socialentp

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by socialentp 6mo ago
Okay yeah you whooshed me. I’ll take the L. I must’ve been too busy reaching for my pitchfork
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by socialentp 6mo ago
Irrefutable eh? As someone who has used em dashes in my writing my entire life, these comments drive me crazy! Where exactly do you think that they learned to do that? E.g. 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17598113
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by socialentp 2y ago
This is totally what I’ve been doing all day. I call it “digital puttering”. It’s where much of the beauty and craft of something is developed. It requires a craftsperson to not just “call it done and move on”, but instead to be intrinsical
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by socialentp 2y ago
Same here! I agree with your description, but my wife and I still absolutely love it. It’s brighter when your eyes have adjusted to the dark for a while too.
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by socialentp 3y ago
Steven Sinofsky wrote about this in the context of the early days of Microsoft in “Don’t ship the org chart” https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/047-dont-s...
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by socialentp 3y ago
My 2 yr old button-obsessed daughter loves this book so much. One of my all time favorite children books. It’s such a creative concept! I believe the guy that put it together is currently crowdfunding for an advanced engineering for babies
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by socialentp 7y ago
There are many rare species which we do know exist that even trained wildlife biologists struggle to capture on camera. Not saying I think they are still around, but I wouldn’t take the lack of a photo in the smartphone era to be evidence o
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by socialentp 8y ago
Agreed. Almost all of his actions can easily be explained by looking at how it is benefiting old money — coal, mining, oil, sugar, cars, cable, telecom etc. He is just helping last century’s industries hold onto their power.
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by socialentp 8y ago
That seems to be a reality of the “Swiss Army Knife for X” products. Tons of features are a blessing and a curse. You should listen to this Masters of Scale episode for an in-depth discussion of how to overcome the inherent marketing challe
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by socialentp 9y ago
For me it comes down to inertia. When I'm working on a project, I can barely get myself to stop, but when I do stop, it takes some time to get started again. My trick is: as soon as I finish one project, I open up everything I need fo
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by socialentp 9y ago
Yes, but this ignores the fact that those patents are transferred to an acquirer upon the sale of your startup. Yes, the patent is largely useless to your startup. However, if you've proven the market, a patent could be an attractive p
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by socialentp 9y ago
Exactly. It's the same problem as communication of science to the general public: if you make it 100% accurate, most people either won't understand or won't care. After enough customer interviews you start to get a sense of w
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by socialentp 9y ago
I completely agree. Many of the psychological principles that drove the tulip craze are present in the ICO ecosystem: scarcity, promises of skyrocketing value, a steady flow of new entrants, and early investors using gains to further fuel g
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by socialentp 9y ago
It may have been stressful for employees and Gates, but it was a slap on the wrist when compared to the dominant position the company had managed to attain. Most of the power they had gained they kept. Yes, they ended some of the more egreg
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by socialentp 9y ago
I think Apple Mail actually strikes the right balance here. There are icons, but they have text below them by default. If you want a cleaner interface once you are able to easily identify the feature by the icons, you can right-click and t
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by socialentp 9y ago
I completely agree it's easy to memorize without text. I even lump them into logical groups using the vertical separator favicon from this site: http://separator.mayastudios.com
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by socialentp 9y ago
I'm the same way. I use bookmarks constantly and have all of the tools I use for work displayed with no text so they are all just favicons. I also have folders which contain infrequently used links (pretty much never).
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by socialentp 10y ago
That was my thought exactly, but I was less eager to share. Gold is often found in association with serpentine (I would bet that has something to do with it being California's state rock) and I saw a lot of serpentine in that gouge cau
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by socialentp 10y ago
Same here. But it is in the general status dashboard: http://status.aws.amazon.com/
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by socialentp 10y ago
Same here. I can log in to the new S3 console UI, but all of my buckets/resources are missing. Same error as you in the old UI. Also unable to connect through the AWS CLI (says, "An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the L
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by socialentp 10y ago
This is compared to the very evil password strength checker, which gives an ambiguous "password not strong enough" error until it finds a match with another service.
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by socialentp 10y ago
Understood, and that makes a lot of sense. I apologize for the mistake and will do better next time.
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by socialentp 10y ago
The difference is that on the scale of tens or hundreds of thousands of years, wildlife populations have a chance to adapt or relocate. We are causing oil leaks in areas that have been historically relatively pristine, resulting in severe d
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by socialentp 10y ago
That was the initial assessment completed in July of last year, but further environmental study was deemed required: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/87381a7d1abd4817a8991b0c8caea... "An assessment conducted last ye
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Dakota Access Pipeline to win US Army permit for completion(bbc.com)
177 points by socialentp 10y ago|185 comments
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by socialentp 10y ago
Cool idea, but you might want to revise your messaging: "I could make one for them but making them by hand is REALLY time consuming." "Handcrafted by Charles Han"
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by socialentp 10y ago
Not to mention that magnets cause even Macbooks with SSD drives to enter sleep mode. Try it with an iPhone or iPad, or any other device with a magnet (as others have indicated, don't do this if your hd isn't solid state).
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by socialentp 10y ago
It appears/functions on iOS Safari just fine.