kenko

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by kenko 11y ago
> I’ve been lamenting the demise of the Unix philosophy: tools should do one thing, and do it well. 1983 was a while ago: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ . That's a long time to lament something.
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by kenko 11y ago
What's really killing digital health startups: failure to do due diligence.
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by kenko 11y ago
"We have finally fully arrived at the ultimate in passive voice:" No, the ultimate in the passive voice had already been attained [nb, passive voice omg] with "the lazy dog was jumped over by the quick brown fox". The pa
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Are tarballs obsolete?(esr.ibiblio.org)
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by kenko 11y ago
Earlier one might have referred to "self-murder": http://blog.oup.com/2013/08/self-murder-killing-suicide-etym...
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by kenko 11y ago
It's a shame that NYRB published Urn Burial separately from The Garden of Cyrus, since the two pieces were conceived by Browne as going together. You can get them both (along with Religio Medici and several more) from Penguin in The Ma
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by kenko 11y ago
Bankrupt your company, and probably do some serious damage to the airlines or plane manufacturers that bought them from you, and also kill a lot of people. But, you know, move fast!
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by kenko 11y ago
Did you read the article. I do wonder if that is true.
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by kenko 11y ago
"usage changes" which have been around since long before you were born. Are there other long-established regionalisms/dialects you have a bug up your butt about? It might be pragmatic to care about the judgment of one's
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by kenko 11y ago
> the brand lift of being associated with the house that publishes some of the best and most esteemed magazines in the world elevates them to another level as a publisher Frankly, I'd think being associated with The New Yorker and
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by kenko 11y ago
"We are moving forward with a restructuring of our workforce so we can put our company on a stronger path to grow. Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I'm going to give it to you straight." Riddled wi
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by kenko 11y ago
You know a lot about modern dance choreography and tap?
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by kenko 11y ago
I'm more interested in knowing what was used to toggle in and out of the mode that made everything but the comment disappear!
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by kenko 11y ago
""" First, the article notes that the old-style bagels are hard to find now, even in cities like New York with large Jewish populations where they used to be everywhere. Even though they still had people there who preferred t
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by kenko 11y ago
I completely agree with this. My ideal job? I get paid a hefty salary (presumably by an eccentric patron or institution because who else would front it) to read around in the OED, essays, philosophy, novels, and whatever else catches my fan
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by kenko 11y ago
> When you present people with an economic system that does have a social-utilitarian purpose, those people will select capitalism over it on the basis that capitalism is better at fulfilling that purpose. No one has ever offered people
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by kenko 11y ago
There are several monad libraries for Clojure---mine (of which I'm fond) is here: https://github.com/bwo/monads/
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by kenko 11y ago
Have to admit, that approach makes a lot of sense to me. It's still chugging along and bringing in $, so why not just have a policy of benevolent neglect?
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by kenko 11y ago
So ... why is it free?
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by kenko 11y ago
Immorality? Trespassing? Come on.
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by kenko 11y ago
Can one commission Jepsen analyses from Kyle? Or is it more a matter of hoping he'll do it on his own?
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by kenko 11y ago
Their truck is also much bigger than those carts, meaning they can store a lot more coffee (and water, for that matter).
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by kenko 11y ago
Right, and I specifically would not patronize a cafe or cart that didn't allow me to hang around for an hour or more.
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by kenko 11y ago
yes, this headline is a perfect example of Maciej's recent complaint: "The other part of our exponential hangover is how we build our businesses. The cult of growth denies the idea that you can build anything useful or helpful unl
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by kenko 11y ago
There's some less great new stuff in 2.x, too, sadly: https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2076
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by kenko 11y ago
"Mozilla did user testing before integration and found that people do want it. Remember that techies complaining on HN doesn't mean that the majority doesn't like it." I'm really not convinced by this as an argument
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by kenko 11y ago
No, a -> b -> c always means a -> (b -> c). a -> b -> c -> d always means a -> (b -> (c -> d)). "->" is right-associative.
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by kenko 11y ago
Why would you only be able to do this if your dealings are private?
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by kenko 11y ago
It's still true that you have limited practical redress if you're fired (especially in an at-will state).
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by kenko 11y ago
Yep! Some companies try to prohibit their employees from discussing compensation, precisely because they see the benefit of keeping people in the dark about each others' salaries, benefits, etc. This practice is actually illegal, but i

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