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by scelerat 13y ago
Speaking only anecdotally, I notice that up until a few years ago, it was common among my friends and acquaintances to join Facebook. Now the trend seems to be to leave Facebook. Not in great numbers, just here and there, and more than
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by scelerat 13y ago
Facebook's appeal is largely casual entertainment. I say largely because there are some very practical features in the platform, like photo sharing and event planning/invitation. But it seems to me the bulk of its use is simply sh
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by scelerat 13y ago
> Graham Nash the Nash equilibrium guy John Forbes Nash, Jr. is the math guy. Graham Nash was the lead singer of the Hollies and a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Both of these guys' work is worth checking out.
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by scelerat 13y ago
WRT the "only one right answer" argument -- even with math there are often multiple approaches to a solution. See "Pythagorean Theorem" for one example. Yah I don't get the "math is not necessary" argument
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by scelerat 13y ago
Honest mistakes and unforeseen circumstances can necessitate death marches. I've been in a few situations where they were "necessary" -- some opportunity arose, or something happened that required the march. But it's als
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by scelerat 13y ago
seconded. this stuff is my bread and butter yet I often think, this is the best we can do?
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by scelerat 13y ago
But Genres already are, effectively, tags. Depending on implementation, artists, albums or songs are given one or many genres. If by tags, you mean user-driven categorization by arbitrary text, that's an even harder problem. Tags can b
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by scelerat 13y ago
They pretty much nail the limitations of "genre" in the second paragraph. It's a blunt way to organize a record store, when you can only group physical products one way. Genres are deeply ingrained in people's heads, but
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by scelerat 13y ago
The first thing I do when setting up a new Mac is make the Caps Lock key into another Control key. System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys Saves lots of awkward pinky-bending.
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by scelerat 13y ago
One reason I like git-flow is its insistence on two main branches, master and deploy. In a CI environment, it's great to have a CI pointing at develop so that "finished" features and merges are constantly being tested, plus,
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by scelerat 13y ago
In my experience writing web apps for many years (frontend and backend), you either (1) start off with an existing framework, (2) write your own, or (3) end up with a mess. You really shouldn't be doing (2) unless you've had sever
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by scelerat 13y ago
Fake names are contrary to Facebook's policy. Your account may get disabled. https://www.facebook.com/help/www/112146705538576
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by scelerat 13y ago
I worked for a company for many years with a great attitude about flexible hours and work from home. Got a ton of work done, felt very good about my work and coworkers, and put out a great product. It was acquired by a larger company who, s
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by scelerat 13y ago
> If the security guard wants to earn more, he should either start a business on his own or improve his skills to get a better job. Part of the reason people are engineers is because they've been exposed to good examples and opportu
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by scelerat 13y ago
> Plonk! Ahh, the sweet, sweet sound of a Usenet troll landing in your killfile.
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by scelerat 13y ago
I'm unaware of communications and technological trends falling into cycles like sartorial fashion. You can use a 20-, 30-, or 50-year-old scarf or jacket you find in a thrift store, but not a phone or a computer. And very few people wo
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by scelerat 13y ago
There is less difference between those two scenarios than you might imagine at first glance.
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> And performing for free is still work. Care to explain how?
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Playing some music and having appreciative people feed you and give you bus money simply shouldn't be the sort of thing a Work Visa regulates. This guy was a student traveling around the US, meeting people and writing about it. This is
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by scelerat 13y ago
This sort of thing has happened a number of times recently to people I know. I'm a musician and have lots friends who play in bands and book shows, so this hits close to home. Last month a band from Canada I was scheduled to play with
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by scelerat 13y ago
Oakland and Berkeley should be ripe for startups. The rent is drastically lower than SF, both for commercial and residential space, and they are still very close, via freeways and BART to most of the areas that make San Francisco attractive
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by scelerat 13y ago
This is a great example of a mature vanity website. I mean that in the best possible way. It's a throwback to the early web days, pre-geocities even, when people would make unique websites about themselves and their hobbies. The UI and
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by scelerat 13y ago
I sense that the backlash, well-informed or not, was fueled more by the extravagance of the event than its environmental impact.
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If companies are people according to the law, then wouldn't individuals be afforded the same protection, in some sort of legal reciprocity juju?
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by scelerat 13y ago
No, that's great too! I found the quiz informative. The title on HN was a little misleading, that's all.
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by scelerat 13y ago
I'm not sure this is "How well do you know HTML" so much as "how well do you know browser quirks and edge cases involving CSS, DOM, and HTML." I did horribly. I actually did better just guessing at random in some se
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by scelerat 14y ago
Moneyball.
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He is, what amounts to, a political prisoner.
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Is this Patient Zero the first person to whom they gave the track, or the first person to share the track resulting in viral distribution? There is a difference. Dead ends are possible and entirely likely.
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by scelerat 14y ago
When I want to get a message out to friends that rises above the din of day to day chatter, I send an email. Or write a letter and drop it in the mail. Or make a phone call. I will be surprised if this feature does anything but lower people

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