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by ryanklee 13y ago
> better suited to work towards education and not towards entertainment HSW's podcasts aside, which I think have their own separate entertainment value, whether the site itself serves a non-redundant purpose is questionable. My wife
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by ryanklee 13y ago
Native apps, here, as well. In fact, whenever she's complaining about UX, it's always browser based.
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by ryanklee 13y ago
> the trends can be rationalized from anthropological, sociological, or psychological perspectives I'm not an inherent skeptic of the worth of the soft humanities, but it's pretty far fetched to claim that these fields can offe
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by ryanklee 13y ago
>> the smartphone emerging as the platform of choice vs the desktop browser > This is repeated from blog to blog but is it really true? Just an anecdote: In our household, we have multiple tablets, laptops, and a mid-tier desktop w
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by ryanklee 13y ago
Excellent! Thank you for your explanation. My initial suspicion was that the phrase somehow related to logarithmic efficiency -- which made no sense at all to me!
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by ryanklee 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE Copy, Copywriting, Press Releases, Ghostwriting, Blogging, White Papers I've sub-specialized in retail financial topics and equity crowdfunding. I'm highly research oriented and love picking up new topics at
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by ryanklee 13y ago
> implement it almost for free What does this phrase mean?
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Where Medium Might Be Going(medium.com)
2 points by ryanklee 13y ago|0 comments
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by ryanklee 13y ago
> The motion sickness feeling is not due to the product itself but the mixed sensory perception by the brain when different senses present contradictory signals: e.g. visual movement perceived by the eyes vs lack of movement by the ears.
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by ryanklee 13y ago
> will stand a hundred feet tall, and it will weigh twenty-three thousand tons—more than twice the weight of the Eiffel Tower. This is a strange sentence. (1) Notice Height of object-A; (2) Notice Weight of object-A; (3) Compar
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Ask HN: Password best practices?
35 points by ryanklee 13y ago|71 comments
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by ryanklee 13y ago
How about this: No one can predict the import of what's recorded NOW. Not the person who records it, not the person who observes it, not the person who comes upon it 5 minutes, 5 years, 5 decades later. Keeping your material projection
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by ryanklee 13y ago
Parent is saying they misconstrued PageRank as having been named for its function rather than after (one of its) coders.
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by ryanklee 13y ago
Like Yolesaber suggests, this is a gross mis-characterization. You need to read more and more widely. It's no longer 1935. And even then, at the height of modernism, a wide spectrum existed. Edit: Obviously, reading literature is an en
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Quantum Photonic Chip: Choose some input ports(cnotmz.appspot.com)
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by ryanklee 13y ago
> I'm struggling to think of the person who needs both a printed copy of a book and an ebook version. Think no further. Because it's me. I've explicitly held off from buying a Kindle because it meant having to always choo
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by ryanklee 13y ago
The point of language is to convey meaning and make sense, not to conform to grammatical rules. If the correct sense is made and the intended meaning conveyed, yet a rule is broken, that means there's a problem with the rule -- not wit
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by ryanklee 13y ago
The second best way to hide something is by saying it vaguely.
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by ryanklee 13y ago
> Until the day where all food becomes standardized, commoditized, and we can treat our restaurants like we treat our nuts-and-bolts supplier, it will remain like this. And after this, the minute someone opens a restaurant where food is
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by ryanklee 13y ago
It's down 0.13%. Look at any other day at random to see that that's hardly a meaningful fluctuation. Further, trying to attribute stock price movements to actual real world events is usually an extremely dubious affair.
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by ryanklee 13y ago
> It's very easy for me to tell when he visits my website Simply drawing attention to the fact that his attempt at anonymity acts a key personal identifier in this instance.
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by ryanklee 13y ago
The translation is correct and -- you may already know this, it's tough to tell from your comment -- is a play on the Latin phrase "horror vacui," which is usually parsed back into English as "nature abhors a vacuum.&quo
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by ryanklee 13y ago
Does anybody know for sure that anything is actually sustainable at any price point for any number of users? Buying into a service, either through time or money means risk on the part of a user, no matter free or paid. Something remains ope
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by ryanklee 13y ago
You're discounting verbal usage, which doesn't admit of any machine readability considerations.
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by ryanklee 13y ago
Except people are now using them in both written and verbal communication when they know for a fact that there's no machine observer. In other words, hashtags are now a functional part of grammar. Sometimes it's for machine consum
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by ryanklee 13y ago
> It just requires more work to find them now. The amount of work it requires is trivial. Cormac McCarthy was interviewed by Oprah, for god's sake. Jonathan Franzen appeared on the cover of TIME magazine. If someone wants to read any
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by ryanklee 13y ago
Because that's where little Jimmy/Susie and/or a pile of bananas is currently sitting.
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by ryanklee 14y ago
It'd be interesting to note whether the rise is accelerating or decelerating, whether it's growing in sufficient proportion to the number of Americans entering the workforce, etc. Just because the share is rising doesn't mean those enterpri
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by ryanklee 14y ago
I feel like > There are plenty of scientific reasons why skyscrapers don’t—and probably won’t—have trees, at least not to the heights which many architects propose. implies strongly and clearly enough that the author doesn't think it's
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by ryanklee 14y ago
I found this to be an interesting read, simply because (1) it rings true, and (2) it's contrary to everything I know about Pincus and runs up against my personal ire towards Zynga's apparent M.O. Concerning (1) -- Yes, "rings true" is subje

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