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by weeksie 8y ago
That's really fun! Back in another lifetime (2006) I co-founded a kiosk company. I wrote a platform with a C core and Lua on top and used it to manage some pretty big kiosk networks, as well as handle all of the "server side"
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by weeksie 9y ago
Yeah, when I got back from spending about a year in SEA I immediately bought a TOTO for my apartment. Now I dread having to go when I'm out and being forced to use a barbarian toilet. I can't _wait_ for the States to catch on.
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by weeksie 9y ago
Spice in America is hotter than in Thailand.
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by weeksie 9y ago
I get what you're saying but the same is true of any transplanted cuisine. Thai food in Australia is different than in the US is different from wherever but in most cases it's a lot closer than you're giving credit for—which
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by weeksie 9y ago
Certainly one of my biggest pet peeves. If I had a nickel for everybody that got in my ear about "authentic" Mexican food and of course was talking about one particular regional cuisine: Tex-Mex, Southwest American, Californian Me
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by weeksie 9y ago
In a perfect world, sure! The thesis of the article was that the _reason_ developers only want to code is because they aren't being given explanations. While that might be the case sometimes, it's nothing near a hard and fast rule
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by weeksie 9y ago
That's a fair criticism. I tend to think of maturity as: * Separating one's immediate emotions from a decision making process * Proficiency with perspective taking * A basket of traits along the patience/conscientiousness axi
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by weeksie 9y ago
You know the other side of this? Sometimes those bright ideas are 1) not very bright at all or 2) bright but utterly wrong for the current context. A mature or maturing developer will learn to adjust their input to match the context. An imm
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by weeksie 9y ago
Exactly this. The tough part about making friends in your 30s and above is that many people don't have the time to spend together to truly grow a friendship. It's tough to hang out with a potential new friend at least once per wee
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by weeksie 9y ago
Well lots of people are still reading books. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/19/slightly-few... The number seems to be holding steady in the low to mid 70% of the population reading at least
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by weeksie 9y ago
I have a friend that had a _very_ similar experience when changing her LinkedIn profile photo. She's an expert in her industry and the vast difference in the lack of patronizing comments and unsolicited weird messages was pretty striki
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by weeksie 9y ago
To be fair, many (most?) people here (myself included) either have made or are currently making a ton of money off the internet advertising business. It's tough to condemn something when your paycheck depends on it. Thanks to the magic
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by weeksie 9y ago
I really wish we'd start using a term like journeyman to talk about what people insist on calling "senior developers". A person with 3-6 years of experience isn't senior. That's preposterous on its face. Nor is a 3-
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by weeksie 9y ago
This is pretty much my exact experience with social media. I grew up in a remote, working class area. Many of the people I grew up around are lower SES than I ended up being. Of course, I'm the lucky one that got out of that so my rela
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by weeksie 9y ago
I grew up in Alaska, though not far enough north that night never ended. Still, when you go to a mostly windowless school (yay 70s brutalist architecture), you arrive in the dark and leave in the dark. I'd get a peek at the sun sometim
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by weeksie 9y ago
Sure, but I'm talking about the actual study linked. Or maybe I'm just being too generous with my assumption people are referring to the linked article.
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by weeksie 9y ago
Why's everybody talking about vitamin D? (Same thing popped up in a Twitter thread I saw about this yesterday.) As far as I can tell the paper only talks about high insulin loads and refined sugars for etiology? Then again I might have
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by weeksie 9y ago
I'm sure the bahn mi in Minnesota is great but I'd highly recommend going to the actual Saigon (HCMC) for reference before making a heavy claim like that. :) PS this is why people think of Americans as insular.
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by weeksie 9y ago
While that's intuitive, that's not an argument against building high end housing. I do agree that it's complicated, though! As someone who lives in New York, I can attest that affluent people will just rent the apartments tha
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by weeksie 9y ago
I think that's a fine point! Interest rates going up is def going to cool off investment. However, there can be more than one cause for an economic effect. Seattle had very low inventory and I'd be surprised if hundreds of new uni
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by weeksie 9y ago
Holy shit, supply and demand is still a thing! Last year I was in Seattle and all I heard was complaints about all of the highrises going up as if that was what was causing the high rents. headdesk
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by weeksie 9y ago
Huh, never heard it used in such a way as to include Egypt. I've always heard Egypt included in MENA (Middle East/North Africa). There you go.
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by weeksie 9y ago
In any case Egypt is certainly not in the "middle east"
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by weeksie 9y ago
Ha! Tell that to Céline ;) But as someone who used to write nearly every document in LaTeX, I can tell you that I still prefer the correct version ;) (degustibus non est desputandum, eh?)
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by weeksie 9y ago
The problem being that when you have to use four marks to indicate an ellipsis leading to the end of a sentence, you get an odd triple followed by a space…. (That doesn't bother me, to be honest. I'm justifying my own quite arbitr
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by weeksie 9y ago
The solution isn't to build artificially affordable housing. The solution is to continue to build what the market demands and give the affluent somewhere to move so that they stop occupying the rest of the city. Today's luxury hou
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by weeksie 9y ago
I used to be an em dash over-user but have calmed down quite a bit in that department over the last several years. My current idée fixe is the archaic ellipsis as (over) used by Céline . . . I just can't bring myself to go with the sin
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by weeksie 9y ago
My goodness, the pearl clutching sex panic is hilarious coming from Vanity Fair. Rich people have parties and they're fun because when you're rich you can afford good drugs and nice venues. News at 10.
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by weeksie 9y ago
Being against government intervention is naive. If the US did what the EU has done with allowing people to avoid being tracked the big tech companies would be nudged toward developing smarter business models. Maybe it's not necessary b
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by weeksie 9y ago
Yeah, last year my gf and I were in HK and we went over to that side of the water. Being a good internet denizen, I'd seen the walled city pop up several times. I couldn't get it out of my head as we walked through that lovely par

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