matt_morgan

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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Funnest quote from the article: "Britain now needed ice, so it turned to Canada for help."
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
I was one of the original leads on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve.museum Did it GET me a job? Maybe not. Did it come up in every interview since? Yes.
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Mozilla has to do this to show they're trying. They're not just about getting everything free. It will be good if it works, but it also works for them if a) no publishers sign up b) no customers sign up (as long as they try hard t
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
It's the page title. It appears e.g. in the tab heading (but yours may be very small).
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Have you ever worked at a nonprofit? I have, my whole career, lots of them. Don't say this. Nonprofits use strategy after strategy, tested and untested and rational and intuitive, to increase donations in every way they can. They know
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
This ignores the fact that most people use the same password everywhere, given the opportunity, and you have no idea what website has been breached. I.e. if you don't expire passwords, most people will use the same password everywhere,
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by matt_morgan 7y ago
Precisely varied density in building materials feels like it would not have been available to ancient builders.
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
Ken Ken differs from most of them in that it actually has math, whereas in the other games the numbers are really just symbols that could be anything (sudoku) or just counts (loopy/slitherlink, I think).
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
Things are worth millions when there's an actual buyer who'll pay millions, and that has a lot to do with things other than than the artwork per se. I could see it ending up in a museum collection, but probably not MoMA e.g., unle
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
"Vette ... instructed the Cessna to point directly at the setting sun. He did the same, and noted the difference in heading between the aircraft as four degrees. After making an allowance for the differing altitudes of the aircraft, th
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
This was not a good "Show HN." I should be able to click on a Show HN and see on the very first page what the thing does. I.e., I should be able to use the product on the landing page you direct me to. Here I cannot. Also, do away
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
That the chief function of management is making it more possible for your staff to succeed in their jobs. Supporting your staff in a way that makes your department help the business meet its goals is your primary measure of success now.
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
I always thought this is how we should clean our houses (when we pay other people to clean our houses). Robovacs are great for smoothish floors, but most other cleaning tasks are too complicated for autonomous robots. With a good humanoid r
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
I might have started from the "I’m drinking too much" part and raised that as the most important thing to address. Sometimes it's the result, sure, but more often it's the cause.
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
The best part here is someone from Salomon Brothers (RIP) talking about how the computer industry isn't living up to its promise.
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
1. 12% of anyone's business is really significant. 2. Every step helps.
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
If you want it to keep going, support Greenpeace.
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RPG.net bans posts in support of Trump(forum.rpg.net)
49 points by matt_morgan 8y ago|135 comments
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
I lived in NYC for 27 years until 12/2017. You nailed it. I had to laugh at the furniture issue. SO MANY STORES in NYC sell giant-sized sofas etc. Who buys them? Not NYers, I guess. I moved to Lower Merion, a 1st-ring suburb of Philade
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Did Microsoft Word change the accepted spelling of an English word?(english.stackexchange.com)
2 points by matt_morgan 8y ago|0 comments
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What was really happening in Crazy Rich Asians’ pivotal mahjong scene(blog.angryasianman.com)
4 points by matt_morgan 8y ago|1 comments
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
People can make their own decisions about this, yes. But an important point I love seeing in a top comment is that almost always it's hard to inherit someone else's code. It almost always looks bad at first. I'm more of a man
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
This is true until you try other things. E.g. I found that if I got attached to units, I tended to be worse off in later scenarios. If you're continuously developing lots of units you always have opportunities to level up & get aut
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
I'm agreed with everyone who's pointing out that self-control is a fine solution to the same problem. But this is a great-looking phone that's small. Skinny pants are still pretty in, and even smaller smartphones are too big
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How Corning, NY Changed the World with Glass(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by matt_morgan 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
It's not about ratings, it's about subscribers. New shows generate subscribers. Many subscribers stay on board with Netflix even after the show that got them to sign on has been canceled. Ergo the more new shows you have, the more
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by matt_morgan 8y ago
You're acting like you know exactly how to comply with GDPR, while using the term "essentially" to admit that you don't know 100%. Meanwhile you're faulting someone who runs a non-profitable community project for ex
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See what native land you're on(native-land.ca)
2 points by matt_morgan 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
The hard part here is not recording the check on the box--any email service provider will handle that. The hard part is the "full understanding." Historically lots of us have a) been willfully unclear about what it means to subscr
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
Right, this is not a product, it's an interface.

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