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by mercer 6y ago
Being able to (usually) personalize your comments I think also played a huge role in fostering community: avatars, taglines, signatures, etc. I wrote my own tagging system for HN and it's hard to describe how much it changed the experi
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by mercer 6y ago
I still haven't found something that is quite as good as delicious was for finding other 'curators' with similar tastes (and then being able to filter what they curated by tag, iirc).
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by mercer 6y ago
No, I was kind of hoping the interview would go into the ethics of it all beyond just 'how do your friends react?'
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by mercer 6y ago
I like what Microsoft has been doing so far and I suspect it's worked out well for them. I bought the Xbone primarily because I would be able to play all the 360 games that I already had. Of course, I didn't bother doing so in pra
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by mercer 6y ago
> Yeah, I apologize if I came across as saying this is easy: it's definitely not easy. I'd also be interested in hearing ways in which you've been successful in changing your lifestyle. So far it's been really difficu
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by mercer 6y ago
Maybe in the boiled-frog US situation it's called policing. I consider this kind of stuff pure fascist-adjacent behavior that is extremely concerning.
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by mercer 6y ago
> Why is no one asking in good faith why federal law enforcement might feel like they need to take these kinds of actions? This invalidates any good point you're trying to make. Law enforcement is so much more powerful than random b
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by mercer 6y ago
I honestly don't see how the threat is from 'all sides', but I honestly do want to try to understand that point of view. From my perspective, the US is run by right-wing nutjobs, for many of whom the 'quacks like a duck&
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by mercer 6y ago
For me that's the deciding factor to favor 'the protestors' even when that includes those who just want to loot or burn stuff. The police should be held to a much higher standard, considering the power they have. And it'
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by mercer 6y ago
See my other comment, but I'd love to hear actionable steps to take to make these decisions with 'outside courage'!
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by mercer 6y ago
>> There were two big problems. One is that you feel disconnected from society. This is hard to explain but being outside of normal social structures you lose a sense of context and meaning to your actions. Second is that when you don
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by mercer 6y ago
> Coming at it from a different perspective, I did something similar to this by saving money on a US salary and then moving to a low cost of living country. I spent years at a time not working or even thinking about how to make money. I
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by mercer 6y ago
front-end: webpack/parcel/etc. configs, plugins, css-, js- and asset-'transpilation'. arcane CSS knowledge, keeping up with HTML developments, learning about promises, no async, no web-workers, react hooks, etc. back-end
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by mercer 6y ago
While I do not entirely disagree, I think a /very/ important caveat is that a lot of these domains involve not a particular level of skill in itself, but a lot of domain knowledge that is entirely a matter of 'knowing'.
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by mercer 6y ago
Hah, that was my first thought too. I've become so much more suspicious of HN comments in the past weeks.
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by mercer 6y ago
I spent some time in the Dallas-Fort-Worth area, staying at a typical suburbian region. This was before I had a car or driver's license. It was shocking to me how isolated I was. There was a gas station that I could walk to, but even g
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by mercer 6y ago
That doesn't intuitively make sense to me. I'd say for 90% of the packaging of various products I consume, the plastic has been wrapped around the product for a very short time. I imagine consuming something that has involved mult
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by mercer 6y ago
Dimash does an amazing version too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5zMupUOgQo
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by mercer 6y ago
That's just vile. is there any /good/ defense of this kind of agreement other than a 'think of the children' argument that people might make a mistake in their performance reviews?
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by mercer 6y ago
Yeah but that 0.01% it's developers checking API output and whatnot, and being able to read the output without any tooling (or maybe just a JSON 'prettier' tool) is great.
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by mercer 6y ago
I might be missing something, but isn't that somewhat obvious? Sometime between 8-12 I 'invented' csv when I need to save data for some simple game I built. It seems like the most obvious solution to come up with: store data
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by mercer 6y ago
It would be cool if such an aggregator had a commenting feature so people can discuss the title of the article without even bothering to read the article!
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by mercer 6y ago
How is 10%-20% not a problem? Not to mention tens of percentages above that where staying with one's parents is incredibly difficult and/or uncomfortable. This is the right time to shudder, much as I'm happy that you're
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by mercer 6y ago
No, it doesn't work that way. If he wrongly doxxed someone once, it is definitely fair to harshly judge him for doing so again. When people make a bad mistake, you don't just press a reset button after and judge their next, relate
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by mercer 6y ago
>> Of course, those who make this assumption will probably thumb their nose at how 'unsophisticated' these new words are. > For what it's worth I find language much more fun when I can stretch it to its (or rather my
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by mercer 6y ago
A few years ago I'd have agreed, but I actually stopped using Dropbox because both Apple and Google offer something that is finally 'good enough' and I couldn't justify 10 euro a month for a tiny bit of convenience. And
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by mercer 6y ago
What Slack also needs is a good set of native clients. I try to think from the 'regular user' perspective and often assumed that they just don't care. I figured they'd have Slack open on their desktop all the time at wor
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by mercer 6y ago
Perhaps that supports OP's general claim though? I've been excited about what the general 'chat UI' can accommodate and love API's like that of Telegram that allow a ton of custom UI and functionality that augment c
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by mercer 6y ago
I think it's a somewhat snobbish assumption that a language becomes poorer because the meaning of particular words drift. It doesn't take into account, as you say, the many, many new words that enter our lexicon. Of course, those
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by mercer 6y ago
That scenario seems like a recipe for miscommunication though, unless you first lecture the reader on what decimate 'should' mean :).

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