nondeveloper

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by nondeveloper 6y ago
> “We need to make them succeed so that I can keep getting food delivered to my house.” I love that. Bizarre to reflect on how such a ubiquitous service was novel.
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
For maybe 99% of Californians the decision to move or stay is tied to two factors: increasing cost of living and decreasing quality of life. I lived in the Bay Area from 2010 to 2020 and both factors worsened considerably in that time. Whil
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
I merely scanned the first ‘graph and got to that term before looking up and bookmarking the post I mentioned! Next time I’ll martial more focus and finish what’s in front of me first.
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
The “organized professional” tone reminds me of patio11’s post on dealing with banks and credit reporting agencies when disputing: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r... He also invok
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
Warner Brothers were pioneers in the implementation of motion picture sound technology in the 1920s with Don Juan and The Jazz Singer , among others [0]. Which is to say the experience of going and seeing movies was shaped by Warner’s ri
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
There has to be a term for this kind of thing. Keyword hijacking? Assistant crashing?
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
I also thought it odd that the article (or perhaps broader academic community) characterizes these behaviors as necessarily disordered. There seems to be a logic to it.
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
Are you maybe thinking of pica? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
Burroughs was not a model gun owner or user. In addition to drunkenly killing his wife he slept with several guns, a fact I gleaned from the excellent, Iggy Pop-narrated This American Life episode on Burroughs [0]. For what it’s worth I
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
If you benefit from reading books I recommend The Elements of Style by Strunk and Howe and On Writing Well by William Zinsser. For blog writing I recommend making a practice of bookmarking posts you like and asking yourself why you like
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
Reading about your experience this March (hope you folks are okay now!) and your grandparents reminded me that we each have a personal responsibility to be prepared and resilient. There are political and practical dimensions to this. Not ev
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
I have exactly the same practice of reading the comments instead of the item itself if it touches on a discipline or subject I’m not familiar with, e.g., it’s fun to read physics people discussing a physics problem I barely grasp.
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
Discussion of personal productivity tools/practices always makes me think of Stephen Wolfram's overview of the systems he has in place: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
Likewise. It doesn’t help that Twitter isn’t really easy to use if you aren’t a signed-in user.
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Ask HN: What sources do you ignore?
12 points by nondeveloper 6y ago|11 comments
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by nondeveloper 6y ago
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255