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by leepowers 8y ago
Schema design and UI design should both be done at the beginning and designed _concurrently_. UI requirements can inform schema design. But there's always going to be an impedance mismatch between the two: schema design optimizes for p
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by leepowers 8y ago
You're right the related articles stickied at the bottom is super-distracting, it draws the eye, and has to be dealt with before you can continue reading. It's an interruption plain an simple - not as bad as a layered modal - but
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by leepowers 8y ago
The adult response is to acknowledge the trade-offs involved and to learn to live with a certain amount of risk. A free society is always going to be vulnerable to terrorist attacks to some degree. Reasonable policies might reduce this risk
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by leepowers 8y ago
Reminds of similar stats on stop and frisk - where only a small percentage of stops actually resulted in some sort of criminal conviction. And only a tiny fraction of those convictions were related to the original reason for stop and frisk[
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by leepowers 8y ago
It's more complex than that. Mobile networks are mostly hampered by latency - each additional HTTP request to a different domain requires another TCP coldstart and handshake, DNS lookup, TLS setup, etc. Many times the 100KB of JavaScri
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by leepowers 8y ago
I agree the investment of time is worth it when you have a strong expectation of landing a high-paying job. That's one caveat to consider. Another: as long as the take-home test comes _later_ in the process, after a more traditional in
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by leepowers 8y ago
This is why you self-host all project dependencies.
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by leepowers 8y ago
This is still returning the error for me: https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js
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by leepowers 9y ago
Delete the Facebook app. It drains your battery and drains your attention. I use the Mobile Basic interface to check FB once a week or so for messages or events: https://mbasic.facebook.com/
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by leepowers 9y ago
I've had the same experience. There's a bright line separating people who want to learn from those who want to offload the hard work of learning onto someone else. The latter almost always ask simple questions serially - it's
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by leepowers 9y ago
This is true for people who make Peterson the end of their intellectual journey. _But this also holds true for any and all philosophies._ Whatever stink you're detecting on Peterson's followers doesn't necessarily translate t
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by leepowers 9y ago
> Today, even the most powerful elites often cannot effectively convene the right swath of the public to counter viral messages. Let's imagine this was implemented. For every post on Facebook, Twitter, et al, a counter-point from th
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by leepowers 9y ago
> After the meeting, I found myself wondering why otherwise smart people so easily slipped into this kind of business bullshit. How had this obfuscatory way of speaking become so successful? Because there's no solid link between inp
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by leepowers 9y ago
> Yet I’m clearly making an error, one that reveals a deeper decision-making bias whose cumulative cost is sizable: Like most people, I conduct relatively few experiments in my personal life, in both small and big things. I think this is
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by leepowers 9y ago
Do you have an API? Even if WARC isn't something you feel comfortable tackling an API or webhooks would enable other enterprising developers to add this feature. Some commenters are knocking PageDash for being a cloud service, and that
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by leepowers 9y ago
> state-run media pipeline I have similar concerns but I think municipal would win out: 1) The First Amendment protects us against government interference with free speech. It does not apply to private companies like Comcast - they face
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by leepowers 9y ago
> the page is 3.1 MB in size, makes about 460 HTTP requests of which 430 are third-party requests (outside of its parent domain) and takes 20 seconds to fully load on a fast 3G connection That's a lot of ad-tracking and ad delivery
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by leepowers 9y ago
That's a false choice. No competent sysadmin is going to say "well, I was going to setup a public key but I spent all my time changing the SSH port number, so screw it". Also when securing a box with public key encryption y
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by leepowers 9y ago
Seconding this. It very much depends on the purpose of the image. If an image or any other tag is extraneous in a screen reader context use the `aria-hidden`[1] attribute to exclude it. A good example is an image used as an icon next to a t
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by leepowers 9y ago
> ....the Postal Service is working on an approach that it hopes to make available to the public in January 2018 which would allow USPS to send written notification to addresses when someone at that residence signs up for Informed Delive
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by leepowers 9y ago
One large factor the author misses is the staggeringly high rates of murder and violent death in non-state societies, in some instances reaching as high as 60%[1] This is the core of Hobbes' description of pre-state societies as "
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by leepowers 9y ago
> and "appeals to traditional values" do not seem to be improving the lives of these people very much. There's a few things going on here: 1) Many in these communities see success and virtue as intertwined. The idea here i
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by leepowers 9y ago
To be pedantic - that would only show that consciousness is non-neuronal. Max Tegmark has this idea of "consciousness as a state of matter"[1] - that neurons aren't particularly special - what matters is are particular patte
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by leepowers 9y ago
> Manzotti: However, the essential underlying idea here is simply that neurons produce consciousness. It’s as crude as that. We are simply asking the brain to do what the soul once did. Of course, what neuroscience has actually shown i
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by leepowers 9y ago
Same here, no more phone app. But I do have the basic mobile site bookmarked: https://mbasic.facebook.com Instead of getting notifications and getting pulled into the app I can visit the site when I have downtime, or have someth
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by leepowers 9y ago
This underscores an error that many conservative thinkers make - that "values are everything." I think values are an important part of achieving good outcomes, but values don't exist in isolation. The war on drugs criminalize
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by leepowers 9y ago
> .... inner city blacks are incompatible with an advanced free market economy. We must have read different articles because that's not what I saw - I think you're so focused on detecting a dog whistle that you're missing
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by leepowers 9y ago
Fair points. I was being a bit hypercritical. It all depends on what you negotiate up-front.
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by leepowers 9y ago
A contract will not necessarily inoculate you against a charge of fraud. It's legally dicey to represent that you personally will be performing work and then sub-contract to another person. Usually the client won't care. But if th
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by leepowers 9y ago
An agency is a middle-man that primarily adds value via management. It abstracts away to costs and headaches of managing a project. As with any successful middle-man your agency will need to position itself in a nexus of supply and demand.

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