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by jfb 11y ago
I have almost exactly the same experience. Given that the science isn't settled, and that the mechanisms are imperfectly understood, and that talk therapy has worked or not for largely the same population since 1910, I'll take the
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by jfb 11y ago
"The people who designed these places, maybe eighty, a hundred years ago, they had the idea they'd make 'em as self-sufficient as possible. Make 'em grow food. Make 'em heat themselves, generate power, whatever. No
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by jfb 12y ago
No, you can get it on Sling TV, too.
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by jfb 12y ago
Why should someone choose to read on Amazon if the experience is so hostile? It's a lament for a lost opportunity most of all.
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by jfb 12y ago
The new Macbook has significantly better than a 1920x1080 screen, though.
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by jfb 12y ago
Well, your media-sharing device doesn't "just work" -- you had to tinker with it. I'm with you; I don't want this cloud business. I think that the ideal solution would be a small device with a purpose-built OS and h
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by jfb 12y ago
That's ok; it is a lovely figure of speech.
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by jfb 12y ago
Remember how the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended -- with an extinction event. Something not dissimilar is going to happen to these streaming services, because they simply do not differentiate from each other sufficiently.
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by jfb 12y ago
I think it's more nuanced; certain technologies afford certain designs. There really are differences in languages, and those differences expose users to different misbehaviors -- or the dual, to different optimizations.
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by jfb 12y ago
Tech media makes sports media look like The Partisan Review . EDIT: Stupid bbcode making me look stupid.
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by jfb 12y ago
Fair enough.
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by jfb 12y ago
The greatest minds of my generation, indeed.
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by jfb 12y ago
The problem is that ESR and the "open source" people have a fundamentally different understanding of software freedom than do the FSF. I'm not judging one over the other, but I think it's a mistake to conflate the two. I
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by jfb 12y ago
Maroon coming home from the North side?
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by jfb 12y ago
Clipper should work, no? You can use it on AC Transit, BART, MUNI, Caltrain, &c.? It's a stored value card, rather than a monthly pass, but that's hardly a problem.
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by jfb 12y ago
I live in Toronto, and the problem is certainly one of traffic density, exacerbated by the heavy use of streetcars on Queen/King &c and the brain-dead payment model. The TTC doesn't schedule buses and streetcars to stack up --
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by jfb 12y ago
It's not clear to me that profitability is a useful metric in thinking about how to fix public transportation, unless one is running a transportation startup.
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Save Lost Weekend Video(indiegogo.com)
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by jfb 12y ago
Talking about porn in the presence of people who's attitudes towards porn you are not sure of, yeah, that makes you a creepy greaseball. Talking about porn socially with people who's attitudes you know? That's not creepy at a
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by jfb 12y ago
Yeah, this is weird. The design trade offs you'd have to make would likely mean a phone that is largel unusable at the surface.
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by jfb 12y ago
It doesn't matter, really. If you like it, drink it! There're plenty of more esoteric styles represented these days so that whatever your taste you can find a great micro or macro version. I like Belgians, and think that Fin du Mo
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by jfb 12y ago
I am painfully aware of my limitations as an interviewer. I wish there was institutional support for interviewing as a skill distinct from more specific job requirements. I've worked at big companies, small companies, been a founder, a
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by jfb 12y ago
Dunno. It was a naive stab in the dark; as long as you're actually updating the alt attribute, you're likely doing better here than 99% of the web.
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by jfb 12y ago
Or let me ask another way: Is there a reason to prefer MathML over using SVGs created with the LaTeX rendering engine? Accessibility?
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by jfb 12y ago
I am considering [1] replacing my last TV (a 50" Panasonic reference plasma) with another reference monitor, but sadly plasma is no longer an option, unless I strike right. this. very. second. [1] http://homonculus.net/
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by jfb 12y ago
Because the panels are commodities and market pressures are such that "Smart" TV features are the battleground that the manufacturers are trying to differentiate on. You can get a reference monitor, which will be the same panel as
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by jfb 12y ago
And the blade looks fantastic with a bit of a patina to it.
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by jfb 12y ago
SQLAlchemy supports many of these advanced concepts.
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by jfb 12y ago
My main knife is a Sabatier 12" (can't remember the manufacturer, probably a Thiers-Issard) and I love it. I don't know of a lower cost alternative, but I press carbon steel on everybody.
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by jfb 12y ago
I would love to start a hardware startup (I even have an idea!) but I have no idea how to assess the feasibility of my idea, or how to hire h/w engineers. And it's not a billion dollar idea, so maybe it's not in the YC wheelh

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