mattchew

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by mattchew 14y ago
I agree that "dark side" is over the top. (I never thought Microsoft was so terrible either.) Maybe some of the resentment here is from the lingering feeling that Google should still be the best thing on the internet. For quite a long time,
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by mattchew 14y ago
This is going to be a problem. Reader is fairly important to me. I'm dropping Google a note and offering to pay a subscription if they continue services. Probably won't make a dent, but worth a try.
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by mattchew 14y ago
Seconded. For people who are interested in DIY approaches, I recommend reading Seligman's Learned Optimism. I am noticeably less depressed (dysthimic, really) than I used to be and Seligman's books were part of the difference.
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by mattchew 14y ago
Another vote for mobi/epub, even if the code blocks are unreadable. I understand the aversion to negative reviews. Maybe you can offer this with a disclaimer for those who bought the PDF.
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by mattchew 14y ago
Sometimes I walk to think, though usually it's more mental mumbling than anything focused. I do think my daily walk is good for my mental health. I feel the difference if I go without one for very long. If you are a busy/frantic person, wal
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by mattchew 14y ago
This thread is pretty stale and you may never see this, but I wanted to remark on the bitterness evident in your last post anyway. If this is how you feel after your last relationship, then your last relationship sucked . Be glad you got o
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by mattchew 14y ago
What you say is understandable. Your first bullet point made me chuckle. I'm not out to bash you personally. If you or your girlfriend had entered the relationship with the intention of either committing or moving on, and (let's suppose) en
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by mattchew 14y ago
If people stop having legal/religious marriages, but mostly end up in long term common law marriages (do you have that term in the UK?), I don't see that as a very important difference. The quality of the relationship matters more than the
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by mattchew 14y ago
Well, there is something to this. If I were single, I'd want to be pretty cautious myself. That said, I think not wanting to make a mistake, and not wanting to make a decision, are two different things. If you're with someone who wants to g
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by mattchew 14y ago
I'm interested in anecdotes. Are these long term relationships? I've seen cases where the guy seems to want to rush into marriage quickly and the woman backs away, but never an LTR with the roles tilted that way.
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by mattchew 14y ago
> Relationships are two-way streets and the man is not the sole arbitrer of tying the knot. This is true, but from what I've seen in these multiyear LTRs, the woman wants to get married, the man wants to keep his options open (or, "doe
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by mattchew 14y ago
> We can't tell if Jacob is truly a "douche" or not. He had a girlfriend for five years and didn't marry her, and then had a girlfriend for two years and didn't marry her. That doesn't mean he's a douche, but he's not much of a prize ei
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by mattchew 14y ago
> Conversely, abusive relationships and unhappy marriages also provide negative environments for children to grow up in. A future in which relationships are more fluid could reduce the number of children growing up in these environments
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by mattchew 14y ago
> And what shall the gentleman do? "Well I love you but it's probably a mistake because I'm probably a mess myself so let's just walk away from it?" It is OK to size up a potential relationship and make a practical decision about pursu
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by mattchew 14y ago
I backed Wasteland 2, and if I see voice acting with lip-synced animations I'll be disappointed at the waste of resources. Like the other guy said, I'm expecting a play experience similar to Fallout 1/2. However, if I end up getting nothin
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by mattchew 14y ago
LINQ is very good. I would use it in a box, I would use it with a fox.
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by mattchew 14y ago
Mmmm. As I recall, DejaNews decided to reskin and become "Deja", along with making their service much stupider and more user hostile. Then, they died. I think there was a SaveDeja campaign for a while before Google finally bought the archiv
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by mattchew 14y ago
What we are complaining about is the killing of discussion that promotes learning. You have to ignore your users sometimes, and maybe this is one of those times. But if you are getting a consistent message from your users that they're unhap
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by mattchew 14y ago
Permit me to tilt at a windmill for a moment and point out that employee training is neither non-rivalrous nor non-excludable. It is not a public good.
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by mattchew 14y ago
Great work. Also, nice site name. :)
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by mattchew 14y ago
> Stored procedures, triggers, etc. are going to be viewed as ancient technology back from the days of yore when people didn't understand how to code properly. You may be right about perception, but nearly every system I've worked has c
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by mattchew 14y ago
It is very sad. Perfectly reasonable questions getting shut down, looks very hostile to newbies, not at all the environment that I thought it was supposed to be. I don't understand what happened. I'd like to believe there was some good reas
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by mattchew 14y ago
I might try using this to teach Python to kids in our homeschool group. I haven't kicked the tires yet, but it sounds like it might be a really easy way to get a bunch of sharable environments set up for a class.
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by mattchew 14y ago
> Most people don't have this luxury. Maybe one way to make globalization great for more people, is to make international mobility practical for more people.
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by mattchew 14y ago
I've heard of non-delivered projects. So far, I don't know of any big money high profile ones, but I'm sure there will be one sooner or later. Like the other guy said, you're not investing, you're buying. Or maybe donating. I don't think th
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by mattchew 14y ago
Email down for me. Glad this is getting attention. Note that docs are still working.
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by mattchew 15y ago
> it's one thing to say the structure of the process itself is so byzantine and brittle that schools suck, but it's quite another to say we should remove measurable goals as well. What good is it to have measurable goals if you are meas
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by mattchew 15y ago
Congratulations. I'm surprised to see so much negative feedback here for someone who is hacking our (messed up) education system. It's true that not having college credentials will be a hassle or an outright barrier for a lot of things. You
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by mattchew 15y ago
I'm glad he mentioned Kickstarter. I'm really excited about the potential there. I think Kickstarter (or something like it) will be at least as important as eBay or Craigslist. I just wish we had it back when Firefly was dying.
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by mattchew 15y ago
The Forbes headline seems to say WePay is backing or at least somehow rooting for Occupy Wall Street. It's a misleading headline. OWS is using WePay for donations, and WePay didn't shut down the OWS accounts, omg the controversy.

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