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by jp57 5y ago
It's not just age and birthdate. What about the year I graduated college? The year I started working? These are not perfect, but you can put a pretty tight lower bound on a candidate's age with these. You can leave these out,
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by jp57 5y ago
https://archive.is/es07a
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by jp57 5y ago
> In my unprofessional opinion, the red cross should go the way of "tissue", "google", "coke", etc. It's too common, hasn't been enforced. You lose the exclusive right to it. Was "tissue"
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by jp57 5y ago
I use NetNewsWire (Mac, IOS) to subscribe to substacks RSS feeds. Free posts appear right in the app. You have to click through to read subscriber-only posts in the browser. It has several options for syncing your feeds' state betwe
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by jp57 5y ago
I think that's around the same time? Not sure. Anyway, at least that one is easily overridden in System Preferences >> General.
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How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (2015)(fastcompany.com)
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by jp57 5y ago
> Apple are slowly undoing their great usability work in the name of elegance. Not slowly, or recently. The big removal of affordances happened with IOS 7, and Jony Ive's "flat" UI aesthetic. Don Norman and Bruce Tognaz
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by jp57 5y ago
I'm fascinated. > I am in the later half of an adventurous and successful career. I continue to grow, have a long-term stable marriage, good savings, great life. This passage could describe me as well, but as I look back on high sch
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by jp57 5y ago
> ENIAC could multiply two, ten digit numbers 357 times per second, and it required 150 kilowatts of electrical power to operate, which works out to about a tenth watt per computation. What am I missing here? A watt is already a rate, j
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by jp57 5y ago
Maybe your adblocker is blocking recaptcha?
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I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates(wsj.com)
29 points by jp57 5y ago|24 comments
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by jp57 5y ago
The article seems to talk about energy and electrons as if they are interchangeable. It also talks about "scavenging energy from the environment". I couldn't tell where the energy is actually coming from. Is there some stor
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by jp57 5y ago
I think this article points out the fact that the creation of a technology in the lab, and its effective operational deployment are two different problems, both difficult, requiring different skills and resources. An imperfect-but-instructi
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by jp57 5y ago
Christ. I wasn't avoiding mentioning it out of fear, I just thought that the three links in the parent would be sufficient for people to resolve the anaphor.
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by jp57 5y ago
In case it's not immediately obvious, today, June 4, is the anniversary of the event.
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by jp57 5y ago
This reminds me of the recent post linked on HN about "why it's a bad idea to write books." One thing I think people miss is that founding a startup, or working at an early-stage startup, belongs to a class of financially irr
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Pandocblog: Static site and blog template using pandoc, make, and some Python(github.com)
3 points by jp57 5y ago|0 comments
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by jp57 5y ago
In addition to the other comments, there's a difference in scale here. Shutting down _a_ hospital would be like shutting down, say, several dozen gas stations in one part of a city. That would not have a lot of national visibility ei
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by jp57 5y ago
Createspace is now Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). I don't know if it's better. But the createspace latex package works okay for getting a page size suitable for printing. I imagine could use the resulting PDF at any pri
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Pandoc-novel: Markdown text to a novel in ePub and PDF(github.com)
3 points by jp57 5y ago|2 comments
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by jp57 5y ago
My thought exactly. If you took out the borders, many states would still be visible. I would expect the boundary between Tennessee and Kentucky, for example, to be more-or-less invisible, as between Texas and Arkansas. But even Oklahoma
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by jp57 6y ago
Why not just 1 or 2 keys and you type with morse code?
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Moonlight Towers (Austin Texas)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jp57 6y ago|0 comments
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by jp57 6y ago
It is infuriating to have to solve a captcha just to see a page. > Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA? Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. No kidding. But why?
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by jp57 6y ago
I regularly read Medium stories linked from the front page of HN, but I don’t think they’re generally Medium original content, which I think is the point of this editorial change.
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by jp57 6y ago
But generally (in the US) the seller's commission of 6% (or whatever) is a contractual agreement between the seller and their agent, and then the seller's agent pays out the commission to the buyer's agent (as specified in
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by jp57 6y ago
Part of the reason for so many overtimes is the ridiculous point system for overtime games: For a game that ends in regulation, one team gets 2 points and the other gets 0. For game that goes to overtime each team gets at least 1 point, a
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by jp57 6y ago
Seems like a successful press hit: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by jp57 6y ago
> so 'biweekly' as 'fortnightly' is certainly to be proscribed, in my book. Except that's literally the dictionary definition of the word. And "biennial" and "biannual" are synonyms.
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by jp57 6y ago
Can we get little Bobby Tables in there? https://xkcd.com/327/

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