kyro

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by kyro 14y ago
This is exactly it. Time and time again you see large groups of people in this community exhibiting behaviors that show that they are unaware of normal social and societal conventions, and an inability to relate and sympathize/empathize wit
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by kyro 14y ago
I've worked with people with Asperger's and Autism in a clinical setting. I'm not talking out of my ass.
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by kyro 14y ago
That is my number 1 complaint with Twitter. Sometimes when I write my tweets, I find that the app randomly inserts expletives and will turn the entire message into an @ reply. They must have some really wild NLP stuff going on too, because
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by kyro 14y ago
Because acting like a childish asshole is how you maintain your web presence in the startup world.
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by kyro 14y ago
At this point, I blame it on the assumption that Aspergers must run rampant and is severely underdiagnosed in the dev community.
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by kyro 14y ago
That's pretty infuriating. Learn to grow callous to it, laugh it off, and bury your head in the ground and keep pushing forward. You'll have assholes from every corner of the earth say demeaning things. But now I know Steve Klabnik is a dic
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by kyro 14y ago
The issue isn't skeuomorphic vs. flat design. Let's reframe it to be about the inclusion of affordances and constraints. What makes a tool easy and intuitive to use is the careful attention given to both enable and restrict the user from pe
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by kyro 14y ago
I was being totally sarcastic there. You have every right to ask people for their email addresses, especially because it looks like you've put a ton of work into producing this ebook.
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by kyro 14y ago
Eloquence in terms of mastery over the English language. Steve definitely was persuasive, but not because of expansive vocabulary, carefully crafted sentences or even logical arguments. His passion conveyed much more meaningful messages, an
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by kyro 14y ago
You're asking for my email address? What're you trying to do, hack into my bank accounts? Might as well ask for my social security too! What's wrong with just giving me the ebook without expecting anything in return? Now that's good desig
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by kyro 14y ago
Somewhat related: One thing that's always somewhat of a surprise to me is that as genius as a marketer as he was, Steve Jobs wasn't terribly eloquent. It's something I first noticed when watching his Stanford speech years ago and continued
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by kyro 14y ago
I'm curious about the standing desk because to me it's always seemed like something that would make me focus less on the task at hand. Then again, I've always been baffled by how others at the gym can read novels while on the eliptical. I c
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by kyro 14y ago
You may be right and I may have gotten too zealous there, but more transparency is definitely needed as well as tighter regulations regarding the disclosure and involvement of funding parties.
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by kyro 14y ago
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Signed and donated. This is a great effort, and I suggest others help out as well. The amount of fake trials and hidden experiment data that pharmas participate in is absurd. I can't recall the exact incident ('carbocati
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by kyro 14y ago
Recently I realized something about city/neighborhood design in America on a much more general level: We just don't care, or at the very least, it seems that way. The contrast is striking every time I travel abroad. I go to London on an alm
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by kyro 14y ago
You know, I'd written a lengthy response to this, but there is absolutely no point. I'll say this: The type of praise we're pushing for here is of a very different type than the one in the article, and additionally, we're not raising one ki
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by kyro 14y ago
That blog article was one of the stupidest things I've ever read. I never got the encouragement or support to pursue my hobbies at a young age, whether from parents or friends, and would've killed to have a community like this that could'
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by kyro 14y ago
If it's of any consolation, it depresses me daily that I have a future career in medicine but don't have a strong skill set (be it programming, statistics, biomedical engineering) to work on any meaningful problems. There's really not a day
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by kyro 14y ago
Hey man, nice job! As someone (a 25yr old) who picked up programming within the last year or so, I'm pretty jealous that you got such an early start! How long did this take you to build? Also, it seems like you're going to be building lots
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by kyro 14y ago
No, but he did assume he was asking for funds simply because he wasn't manning up. How many hundreds read/upvoted and made the same assumption? He should've held his judgment, especially with the weight he carries around here. I've been rea
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by kyro 14y ago
Something particularly bugs me about edw519's comments in the thread you linked to and the recent one about the tragedy -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5047571 . It's an odd contrast.
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by kyro 14y ago
I think the takeaway here is to stop assuming you know entirely what is going on and give people the benefit of the doubt. There may be more factors involved than the ones you see; in fact, there always are -- something HN is notorious fo
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by kyro 14y ago
I dunno, as someone that lacks formal education in either field yet is trying to learn them both on my own, it certainly feels like I'm at a disadvantage at times, that I'll never be quite as good as the BSc's and BA's.
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by kyro 14y ago
The Things iOS app is great for this. Yeah, it's pricey, but I really like the organizational features it offers, particularly the ability to separate completable projects from general life areas. For instance, I've got lists for all of my
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by kyro 14y ago
One thing I learned from reading Switch (a great book, by the way) is to write down tasks in much smaller and actionable steps. So instead of "finish paper", you'd write "write introduction" and so forth. It's worked so far.
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by kyro 14y ago
Eh, I hate it, personally. It's the first thing I disable when installing Mountain Lion.
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Ask PG: Implementing checkboxes to improve comment quality
4 points by kyro 14y ago|4 comments
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by kyro 14y ago
I take issue with the quick denial of having a Grindr account and it is this very type of discrimination that is ruining the valley. Nah, kidding. Best part was PG, though, clearly unaware of the appropriate way to make it rain. In fact, I
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by kyro 14y ago
What a weird comment - critique of his career decision, admission that you're not in his market, and a pretty irrelevant backstory.
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by kyro 14y ago
If anyone can answer, I'd like to know how active the startup scene in London is. I've always considered moving there later on down the road.

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