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by meej 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Comedians_who_committ...
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by meej 11y ago
While reading the article I thought to myself, "I guess OQO is ancient history by now." I know at least two founders were Apple alums.
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by meej 11y ago
909 Back Up, by The Weathermen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDAcHA67OIs
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by meej 11y ago
Interesting, this article not only made me more aware of my own nose in my field of view, it increased my awareness of the fact that my left eye is my dominant eye (a bit unusual given that I am right-handed). It takes effort for me to not
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by meej 12y ago
Apologies for the late followup on this. I was specifically thinking about natural selection. Berkeley's Understanding Evolution website has a nice overview of all the mechanisms of evolution. http://evolution.berkeley.edu&
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by meej 12y ago
Mutation is only one of several mechanisms of evolution, though.
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by meej 12y ago
Bummer! I usually use Firefox to surf HN, hadn't tried it in Chrome.
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by meej 12y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean by "first two squares of sidewalk". I lived on Coso Ave in Bernal Heights, where a bunch of garage doors are right next to the sidewalks. Some of my neighbors would park their cars in their d
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by meej 12y ago
Ironically, it works great with the spacebar. (I've become accustomed to people breaking spacebar scrolling entirely, especially in Firefox.)
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by meej 12y ago
The thing that drove me nuts about curb cuts when I lived in SF were all the people who used them as sidewalk-blocking private parking spaces (which is illegal, not that the city ever did anything about it), forcing pedestrians into the str
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by meej 12y ago
I got so sick of Sunrise on Mac, I went back to Calendar.app. It required a lot of up-front configuration (I had to set every calendar I follow to "ignore alerts") but once I got past that I've found it works pretty well. B
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by meej 12y ago
The 4-week view is one of the options for the configurable custom view in the Settings panel. I think 4 weeks is the default, but if you've changed it anytime in the past you might see something different. In my most-used Google acco
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by meej 12y ago
I like to summarize this with a riff on Brook's Law: "Adding people to a late bus makes it later."
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by meej 12y ago
It makes me wonder if Nordstrom ever stocked the now-defunct Pornstar clothing brand.
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by meej 12y ago
Yes. Both sides of the political spectrum police language, and neither DeBoer or Chait seem to recognize this. Chait also says some things that seem to indicate that he wants to police language as well, just in a different way. At one of
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by meej 12y ago
Yes. I didn't find out my father's income until it was time for me to fill out my first FAFSA.
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by meej 12y ago
I think the key phrase in that sentence is "conservative countries". Much of Eastern Europe still doesn't permit gay marriage, for example. Here's a good map: http://www.freedomtomarry.org/landscape&#x2
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by meej 12y ago
NYC took steps to unclutter their parking signs a couple years ago. http://www.wnyc.org/story/283907-nyc-unclutters-parking-sign...
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by meej 12y ago
OK, cool. The 20% figure sounded high to me after years of reading Campos, which is why I asked. I definitely agree with you about the short list.
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by meej 12y ago
What's the source for your 20% figure and have you read any of Paul Campos' work on the state of legal education in this country? He's been saying for years that it's a scam. Only half of graduates get jobs as lawyers,
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by meej 12y ago
yes.
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by meej 12y ago
Nice list. I programmed in Ada for eight months in 1997 when I was on a co-op at Rockwell Collins, working on their simulation testbed for their general aviation flight management systems -- I recognize several of the planes listed in the
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by meej 12y ago
I interviewed at a Raytheon office in Rhode Island as a college grad in 1999 and they did this too then. Not sure if it's still in place or if it's a companywide thing.
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by meej 12y ago
After witnessing a half-dozen zippers fail on my partner's hoodie collection, none of which were YKK, it is gratifying to see this article. The Chinese garment industry has gotten really good over the past decade, but fasteners is stil
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by meej 12y ago
I'm not convinced Monbiot is completely unbiased here. He still appears to be upset about how meat producers misrepresented his words [1] after he gave a favorable review to Simon Fairlie's _Meat: A benign extravagance_ [2], and
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by meej 12y ago
perhaps librarything? https://www.librarything.com/talk https://www.librarything.com/groups
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by meej 12y ago
I wonder if it works if the plants are fake?
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by meej 12y ago
A former employer of mine hired a plant service for the office. They provided both the plants and people to come in every week or two to tend to them.
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by meej 12y ago
I think it's better in Seattle. I lived there for seven years and I can't recall a cab ever no-showing like I experienced when I lived in SF.
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by meej 12y ago
Can't get one dispatched, either. Uber had a blog post a few years ago [1] where they highlighted some findings from a SFMTA report on cab availability. The report found that 35% of dispatched cabs never showed up, except on weekends

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