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by weeksie 14y ago
The problem is that there are a ton of people that do exactly that. I live in New York and over the past year I've dated a string of actresses, some moderately successful (several year soap runs, broadway), some less so (off broadway, guerr
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by weeksie 14y ago
Completely off topic — you worked at Bronto? I did a short (like 1 or 2 day) contract to write a first pass at their Ruby client gem a couple years back. Seemed like nice guys. I get shivers thinking about Ruby and SOAP though. Eesh.
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by weeksie 14y ago
Wow, that's exactly the opposite of my experience. Random middle American towns are a vast, bland expanse of strip malls, big box chain stores, suburban tract housing, and family dining restaurants. The towns that aren't like that are the e
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by weeksie 14y ago
Anchorage could be any random middle american town and it exhibits the same suburban sprawl issues. What problems do you see with the extrapolation?
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by weeksie 14y ago
This goes for dating in general, it's not peculiar to dating sites.
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by weeksie 14y ago
This. A thousand times, this. Every time I read a post about someone who can't get a date on OKCupid I roll my eyes. Then again, I live in New York so the high population density makes it a usable site. Sure, men outnumber women and women g
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by weeksie 14y ago
It removes the fear of throwing away a vote on a third party. Look at the Australian government for example, there are a ton of third parties represented.
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by weeksie 14y ago
There are a lot of middleweight boxers that would probably disagree with that assessment.
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by weeksie 14y ago
All weapons make it easier to kill. We have been on a steady march forward as far as the efficiency of killing goes. We have guns, bombs, etc. . . And the same arguments were made about planes, I'm sure. The pilots are too detached from wha
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by weeksie 14y ago
I feel like the article is mostly empty scaremongering. Drones are inevitable, you can't stop technology marching forward. They may not be a bad thing, however. More drone warfare means fewer soldiers involved in conflict and fewer deaths.
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by weeksie 14y ago
I just want to say that I fondly remember Gramstand from around 2008-9. That was such a nice little cafe to work in.
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by weeksie 14y ago
This is a simple component I put together for our very front end heavy application at Plyfe. Child view handling seems to be a common pain point with Backbone projects so I figured I'd share our solution. It's our first go at it and we'll b
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Show HN: HasComponentViews — child view handling for Backbone(github.com)
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I explained that he _did_ test the program because he was writing a type. The type system by definition checks types.
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Well, I guess I'm just old enough and ugly enough to call things like I see them. Haskell is a neat language, but it is frustrating to listen to these sorts of brag-posts about the language because they're filled with dangerous hubris. The
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by weeksie 14y ago
I explained that in the second paragraph.
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by weeksie 14y ago
Ah, a Haskell circle-jerk waiting to happen and a confession that's really a way to act superior about Haskell's type system. Listen, it's a great language and I've spent a few years deep in it, but I find this post arrogant and not even ac
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by weeksie 15y ago
I would be extremely surprised if that was true. Even if you count not having to own a car or commute as long-distance in New York. I live in a 1 bedroom apartment that is 2550/month and _everything_ is more expensive here. A bottle of wine
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by weeksie 15y ago
That's sort of my point. I mean, getting links to your site isn't exactly a secret, this has been key since Google first came on the scene. Sure, it's hard work to have a reputable site and to promote it correctly, but it's not rocket scien
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by weeksie 15y ago
Ok, but what the hell does that have to do with building the site. Inbound links are obvious. Wow, really, is that all? And there are entire communities devoted to this? Seriously, I really want to know what I'm missing because I feel like
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by weeksie 15y ago
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills every time I read something about SEO. I keep expecting there to be more to it or that I'm missing something. Other than that, SEO is just making sure you have reasonably semantic markup and clean URLS. Is
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by weeksie 15y ago
Actually those numbers are way low for NYC.
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by weeksie 15y ago
Not in the US they weren't, at least not _nearly_ as much as they are now. But I don't think texting is nearly as much as a problem as the outsized ticket price increases for 3d films
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Property prices in Australia are a result of Aussies selling each other properties to generate wealth, financed by loans they can't afford. Private debt in Oz has been insane since the mid 2000s and has only gotten worse. The economy is fin
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by weeksie 15y ago
That's fascinating. My mom lives in Butte, and I've been out that way several times. It's a bit jaw-dropping to stand at the edge of that thing. At least something good has come out of that monstrosity.
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Curating communities(growingcommunities.tumblr.com)
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by weeksie 15y ago
Let me guess, you're white and male? Me too, and for a long time I thought to myself "Gee, I can't believe people get offended at stuff like that." Then after a bit, I really put myself into other people's shoes. How would you feel if your
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by weeksie 15y ago
You miss the point. It's possible to make huge returns on risky investments and get paid huge bonuses for several years until the investment fails. The the worst that happens is that you don't collect your bonus that year.
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Try 30 years ago.
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by weeksie 15y ago
Completely unrelated and a bit off topic, Matador restaurants were started by two friends of mine in '03 or '04 and are HUGE now. Just seeing the name-check pop up makes me proud of those guys and how far they've come from being a couple of

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