jmduke

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by jmduke 13y ago
The easiest counterargument possible: Good writing doesn't need syntax. Sinclair and Joyce and Fitzgerald and Twain didn't need italics or heading tags: just like structuring a post as a list is a sign of structural weakness, de
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by jmduke 13y ago
I bought an iPad 2 last summer for $200. This honestly isn't a bad way to get rid of it, except my biggest issue with getting a Surface at this point is my unfamiliarity with the Windows platform -- I'm not saying I wouldn't
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by jmduke 13y ago
Interesting -- I didn't realize until reading your bio that you were actually in charge of FtB, in which case the people for which you'd be using the metaphor hold the idea of recipes as personal property pretty close to the chest
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by jmduke 13y ago
The cookbook metaphor is actually really apt. The trick is not to introduce the terminology until it actually is important (which is much later than most people assume): "So you've got this giant book with a bunch of recipes for
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by jmduke 13y ago
Criticisms of this submissions' title aside: Yes, they got things wrong. This is how any person well-versed in a niche field feels when a mass-market publication covers something which they are personally well-educated in. There are,
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by jmduke 13y ago
I'm curious if Hacker News would have brought such pessimism to the AAPL and MSFT IPOs as they have with Facebook and Twitter. Around 500 million users, around 750 million tweets per day. That data might not be worth everything, but i
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by jmduke 13y ago
The plot of Walking Dead is survival in a zombie world. The setting of Walking Dead is a world with zombies.
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by jmduke 13y ago
The author doesn't seem to understand how the television industry works, which is okay because it's kind of a cesspool but as a result the article loses a lot of its force (and this is as someone who's a hopeless AMC devotee
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by jmduke 13y ago
Would you want your doctor on that schedule? Doctors in their residency have notoriously awful hours, so bad that they had to legislation was crafted merely to cap the hours at a four-week average of 80 hours (meaning that, yes, they coul
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by jmduke 13y ago
Was it intentional or unintentional that your comment also describes the life of entrepreneurs/startup founders?
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IndieMapper(indiemapper.com)
1 points by jmduke 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmduke 13y ago
After all, women can't do mentally challenging work! Ha ha! sigh
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by jmduke 13y ago
Wait, wait, don't tell me -- some people are gonna think that Apple's lost it's touch and $AAPL will plummet ("Gold? Plastic? Are you serious?"), some people are going to think its an unparalleled technical achievem
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by jmduke 13y ago
A smart move by these guys was targeting a high-profile member of a fashion community (in this case /r/malefashionadvice, though I wouldn't be surprised if they hit up Styleforum and other places as well) and sending him a bu
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by jmduke 13y ago
I think this is a generational thing. I'm 21 and I've been employed constantly since I was 14 as well (if you stretch your definition of 'employed' to include 'Wordpress monkey and high school helpdesk attendant),
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by jmduke 13y ago
Better yet: it's a great time to develop a habit of exercise! It's not even a big time commitment (a simple lifting program will take you around 45 minutes every other day; a cardio program will probably take you twice that), and
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by jmduke 13y ago
Most busy professionals view the working poor who struggle from paycheck to paycheck with barely veiled contempt. These holier-than-thou Whole Foods shoppers marvel at the poor decisions of the poor, whether in consumption of fast food, u
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How We Found All Of Optimizely’s Clients(blog.nerdydata.com)
3 points by jmduke 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmduke 13y ago
These things aren't binary: there's nothing fallacious about thinking we should have enough accountability to eliminate organized crime syndicates while also not having so much that it jeopardizes the livelihood of innocent citize
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by jmduke 13y ago
Maybe this is oversimplifying things, but I think a startup/prospective founder for which the current YC application is too time-consuming/difficult is probably not an ideal one; the application process is a filtering mechanism, a
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Simple ways to modernize enterprise procurement(dobt.co)
1 points by jmduke 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmduke 13y ago
This was pretty funny, but I didn't really see it as a criticism of the Yahoo! logo (besides the fact that you can overanalyze anything to death.) More entertaining than the not-so-great-but-who-cares Yahoo! logo: how upset so many p
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Arial vs. Helvetica(arialvshelvetica.com)
3 points by jmduke 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmduke 13y ago
Looks like you can get the source code and the eBook as a .pdf for that amount.
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by jmduke 13y ago
I'm not sure if I'm more excited or creeped out. Yesterday, I decided I wanted to learn Angular and I figured making a fantasy football clone would be a fun, interesting way to do it -- something I'm vaguely passionate and v
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by jmduke 13y ago
Given how horizontally expansive RapGenius is trying to be (this is the first time I've seen NewsGenius, but I'm familiar with PoetryGenius et al -- there's an annotated Iliad that's pretty cool), I'm wondering if
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by jmduke 13y ago
NFL players are some of the highest-paid in any profession in the world, most of which could rent a limo for the entirety of the night whenever they go out and it wouldn't be a drop in the bucket against their earnings. But, they don&
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by jmduke 13y ago
I'm the exact opposite: I prefer paper books for 'binge reading', but eBooks for documentation or sifting through, since I'd take Ctrl+F over leafing through an index/glossary any day. Which is why I think this (and
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by jmduke 13y ago
I don't get why people are extrapolating corporate stuff out of this. Google needed a candy/desert that began with 'K'. KitKats are delicious, and its pretty hard to think of anything else that fits the pattern (I saw
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You cannot eat exposure(bombsfall.com)
2 points by jmduke 13y ago|0 comments

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