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by pkdpic 4y ago
Agreed, I was expecting more substance from this article. I don't think its much of a stretch to view friendship as a concrete social problem. Especially good friendships in our professional spheres which are vital to career fulfillmen
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Crazy they put Conan so close to the bottom imho. It's absolutely amazing. And they recently (finally) dubbed it and rereleased it bluray.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Not to mention that from what I've read it IS more popular than ever because its used to manage podcasts on apple devices.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
What about Bill Gates' think weeks out in what I assume is a pretty nice cabin? Or any kind of artist / writer / hacker residency? That all seems like its gotta be a comfort zone on some level right?
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by pkdpic 4y ago
simple, unassuming and straight to the point, no question http://y9k.xyz/
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Ask HN: Was Orson Scott Card a Programmer?
2 points by pkdpic 4y ago|1 comments
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by pkdpic 4y ago
dude what?? excellent > Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. He is currently the only person to win both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning bot
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Yeah this smells like the "people don't recycle enough" narrative, pointing the blame away from bloated / vestigial 20th century industry.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I know right? I'd really like to confirm that number. I first heard it on a Canadian climatology podcast, those people don't make stuff up right?
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by pkdpic 4y ago
We'll need to keep at least one engineer artificially alive so he/she can be on call every weekend for all of eternity.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I feel like this is not going to gain a lot of traction but just in case anyone ends up here I can't pin down a great source but I've heard / read that the entire IT sector consumes something in the neighborhood of 5-9% of gl
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by pkdpic 4y ago
One might expect this to mean that they might someday announce a dreamcast mini. I will choose to believe this even though I don't actually believe this. Anyway Yu Suzuki can always just make a kickstarter for a shenmue specific dreamc
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The Sketchpad Project (1963)(instadeq.com)
3 points by pkdpic 4y ago|1 comments
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I know everyone's heard of this including me but I found myself reading about it again so here I am posting a hyperlink.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Never came across this before today somehow, also Ward Cunningham is awesome apparently.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Thats super helpful thank you! Still curious if theres a side of this idea thats about local first software in a more regional or niche demographic sense. Like instagram but just for Oakland, or GrubHub but just for Austin. Im sure there ar
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by pkdpic 4y ago
>>> Seven ideals for local-first software: 1. No spinners: your work at your fingertips 2. Your work is not trapped on one device 3. The network is optional 4. Seamless collaboration with your colleagues 5. The Long Now 6. Security
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by pkdpic 4y ago
> you are given two identical envelopes [...] containing money. One contains twice as much as the other > having chosen an envelope at will, but before inspecting it, you are given the chance to switch envelopes. Should you switch? &g
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by pkdpic 4y ago
> There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, 'I don't see the use of t
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by pkdpic 4y ago
> known as the "Sheffield rack" or "Sheffield stand" after the city of Sheffield in England where these were pioneered [wikipedia] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_parking_rack Just in cas
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by pkdpic 4y ago
It probably didn't hurt though. Maybe it clinched it for him when the committee found out.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Im wondering if this was just a webscraper or perhaps ai
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by pkdpic 4y ago
> Many earthworm and soil experts have settled on a version of this explanation: Moving around the soil is relatively slow and difficult, even for earthworms. They can cover a lot more ground on the surface...when it rains, the surface i
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Yeah, some bootcamps will hesitate to even admit you without a college degree. And I got offered to skip a technical interview just because I had a fancy degree on my resume that has nothing to do with cs. Also when I was teaching pre-covid
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Ask HN: What should I do next?
3 points by pkdpic 4y ago|4 comments
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by pkdpic 4y ago
A realistic down-to-earth game that's totally off the wall and swarming with magic robots.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I'm definitely a neophyte to mechanical keyboard culture but its pretty obvious that its being co-opted by and sold to normies. I've observed that its the mechanical keyboard gamer scenes fault.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
At long last the unending burden of writing and illustrating children's stories has begun to be lifted from the weary shoulders of humanity. We'll finally be free to soar among the stars and click on more links to 3 paragraph medi
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Sounds like the future of humanity maybe. Or the present.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
> monkeypox is not highly transmissible and smallpox vaccine is effective against it. And we have a lot of smallpox vaccine - commenter in thread So what's the big deal?

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