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by mwhite 14y ago
Visual presentation and styling. Of course, if you write in Markdown then there is some limit to the degree to which you can change the way things look simply with a LaTeX header or CSS.
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by mwhite 14y ago
I prefer Markdown. It allows you to separate content and form, and you can easily output to basically any format using pandoc. https://github.com/mwhite/resume
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by mwhite 14y ago
Sleep is pleasant.
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Ask HN: How would you manage the law using version control?
9 points by mwhite 15y ago|4 comments
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by mwhite 15y ago
You can get it for $27 on Amazon at the moment (normally $99). http://www.amazon.com/Pandigital-Handheld-Electronic-Encyclo... I'm almost inclined to get one to replace mine, whose screen went permanently dim at some point. The code is op
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Will the techno-optimists save the world?(paulgilding.com)
7 points by mwhite 15y ago|2 comments
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by mwhite 15y ago
s/management/middle management
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Programming as Theory Building(scribd.com)
1 points by mwhite 15y ago|0 comments
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by mwhite 15y ago
I guess you're right, it's a flawed argument. In fact, considering that I use exactly your argument to support/demand not eating meat, I guess it shows that I might just be going for a post hoc rationalization of actions that emotionally a
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by mwhite 15y ago
I hardly see how he's hurting the charity by doing this. It's not as if he's depriving the charities of money because he would have paid the large admission fees if he wasn't doing this; he just wouldn't go. And his presence there is not c
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by mwhite 15y ago
With a pseudonymous identity model, you could simply maintain separate identities for separate areas if you wanted. You wouldn't even be able to manipulate the system that way (say some activity = "being evil"), because as long as you conf
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by mwhite 15y ago
What if you don't have any resources and your situation and skills aren't suited to bootstrapping? That's true for the vast majority of workers in a capitalist system. I'm not saying traditional investment isn't valuable. Maybe it's the b
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by mwhite 15y ago
I think it was pretty clear given the context that "All Blogs" meant "All Blogs using Disqus", and even an appropriate abbreviation.
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by mwhite 15y ago
Maybe we actually can implement meritocracy without a command hierarchy. It's a problem of technological limitation, that might be theoretically solvable. http://hyperarchy.com http://liquidfeedback.org
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by mwhite 15y ago
Heck, I would pay money.
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by mwhite 15y ago
Still loads intolerably slow for me, here's the text-only cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:R5rVoHi...
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by mwhite 15y ago
I assumed all the GoDaddy stories were just being highlighted in red for some reason.
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by mwhite 15y ago
"Open source"? Definitely evil.
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by mwhite 15y ago
I received the following response: We, too, feel that civil liberties are crucial, and by spreading knowledge, the Wikimedia Foundation strives to liberate minds. However, we cannot get involved in matters that do not directly affect our ab
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by mwhite 15y ago
Does anyone else think the way freelance work is allocated is ripe for change? Seeing the positive response to sites like http://tinyproj.com and http://weekendhacker.net , it seems like highly competent freelancers would benefit from a
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by mwhite 15y ago
I usually send people the Github markdown one as my main version: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresume . Then there is the PDF: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresumepdf . I don't really use the HTML but here it is: http://mwhite.info/resume/resume.html .
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by mwhite 15y ago
Not bad, a nice simple hosted resume solution. I'm not a designer but it seems to me that the visual distinction achieved by the indentation on the left side of resume items could be improved a bit. It all seems kind of mashed together an
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by mwhite 15y ago
Google Reader being retired entails the API being discontinued. Certainly he'd care if, instead, just the API was discontinued. But if all he was talking about was the API being discontinued, then he wouldn't have used the unambiguous w
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by mwhite 15y ago
"I hate to ask this, but I have to: is Google preparing to retire Reader?" Sounds to me like he's talking about Google Reader itself.
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by mwhite 15y ago
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.2455v1
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by mwhite 15y ago
Is there a single laptop where the logo is upside down from the observer's perspective?
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by mwhite 15y ago
Perhaps "die Häckse": https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/wiki/Haeckse
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by mwhite 15y ago
Just because people are bound by the decisions of the majority doesn't mean it's centralized. They may decide that the cost of sometimes having to abide by group decisions that conflict with their individual preferences is outweighed by th
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by mwhite 15y ago
It seems to me that that is exactly what this has the potential to do. It's only being framed in the language of centralized government because people might not be ready to deal with the truly revolutionary implications of such a system.
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by mwhite 15y ago
I actually like Github's markdown style so much that I put my resume on github: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresume . And because it's written in markdown, I have a plaintext version I can use if I need to, and a PDF ( http://bit.ly/mwhiteresumepd

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