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by pavedwalden 9y ago
"Gratuitous and unnecessary" is well put. Because it's not like I disagree with the comment, but I cringed a little.
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by pavedwalden 9y ago
Oh, a new To-Do app? Cool, I'm always looking for one that gives me more control so that I can sort, organize, and plan /clicks link/ "Microsoft Intelligent Suggestions use a smart algorithm to.." /closes win
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
I'm seeing a few comments where people recommend their favorite Rollins material. I have a question for the group mind: what writings or performances of his stick out to you on the topics of Discipline and Work Ethic. Those are two the
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
I knew a self-taught programmer who was a little sensitive about his lack of formal training. Sometimes he'd tell the story of when he was 19 and talked to a recruiter at ITT Tech and the school had 'wanted him' so much that
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
>However, I suspect that most politicians who talk about a manufacturing revival understand that it won't really happen. The thought that maybe some of them don't understand that is what scares me the most.
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
Where I perceive a tendency to ADHD is in myself. I used to enjoy long in-depth journalism, now after a few paragraphs I get the urge to open another tab. I used to enjoy long plodding movies by Kubrick and Malick, now when I watch a 60 min
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
I just realized that if I have lightning-port headphones plugged in I can't be charging my iPhone at the same time. That's actually a very common use case for me, as I always plug it in to stay charged if I'm listening at my
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
As a beginning iOS developer, I found the Big Nerd Ranch iOS book very helpful. It leaned more towards a tutorial style. I see that they also have a book called "Cocoa Programming for OS X". If I were getting into programming for
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
Hmm. That's an interesting thought about how to skew 'engagement' stats. Maybe that's why I can't view Pinterest pages without that irritating "you must log in" sheet scrolling over the content.
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
I worked in a printing press ten years ago, and all of the pressmen and binding-machine operators were deaf (congenitally, not from the equipment) and thus fluent in ASL. I'm not sure if management sought them out or if one guy got hir
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
Well, this makes me feel a little better that I could never make sense of IBM's Watson advertising. Even after checking out their site, I couldn't figure out what it was for , much less what it was under the hood.
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
"Child Protective Services" in the US, to save Brits the google.
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
When asked about the Hillary comparison at a book signing, Stephenson said that he hadn't wanted the character to represent Hillary and thought it was unfortunate that many readers would make that assumption just because there were so
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
I enjoyed thinking about why language might not change as much in the next 5000 years as it has in the past 1000. For one thing, widespread literacy and a relatively stable canon of literature should keep successive generations mutually int
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
Watching people fight on Facebook and Twitter, I frequently recall Stephenson's vision of the human race nearly destroying itself with flame wars.
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
The only references I remember are the smart-wheel wheelchair and the old woman who remembers the "chiseled spam" advertisement for them. Any other hints you can recall?
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
Satoshi is believed to control the first million or so Bitcoin that were created, so they would wield quite a lot of power over the Bitcoin market.
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
While the U2 fiasco was a bad move, I don't think that "break into your computer" is a fair characterization of what they did. They added it to your available downloads and, depending on your sync settings, it was downloaded
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by pavedwalden 10y ago
Why does one provider get a privileged relationship with the maintainer? I'm surprised that in all those industries there was never a complete division of control.
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I've never bought the idea that welfare recipients would bear children strategically. Surely after the first child, they'd realize that this was a difficult way to increase their top-line income. Not sure where I'd look for d
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
Don't feel bad, the article was a little unclear. I had to backtrack to figure out that the penultimate paragraph signaled a change in topic.
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I understand how you can feel that it's important to follow rules, but why is it baffling that people are comfortable taking something that is infinitely copyable (and thus, the theft deprives no one else) when the seller will sell it
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I don't think that colmvp was trying to draw a moral equivalence. Just saying that "the proof is in the pudding". You can say you don't screen on criteria 'x' but that's not convincing if you happen to nev
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
>> it looks like it depends on proprietary standards, meaning it needs its own apps and hooks.<< I don't know what the situation is on Android, but on iOS they're connecting to the Apple Notification Center Service tha
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I was very taken with the portrayal of the Queng Ho in 'A Deepness in the Sky'. I liked the idea that a trading culture would foster technological development across a large swath of space by broadcasting "here's how you
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
Now that I think of it, at least four people I know have some sort of divorce or estranged-parent thing going on with their last names, and I never would have been aware of it if not for the mismatch between the name I met them under and th
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I get excited about the prospect of a gut/brain connection precisely because it might be another way to address depression.
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I think there's a real resistance against solutions that don't feel like "getting tough". "increasing standards" and "raising expectations" are easy to sell. The idea that children need to do childish
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I'm not sure which Zones Of Thought book it was (probably Deepness in the Sky), but my favorite software joke in SciFi is when someone deep-diving into the system discovers that at the deepest layers timekeeping is still calculated fro
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I don't know if you'll see this (does HN have a reply-notification feature?) but I really appreciated your response and (I presume, since I was at -1 when the thread settled down) the upvote that sent my comment back to "0 po

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