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by thathonkey 12y ago
Most of their rap annotations are either inaccurate or complete bullshit. When it comes to "definitions" of slang, they're usually pretty good - for example, dun-ta-duns mention. When it comes to more subjective analysis of p
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by thathonkey 12y ago
I wouldn't have expected this result necessarily but it is interesting how with eReaders, you completely lose that spatial memory that you get from reading traditional paper bound books. I bet you could approximate where a passage you
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by thathonkey 12y ago
(USA) Just wanted to point out that "BTW" is most commonly expected to be an acronym for "by the way" whereas the shorthand for "between" is typically written "b/w" edit: title has been fixed! :)
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by thathonkey 12y ago
So the steps would be: 1) Obfuscate the private view by liking everything. This raises the signal-to-noise ratio exponentially and surely makes it hard(er) for "them" to characterize you. The longer you do this for, the more effec
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by thathonkey 12y ago
The most puzzling part about this article is that apparently BuzzFeed has an editor-in-chief.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
The graph you linked shows them already on the uptick before going to do the photos but the article doesn't mention that.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
> 90% of it is your effort in either case. No, it's not anywhere near 90%. That is a number you pulled out of your ass that is diametrically opposed to every finding from the study described in the article.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
I agree with what you said but some of these problems could be helped by a better public education system. Just because your parents don't understand finance or the tax code doesn't mean you should have to figure it out yourself.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Is something different
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by thathonkey 12y ago
The current state of affairs is not much better than Reddit (I'm talking about /r/programming here specifically, as I used to be a long time reader who switched to HN several years back), honestly. There's just a bit les
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by thathonkey 12y ago
I too like to build fully functional games and then reclassify and promote them as experiments.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
I could say it worked pretty well for Facebook but that would be too easy. Seriously though, I know it is very in vogue to hate PHP or at least favor X language over PHP and has been for a long time. I'm not trying to sell you on the i
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by thathonkey 12y ago
There's plenty of reasons why there would be such a state of affairs. Probably the biggest is that there is no clear winner in this space. D3 is shoring up, but it is quite a bit more complex for non-devs IMHO than what this looks to b
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by thathonkey 12y ago
o Complex, confusing terminology including multiple non-obvious names for various components. o Huge number, about 148, of commands with many sub-commands that often do non-obvious, even unrelated things. > Git has a learning curve. No w
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Big websites would host jQuery themselves typically on their own CDN.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
I'm talking about people who need websites in general. Not your fancy startup. Also please name me a single startup that for some reason could not flourish using PHP as opposed to some other language? It's really more about the ta
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by thathonkey 12y ago
There are many other options, none of which enjoy the ubiquity of PHP (as far as being installed on such a vast majority of hosts). The barrier to entry is higher if you want to run a site on something else. That is the sole reason PHP is a
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by thathonkey 12y ago
As my family includes many sufferers of anxiety of varying degrees, I've done quite a bit of research on the subject (in addition to personal bouts with mental health issues of that type, going through psychotherapy, etc.) and this Jam
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Sorry but this is not very impressive.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
That's be great for when you only want computers to be able to solve it!
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by thathonkey 12y ago
The pay wall isn't meant to attract people who "rarely read" the New Yorker. Those are the consumers they are OK with losing because they didn't make up an appreciable demographic for their business model anyway.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
New Yorker and NYT are two of the only old school media companies whose content I would still pay for. They have some of the best journalism around (NYT for straight news, New Yorker for editorial, long-form, & culture pieces). I think
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Having plenty of money and flexible "work" schedules helps achieve those goals (staying good looking, focusing on health, going to the gym a lot).
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by thathonkey 12y ago
> is English an abomination? Yes, yes it is. All natural languages are. They are living, breathing, evolving, organic concepts. They don't have the benefit of being designed and prescribed by an individual or group of individuals li
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by thathonkey 12y ago
But good frameworks are essentially collections of commonly needed libraries (to solve whatever problem the framework is concerned with) wrapped in (hopefully thin) unifying API.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
FWIW when I was researching Git GUIs for some CLI-averse team members, I came to the same conclusion. Sourcetree is the best and most feature-complete GUI out there for Git (Tower was one of the others I looked at). Plus it is free.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
As a counter-point, the videos were my favorite part but I agree some of them look a little too staged. Possibly blurring them a bit or adding a slightly translucent overlay as another poster suggested could make them less distracting and i
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by thathonkey 12y ago
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. (The reasons for why it is "broken" to limit to 3-char in the article aren't good enough to warrant a paradigm shift for a convention almost as old as computing itself).
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Of course they aren't entirely subjective! There are objective ways that fonts can be assessed for sure. In fact, there's an entire documentary on Netflix about Helvetica (and titled the same).
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by thathonkey 12y ago
"Even if the user doesn't swap out their browser you don't know what you might get." My point exactly.

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