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by jtheory 14y ago
There's something of a conflict between "The download attribute is supported in Chrome 14+ and Firefox 20+" and "but I think server-side solutions to front-end problems should be avoided whenever possible." The client-side solution sounds n
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by jtheory 14y ago
That's the issue. Who has the problem this is solving? Last week I needed a new copy of my house keys. The next day I was going out to lunch and noticed there was a bicycle shop that copied keys down the street. I said "I'll meet you ins
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by jtheory 14y ago
Have you never tried teaching yourself a new skill using online resources? Assuming you have (hasn't everyone, nowadays? Even just looking up recipes counts...) -- now think about how you'd pick up the same info, without the internet. W
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by jtheory 14y ago
Early detection and prevention are both useless for someone who is already suffering from significantly degraded brain function -- they'd have to hang around long enough that the damage could be repaired. With the brain in particular... som
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by jtheory 14y ago
This was my take, too -- there are lots of players, many of them have strong incentives that are misaligned with many patients' priorities, and for a patient and their caregivers to even understand what decisions will help them have the e
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by jtheory 14y ago
I believe this is the kind of request that's usually delivered verbally only.
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by jtheory 14y ago
You're overstating this, I think. How much would a downvoting HN account be worth, really? Sure, a spammer could sneak in a few messages at a more visible level, or presumably down-vote their competitors, but the suddenly-abusive account wo
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by jtheory 14y ago
I didn't realize changing the color of the top bar was a karma-sensitive bonus -- when I first heard about it, I checked and it was already in my profile. So: it's not for super-high karma users only! I got comment downvoting at 500 karma,
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by jtheory 14y ago
I understand that it depends on the fruit (I'd assume great absorption differences between strawberries and grapefruit, for example). But (speculatively... I haven't read the study methods eitehr) that still keeps it interesting. If she
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by jtheory 14y ago
Quite right -- I think there is something actually interesting here. That's why I was so frustrated that they just went with the publicity stunt when this could have been real. it would have been a bit harder to spin into a slick documen
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by jtheory 14y ago
It'd be more grating if their main products were make-up; I think they're mostly on the soap/shampoo side of things -- which can arguably be more about "just be clean and you'll look nice" as opposed to "paint this gunk all over yourself an
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by jtheory 14y ago
There's a documentary video somewhere in there.
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by jtheory 14y ago
Yup; this is a "great" idea that falls apart when you think about it a bit. The artist knows perfectly well what the intention is, and which group is which. ALSO, the results are going to be skewed by standard rules of politeness -- even gi
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by jtheory 14y ago
Is it really easier to write? Every note has to have a line that extends its full rhythmic value past the notehead -- you can't just write 10 circles to say "this big chord fills the whole measure". Every accidental must be marked on the n
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by jtheory 14y ago
I like the idea of working to make music notation better -- it's certainly not flawless -- but I'd strongly discourage music teachers from using this system with any actual music students. I'd much rather see methods of improving the readab
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by jtheory 14y ago
The average US musician knows the C/D/E, and possibly moveable Do/Re/Mi (where Do is the tonic of whatever major key you're singing in). The fixed Do system isn't even much covered in basic college-level music theory in the US (to my reco
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by jtheory 14y ago
If you're choosing between "rewrite this guitar music to transpose so there aren't crazy ledger lines" vs. "rewrite this guitar music into a radical new notation system", I think I'd go with the first choice. Standard notation for guitar mu
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by jtheory 14y ago
Except that by using redundancy in the name and description, they give the impression that their redundancy-removal skills are lacking. Maybe the project should be named "cs"? :)
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by jtheory 14y ago
Using a local server (instead of file:// access) would be a solution to that problem, not another problem. That's not great... A lot of folks get started editing HTML by downloading an existing page, editing it in some small way, and viewin
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by jtheory 14y ago
Avoiding all of the analogies... I'm on the technical side, and there's non-trivial work involved in evaluating the quality of the work of other developers. Particularly for sniffing out security problems... you're fighting a many-headed
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by jtheory 14y ago
This sounded very cool for a minute -- I'm mostly based in France, sometimes the UK, but now I'm in Malaysia for a month, and will be in the US probably later this year for a chunk of time. ...but the title was seriously misleading (just Eu
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by jtheory 14y ago
Er... just quote a teensy bit more of that sentence, and this will make more sense... > who collected unemployment for a year and a half five years ago She's a stand-up comic now , five years later, and was unemployed from whatever s
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by jtheory 14y ago
Yup; lots of variables to play with. As long as we're actively aware of the tradeoffs (and adjust approach as needed) it's all good. I don't personally find pair programming very useful most of the time, though I've done it now & then.
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by jtheory 14y ago
Meh. Look at the example reasons in the post you're responding to; you don't need an answer like "I want to save the world, and I'm pretty sure the best place to start is in the plastic chair manufacturing sector". If the best you can offe
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by jtheory 14y ago
And quality is in turn at least partly about productivity (i.e., it's usually faster to avoid the bug than to fix it after the fact).
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by jtheory 14y ago
When you get to digging holes in alternate dimensions, and making a mesh of connected holes, it's probably time to drop the metaphor. :) Staying "in the flow" -- I'm not sure how you think of it, but for me this means significant depth. W
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by jtheory 14y ago
Staying in the flow is more important than staying focused on one problem -- that's more what I got out of the article. Applying the digging metaphor -- keep up a good digging rhythm. If you get stuck in one hole, instead of losing your rh
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by jtheory 14y ago
Voted up, but this is really worth reading -- not because it failed (it did), but because before it failed, it was really working. The spammers put incredible effort into quashing BlueFrog... I was an early user of BlueFrog (and can confirm
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by jtheory 14y ago
This is a pretty common view -- and it's how the language of rights works, really (you have the right to X, all humans have human rights, etc.), but it's not true. The language is misleading. Think about what rights you have when you're a
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by jtheory 14y ago
Oh man, I love this discussion but I'm late to the party. Before the animal question -- where do people get rights? "Rights" are absolutely not inherent to anyone or anything... though it serves our society if people believe that rights a

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