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by seanccox 13y ago
"Pure nonsense"... is that your educated critique, or are you just trolling to make space for a straw man argument? Because I get the sense that you haven't read enough about anarchism if you think it constitutes 'no gov
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by seanccox 13y ago
White Teeth, Zadie Smith Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell Catch 22, Joseph Heller Timequake; Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, TE Lawrence The Histories, Tacitus T
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by seanccox 13y ago
I think your cynicism is merited. It never ceases to amaze me how many competent people there are in the world who are incapable of articulating their own competence. However, on some level, I'm rather glad for that, because most peop
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by seanccox 13y ago
If the thesis is, 'people need soft skills to get and succeed at their jobs', then wouldn't the article serve that thesis by articulating how one could obtain those skills? Instead, we have a citation of Kanye West, and as a
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by seanccox 13y ago
That is a brilliant quote. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson arrived at the pen name 'Lewis Carroll' by translating his own name into Latin and then translating it back into English... and then reversing it. So, he was most certainly aware
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by seanccox 13y ago
I believe Bertrand Russel would have replied: "Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morali
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by seanccox 13y ago
"Please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is'.” - K.Vonnegut Jr.
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by seanccox 13y ago
CS will give you a skill set that is valuable upon graduation (and beyond), and having academic exposure to subjects that interest you will be a rewarding and enriching complement. Instead of double-majoring, why not take courses that chall
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by seanccox 13y ago
First, you should read the U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and determine whether you will be a candidate if you flee. No sense leaving if you will simply be deported back to your country. I think it applies: "A refug
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by seanccox 13y ago
Wow... apologies for the above ramble. As an editor, I probably should have proofed this before making it public. This is what learning regex can do to an otherwise thorough and comprehensible writer.
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by seanccox 13y ago
Happy to do so. I'll drop you a line there.
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by seanccox 13y ago
That's very helpful. Since I am just starting out, I often find myself trying to use the wrong tool for a job, because I simply don't know what the hell I'm doing. I can use a dictionary as you describe to correct the spelling issues, then
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by seanccox 13y ago
OK, great. Didn't know about that. I'm about as new to this as new gets. I'll ask there.
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Ask HN: So, I need regular expressions...
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by seanccox 13y ago
I should have followed the link first. Looks like I can't make this one, but I would love to come up for another.
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by seanccox 13y ago
I am interested as well. I'll need some advance notice, since I'm coming (probably by train) from Istanbul. But this seems like a great excuse to get a break from the city.
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by seanccox 13y ago
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith, is of the funniest books I have ever read and it contains the most important lesson about getting to the root of a problem that I have yet seen articulated: "The shit is not the shit. The pigeon is the shit."
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by seanccox 13y ago
In 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' there is a section that discusses using a shim, made from a beer can, to fix loose handlebars on a motorcycle. The bike's owner walks away, preferring loose handlebars to a cheap solution. You
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by seanccox 13y ago
Find casual, low-stakes places to practice. Bars and parties are analogous settings, with different goals/stakes, and the same methods work... It's all just about trying to be in character mode. Let me know how it goes, and feel free to sen
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by seanccox 13y ago
Haha, hardly succinct, I imagine. The experiences don't look so terrifying, in hindsight, but they felt that way at the time. I would avoid picking up the phone at all costs, and at networking events I would grab coffee and then hide behind
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by seanccox 13y ago
I had to do this as a business intelligence journalist in Turkey, having come to the job from an editorial background. There was quite a learning curve from sitting behind a screen to having to speak to actual people. As I've sat here, dist
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by seanccox 13y ago
I'd like to echo that sentiment.
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by seanccox 13y ago
Found! Happy to test and spread it around to other puzzlers I know. Email me if interested.
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by seanccox 13y ago
Sounds compelling, though in Turkey (where I live) recording someone without their consent is a criminal offense. To legally use the app, I would need to open every conversation with a request for their consent to be recorded, and even then
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by seanccox 14y ago
I showed off a non-hacking related idea yesterday, having read that a good posting time was roughly 9-10AM EST. In terms of votes, it was a disappointing experience, but today I realized I was chasing the wrong dynamic. Yesterday, 176 peopl
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by seanccox 14y ago
Those look pretty good... but I wonder what "exceptional blast mitigation" means. It would be interesting to see this tested against a range of commonly used professional and improvised explosive devices. MythBusters anyone?
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by seanccox 14y ago
The situation in Istanbul, for many, many years, was a complete lack of public waste bins. That has recently changed, but many are similar to those you mention in your second point. One caveat, however, is that bombers have even settled for
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Show HN: An e-commerce project for refugee aid(gofundme.com)
2 points by seanccox 14y ago|0 comments
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Is there anything like ARIS for the Android?(arisgames.org)
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by seanccox 14y ago
Sure thing. My email address is in my profile. Or if you prefer, I can send you an email (if you provide and address).

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