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by jnbiche 7y ago
As a web developer who tried various visual design tools in the 1990s and finally eschewed them all and went back to using Vim or (later) Sublime Text for coding markup and CSS, I'm curious what things are easier when designed visually
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by jnbiche 7y ago
No, if you look at what it's doing, I think "Omit" is the word they wanted to use. They're saying, "Omit the (Latex code) text in pdf and create (in addition to the pdf) a Latex file (that has references to placehol
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by jnbiche 7y ago
I worked 60-70 hours a week for 6 months and destroyed by health ( actually programming for 50+ of those hours, tracked time since it was billable hours for a consulting firm). Finished the project by the deadline I was hired for, but quit
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by jnbiche 8y ago
That's mostly a laundry list of hypotheticals, aside from the seasonal study which had some statistically significant data indicating correlation. All the childhood environmental factors that might have some small relation to poverty
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by jnbiche 8y ago
Schizophrenia -- responsible for much of the extreme behavior that librarians see -- is an organic disease that affects both the rich and poor at equal rates. It has nothing to do with how you were raised. It's true that wealthy famili
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by jnbiche 8y ago
The Iceland leaks were well before Assange became fixated on revenge on Hillary Clinton, and (probably related to that fixation) closely allied with Russia.
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by jnbiche 8y ago
> If they had some crazy leak to make, it doesn’t seem like something they would just sit on to use as personal leverage for assange. Really? A major part of Wikileaks has done the past 5 years has been in relation to the personal wants
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by jnbiche 8y ago
Every doctor I see is a Medicaid provider. Yes, there are doctor who don't accept it, but it's not hard where I'm from to find a doctor who does (perhaps we have an oversupply of doctors?).
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by jnbiche 8y ago
I have aphantasia but can draw fairly well, as long as I'm looking at what I'm trying to draw. But I can't draw anything from memory (because I have virtually no visual memory, it's very, very, very vague and fuzzy).
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by jnbiche 8y ago
I'm aphantastic and have taught myself to draw fairly well over the past year. In fact, it was only in learning to draw that I learned what aphantasia was. Many lessons described "picturing" something in your mind's eye,
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by jnbiche 8y ago
If you're poor in the US, insurance is free. It's the lower middle class and middle class who are frequently bankrupted by these costs.
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by jnbiche 8y ago
> I'm not sure anyone will burn a no interaction zero day on a human rights journalist. There have been multiple reports of no interaction zero days used on journalists, including in the article above. Turns out, authoritarian gover
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by jnbiche 8y ago
He's a 37 year old man, he's not in college.
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by jnbiche 8y ago
Ironically, I almost never got saw your above request because...your comment above was collapsed from the downvotes, even as I perused my own "threads". For some masochistic reason, I clicked the "+2" link from a comment
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by jnbiche 8y ago
Your analogy seems more like an argument against moral relativism that for it. Specifically, if murder is always wrong, then your hypothetical aliens are committing a moral transgression. If moral relativism is all we have, then it should
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by jnbiche 8y ago
> Is one of your premises that morality is something that has an objective scale Uh, yes. I'm not a moral relativist. If you are, I'm sure you're aware of the tricky outcomes of that approach. For example, if you're a
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by jnbiche 8y ago
If they think it's gotten bad from the 1940 cohort to 1960, wait until they look at the 1980 cohort. Anecdotally, among my friends and family without a college degree, the situation is dire indeed.
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by jnbiche 8y ago
> Inequality benefits society overall. The data suggests this is not the case. Particularly, when you look at the correlation between the gini coefficient and just about any measure of societal well-being available (life expectancy, chil
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by jnbiche 8y ago
> if we had a decent standard library and language to begin with. I use compile to JS languages when I can, but not sure what now you'd want for a frontend JavaScript standard library beyond what's available in ES6.
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by jnbiche 8y ago
Here again. Downvotes for someone asking a bona fide question. Place has changed. It's a shame. Downvote away...
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by jnbiche 8y ago
We haven't seen anything either way. Even the allegation that it's the MCAS system is totally unconfirmed to the public.
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by jnbiche 8y ago
Yes, and I mentioned this in my second paragraph. And no, we the public know very little about this point about the current alleged MCAS problem, but we know that many problems with safety critical software comes from implementations, not s
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by jnbiche 8y ago
My impression of many incels is that their looks are not their problem.
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by jnbiche 8y ago
She/he disclosed their affiliation and reasonable promotion is permitted on HN as long as it's on-topic (this clearly is). No idea if the product works, but please don't downvote just because it's promotional. If you&#x2
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by jnbiche 8y ago
> This may be why the field emerged from dentists rather than orthodontists. Orthodontists are dentists.
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by jnbiche 8y ago
A modern os is vastly more complex than what Linus was working with in the early 1990s. Recall that the web had just been invented at that point.
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by jnbiche 8y ago
> But when he said he “made his own web frameworks”, I’m assuming he was talking about this decade. I re-read the comment in question. Not sure why you would have assumed that. Someone who is now 37 likely started programming before the
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by jnbiche 8y ago
I would consider those as more referrals, not recommendations (which implies the traditional job recommendation process).
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by jnbiche 8y ago
I'm not in silicon valley, and I'm not in a start-up. jQuery is on the way out in all but the most archaic companies (many of the ones you mentioned are still struggling with how to maintain their Cobol code bases).
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by jnbiche 8y ago
In my experience, recommendations aren't very common in programming, unless you're talking about referrals by former supervisors/colleagues to some job opening. Have others had a different experience?

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