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+1 I see where you're coming from now. You're right about America and the culture of minorities, but in the melting pot, that's how everyone kind of is. We all feel like we have to be someone in America. It's impossible
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What do you mean by the French try to assimilate people more? I'm confused because France is notoriously horrendous to tourists. I've seen polls rate it as the worst place for customer service with tourists and my own brother&#x27
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No, you shouldn't. It presents a problem only to tell you many paragraphs later that indeed many companies are working on it. Of course you have to ride their emotional roller-coaster 'til you end up there.
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I like Meteor and am using it for my current project, but I architected it in a way to stay away from their pub/sub model where you publish partial data sets to the client. I believe this only has utility where you have a feed of data
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by joslin01 11y ago
There's also blackbox by StackExchange https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox
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I've created a business that tries to do this before. Well, the business was an events aggregator in NYC, but we envisioned that would be one of the future features. When you learn how to force people to check-in to a club and broadcas
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Alternatively, wait for Airbnb API to open up[1] and then make a travel planning website that rides the back of Airbnb. In general, you shouldn't create start-ups in markets with high barriers of entry. However, the fun part of start-u
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Life here is first and foremost arbitrary. As a result of this, the world is like a blank canvas we look out to and fill in with meaning. The life of a human can be wrought with meaningless acts that have been given a lofty value in the hum
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I really don't think this contradicts PG's point or challenges it in a way to be deserving of the phrasing "entirely different perspective." For one, from the essay: > But different things matter to different people,
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And even if you succeed, monetary wealth is a dead end. Once you're there, you'll be disappointed that money doesn't happiness (trite, but true).
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I enjoyed the story, brother.
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> This battle is the worst, because you are fighting it with yourself — not with anyone else. It’s damn hard to win against someone who knows you inside out and knows your every weak spot (which are plenty). This line of thinking is one
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Craftsman by day, artist by night. --Programmer Man
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Presumably same reason why someone re-tweets something and now it's on their profile. Or he just felt like it.
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You should so it can give us a reason to discuss Python and how it's probably not going anywhere with its crazy versioning and how 2020 will probably never happen and people will still be using Python 2 and Guido will have to fly from
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Let's user story this one up. [Celebrity wakes up & glances at phone] >> IG: "You are still very popular and everyone loves you" [Celebrity breathes a sigh of relief and goes back to bed]
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I agree, which is more reason against it.
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So if you taxed those 5 people, you would make 4 billion. We spend over 3 trillion a year. Do you really think the punishment fits the crime? Wiser management of federal resources would go a lot further than throwing more money down the hol
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Well we all have our struggles I suppose. I hear what you're saying though. I think money has lost a lot of its value.
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As a middle class person struggling to get day by day -- yes, yes it is.
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Hey it's no worries -- just sharing my experience and conclusion upon the product. Poor experiences aside, the product isn't for me because I think it's equally as easy to just use the specialized service (e.g., food delivery
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I wrote the first version of the API I'm currently working on in that exact mindset in Scala with the Play framework. It basically boils down to everything returning `Either[Error, X]` where X is whatever the service is returning. I ca
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Yes - plus appears to be targeted at rich people ("I need to have 6 convertibles by tomorrow"). But remove that trailing `/plus` at the end of the URL and you have their base product Magic, which isn't.
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Looks like the reception isn't doing too well. I remember when Magic launched here on HN and it BLEW up. I was one of the people who tried it out. I live in NYC and actually had a poor experience. The first two times, I said "hey
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Ok, so the guy who comes in out of nowhere to call Radiohead overrated (which, if you care anything about the vast majority of the music critic world, is at least GOOD) and that's totally cool to you. I'm at fault for showing him
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Symbols are literally everywhere you look. The sentence you just read is nothing but a chain of symbols which got resolved to an overall concept. 2 + 2 = 4 means nothing except to a human. You're right -- symbols are cheap. However, th
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Would it be fair to say that the best leader is a hybrid of mom & dad style? Or would you say that the best leaders oftentimes fall into just one camp?
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There's a decent chunk of devs who look up to Linus for his seemingly cut-throat opinions because they understand that behind the cold attitude is someone who really cares a lot about a system that is being used by millions (billions?)
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I'm guessing you like metal? You're not correct here and plenty of pundits who have listened to a ton more music will agree. Run along now, little green. You don't have a point to make.

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