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by trowawee 9y ago
This is one of the biggest problems at our office. We respect the headphone rules fairly well, but we sit like this: P1 P2 P3 ---------- P4 P5 P6 in pods, and if P5 turns and looks at P4 or P6 to check if they have headphones on, that p
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by trowawee 9y ago
It's not true. They're both bad, but football has higher rates of concussion. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2140075/
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by trowawee 9y ago
I mean, you need somebody like ESPN (or Deadspin), because there's actual journalism to be done relating to sports. Off the top of my head, some areas sports-related topics that would never have been covered by SBNation-style sites inc
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by trowawee 9y ago
I don't know where the parent graduated from, but as mentioned above, I'm a DBC grad from 2014 and we were mostly taught Rails, which is entirely a backend framework. There was a decent amount of data structure work, a little bit
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by trowawee 9y ago
Thank you for teaching. I'm a Dev Bootcamp grad from 2014; people like you, who took on that challenge, completely changed my life for the better.
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by trowawee 9y ago
Seconding this. I have a bunch of friends who live in Detroit. It's not Robocop World over there.
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by trowawee 9y ago
This makes me really sad. DBC changed my life dramatically. I wasn't a fan of some of the changes/decisions they made over the last few years, but I would be in a much, much worse place overall without DBC.
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by trowawee 9y ago
Almost no one? Obvious anecdote alert, but I don't know a single person who shops on Amazon who hasn't made the exact same observation. Many/most big ticket items are, for most people, a once-every-X-years purchase, and yet A
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by trowawee 9y ago
Literal description is not an exaggeration.
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by trowawee 9y ago
And my response to this devil's advocacy: A) many of these same pitchers will yell/pound their gloves/clap/point to the sky/cross themselves when they successfully strike someone out or get out of a tight situation,
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by trowawee 9y ago
I honestly don't know. I just remember Kerry Wood getting really mad about it one time - I assume it's because it seems pointless (although obviously, it could be huge, depending on what happens afterwards), but stolen bases allow
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by trowawee 9y ago
It broadly falls into two categories. The first, rarer case is trading beanballs (pitches that hit the batter). Pitchers routinely pitch inside, or close to the batter, to get him to back away from the plate (making it harder to hit pitches
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by trowawee 9y ago
Interesting concept, and a really fun interface. The main issue I'm seeing is that the suggestions being surfaced are too close to what I've already selected - i.e., once I've indicated that I've read one or two of the b
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by trowawee 9y ago
Well, "artist" is a little farther away than the other two, but I would submit that most of the people who have what it takes to be a median accountant or lawyer probably also has what it takes to be a median programmer. For all t
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by trowawee 9y ago
I guess I'd take some issue with the claim that it has prospered; it's survived, but according to every report I've ever seen, it's never actually made money. As for why it's stayed alive, given the anonymization, i
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by trowawee 9y ago
The parent comment: > Also, on what basis do you say that longer hours with fewer tradeoffs don't improve patient outcomes? You frame it as though it's obvious but is there any evidence to back that up? My wife and most other d
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by trowawee 9y ago
Every single study of the effects of fatigue on human cognitive ability that I am aware of indicate that A) fatigue can have massive deleterious effects on peoples' abilities to perform even simple tasks, and B) people are generally te
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by trowawee 9y ago
Sure, but that's a UX change, and that's what the parent was suggesting for CL.
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by trowawee 9y ago
I mean, we can't prove who "isn't" using it. We can prove that millions and millions of people are using it and seem to be content with it; we can provide anecdotal accounts (including by many people in this thread) that
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by trowawee 9y ago
Counterpoint: their UX works perfectly well for them (see: $690m in revenue) and any proposed overhaul would carry potentially disastrous costs (see: Digg's site-killing redesign). Redesigning for the sake of change is not inherently g
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by trowawee 9y ago
Software engineering? Like, two years ago? How are you on HN, but missed this? https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-po...
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by trowawee 9y ago
Huh...I actually did this when I got out of a developer bootcamp in 2014/2015. I come from a family of lawyers; redlining a contract is second nature. Data point of one, but I think it's more a cultural norm - there's a stron
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by trowawee 9y ago
> I swear HN seems knowledgeable on all subjects except those I am deeply familiar with... You can make a fairly valid extrapolation about the other areas where HN seems knowledgeable from this data point.
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by trowawee 9y ago
I'm skeptical about Bitcoin as a potential alternative because I suspect that, if you combine the surveillance abilities of the state and the money of the state with the time and effort of the very many clever people who work for the s
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by trowawee 9y ago
I mean, he's a hedge fund investor. This is as pure of an illustration of Sinclair's quote about the difficulty of getting someone to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it as you're likel
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by trowawee 9y ago
Yeah, the ability to make payments outside of the scope of the panopticon is one of the better arguments in favor of cash and against a completely cashless society.
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by trowawee 9y ago
Given sufficient data, nothing's really anonymous. That's a bullshit hedge.
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by trowawee 9y ago
I would disagree. I've worked on legacy products created by Eastern European engineers that were absolute nightmares.
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by trowawee 10y ago
You don't understand what freedom of speech actually means.
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by trowawee 10y ago
No, it's a plain English description of what the bill actually does.

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