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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
No, just no. I understand that to push the current state further, you need to think outside of the box, but what you call bland, I call essential to communication. I find the David Carson quote (confusing communication with legibility) to b
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
The one thing he did, which is admirable, is that he didn't call out most people by their real names, but some of the remarks do seem a little petty. But this hopefully was a learning experience for him to not sacrifice what he wants i
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
Search discovery is by far my biggest pain point, and I say it as a fan. I disagree with the GGP (I think) about Facebook wanting you to wade throw a river of crap so you stumble on ads. Their ads have been spot on to my interests so far. I
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
While I agree with the general sentiment only because I could never really get into Ruby beyond basic loops, and am beyond comfortable with JS, but it's hard to take this JS evangelism seriously when their site doesn't even scroll
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
> Almost all these cases never end up with injured suspect, shot in the leg or something like that. Having had many friends who are cops, they're not trained that way. You aim at the largest mass available, period. They're not
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
This could have happened sooner, but glad Twitter finally had the gumption to do it. It always amazes me, the conspiracy theorists, on the right in particular. The government is too inefficient to do anything, but can create these elabor
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
I'm wondering if this could be made a relative score instead of an absolute one that measures the current site's memory consumption relative to your available free memory. It might be more useful to see the impact it has for you
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
To discover information pertinent to my immediate task, 1000% agree. I like podcasts when I'm driving or walking the dog, otherwise I struggle to keep following. But for mindless times, they're a boon. Otherwise it's just tal
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
Does 'mi piace' mean something like 'I desire'?
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
I had never heard the Catalan version. Really interesting :)
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
Something else I've recently found out from an ex, I always thought `te quiero` (in Spanish) meant "I love you", but really means something like "I feel fondness for you" (and can be used between family and close fr
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
That's called "marriage", my friend ;)
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
I agree that voice is very narrow, but it's also quite expressible when there's a person to call someone and ask then grab something from the store for you. But even that, at the best experience we know, with actual humans on both
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
I have a friend who works for a McDonalds competitor (a Little Caesar's) in a small town in North Dakota, where McDonalds is already the big spender at 15 bucks an hour, not because they desire to replace entry level jobs, but because
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
This is a good point that resonated with me. There is a Costco shopping center near me that has had a few cases of straight up wheel theft during the height of their shopping times that were not solved until they tracked plates, but alas, t
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
I can speak to both my own personal experience and anecdotal info, in that I've personally only worked with Chinese engineers who are of the utmost scruples and integrity (even when I don't always agree with their choices from an
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
I believe that Frank Abagnale has pretty much said it would probably get easier. I think it was on the special features section of the Catch Me If You Can DVD, but I also found an interview with him saying essentially the same thing [0] &q
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
Is there such thing as a canonical definition of a boring or interesting upbringing? Looking at my own life, some may find it fascinating, and some may find it banal. And when I compare it to my father's or some of my friends, it can s
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
I was under the impression that the welfare reform at the time was an attempt to remove the incentive to stay on welfare (and that what was passed was the most politically viable during that period), but I'd be happy to learn otherwise
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
I think the only part of the situation I disagreed with was that you said you were there to shame him , rather than his actions or ideas (those to me are shameful and deserve to be called out). I'd probably also disagree with the app
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
If you think of JSX as a DSL rather than a souped up XML, it makes more sense. XML is just a different kind of abstraction, so rather than thinking of it's output, it's good spots are in the way it helps structure your input.
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
This really seems like a missed opportunity for the company, the dev and the community, in that this could have been a teaching moment all around. However, seeing her responses after being fired, it may have been a lost cause. She screwed
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
While the math does distract from the overall point a little, I think you're right in that context matters. If the the government (or private corporations) made a Social Network package that blocked access to any social networking sit
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
> I think it actually is pretty common for people to refer to certain natural events as "mother nature" "telling" us something. True though it should be a shorthand, convenient way of saying it, but I've seen it
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
I agree with both of you, but I'm not sure if the plants don't want the insect, since this could be a symbiotic relationship and there's some benefit to the plant. But the conclusion that the plant is "telling" the
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
I had the same question and the only thing I could find was maybe a reference to ASIC, hardware specifically designed to mine Bitcoin. But I'm not 100% sure if that's what gwern was referring to, but seems to make sense in context
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
Alot of what you said I can agree with, but I don't agree it's endemic to either African American or Hispanic cultures, even if there are specific weaknesses culturally that we can identify (such as broken homes). But isolating t
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
The only reasonable part of that question was in specifying low income, which seems the main influencer on students across the spectrum. I'm not saying those cultures don't have unique negatives (even though we Americans pretend a
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
I can definitely see how those innate technological advantages can stack up, and it's definitely a good theory. I can't think of anything that couldn't be explained by it, though I still believe there were a number of other f
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by natecavanaugh 8y ago
History could have turned out differently, but wouldn't it require other factors to also change? For instance, isn't European colonialism responsible for both the larger number of diseases the explorers had been carrying, but als

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