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by klenwell 9y ago
I came to the same basic conclusion regarding back surgery (and surgery generally: avoid if at all possible) after reading this other New Yorker article years ago: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/08
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by klenwell 9y ago
If the standup was part of a scrumesque process, this is a case where a scrum master could have really come to the rescue.
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by klenwell 9y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite lines in The Big Short: "I told you we'd meet again. Unfortunately it's a place like this I would never be in... I had fashion friends." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en
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by klenwell 9y ago
> But something we forget often is... the goal of reading code is almost always to understand a system or some part of it. And reading code for me is a terrible way to do it. Good point. A couple famous quotes that speak to this[0]: Sho
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by klenwell 9y ago
I'm with you. But I'd also be worried about coming off as the angriest (or most paranoid) guy on earth. I probably already hold the title in my family. What would be neat is a polite discreet social signal that politely discreetly
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by klenwell 9y ago
This was my crystal ball: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/06/15/business/arm3... Also discovered around this time that subprime mortgage didn't mean a mortgage with an interest rate be
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by klenwell 9y ago
This is moving a bit tangentially to the topic at hand but I love pyenv (and rbenv) for the same reason. My question is now that I'm having to do more PHP development again: is there anything like this for PHP? Last time I looked it se
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On this one: > Describe z-index and how stacking context is formed. I have another question: what are best practices for using z-index and simply setting z-index values? This came up at my last company where we had some huge unruly style
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by klenwell 9y ago
For one political trend that answers your question in part: According to the Legal Defense Foundation, right-to-work laws prohibit union security agreements, or agreements between employers and labor unions, that govern the extent to which
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It always gratifies me to hear about a dedicated writer receiving his or her due after the fact. Maybe they should have an annual Herman Melville literary award celebrating a great author or work by an author that flared or smoldered but ne
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a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and former rancher and Grateful Dead lyricist Now that's a life lived.
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Perfunctory citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Clas...
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by klenwell 9y ago
That's an interesting idea. I picked up this book, Principles of Product Development Flow, based on some recommendations I think I came across here on HN: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6278270-the-princi
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Hackers are making U.S. ATMs spit out cash like slot machines, report warns(washingtonpost.com)
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Perhaps that's even why he opted for the reclusive strategy. Anyway, I love that headshot.
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Having a good headshot probably helps, too. I guess it would count as a key component of one's marketing package. I'm reminded of this Adam Gopnik article on a discovered Shakespeare portrait: And that Shakespeare was good-lookin
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by klenwell 9y ago
These are pretty good. Kudos to the Markov Curator (that should be a job title for someone somewhere). For those not familiar with Erowid, there's this New Yorker article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015&#x
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by klenwell 9y ago
I don't know the exact dynamics of how those Best Places to Work lists are compiled but I always got the feeling they were a form of vanity publishing used to keep local business journals and newspapers afloat. Funny story: after a cou
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One of the plot points of The Big Short that I found interesting was Mark Baum character finally discovering who was on the other side of the swap he buys from Jared Vennett at Deutsche Bank. And then you had the whole Florida subplot showi
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Joe Frank, Spinner of Strange Radio Tales, Has Died(nytimes.com)
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by klenwell 9y ago
On the other hand, I recommend this tale if you haven't heard it: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/634/... > In 1980, deep in a nuclear missile silo in Arkansas, a simple human
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by klenwell 9y ago
I agree here and would underscore this point: in the hands of public experts, media talking heads, and many types of charlatan, predictions can be immensely powerful and have tremendous influence over public policy and social behavior. So I
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> It feels strange and wondeful to have every decision made in one searchable place, on one time line for every major piece of software or system implemented for them. I can see the appeal of that. That is a killer feature for me. My tea
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by klenwell 9y ago
Are bee farms a target of animal rights activists? That's the closest thing to a credible motive I've come across for this incident so far. If so, the top comment from that thread sums up my reaction: > Of all the animals to &q
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by klenwell 9y ago
I was first introduced to Hockney's theory in a New Yorker article from 2000. The full article isn't available online unless you have a subscription but you can find a summary of sorts here: https://www.newyorker.com&#x
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by klenwell 9y ago
Don't forget the housing bubble. The first time it occurred to me that housing was a bubble was when I heard the economist for the National Association of Realtors say on the radio this time was different because of a paradigm shift. I
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by klenwell 9y ago
This reminds me a lot of what I read about phantom limb pain in V.S. Ramachandran's book Phantoms in the Brain[0] and the kind of treatment he helped pioneer for that. In the book he describes an innovative but quite lo-tech approach u
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by klenwell 9y ago
May go deeper than we think. Saw this yesterday: https://twitter.com/hailbotsghost/status/827162230974078979 Anybody else get the feeling Kirsten Gillibrand has seen the Simpsons prophecies and is taking them ver
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by klenwell 9y ago
I noticed the same thing. Right now it's near the top of the second page. But at 90 upvotes in less than an hour, it appears it should be solidly on the front page. My educated guess: lots of downvotes pushing it down, a fact (more cru
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by klenwell 9y ago
I suspect you're thinking of this This American Life episode: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/532/...

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