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by jmduke 10y ago
The median NFL salary is $1.9million. The median NFL career length is 3.5 years. If you're in the NFL for 15 years, you are an extremely fortunate outlier . I think the main difference between someone putting their health on the lin
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by jmduke 10y ago
I don't think I've ever met a sports fan who hasn't hated at least one team. Rivalries are fun; teams that you relish rooting against are fun. Emotional investment in the outcome is one of the biggest reasons folks watch spo
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by jmduke 10y ago
I hate Golden State. They're an eminently villainous team: overconfident and insufferable. (This can also be said of many of their fans -- most of whom I suspect had not called themselves a Golden State fan until 2013 -- and their ow
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by jmduke 10y ago
Ah, thanks for this! I'm going to add it to the site.
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PadMapper Redesign(blog.padmapper.com)
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Unicode Fractions(unicodefractions.com)
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Show HN: Floradora, a menu bar Mac App for sending yourself email(floradora.cloud)
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by jmduke 10y ago
In light of HN's (edit: temporary) ban on political content, I find it interesting that so many of YC's favorite books relate to: - religion (Going Clear, Zealot, Finding God in the Waves) - war and oppressive policy (War in a Tim
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Inside Jobs(theatlantic.com)
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Passport Index(passportindex.org)
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The Moral Economy of Tech(idlewords.com)
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How every Game of Thrones episode has been discussed on Twitter(interactive.twitter.com)
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Surviving the Framework Hype Cycle(speakerdeck.com)
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The End of Scale(rafat.org)
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The Amazon Echo and Shabbos(5tjt.com)
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by jmduke 11y ago
This reminds me of a couple years back, when an entire sidequest was discovered in Final Fantasy IX (thirteen years after the fact!): http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/28/obscure-final-fantasy-ix-...
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Humans of Simulated New York(spaceandtim.es)
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Arduboy(arduboy.com)
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Subscription Pricing is for Valuable Products(medium.com)
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Perfectly emulated human body #1(ifyoulived.org)
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by jmduke 11y ago
The willful ignorance of the assumption that everyone using your product is a happy, well-off individual with no sad/traumatic events in recent history is akin to the willful ignorance that nobody will try passing in a negative number
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by jmduke 11y ago
I've been reading Design for Real Life ( https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-real-life ), and its introduction is a fairly similar mirror of this kind of snafu -- using Facebook's "Your Year in Mo
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by jmduke 11y ago
Technical debt doesn't stop being technical debt just because it's your code.
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Bouba/kiki effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jmduke 11y ago
One of the big positions of this article is that despite employers' insistence that "firing isn't personal", employees will take firing personally and it negatively impacts them and can negatively impact the company&#x27
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Firing People(zachholman.com)
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DuckDuckHack(duckduckhack.com)
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by jmduke 11y ago
Kefka is the worst , but he's also a great villain from a time where it felt like most villains were sort of generic and one-dimensional.
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by jmduke 11y ago
This article struck quite a chord with me. I spent most of my childhood playing (but rarely finishing) a lot of RPGs and action-adventure games (chief among them Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Link to the Past, Link's Awak
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by jmduke 11y ago
I second your recommendation, and feel that Review (maybe tied with You're The Worst) is one of the most underappreciated comedies currently airing. The show (and Forrest)'s uncompromising commitment to the central premise is bot

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