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by lj3 9y ago
Here's a decent article to start with: https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-books-and-television-af... If you do some searching, you'll find lots of ink spilled on the subject of "does TV rot your brain"
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You're making the mistake of thinking that all fiction is entertainment. It's not. There's a reason humans are hard wired to share stories. > Imo big bang, citizen kane, danielle Steel and chaucer are all somewhat equatabl
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You're talking content. I'm talking neurobiology.
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What's the most used language? And does that language have its own UI layout or is it just crammed into the English language UI? I don't think I have the raw data anymore. They don't let you keep that sort of thing when you l
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Arts aren't just entertainment. They're a reflection of the soul of a culture and exist long after that culture is dead. If you look at every culture ever recorded in human history, you'll note there is a direct correlation b
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I don't i18n. It's a good amount of work for little benefit. I've only seen one industry capture metrics on i18n usage and that is (was?) the social games industry. All of the findings I saw pointed to the fact that even inte
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by lj3 9y ago
Lab tech. It's not specialized, so there's no fear of your entire field drying up (like cytology). Every hospital needs them, so you can find work anywhere in the country. The downsides are it doesn't pay well and it requires
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This has nothing to do with whether people vote republican or democrat, or who voted for Trump and who didn't. If that's your entire understanding of the situation, then none of this makes any sense and it looks like everybody inv
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I completely agree, which is why I said it's heating up fast and also why I believe violence is unavoidable now. "That attitude" has been prevalent on both sides since Trump was elected and it continues to spread.
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> Honestly, why don't people keep their politics out of the workplace entirely? Because the US is in the middle of a cold civil war that's heating up fast. Denying your enemy employment and therefore bankrupting them is remarka
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by lj3 9y ago
Definitely a browser extension for clipping highlighted portions of websites and convenient browser integrations. I don't want to do the conversion to markdown in the extension itself because I also want to do some minimal processing,
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by lj3 9y ago
That's the mindset of an engineer at work. Engineers want hard, sexy problems to chew on. Businessmen want stable, predictable tech with large margins (low production costs and a high selling price). This is why a lot of people talk ab
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Let's build an Operating System!
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This stuff sounds more like R&D than markets to build products for. Way too risky for a company that hasn't even proven they can deliver a product where most of the technical problems have already been solved.
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by lj3 9y ago
I write markdown files with Typora, backed up and synced with Resilio sync. I still use Evernote for clipping web sites. I'm working on a web clipper that saves directly to markdown so I can finally ditch Evernote.
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by lj3 9y ago
> I think ageism (in software) is largely a problem in startup culture. Yes and no. Larger companies don't like hiring older employees because they can get more bang for their buck by hiring young(er) people who are willing to stick
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by lj3 9y ago
> Small manufacturing plants with funky regulatory requirements, construction companies, sausage factories. There are lots of all of the above where I live (rural northeast). The problem is that nobody I've spoken to is willing to p
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> My interests were constantly changing. That's exactly what I found out a few years back when I tried to do something similar with modern machine learning techniques. The article we're commenting on even mentioned that, for th
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Using stylish is easier and automatic. .overlay { display: none; }
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I can't speak for most devs with a side project, but for me specifically, market validation and marketing don't feel like real work. I know it's real work and it's necessary work, but they don't feel like it. They
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by lj3 9y ago
Thank you! I think you have a great product in the making. It just isn't for me right now.
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So... there's no way to delete an account?
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> What things do you look for in a technical job post? Location and general technology field (frontend or full stack web tech, in my case). That's it. I don't consider anything else in a job post to be reliable.
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> But with that approach maybe you won't need to send in hundreds of applications. Unlikely. There's a reason so many people take the shotgun approach. The response rate from cold online applications is very, very low. The &#x
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2 years is nothing for a video game project. Also, keep in mind he's only working on it while he's streaming, which is 5 hours a week (max. sometimes, it's less). He's also been making a game he intends to sell for money
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removed
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Reminds me of Qira. http://qira.me/
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> As to your counter claim ("We never made such a claim.") you need to understand that you are asking us to believe you rather than Cloudflare. As the Daily Stormer you have zero credibility. He's not asking us to believe
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If you were them, would you want to make your physical address public?
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This is probably why... "In 2005, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ruled that registrants of .us domains may not secure private domain name registration via anonymizing proxies, and that their contact info

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