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by jtheory 12y ago
I doubt this story has any factual basis whatsoever -- it reads like a tall tale with a moral more than anything else.
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by jtheory 12y ago
A bonus aspect of this kind of approach -- funding can favor the disadvantaged over the people who could probably fund themselves with a little extra effort, (like "live in Mom's basement for a year"). A kickstarter approach
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That's part of it -- also that a successful campaign can have serious harmful effects, because unless you have thousands of close friends who each give a dollar, you are putting yourself in serious debt that's much murkier (and
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by jtheory 12y ago
I find I'm uncomfortable with many of the new ways crowdfunding is being applied; this isn't the worst, but it's not great either. Crowd-funding works psychologically pretty cleanly for funding new product development, or art
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by jtheory 12y ago
The wikipedia quote doesn't seem to support your point, though. It specifically lists "price-setting monopolies" and the like (which would include price-fixing agreements between Google & Apple, right?) as interference in
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by jtheory 12y ago
The drivers' experience carries far more weight than any policy on paper, though. Actual implementation of policies can be completely different (imagine a ratings drop triggering an automated email saying "turn in your kit before
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by jtheory 12y ago
I'd say it's an artistic constraint. It forced her to search through everything possible in CSS (an obviously-limited medium), and get creative to convince it to draw these.
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by jtheory 12y ago
Different gradients (sometimes linear, sometimes radial), and/or box-shadow rules like this: #camera div:after { width: 100px; height: 100px; margin-left: -20px; top: 15px; left: 50%; z-index: 3; backgro
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by jtheory 12y ago
Pronounced "poLEE" like the French word for polite ("polis" would be plural, male or mixed-gender)? Or more like "police"? Or Poe-less? See http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe%27s_Law Rather
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I missed a lot of sleep for my books at that age. It did have some of the negative qualities of an addiction, and still can drag me in -- I broke my toe last week, and tried reading a novel to keep my mind off the pain, and finished it a
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by jtheory 12y ago
This is important stuff - I did first grade twice, because I was a "slow starter" in a lot of ways. My mother had serious concerns about how well I'd do at school, for the first few years (even after being left back -- it di
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by jtheory 12y ago
I keep forgetting that this whole mess is still ongoing. The articles seem to come in waves -- there'll be a new exposure of how useless the scanners are, lots of noise around that, and sometimes articles about changes to actual polic
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by jtheory 12y ago
It seem to support any 4 keys at a time for me (when I hit a fifth key, the first tone drops out), though I didn't look hard for exceptions.
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by jtheory 12y ago
Agreed, this wasn't great (and as idlewords points out, how could he use such a lackluster opening of his own?). The straw man and exaggeration approaches both struck me as poor suggestions in particular. Here's my main suggestio
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by jtheory 12y ago
I've used pgFouine (possibly the inspiration for pgBadger, given the name similarity?) to analyze posgres logs -- but it was the sort of thing where we'd enable detailed (esp. query-level) logging, capture a bunch of logs, then sw
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by jtheory 12y ago
It's odd -- I'd swear I've read about a gear-like mechanism found in an insect years ago, but I can't find any references now... of course Google is flooded with a million articles rehashing this single news story claimi
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by jtheory 12y ago
Relevant comic: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2672
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by jtheory 12y ago
see soundslice.com
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by jtheory 12y ago
It really depends on what you're learning. If you're learning to juggle, you can absolutely get value out of 25 2-minute chunks during the day. Even more complicated skills -- you may not be able to get things set up on a computer
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by jtheory 12y ago
Depending on your skill level, you may be able to work a deal with your employer to work reduced hours, or to disappear for a few months of each year -- basically, unpaid leave, but as a regular thing. I worked reduced hours for quite a whi
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by jtheory 12y ago
Being involved in raising your kids takes a huge amount of time. BUT - the best way to raise kids is to bring them into your life , not leave your life to do kid things, so that huge block of time is not "lost" to your kids at th
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by jtheory 12y ago
Neat. And it's a curious feeling to stumble upon memories I haven't touched in years -- I used to love idly disassembling computer mice, cleaning out fuzz and gunk from the little rollers and the ball, and putting them back togeth
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by jtheory 12y ago
Brief article, but well-done -- this is one of the core ideas of our start-up (though we have no direct association with OpenNotes project). I liked this in particular: Delbanco tells me that he considers OpenNotes to be "like a new m
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by jtheory 12y ago
This is mitigated quite a bit by tracking the source of information, and adding rather than ever deleting any data. A patient can (and should!) be able to correct the doctor's notes reporting the patient's experience (sympto
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by jtheory 12y ago
Right! I felt like no one was quite pointing this out. Your brain is expecting certain input in given situations, and you have layers and layers of habits based on those expectations. If you are accustomed to NOT having that input, you don
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by jtheory 12y ago
The content-aware fill is what I get as well -- I have some permanent blind areas in my right eye due to optic nerve damage; I lost a lot of peripheral vision, but also the normal optic nerve blind spot is quite a bit larger in that eye --
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by jtheory 12y ago
I'd recommend they find different wording. There are plenty of people out there who "know" the less/fewer grammar rule, and those people are going to find this landing page a bit unprofessional. And I'm not a gram
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by jtheory 12y ago
It probably depends quite a bit on the people starting the company. Our CEO, myself (CTO), and one of our developers are all fathers with children under 3 years old at home. A woman on our sales/support team recently took a chunk of
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by jtheory 12y ago
> Furthermore, while travelers may not have to change their wristwatch to account for the local time, they still would have to grasp "what time the locals do X." Good point -- everyone is welcome to switch to this system now ,
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by jtheory 12y ago
> Or, you know, it would just be something like "+6" (meaning 6 hours ahead of your time in their daily cycle), etc. That's re-inventing time zones for this timezone-free world, though, isn't it? The problem is that t

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