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by jisaacstone 14y ago
I am reminded of Betteridge's law of headlines: >"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
Ha! that is true. In my experience 'culture' means 'drinks microbrews and knows _all the memes_ '
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
I use ghostery because all I really care about is tracking. 99% of the time ads themselves are not an issue.
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
When I ran a retail shop in the US I never accepted AMEX because the fees were significantly higher, mostly because of the flat monthly fee and low volume of people using AMEX. Frankly I don't know how they are still around. Since everyone
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
I am reminded I never liked anything on facebook (via a 'like' button) but I do have several likes. Before the facebook feed , before even the facebook wall, the personal information field of your profile was a text blob. Over time facebook
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
It is totally fair. People (especially in the valley) tend to think small is better/more efficient than big. But what are the statistics on actual failure rates? Start-ups that 'succeed' (buyouts, etc) for their founders can still fail befo
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
For the curious, there is some actual data about this kind of thing over here: http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings The United States does rank higher than any European economy (which surprised me) in the aggregate ranking, there are cat
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
It bugs me that the hyperlinks are black & w/o underline. I was only able to figure out they were links by thinking for a minute and deciding that they must be, because what else could they be? But they sure do look like body text. ____
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
Yes, I felt this was correct but I could not find anything to cite. Vague threats did not seem the correct way to go. I just read about the Fair Credit Reporting Act and that seems to be exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch.
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Ask HN: What to do about my erronious medical bill?
3 points by jisaacstone 14y ago|3 comments
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
yes it is false but that was not my reasoning. I was merely trying to draw parallels between a time people are probably familiar, saying that there is no use comparing modern China to a developed country. It is not a modern country, but it
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
No, I am not sure as I don't follow closely anymore. I heard about the downfall of Bo but hadn't really considered the consequences. Mostly I was speaking of the climate when I left in 2008
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
False. Factories are having increasing difficulty in retaining workers and are therefore having to either raise wages, improve conditions, or bully them into submission. Supply and demand, no? Demand is currently high. Things are not great
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
Take a moment and conciser how a similar piece, written of the United states around the turn of the last century, might read. Remember the 'roaring 20s?' Materialistic society, ambivalence about foreign affairs, widespread corruption, distr
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
"food, which they praise for its quality and variety (and portion size) in a tone of near-disbelief" huh, really? Whenever I get back from traveling I feel the opposite. Sure in places like NY you can get any kind of food. But in my mono-cu
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
What I want from the government: - more transparency - more data From the article these don't actually seem to be the _focus_ of the initiative, but it seems that they will be marginally improved as a result. hooray
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
OK so this chart really bugs me: https://s3.amazonaws.com/pix-media/TV+Categories.png Why is the bottom line 8%? and why are the y-axis lines ate 8% intervals? No reason I can see. Is it not obvious that starting at 0 and using intervals
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
Annoyed me so much I quit reading half way through. Not just that it is ugly, but also hard to read. ugh.
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
using bpython has encouraged me to write more docstrings, which I previously did not do so much for personal projects ... (because they are right there in the interpreter)
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
I also think math classes could be better if they were built around an interactive interpreter. perhaps all sciences?
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
Exactly what I came here to say. Let us not forget the difference between scripting and software. Shell scripts or bookmarklets or greasemonkey/browser plugins - These can be useful to the majority of workers. Many have a specific problem t
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
As a minor note, I learnt a new word today: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/therere
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
I had a friend in prison some years ago. He said the worst thing wan there was nothing to do. Most people slept 12+ hours a day & when they got out they couldn't adjust. So yeah, I feel any productive activity is a damn good idea.
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
Damn, I never new there was a CAPTCHA. really really really makes me suspicious. Just did a check to make sure that google does not integrate yelp reviews (it does not) since that is what I mostly use. also worth noting that "bob" liked the
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by jisaacstone 14y ago
agreed. to conclude "more slowly" there needs to be more than just syllable counting. For example, would not "strengths" be considered one syllable? I don't know about Japanese, but Mandarin has a linguistic syllabic structure that would no
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by jisaacstone 15y ago
The FBI's tactics for finding bomb-makers would presumably find a bomb-laden passenger as well then?
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by jisaacstone 15y ago
I forget everything all the time. I have found a great solution for this, but it is not an IDE(!) It is the bpython CLI. (I hear ipython is good too) When I forget some string method's name, I just type "str." and a dialog box appears with
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by jisaacstone 15y ago
This is fairly true in my experience. I find solving puzzles at codeeval much more interesting than crafting custom cover letters, and the ease of applying means I'll more likely apply to a company there than elsewhere. OTOH I don't think I
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Rethinking server-side scripting(jisaacstone.com)
6 points by jisaacstone 15y ago|1 comments
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by jisaacstone 15y ago
yes! when I close my eyes I usually see something like a checkerbord spiral, only not rotating, and there are several of them centered around different points and intersecting.

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