thetechimist

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by thetechimist 6y ago
I honestly wish HackerNews would just eliminate certain sources of links. Medium and YouTube would be a great start. Or at least make it that if someone on HN doesn’t have a karma score of 100 or something, then they can’t submit links from
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by thetechimist 6y ago
The first problem on LinkedIn is that many people have to be on it to earn a living or show their team spirit for work. If we could all find employment and network without LinkedIn better than with it, 90% of us would. So when someone is hi
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by thetechimist 6y ago
As previously mentioned, the library. The argument that one has to wait sometimes is superfluous. Anyone saying such a thing isn’t a regular library user. Whatever is popular for the moment is just that: popular for the moment. It will pass
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by thetechimist 6y ago
Hard to see how apps like this exist. The author seems to enjoy writing about his app as much as creating technology that exists already, and has for decades. For $7/mo, you can have MS Office. You get a real Word Processor for all pos
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by thetechimist 6y ago
Whatever the intent of Goodreads initially, once Amazon bought it, it became a subtle funnel to drive sales of books, ideally through Amazon. While there are options there for libraries and many other booksellers, no one should believe for
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by thetechimist 6y ago
A forum is not anything like social media. People think that any internet site where UGC is posible is social media? Not. HN, for instance, is not based on finding friends, creating glamorous profiles, posting daily and weekly updates about
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by thetechimist 6y ago
It seems to me that the whole threat of being doxxed relies on two things: (1) that you’ve done something in one sphere of life that would be reprehensible (and maybe actionable) to another sphere of life, and (2) that the unholy Russian Tw
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by thetechimist 6y ago
Unrelated to this article about ‘dark’ restaurant bulk delivery, I often think that wouldn’t my neighborhoods be oh-so-much quieter and less smoggy if UPS, FedEx, and USPS only delivered there for residential deliveries X number of days per
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by thetechimist 6y ago
I don’t know how these things wind up on Hacker News, but I oddly appreciate the break from things like “Use Vim to wash your clothes”. 1. There are websites to foster fears of warmongering (or to assure oneself that Red Dawn can never hap