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by jmclean 10y ago
Although I agree that there's been a frustrating lack of response to those issues, I think at least part of that muted response was a sense that these incidents were an aberration from a general trend of progress. The reality that many
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First Human Test of CRISPR Proposed(technologyreview.com)
1 points by jmclean 10y ago|0 comments
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by jmclean 10y ago
I'm disappointed to see a comment like this here. To treat 'feminists' as a monolithic bloc, mutually exclusive from meaningful contributors to IT, is insulting to those of us who try to be both. Women in tech face real chall
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Heathrow's autonomous pod cars(bbc.com)
2 points by jmclean 11y ago|0 comments
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by jmclean 12y ago
One problem here is that any outcome (warming or no, human-engineered or no) will impact every nation differently. Under current warming projections, some nations will see massive increases in arable land, whereas others will be completely
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Ask HN: Is the 'yesterday's weather' story true?
1 points by jmclean 12y ago|0 comments
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by jmclean 12y ago
As a designer who also writes code, this attitude really frustrates me. There are a lot of reasons that flat UI makes more sense for software, especially for responsive web. Flat UI means less code and easier maintainability. It holds up be
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by jmclean 12y ago
Though it's of course anecdata, this is a huge problem for basically every woman I know who's used the service. Not only is it mostly spam, a lot of it is pretty horrible and demeaning. A few friends post the worst of it to Facebo
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Cubic Bezier Curves – Under the Hood(vimeo.com)
4 points by jmclean 12y ago|0 comments
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by jmclean 12y ago
I think part of the reason this conversation is valuable, though, is that the inverse omission is far more dominant in the cultural conversation right now. It's certainly mostly true that hard work plays an important part in fantastic
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by jmclean 12y ago
I do! I have some sketches that I drew up a while back. It's sort of a loose collection of thoughts, though this is inspiring me to think about it with more rigor :) I imagine it as a combination of an abstraction layer on top of proce
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by jmclean 12y ago
Respectfully disagree. I think it's easy for people who have by now built an intuitive grasp of code to appreciate how challenging tools like Processing can be for a beginner. I have a design background and learned front end code (and
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by jmclean 13y ago
I think the point is that what was formerly a file-oriented task now behaves much more like a service. Netflix would be nowhere near as popular if you had to download the movie file before watching. Plus, no more external hard drives full o
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by jmclean 13y ago
This hits close to home for me. I was one of those kids who was 'good at math' throughout pretty much all of school. I tested out of Calc I thanks to AP classes and began university in Calc II. It didn't go well. Somehow this
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Show HN: Mr Synth, a simple Web Audio API synthesizer(mr-synth.herokuapp.com)
1 points by jmclean 13y ago|0 comments
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No Child Left Untableted(nytimes.com)
12 points by jmclean 13y ago|2 comments