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by jtheory 14y ago
Agreed, on this one. Think about the task of correlating online events with events from your memory. Suppose you see a quote from you, saying something rude that seems out of character. Knowing that it was however many hundreds of days ago
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by jtheory 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747
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by jtheory 14y ago
I wrote a response to this article last night -- not addressing the problems causing the delays in the first place, but ways to free yourself from the stressful feeling that you're wasting your life: http://blog.robwhelan.com/2012/08/20/wa
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by jtheory 14y ago
...I suppose that's an example of a business owner with unhappy employees because he's technically "correct" but completely ignorant of human psychology?
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Waiting is horrible. So don't do it.(blog.robwhelan.com)
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by jtheory 14y ago
AirBnB has it a bit easier, because they let normal people rent out their own space (which involving tidying up a bit and locking away the valuables, basically), and normal people are qualified to do that, more or less. The folks who are qu
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by jtheory 14y ago
If you're clued in on security, you can certainly use the fields to enter unrelated answers. A random 20 characters would be better than Winston Churchill. But it probably goes without saying that if following the instructions (and putting
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by jtheory 14y ago
Conversations sometimes go off the rails. Kudos to you both for pulling the plug rather than turning up the juice.
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by jtheory 14y ago
Entertaining (though I've already read this one...). I have a more interesting game I play with bank security questions that's more useful, though -- and applies to the most common usage (where the bank provides the question to you). Simply
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by jtheory 14y ago
I posted a comment on the blog, asking politely for a SFW version so that I can share it with co-workers. Though: when a post from a personal blog makes it to the front page on HN, the author usually finds out fairly quickly, and will read
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by jtheory 14y ago
Screenshots are useful. But it would have been trivial to keep a technical article SFW . As-is, this is a solid article that I can't send to my team because of that one poor choice. Here's why: 1) I don't know the personal histories of ev
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by jtheory 14y ago
Yup, I was excited to see that. I have a text file with examples of testing different kinds of API calls w/ curl, and I have to refer to it all the time because the syntax is so easy to get wrong if I just type it out. I've also had to w
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by jtheory 14y ago
As I mentioned, I can't say anything about Denmark, but I spent 5 years with this setup in France. In France during that time, I wasn't a resident (and not allowed to work for a French company, or get any benefits of residency); I was a lon
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by jtheory 14y ago
Another possible avenue: if you can work as a private contractor (or remotely) for companies OUTSIDE of Denmark, you may be able to base your source of revenue in the US, pay US taxes only, and get a long-term visitor visa in Denmark. Basic
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by jtheory 14y ago
These are fun, and it's interesting to see solid domains still in there. destn.com (standard abbreviation for Destination on tickets, or close to destin, French for destiny) was there. IOUit.com, OnOft.com... Some neat ones I didn't pick
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by jtheory 14y ago
It's not a binary decision; he should indeed find a company that honestly interests him, or he will be unhappy there (regardless of how happy his private life is; work takes up a large chunk of your waking hours!). And that doesn't rule out
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by jtheory 14y ago
All he has to do is give a rough impression of his sample (so we can guess how representative his impression is of the whole!), and say that every part of India he saw was overflowing with trash, or whatever. Instead he went out of his wa
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by jtheory 14y ago
There's a pretty strong argument to be made that most people playing Farmville are not, on the whole, having fun. Certainly the psychological prods that Zynga deploys to keep people constantly returning are not all (or even mostly?) fun-bas
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by jtheory 14y ago
Not using those exact terms, but the article discusses this explicitly as well.
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by jtheory 14y ago
I suspect they'll add Linux support at some point, though, particularly if there's demand (and they will be more, as core Thunderbird declines...) -- it shouldn't be too big an effort, as they're built on Thunderbird in the first place.
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by jtheory 14y ago
Agreed, for many of the same reasons. I have several GMail addresses, and a Google Apps email address for work, and variously-hosted other email addresses, all managed from within Thunderbird (with several extensions found over the years).
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by jtheory 14y ago
I wonder if there are large differences based on usage patterns. I just finished entering a comment above suggesting people should give it another try; I have 100 or so tabs open and 500MB footprint after using it all day, with version 13 (
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by jtheory 14y ago
There are a lot of users here complaining about Firefox memory usage who don't use it anymore. Which is expected, because why would you stay if you were really bothered? Comments from an active user, though... I've stuck with Firefox out of
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by jtheory 14y ago
After a lot of travel to places where salesmen and conmen are pretty bold (like Turkey and India) I've gotten to where I'm fairly comfortable saying "no" to people asking me to do things I don't want to do (including "loan me a few bucks" o
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by jtheory 14y ago
Add in that they may be using these custom apps to handle medical data, or financial data, or something similar that can cost lives or staggering sums of money if a browser upgrade causes even subtle errors... so there's a time-consuming an
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by jtheory 14y ago
And the users in large institutions who aren't allowed to install or upgrade their browser will just have to suffer if they use your site. Or they'll go with your competitor. Obviously, if your users are all home users, this probably isn't
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by jtheory 14y ago
Definitely insurmountable in the environment of many of our users. They're doctors working with medical data, so IT has to certify anything new installed. So they're stuck with IE6, because that was the latest & greatest when large c
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by jtheory 14y ago
Echoing liedra's point -- "it's worse elsewhere" is a poor excuse for inaction when we, in fact, are here (not working in tattoo parlors, for example). Also worth noting that the fact that a woman wrote the article has little to do with how
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by jtheory 14y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102598 (posted a little later than your comment) -- though I'm not sure anigbrowl is a regular moderator, he just mentions that he sometimes does change titles. That's all I see, though -- and I ag
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by jtheory 14y ago
Or you could just disallow "1234567890".

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