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by mshaler 5y ago
“Only ideas won by walking have any value.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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by mshaler 5y ago
You can't manage employees. You can only manage agreements.
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by mshaler 5y ago
Yes with Pythonista, among others http://omz-software.com/pythonista/
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by mshaler 5y ago
With a similar sentiment, I still keep a VM around with NextSTEP just because I still think Improv/Quantrix is such a charming portal to the past--and still amazing apps.
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by mshaler 5y ago
I get that this is awfully gossipy for HN, but I am still blown away how successful this PR campaign has been waged by those working for her. Seems unlikely that his reputation is salvageable at this point--which is the PR campaign's p
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by mshaler 6y ago
...that's how the light gets in.
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by mshaler 6y ago
Exhibit A pro: Singapore, Inc. Exhibit B contra: everywhere else
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by mshaler 6y ago
This is a lovely remembrance. May all teachers find such a future home in the hearts and minds of their students.
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by mshaler 6y ago
Here's where the James Brown Soul Center of the Universe Bridge is on google: https://www.google.com/maps/place/James+Brown+Soul+Center+of...
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by mshaler 6y ago
Let us note that Henry David Thoreau was wrong about a great many things, but especially on the counting of cats in Zanzibar and therefore Istanbul, a Turkish delight on a moonlit night: "It is not worthwhile to go around the world to
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by mshaler 6y ago
Iago was the original bullshitter. We confront his legacy and its practitioners every damned ruinous day.
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by mshaler 6y ago
For me, only Pock [0] comes close to a possibly or passingly ergonomic use case for the Touch Bar. (Not hating on vim.) Hard-wired function keys as abstraction are cognitive overhead even if mechanically efficient. Touch Bar ignores ergonom
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by mshaler 6y ago
I'm struck by our possible near-term loss of aviation and a possible post-melange loss of space travel. (Then again: 140 characters not flying cars.)
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by mshaler 6y ago
I would love to access Twitter as a RSS-style feed because I love the "mark all as read" amnesty feature...
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by mshaler 6y ago
COVID on My Back Well I’m running COVID on my back I've been hiding COVID on my back Avoiding maskless spreaders COVID on my back And the victim? Well he won’t come back I've been running Zoomday Doomsday W
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by mshaler 7y ago
"The difference between a language and a dialect is an army and a navy." Of course this is all politicized, therefore sometimes militarized...
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by mshaler 7y ago
Imagine letting the nose fully roll over and having to time the ejection at max inertia... or you are doing a Dr. Strangeglove meets True Lies. So delightful.
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by mshaler 7y ago
As a parent, I bought my son an iPhone because of privacy/malware concerns (perceived or otherwise) in the Android world--but we're already an all-Apple household. I wonder if it's Apple's privacy _marketing_ that won t
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by mshaler 8y ago
Wallace Sayre’s Third Law of Politics holds that “academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.”
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by mshaler 8y ago
s/Drops/Is Dropped ?
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by mshaler 8y ago
Title is inaccurate: _Facebook_ leaves Facebook offices in disarray after Apple revoked app permissions.
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by mshaler 8y ago
But time is still a flat circle.
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by mshaler 8y ago
Old (not fake) news: the difference between a dialect and a language is an army and a navy.
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by mshaler 9y ago
Yes, at least 6x in my experience trying to replicate a Western way of life in Asia. Japan and HK being notably challenging in terms of costs.
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by mshaler 10y ago
Anselm put forth the first documented version of the ontological argument in 1078, FWIW. http://www.iep.utm.edu/ont-arg/
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by mshaler 10y ago
"Should." Huh.
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by mshaler 11y ago
Safari, please!
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by mshaler 11y ago
And especially the prequels...:)
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by mshaler 11y ago
I personally executed several first-time transactions with multiple government agencies (mostly IC) while our start-up was still less than 100 people. It's not fundamentally different from typical enterprise sales, just involving diff