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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
It's like an all-inclusive guidebook for how to look down upon others and discredit them internally without any of the messy business of actually communicating with them about "their" issues. Why improve when you can label,
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I experienced plenty of drama when my rear wheel began to tear itself apart riding out of Cambria, CA, or when a rear flat turned out to be the sidewall disintegrating 60 miles out of San Francisco. Bicycle touring will give you all the dr
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
Career plans are wonderful for those whose career goes according to plan. ;-)
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I once introduced a fairly serious bug into our software. It caused, probably, a 40% drop in perceived performance. The bug was based entirely on me misunderstanding what one of the EE's told me. I fixed it in the next release and w
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
Dvorak is nearly pointless. I've been typing in it daily for over a decade, and it has near zero benefit over simply buying a better keyboard and using proper form.
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
Hi. Schedule an appointment with your doctor immediately. I experienced pain in my shoulder, then, eventually, numbness in my left index finger. It was a pinched C6/C7 nerve, and I've been effectively unable to work for four yea
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
>Dvorak, which I've given up on twice I learned Dvorak before switching to the Kinesis. I was only able to do it by having some strategic down-time in my job, and I would say it took around a full year before I was even close to
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
The Kinesis classic is the keyboard that saved my career. My wrist pain actually increased slightly when I first got it, due to the strain of having to interrupt my years-old muscle memory. It took several days for the thumb keys to beco
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I didn't even bother getting into the rail system, since I assume everyone realizes how advanced it is. I really wanted to put this in though: I've watched Shinkansen pull into the switchyard at night to "go to bed".
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I walked around Tokyo marveling at the infrastructure. Fully enclosed (or perhaps 3/4 enclosed) freeways that explode out of the ground, split off to surface streets, and arch up through the sky and around corners. Well-engineered, r
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I'm an avid cyclist and motorcyclist. I've gone skydiving and SCUBA diving. Yet some of the most frightening moments in my life have been in the back of San Francisco taxis. The sooner robots replace taxi drivers, the better. A
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
> I've been saying for a while now, if we were to replace high school and college foreign language requirements with a computer programming language class Computer programming has absolutely nothing to do with learning a foreign lan
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
> No wonder the American people think this Republican Congress is from another > planet -- they're more interested in life in space than Americans' lives And I guess Democrats are more interested in taking jabs at the opposi
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
This looks great for devices that have their charging area centered on the device. My Nexus 10's USB port is near a corner. Personally, I'd be happier if everything used Qi wireless charging.
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
If I understood the author correctly, she is a psychotherapist talking about people she sees professionally. So, this could just as easily be a story about how Millennials are much more willing to see a therapist for these sorts of problem
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
Comments like yours are why people say HN's comments are degrading in quality. You can't even grasp the difference in viewing distance of a television versus a computer monitor, and the obvious impact that would have on how notic
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
That's a really good point, and something I'll have to think about in the future. I suppose an awful lot of online "discussions" are really sequential attempts at having the last word.
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
That's like saying intolerance of intolerance is intolerant. In fact, I'd like to have simply said, "stop being an asshole", but that sort of direct, rude comment gets downvoted here on HN. Meanwhile, an extremely rude,
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
> Not really had friends and not great at making them. Making friends is about a combination of exposure (meeting people) and sharing something (a hobby, where you grew up, etc.). Part of the process is that YOU have to be genuinely int
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
Ah, the old negativity-masquerading-as-insight trick. HN really needs to do something about its implicit approval of such foolery tarted up as meaningful commentary.
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
> This is also true for voice tone and other subconscious traces of smile. This reminds me of stories I've heard of Japanese office workers bowing while talking over the phone to their boss. It's said that your boss will be ab
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
This is a nice, fat, red flag for human interaction. If you find someone mentioning distinctions of this sort, you can be reasonably sure you're dealing with a pedant who enjoys 'educating' or correcting more than producing o
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
> to explicitly present themselves as impoverished That's not the least bit true, in my experience. I've watched them come over from where their families are working and attempt to sell trinkets, then go back to their families
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
> Stay at hotels, eat at restaurants So, you only want your money going to the wealthier families, many of which are foreign? Street hawkers may be annoying, but they also represent the most basic form of entrepreneurial spirit.
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
Take some of your money and travel. Go to Cambodia and don't be shy with your cash. Visit the landmine museum, do some crying, and see how the resilient people are (slowly) making a comeback. Buy all the trinkets and crap off the sw
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I was most likely banned for making a negative comment about a mindless HBR article. The site was being flooded with them at the time. The consensus in the commenting community was that you shouldn't downvote people without explaining
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
You're certainly willing to do a lot of rationalization in order to support the status quo.
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
Why wouldn't I? As I said, I enjoy many commenters, have learned a great deal from them, and have enjoyed my conversations with them. This is at odds with my very negative view of the site itself, its founder, and how it's moderat
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
Hell-banning for anything other than blatant spam or hate speech is reprehensible. Imagine participating in a community, enjoying your interactions with some bright people, contributing knowledge when you can, when suddenly you find that yo

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