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by sgentle 15y ago
What makes me sad is the severe case of analogy fever going around. It's not just this situation, it's everywhere; when people hit a novel ethical challenge it's like it's too hard to confront it on its own terms, and it has to be dragged b
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by sgentle 15y ago
One problem worth thinking about is unless you very carefully pick your words, there's a lot of potential for accidental offensiveness. I'd hate to have to explain things to a user with 0b2f:3354 in their address.
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by sgentle 15y ago
I actually think this is a symptom of something healthy: high density of information per word. As a recursive example: Let's say I agree with your post - as in, I think "you're right, posts are negative and I would also like to know why" -
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by sgentle 15y ago
As someone who did use Spaces quite a lot for separating different projects/tools, I'm a little sad about Mission Control. I agree with the new unified direction, but the functionality is a step backwards. You can't rearrange desktops anymo
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by sgentle 15y ago
I think there's an important lesson here that you can take home right now: If your primary email is an @gmail.com address, you have your head firmly in the lion's mouth. You can backup your data. You can have fallback tools and services. Yo
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by sgentle 15y ago
I bought a new pair of wireless headphones a few months ago. I'd always heard that wireless audio was a really dumb idea because of the sound quality, but I really wanted to get rid of that cable. After some research, I discovered that ther
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by sgentle 15y ago
I suppose building architecture for the always-connected future while still supporting the situation at present is out of the question, eh? It seems clear to me that Chrome OS is intended to work offline anyway, so even if Google were spell
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by sgentle 15y ago
I'm not sure that is true. I agree that talent is made (thanks, K. Anders Ericsson), but I think that anyone running a business has a finite amount of their own resources to spend. Devoting more of those resources to developing employees ta
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by sgentle 15y ago
There are two main kinds of "Skilled Migrant" visa. The sponsored kind, called a 457, requires a specific employer and is valid only during your employment: http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/skilled-workers/sbs/ - it's probably closest to th
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by sgentle 15y ago
Ha, sorry. I should have said educated people from a mostly-white country. It's funny, immigration is a big issue here (see this, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_immigration_detentio... or this video of our last feder
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by sgentle 15y ago
IANAL, but I am an Australian who recently walked his Irish girlfriend through the immigration/residency process. 1) As educated white people, you'll be fine. Specifically, your wife will want to apply for a student visa once she's accepted
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by sgentle 15y ago
I only really understood bezier curves after I saw a similar Wikipedia animation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Constructing_... It's amazing just how much seeing something move makes a difference.
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by sgentle 15y ago
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey is a pretty seminal personal management book. It's my top recommendation in terms of "foundational" material. It's not got much in the way of practical tools, but the ideas are applica
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by sgentle 15y ago
Here's the problem, as I see it: who is your manager? Because a manager is normally paid a lot of money to help you be productive. It's a hard job, the kind people get degrees in and work for decades at before they can do it well. If you're
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by sgentle 15y ago
I would make this distinction: Ideas, as in the process of thinking of new things, also known as design and creativity and other words people like, vs The Idea, which is an untouchable monolithic safety blanket common in startups, where the
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by sgentle 15y ago
I think finding out someone had made a t-shirt tribute to my writing would be what they call "a good problem to have".
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by sgentle 15y ago
Wow, lots of hysteria. I was hoping to find a comment that said something like the following: It sucks that things like this still happen. I've seen or heard about a few stories like this and it's heartbreaking to think that the industry I
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by sgentle 15y ago
Ha. Well, I don't know if I'd describe myself as terrified or shouting, but I take your point gladly. I wasn't being facetious when I said I hope it's a parody that's gone over my head. For the record, though, the "wrong crowd" was referrin
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by sgentle 15y ago
The reason I say it's the worst kind of trash is (ironically) the same reason the author says stupid people are the most dangerous - it has about as much merit as, say, a Daily Mail article, but because it's presented in a way that mimics s
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by sgentle 15y ago
This is trash of the worst kind: fatuous nonsense wrapped in pseudoscience. Please tell me this is a parody and it's gone over my head. Just in case, I will critique in the spirit of the original article: The first immutable law of madeupis
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by sgentle 15y ago
I disagree with this post almost as strongly as I agree with it. Robots.txt is a suicide note. It's utter short-sighted hubris to say "this is MY information and I don't want you spidering it". Are you volunteering to maintain that inform
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by sgentle 16y ago
Yeah, I'm genuinely surprised by the tone here. I mean, clearly the things he wrote were a bit inflammatory, but it seems like most of the commenters have shockingly low standards for what constitutes a fair firing. Am I to expect that if y
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by sgentle 16y ago
Cool site. :) You've got a bug on Ask HN posts, though, where you get a relative URL from HN (/comments/blah) which ends up relative to your site rather than news.yc.
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by sgentle 16y ago
I am confused about "Splinch Pro" - is there going to be a non-pro version? If not, perhaps it's worth removing that distinction. As for your pricing, is it based on research? Corporate IT is one of those magical environments where sometime
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by sgentle 16y ago
"I love to cook, and love to try new foods. After watching Anthony Bourdain eat with families all over the world, I thought - I want to do that!" You should take that quote and put it on your main page. Abstract advice: I would consider tha
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by sgentle 16y ago
I always thought that people mocked Color because Color got $41 million dollars and I didn't. I mean, they didn't.
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by sgentle 16y ago
Strange. This is an actual and useful answer to the question but for some reason it's placed halfway down the page.
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by sgentle 16y ago
My favourite quote from the comments: "looks ugly and is not the original" Sums up every UI change reaction ever.
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by sgentle 16y ago
My first thought was "do clones count as kin for the 'closest of kin' statements in that license?" Last thing this guy needs is more reasons for his clones to kill him.
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A bandwagon-inspired multiplayer competitive game using the HTML5 history API(shakeoff.samgentle.com)
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