matt_morgan

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by matt_morgan 7y ago
My wife, who was doing office admin and CRM management for a lawyer/marketer couple. Their work has dried up a bit, and they moved a young adult son back home to help deal with isolation and his own layoff. She's looking for remot
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Some public domain books for kids at Gutenberg, by grade level(concretecomputing.com)
2 points by matt_morgan 7y ago|0 comments
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
White Noise, by Don Delillo. It's a great story in general and reading it helped me acknowledge my fear of death and how it affected me. Edit: oh, and since I don't think anyone else has mentioned them yet ... Riddley Walker by Ru
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
This is great, but the big block of graphic at the top of the page is incorrect. Start with the "See by Topic" stuff and make them lots bigger.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Yes, it takes longer. But it happens while I'm sleeping, and requires no special trip. I do think swapping batteries will be the sensible way to handle this when we're also swapping cars, or when the cars drive us, unless charging
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Here in the US I have a free, open source desktop weather app (OpenWeatherMap) that lets me set the location to many German locales. On my phone I have something similar. Surely people in Germany could install these same apps? Who is paying
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Philly is way better than SF for transit. Maybe it's similar within the dense parts but it's 1000% better for nearby areas.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
I have a charger for the car on 240V, in our garage. It charges fully in about 2 hours. Mind you this is a plug-in hybrid, with only ~20 mi range before the gas comes on. But still that's lots better than swapping out lots of heavy bat
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
I live in a first-ring suburb of Philadelphia where we more or less have to drive or bike for everything (there are little downtown areas, but we live 1mi+ from any of them). The top speed limits are 35mph and speeding is rare because the r
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
My father-in-law, who passed away a few years ago, was at Bell Labs then. I really wish I knew about this when I could have talked to him about it.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
This would be super easy and fun to do in Scratch. For sure someone has done a similar game you could borrow to start. Also: don't worry about a 4YO struggling with letters. It's OK. But do make the game anyway.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
I don't think soygul is so much challenging the readability of the line, but rather pointing out the hazards of focusing on the # of lines of code as a unit of simplicity/complexity.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
This has happened to me enough times to be embarrassing. It seems to happen to other people who you'd think have some sensible way to avoid it. Is there a reminder service out there that specializes in your long-term expiring things? I
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
OMG this complaint is 20 years old. It is true of every new thing on the Internet since the beginning of the Internet.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
I suppose that it's only a pity that after 26 years in nonprofits--eight different .orgs--that I have never experienced this. Beware anecdotal data.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
People have ways and you can google that. It won't be perfect. We don't have a lot of rabbits but we have groundhogs, chipmunks, squirrels, deer, and lots of birds. Our strategy is basically: 1) grow things like wildflowers that d
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Everything old is new again.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
"There are only three people in the world who understand Superdeterminism" ... thinking people would agree with you if they only understood better what you were saying is a pretty classic rhetorical problem.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
There's something in here but 1) Zillow/Redfin predictions bounce all over the place based (I think) on recent local sales 2) Good real estate agents are good at estimating actual selling prices. I don't know if "ability
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
It's hard to tell the home page is more than the gray field; and then "get started" skips to the end, where I'm encouraged to click on the codepen link and get a completely obtuse page. I recommend fixing that first view
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
That's a different market.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
For 27 years I saw the same doctor. He was a GP by the time I met him, but as an infectious diseases specialist had been on the front lines of AIDS in the 80s. I can still find old quotes from him now and again, calming people scared about
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
What's wrong about this is only that users like features too. I.e. he's exactly right that the features checklist leads enterprise software selection processes astray. But I've participated in lots of them that have real user
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
"For several days, the British and U.S. soldiers exchanged insults, each side attempting to goad the other into firing the first shot, but discipline held on both sides, and thus no shots were fired." So basically they all wanted
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Or how about from a library. https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=edward...
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
The multiple axes (facets in a search eg) make great sense to me, thanks. I'm not sure about any kind of behavior-based recommender tool, but we can certainly make offers based on metadata matches. Is there anything about the fact we&#
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Thanks! If you were building that early music learning app/tool, what form would you want it to take? Is it like a blog post, illustrated with embedded videos/audio of the relevant passages?
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Yes, digitization is a big part of it and somebody will get paid to do it. Probably not internal staff but nothing is decided. Not actually a lot of vinyl LPs but lots is still analog in various forms.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Arguably the top conservatory in the world, with an orchestra that is often called one of the top orchestras in the world. But our expectation is that e.g. on Youtube a recording of piece X by the NY Phil will generally get more interest th
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Ask HN: What would you do if you had all classical music to work/play with?
5 points by matt_morgan 7y ago|8 comments

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