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by steven_noble 4y ago
I read the whole article and most of the comments and I could not see any mention of whose bail money she was presumably willing to set on fire. I’m picturing mummy and daddy being turfed out of a palatial home by the sherif, all while stoi
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by steven_noble 4y ago
When I found it in a second-hand bookstore in roughly 1990, "The Third Wave" by the Tofflers had a huge impact on me as it made the future seem foreseeable and not automatically gloomy. I don't think it would stand up today,
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by steven_noble 4y ago
lots of little things, but recently I've found that good, comfortable noise-cancelling headphones with good built-in mics help when it comes to maintaining focus on an online meeting
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by steven_noble 4y ago
It's grossly misleading to suggest that economists use GDP as a measure of national success
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by steven_noble 4y ago
I'm a huge fan of Booko, which has been doing exactly this for years
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by steven_noble 4y ago
if it's a framework, it's not vanilla JS
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by steven_noble 4y ago
Depends massively on (1) the size and type of business and (2) your current skill gaps. I did an MBA and it helped a lot with well paid business consulting until I decided that was a highway to hell. But most of the relevant skills I think
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by steven_noble 4y ago
Learn it while working on a programming project that does not present any other learning challenges
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Super weird Apple AppStore error seen the wild(twitter.com)
5 points by steven_noble 4y ago|1 comments
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by steven_noble 4y ago
What gives?
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by steven_noble 4y ago
Advanced geothermal. Jacobin magazine. Emerging cancer treatments. The end-ish of the pandemic. The return of a true labor-orientated left. New melodic hardcore from Press Club. Finally fixing my bike.
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by steven_noble 4y ago
Just a thought. You can buy low-voltage very pretty LED strip lighting in just about any colour for next to nothing. Maybe just get whatever racks/servers/you want and then decorate them with these...?
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by steven_noble 4y ago
https://snoble.net Just links ATM -- think I might try adding some original textual content if I can work out how to keep it ultra simple
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by steven_noble 4y ago
It's the same in parts of Spain. You take a walk in the wild, hoping to experience the local flora, and you find yourself surrounded by these highly flammable trees that have travelled as far as you have to get there. Pretty, but no mo
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by steven_noble 5y ago
givedirectly.com Cash for those who lack it, to use in whatever way they see fit
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by steven_noble 6y ago
as per the other comments -- not a source of energy but a store of energy whether the energy stored is green or not
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by steven_noble 7y ago
fair enough -- i was basing it on my memory of a documentary I saw once -- i looked up the documentary but could not find a list of the studies it cited, so I Googled for studies on the question
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by steven_noble 7y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3489818/#__sec7...
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by steven_noble 7y ago
Clearly unethical. Take written notes. Join your union. But a few side points: - ADHD is an actual condition that can cause lack of focus and/or hyperfocus - there are plenty of other reasons why a person can exhibit lack of focus and&
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by steven_noble 7y ago
Do you with others? In particular, with children? Then it's crucial that you have an office or similar with a door you can shut. Then you have to nicely train everyone you live with to not do things like shouting to you through the shu
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by steven_noble 7y ago
Given you taught yourself programming, you'll probably find you can teach yourself your next skill too. Three common next careers for once-software developers are recruitment (kill me now), engineering management (makes sense) and deve
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by steven_noble 8y ago
Decriminalise all drugs. Not just on the demand side (purchase/use of drugs) but also on the supply side (manufacture/sale of drugs). The goal would be to decimimate the drug syndicates that hold entire communities to randsom unde
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Software Contracts in the Age of React(gorillastack.com)
5 points by steven_noble 8y ago|1 comments
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by steven_noble 8y ago
Plus one for The Righteous Mind, mentioned below. Also in the vein of 'not quite psychology of religion, but related', The Hero's Journey, by Joseph Campbell.
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by steven_noble 8y ago
Ditto to the 'who are your customers' question. You may find that, say, food van operators are keen on a tool that turns their Facebook page into just the type of website that a food van operator needs. Ditto for a dozen other pos
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by steven_noble 9y ago
working on the train is never comfortable, but I find Dash comes in handy for offline access to documentation
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by steven_noble 9y ago
This response to someone on StackOverflow asking how to parse HTML with regex: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/145684
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by steven_noble 9y ago
+1
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by steven_noble 9y ago
Sometimes yes -- sometimes no. Yes, if you're creating better entertainment, but furniture, better toys, better gadgets, and people are willing to pay for them, you have made the world better. But people are also willing to pay for wea
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by steven_noble 9y ago
The point that all the energy mixes together is not the main point. The main point is that dialling up wind does not always help anyone dial down fossil fuels for many reasons, and what we should be striving for and measuring is the reducti

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