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by rlue 7y ago
I remember watching a TED talk by Dan Gilbert in which he claimed that there was research showing that tending houseplants improved mood (and extended lifespans, I think?) for elderly nursing home residents, but also that the longevity bene
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by rlue 7y ago
Does anyone know where to find a guide to HN markup? I've exhausted my google-fu and have come up dry...
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by rlue 7y ago
You can always click-and-drag the progress slider backwards. I think I'm more annoyed that the step-backwards and step-forwards buttons skip the animation and just flash to the cube's next state.
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by rlue 7y ago
I wonder how much this post will drive up the price of Parker 51s on eBay (or spur the market for modern knock-offs, if one exists), and for how long.
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Ask HN: Freelance developers, what IRS business code do you use?
4 points by rlue 8y ago|0 comments
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by rlue 8y ago
It should be noted that the perpetrator in the murder case you referenced was on methamphetamine, muscle relaxers, and pain medication at the time of the incident. There truly is a lot of hostility for cyclists out there, and I think it wou
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by rlue 8y ago
There's a difference between being right and being constructive, and you should consider this difference when submitting public commentary on sensitive topics (or just any time you open your mouth). In a purely self-interested sense, b
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by rlue 8y ago
Culture != commerce. The very fact that piracy is sustained by volunteer communities should speak for itself here, but if you need more evidence, consider: > The scope of music collected on What.cd was almost incomprehensibly vast: More
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by rlue 8y ago
Can anyone shed some light on why someone would go out of their way to conduct an attack like this? Is DoSing production web applications just a hobby for black hat jackasses with nothing better to do?
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by rlue 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback; usenet newsgroups really do seem to be the next frontier for me with this stuff. Sounds like I should get ready to change my tune about private trackers and BT as a whole once I get into it, but I've hemorraghe
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Paying Money to Steal Movies and Music on the Internet(ryanlue.com)
11 points by rlue 8y ago|6 comments
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by rlue 8y ago
Another way to look at it is that cross-pollination is a good measure of the merit of a language feature. If one language invents it another a dozen other popular languages adopt it, it's probably a good idea, and its proliferation is
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by rlue 8y ago
I think what drstewart is getting at is the vagueness of stevebmark's claim: > I really appreciate other programming language ecosystems... that have abandoned things like this He doesn't articulate what "things like t
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by rlue 8y ago
I like them too, but only because I've been programming Ruby for a while now, and enjoy picking up new tidbits as I go. If I were new to Ruby (or programming in general), I think this would reasonably constitute feature bloat that woul
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by rlue 8y ago
Hm. Personally, I think there's a big difference between "there's more than one way to do it" and "there are some extra, esoterically unreadable ways to do it". I definitely don't know enough to be questio
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by rlue 8y ago
> I definitely see Ruby as Perl's spiritual successor. Matz has said this himself: * "I chose the name of the language from the jewel name, influenced by Perl. Although I named Ruby rather by coincidence, I later realized that
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by rlue 8y ago
> What I'm intrigued by is the author's suggestion that there's more to the change than a relatively minor syntax change. I don't remember him saying that about hash literals. All I caught was that he doesn't lik
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Ruby's Creed(metaredux.com)
221 points by rlue 8y ago|179 comments
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by rlue 8y ago
> one of those pads that they put down that absorbs liquids to keep it sanitary I believe the colloquial term is "pee pad."
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by rlue 8y ago
I have a (slightly) more optimistic view of seeing everyone on their phones all the time. When you're on your computer at home, you withdraw into it, too. It's your cave. Phones give people a way to get into their caves anywhere t
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by rlue 8y ago
Maybe I’m just a little foggy this morning, but what is periodic about this table?
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by rlue 8y ago
I imagine that OP has done his due diligence, but if it were me, I don't think I'd handle the transition very well. Like any other branch of medicine, psychiatric practice is tightly regulated, and operating outside the standards
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by rlue 8y ago
And from the other side of the aisle, "Why I Quit Being a Therapist": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Fi32LbXHA
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by rlue 8y ago
The place your school put you up in probably didn't charge US$75/night. In my experience (in Taiwan), many decent, modern hotels offer 2- to 4-hour couples packages just to tap that extra segment of the market. In addition to thos
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by rlue 8y ago
I also really enjoyed your post. However, I'm completely uninformed about the mass internment of Uyghurs in China, and think that it would have been well-served by a link to some sort of summary of the issue. If I am understanding your
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by rlue 8y ago
In some cases, businesses know consumers are following some heuristic like this, and counter-strategize accordingly (or so I've heard). According to this 2013 blog post[0], > Restaurants realize that many people won’t order the leas
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by rlue 8y ago
What makes this really interesting is how living in an economy where prices are both set by the seller and non-negotiable causes consumers to equate asking price with value. As a consequence, BOGO feels like a better deal than one item at 5
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by rlue 8y ago
Piggybacking on this, here's a talk I couldn't possibly recommend enough, in which Mike Monteiro discusses the importance of 1) an attorney and 2) contracts in freelance work (40min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by rlue 8y ago
Note the conditions: in full and _on time._ It seems the implication here is that the contractor has a rather severe and enforceable penalty for not receiving payment on time, which also makes it easier to collect a late fee. You may not al
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by rlue 8y ago
I'm a self-taught junior developer who started with Ruby in 2016. I've very much enjoyed the experience so far, and am currently rather invested in Rails, though I'm preparing to branch out into other areas of web development

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