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by psweber 7y ago
I heard an interesting idea today. "Boomers" have been criticizing "young people today" for being "snowflakes". It might be the case that with their fresher perspective on technology and culture, the younger pe
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by psweber 7y ago
That does sound reasonable. People game the current system to the maximum. How would you expect people to game a system of taxing the obvious assets, and what could be done about it?
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by psweber 7y ago
Bear does it (just less elegantly)
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by psweber 7y ago
https://bear.app/ does it pretty well. They use a proprietary library and don't allow local folders of text files, though...
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by psweber 7y ago
If you have the trailing slash on there, it takes you to the root domain. https://facebook.design/companybrand should work
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by psweber 7y ago
Google (and similar businesses) get into trouble because they have to do enough surveillance and algorithmic profiling to make their advertising effective. You have to admit that it's a stretch to ask us to trust them.
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by psweber 7y ago
It is if you're using it to force yourself to do something soul sucking. It isn't if you are using it to give yourself the discipline to focus on completing a challenge you care about.
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by psweber 7y ago
That is certainly a defining problem of our era
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by psweber 7y ago
It's definitely not the right example to give to impress the crowd around here, but she was basically saying in that part of the article that a feminist background gives you a different perspective on technology. Makes sense. The compa
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by psweber 7y ago
Sounds more like alcohol. If you have a couple drinks a week, it's no problem. If you can't stop yourself from binge drinking, you have to stop completely. Sobriety means that you miss out on social activities based around drinki
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by psweber 7y ago
It doesn't seem like that is the problem with Apple's keyboards. It's Tim Cook not knowing the difference between aesthetics and the qualities that give a product an overall "high end design" feel. You know, like, h
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by psweber 7y ago
Well, sure, but that only works when the leader has a product vision.
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by psweber 7y ago
We've known that was the ideal structure for a city for a long time. Other than sound insulation, we had the technology to make it happen a century ago. Cities aren't run by a dictatorship that can implement your vision. They chan
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by psweber 7y ago
You get that problem if the paracord isn't pulled tight enough and trimmed.
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by psweber 7y ago
> "There were a lot of people at the company that were horribly, horribly unhappy… that Ken and management would capitalize on someone as controversial and dark as Daryl Gates. And Police Quest 4 got [a] different name inside the co
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by psweber 7y ago
I don't believe I meant what you think I meant. I intended to make a comment about our society creating unnecessary anxiety. I hope we look at the cause of the anxiety instead of just treating the symptoms. I do want people to see ment
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by psweber 7y ago
Many anxious men (and women) aren't suffering from an anxiety disorder. Their anxiety is a perfectly reasonable response to the life they are living. I'm fine with therapy, meditation, and medication as long as they aren't us
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by psweber 7y ago
What a beautiful comment 1. Complement audience 2. Establish credibility 3. Set up punchline ("I needed no napkin") 4. Explain first hand experience to make point 5. Deliver punchline ("Wipe burrito sauce")
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by psweber 7y ago
I started using that approach in late adolescence as I was discovering that everyone has an internal world that I can't understand. I tried to give people the benefit of the doubt and operate under the assumption that there is an under
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by psweber 7y ago
Hopefully they go with something this interesting. Moving forward while respecting the past seems like the right approach to me. Even rebuilding it exactly as it was isn't going to please everyone.
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by psweber 8y ago
Totally agree. The goal part isn't scientific. Our emotions lead us to decide the kind of world we want to live in. I think there is more agreement there than conventional and social media are leading us to believe.
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by psweber 8y ago
I find is surprising that this stuff gets discussed on HN at all, and then I'm more surprised that comments like your own aren't the highest voted. Every reasonable person agrees that (lower case) social justice is our goal. Let&#
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by psweber 8y ago
That headline is pretty misleading. The tagline is a little better. > New research shows that hyper-involved parenting is the route to kids’ success in today’s unequal world.
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by psweber 8y ago
I get why this was down-voted to the bottom, but I COMPLETELY agree with this person. InVision seems to me to be a company without a vision. I think their tools are only useful for prototyping things that are so simplistic that they don&#x2
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by psweber 8y ago
Hey, I can help with your home sickness. It's brutal winter here for 8 months followed by a manic, hot four months of summer. No spring or fall. It takes two hours to get to anything that could reasonably be called nature. The people a
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by psweber 9y ago
It's nowhere near a solution, but it helps a little. Those red notification badges really play tricks with your mind. Grey-scale + no social media apps + carefully controlling the types of notifications you receive makes a smartphone a
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by psweber 9y ago
If you want to delete Facebook from your phone but your friends use Facebook Events, there is a stand alone Events app. That being said, I wish my friends didn't use Facebook for events. https://itunes.apple.com/us&#x2F
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by psweber 12y ago
It is very important to make people fall in love with the idea before the reveal. Great example of that.
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by psweber 12y ago
Less of a risk when you are as established as he was by 1986. I think it was safe to assume that Steve Jobs would appreciate and digest the format. A standard 3 concepts on poster board presentation would have been much more risky, given th
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by psweber 12y ago
1. It's real 2. No 3. Generally, no

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