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by neilk 13y ago
Phobia in the original greek covers "fear", "hatred", and "aversion". For instance, hydrophobic molecules do not fear water. That said, homophobia, in cultures like North America, is very much based on fear. It's not a simple sort of fear,
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by neilk 13y ago
Dreamhost. Probably there are better options now, but I have the account.
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by neilk 13y ago
Rapleaf charges pennies for it, in bulk. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/14/personal-data-adver... I don't know what it would be worth it if you were targeting a specific person.
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by neilk 13y ago
I recently discovered http://reddit.com/r/alot .
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by neilk 13y ago
Pretty much, yes.
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by neilk 13y ago
I sometimes ask mental health professionals what the converse of Oppositional Defiant Disorder is. At what point do we recognize a disorder in a child who is unnaturally compliant and obedient? No answer so far. I ask because I think I had
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by neilk 13y ago
I'm looking for work and this is kind of driving me up the wall too. Not so much the algorithm stuff (generally I can crush that, even if I see the point the author is making). It's the take-home stuff. After you pass that their algorithm t
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by neilk 13y ago
FYI: it didn't hurt my laptop, but, over time, the glue from the duct tape melts and fills the depression in the Apple logo. Removing it is not fun.
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by neilk 13y ago
Yeah. For a long time I had a crude X in black duct tape on my laptop, and no other stickers. Almost everybody asks what it means because... it looks like it means something. It doesn't mean anything; I bought this laptop & went directl
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by neilk 14y ago
https://github.com/ericdrowell/BigOCheatSheet/blob/master/Ta...
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by neilk 14y ago
There is a need for people to propose hypotheses about the data that's out there. And to propose plans of action. And this information needs to reach people who can do something with it. Does it immediately follow that we need someone writi
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by neilk 14y ago
Why is journalism necessary? The premise of journalism is that society is made better by masses of people reading entertaining narrative stories about public figures. The stories don't have to be true. You just have to be (a) insulated from
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by neilk 14y ago
Or you could use a pastebin and sign your messages with a private key.
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by neilk 14y ago
SEEKING WORK, Vancouver, Canada. Remote work a possibility. Depending on what you need, I can be that careful full-stack engineer with experience working at very large scale, or that guy who can do quick proof-of-concept hacks. I'm not a de
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The Programmers' Sefirot(neilk.net)
1 points by neilk 14y ago|0 comments
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by neilk 14y ago
They've built a community that is obsessed with showcasing their lifestyle through their tastes and gazing longingly at consumer products. I think they have a few options. I don't really approve of it, but recipe porn is less harmless than
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Why you should use Node.js for CPU-bound tasks(neilk.net)
3 points by neilk 14y ago|0 comments
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by neilk 14y ago
Or vice versa.
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by neilk 14y ago
A library for a web service API? Hey, congrats on doing creating it, but the headline made me think there was a spelling and grammar checker in pure Ruby.
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by neilk 14y ago
The complaint was not about SQL's syntax, but that SQL statements as strings are inflexible. One often wants to have several variants of a SQL statement, beyond simple placeholders for arguments. I've seen several projects that grow a lame
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by neilk 14y ago
There are libraries which build up a model of a query - selections, constraints, etc, and only turn it into a string at the point of executing it. SQLAlchemy was already mentioned. In the JavaScript world, there's node-sql. https://github.
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by neilk 14y ago
> I spend the day bedridden and panic-stricken by my own insecurities. To the author of the piece: you are depressed. You are shutting down all reasons to like yourself or even to have fun. I strongly advise counseling, immediately . E
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by neilk 14y ago
Why are we even talking about wiki markup in the year 2013? I'm including all the variants, including markdown and creole and MediaWiki syntax. Wiki markup exists to bridge the gap between textareas and fully formatted pages. It was a great
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by neilk 14y ago
My first reaction -- I feel like this critic is engaged in a Sisyphean task, where she'll never actually roll the rock over the mountain, but she wants credit because her rock is bigger than yours. But, maybe you can learn something from he
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by neilk 14y ago
Or embedding it directly into the HTML - almost any browser that can show SVG can also handle it as markup. But, the benefit of this technique (as far as I can tell) is decoupling, and any kind of embedding re-couples the data. Maybe in an
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by neilk 14y ago
If you compiled data about every image on the site in one file, and then loaded that file with every request, you could just use regular CSS and media queries.
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by neilk 14y ago
Thanks - I posted it back to HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5586350
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by neilk 14y ago
HN contributor at-fates-hands mentioned he knew of five different cases of a developer "melting down" in epic fashion. I and others prompted him for the stories. The first story is in the original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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Four epic meltdowns(pastebin.com)
4 points by neilk 14y ago|2 comments
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by neilk 14y ago
Thanks but I don't feel any "loss". It's just a website. Even if it had been a smashing success, by now it would either have evolved into something else or died a natural death. It was a loss of time for me, maybe, but I was well compensate

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