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by metasean 11y ago
It's not just you.
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by metasean 11y ago
Looks like there are some recognized categories: >3 Explanation of cognitive illusions > 3.1 Perceptual organization > 3.2 Depth and motion perception > 3.3 Color and brightness constancies > 3.4 Object > 3.
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by metasean 11y ago
For Firefox I use - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...
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by metasean 11y ago
I worked as a contractor on a military installation a few years ago. We had a snarky, know-it-all new employee who decided to test the base's "no thumb drives" policy his very first day on base. Every employee and subsequen
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by metasean 11y ago
In the US, I think the closest is the Green Party - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_United_Stat...
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by metasean 11y ago
I think it's acceptable data loss because "It Probably Works" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSlPU5Nrvds
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by metasean 11y ago
Funny automation fail: The tech podcasts I listen to frequently end with recommendations. One of the recommendations in the latest JavaScript Jabber is for a Taylor Swift album. Podcat attributes the entire episode to Taylor Swift‽ JJ Epi
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by metasean 11y ago
Thanks for letting me know the latest archive version was already outdated! If jwz is trying to avoid the HN-effect, then sending people via another route won't completely mitigate the problem. I went ahead and updated the archive.org
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by metasean 11y ago
GUN, an awesome Graph Database Engine! http://gun.js.org / https://github.com/amark/gun Things that make it so awesome: it is open-source, real-time, fully distributed, and offline-first. It's
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by metasean 11y ago
For anyone else wondering about the links, I think one of these is the archive.org version of the link jcr removed: https://web.archive.org/web/20150930225625/https://www.jwz.o... [edited with more rec
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by metasean 11y ago
There is already a popular board game named Robot Turtles. http://www.robotturtles.com/
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Typicode/hotel: local .dev domains for everyone and more(github.com)
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by metasean 11y ago
Jeff mentions some studies of something known as 'Implicit Bias'. One of the leading Implicit Bias research institutions, out of Harvard, makes some of their tests available online. I highly recommend going through a few of them
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by metasean 11y ago
Definitely 'caused confusion, in particular: A) @hafling's comment (11195956) now looks like it is directly referencing the parent discussion (therefore it's lost its context). B) Your comment about detaching it (11196963) re
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by metasean 11y ago
You broke off (detached; are NOT showing) the comment that IS ACTUALLY RELATED to the original post. You left the comment that was commenting on the commenting style of the detached post. It seems like you detached the WRONG comment, hence
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by metasean 11y ago
I find it confusing that you detached the thread that was actually commenting about the actual article, but then left the thread that was commenting about the <now detached> comment's style. It would have made much more sense to
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by metasean 11y ago
I've done it in spoken language since long before I heard of, yet alone used, the internet. I rarely do it, " to dull the edges of an opinion ". Instead, I do it to provide explicit context (e.g. this my opinion or my obs
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by metasean 11y ago
I've never done illegal drugs, but for years suffered with depression and occasional had "amazingly productive" periods. After one particularly bad bout of depression, I decided to see a doctor. One of her questions was some
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Open Source Templates: The Curious Case of the Issue and Pull Request Template(talater.com)
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The argument can be made that this isn't anything new. Ericsson, "widely recognized as one of the world's leading theoretical and experimental researchers on expertise"[1], has been researching Expertise and Deliberate
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... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The original title is, "Employee Satisfaction Doesn't Matter".
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DHT - Distributed Hash Table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
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by metasean 11y ago
And she's already said as much: >Extremely successful people are unlikely to be reading stuff like this. >Surfing the 'net is a deadly time suck
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by metasean 11y ago
I'd also suggest checking out http://podiobooks.com/ . They have more recent offerings, frequently read by their authors.
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I too have extreme myopia, but am old enough to be suffering from presbyopia also, and frustratingly have the bifocals to prove it. While presbyopia is not technically the opposite of myopia, it is functionally the opposite. > Presbyopi
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Ironically, I spent most of my childhood outside and still developed nasty myopia.
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Projects can also be mirrored on Github[1], so even if the main repo is somewhere else (e.g. GitLab or Bitbucket) contributors can still be credited via Github[2] and the project can still get the publicity on Github. [1]: https:/&#x2
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Groups, government or otherwise, have done great evil with very little information (by today's standards) - http://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide
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Over 15 years ago, for my undergraduate thesis I set up a "Hypermedia Textbook" on the history of my field. I had to manually collate all the info, manually scan in every photo, and type in every last bit of text and html. The e
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I'd be much more concerned with the printing exhaust. e.g. http://3dprintingindustry.com/2015/10/28/toxic-abs-pla-fumes...

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