that pulled this shit is forever, plus or minus an asteroid impact or two.
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by jcahill 7y ago
so you substitute your own private, undocumented, ever-shifting, tone-driven value system for any given discourse context's set of actually codified rules. that's still a CoC. you've just added entitlement.
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by jcahill 7y ago
This is some sort of click farming / per-post commission site associated with a shitcoin called GeekCash. Everyone who replied about html6 not being a real thing took the bait.
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by jcahill 7y ago
> zero trust information This is a mangled neologism for epistemic vigilance. We have many terms for epistemological outlooks that describe them without conflating commitments and information at large. > Suppose that all published inf
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by jcahill 7y ago
Superficially 'bad' demos also work like this. Getting people talking about your stuff because they're motivated enough to have a pineapple-on-pizza type of argument over the demo is canny and bigtechs do this deliberately. &
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by jcahill 7y ago
That's just your brain on HN misery mode, where all earthly concerns bow in vague allegiance to business logic that may not even exist. It's also wrong in principle: memorable demos remain the most culturally-significant standalon
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by jcahill 7y ago
Copy notes: 1. Pictures. > What we aren't as humble about is the potential we think this application has. So you're not humble? Ditch the marketing goofiness. You think it has major potential. Be humble or don't. It's
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by jcahill 7y ago
Do, uh… do you tell jokes with the punchline at the beginning? …
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by jcahill 7y ago
I was about to follow up my meta comment with a regular comment about river basin mapping and bird migration viz until your reply about the off-topic flag. Defense of curiosity for its own sake is a preface for conversation. Noting disappoi
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by jcahill 7y ago
Now there's simply another meta comment at the top. When you mark that one off-topic, an irrelevant anecdote about elk that suggests possibly-not-reading-the-article will be on top.
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by jcahill 7y ago
Replying so negatively to a particular comment when it's meta about the thread in general wouldn't have made much sense. HN's taboo against asking people if they've read the article is also wildly outdated -- its readers
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by jcahill 7y ago
You should re-read my comment.
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by jcahill 7y ago
Why? What's the genesis of this difference? Does it have a tie-in to, say, a famous public health crisis? Who says there are no vultures on the Portugal side? Where can I learn more, if I want? Who works on this stuff? Pictures? The sh
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by jcahill 7y ago
Half of the comments: low-attention, high-misery demands that an already short summary of an interesting phenomenon be shortened to the minimum number of words possible, presented like it's not worthy of arousing your curiosity. The ot
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by jcahill 8y ago
New account + gratuitous namedrop of the product whose corporate blog is linked in the submission.
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by jcahill 8y ago
This vocabulary level and overall comprehension of the situation are suitable for a child or teen making an old-timey trollface meme about the scenario, not a data scientist.
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by jcahill 8y ago
The family unintentionally memorialized the facebook account of an impostor. This significantly added to earlier confusion.
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by jcahill 8y ago
semicolons are irony punctuation in prose. https://www.google.com/search?q=too+clever+by+half
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by jcahill 8y ago
>The difference between an honest "influencer" and you posting a comment here talking about a product/service you like is that the influencer is getting paid for their honest opinion while you're doing it for free. Yo
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by jcahill 8y ago
It was: What is the Apple ⌘ symbol doing on hundreds of road signs in Sweden?
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by jcahill 8y ago
"I get all my news from facebook. Look, a Trending story about a facebook competitor. hheheheheh" Italics doesn't make your comment any less circular or beside the point for people looking to move away from github.
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by jcahill 9y ago
Absolutely not. >No, it's a matter of reality matching expectations. What an agent tells me is what they choose to tell me. You're describing some sort of luck-based updating via that third party's choice. I don't liv
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by jcahill 9y ago
Your reasoning is like saying "the canary only disappeared once, and knowing that it can indeed disappear bolsters my confidence in it now that it has returned." It's plainly wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by jcahill 9y ago
One of the perks of social media is precisely the shift in cat herding burden from the user to the platform. I present the following as supporting evidence: >NOTE: THIS SITE IS A PARTICIPANT IN THE AMAZON SERVICES LLC ASSOCIATES PROGRAM,
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by jcahill 9y ago
There is no mechanism whatsoever that identifies you as a mod. You don't even indicate this in your posts. Most of your interactions with unruly users are farcical in this regard.
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by jcahill 9y ago
> Or, if you're a technical publications editor, get a subscription to Grammarly⁽¹⁾. [ed: you almost certainly will not achieve a net benefit from paying a subscription to an orthographic linter.] ____________________ ¹ https:&#x

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