wildgift

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by wildgift 13y ago
The split between content and design is false. It just is. Typographers sometimes need to rewrite copy (or request one) to fit. Photos need to be cropped or scaled, or new ones chosen. Some kinds of writing or art really demand a specif
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by wildgift 13y ago
Most "content" sucks. Most designs are a kind of content in themselves... and suck. That's why we have these awesome design fads.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Is there any political movement trying to convert H1Bs into green cards? Expanding temporary guest workers harms local workers, by creating a two-class workforce. Giving them green cards, while still causing a decline in wages, at least
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by wildgift 13y ago
According to the law, they are to be paid the prevailing wage. That is a slippery definition, because I think it means the median wage, but in some situations it means the highest wage. Either way, the point is not to depress local wages.
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by wildgift 13y ago
There are some parents who will not say "no", and there are some children who will holler until they get their way. The advertisers know this, and will take advantage of it. Different families deal with demand and desire for products diff
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by wildgift 13y ago
The other thing is weight. A bag of chips is 3 or 4 oz. A case of them is a few pounds. A similar sized box of vegetables is 15 or 20 pounds. The chips will last a few weeks. Vegetables will last a few days.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I never thought of SQL as declarative or like Prolog. I think it's more like a filter-writing language, with set functions like join. Agreed that the distance between Lisp and SQL is a lot shorter so an RDMBS doesn't gain you very much. I
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by wildgift 13y ago
It needs an overhaul, but it does what I need, which is share a few hundred images, broken up into sets. I've tried a couple other sites and apps, and haven't switched yet.
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by wildgift 13y ago
What about the animosity of the local developers who want to make $60k a year plus bennies, but you're hiring people for $15 an hour?
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by wildgift 13y ago
I think a more typical chain is: drugs -> USD -> mattress -> grocery store
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by wildgift 13y ago
That's not how laundering works. MtGox is tracking all the transactions, and will work with the police. There are laundering services that will take your money, then send it to a recipient in dribs and drabs over time. They basically say
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by wildgift 13y ago
They were arrested, infiltrated, and attacked at multiple locations, over many months. They keep coming back, too, but that doesn't make the news. Right now, they're doing this thing called the Rolling Jubilee. Also, hundreds of local OWS
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by wildgift 13y ago
I tried second life a couple times, and just didn't get into it. Either it was totally boring, or way too kinky. Often, both. I designed a couple objects. It was exciting at first, but got tedious, and I lost interest. The idea of maki
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by wildgift 13y ago
How well do those projects go? I've had bids rejected for being too high, even when other developers failed to deliver due to underbidding. Some people never learn.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I'd definitely do plumbing for anything more than $100 an hour. Plumbing is kind of awesome.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Rentacoder had open bidding, which led to bidding wars, which led to failed projects. So they moved to sealed bidding (by the workers) to prevent price wars. Open pricing may drive out all but the most aggressive talent.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I disagree about the journalist vs. specialist thing. The journalist should be a specialist at bringing together multiple stories or perspectives together into a compelling article. The journalist is a specialist at reading and comprehend
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by wildgift 13y ago
Well, it's an article, and it's not like he's berating you personally. A less judgmental person would have made a less interesting subject. Besides, your lifestyle is promoted by the press 10x more than the frugal lifestyle is.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I thought UMich was considered very good too.
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by wildgift 13y ago
If you do the math, you'll see that an elite school's degree really will help you get into those midrange jobs. It opens doors, so if you have the ambition, it'll give you more opportunities. Me, I'm kind of a bum, but thanks to my UC Berk
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by wildgift 13y ago
This is so true. Look at Hmong educational stats and they look like the stats for low-income African Americans. And look at where African Americans in the cities came from back around 70 years ago: from farming communities in the South. T
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by wildgift 13y ago
Someone has to do the hard work of keeping the rich people rich. It's not easy.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Private colleges don't need to be merit-based. They choose who they want.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I think it's that, but there's some subtlety to it. A minority person seems to be more likely to open a clinic to serve low-income people, perhaps as a side job to doing surgeries. There's also the trust issue between patients and doctors
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by wildgift 13y ago
There's a ton of useful news out there. I get it filtered through serious people, or people interested in important things like labor laws, Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, local politics, urban development, civil liberties, and hacke
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by wildgift 14y ago
JS performance isn't that important for most tiny apps. It's client side code and distributed. If JS performance were important, someone would write a jQuery -> js compiler and produced compiled js as output. But they don't do that, b
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by wildgift 14y ago
Ideology is a powerful thing. The ideology of industry and work in modern society keeps us blind to many things.
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by wildgift 14y ago
I've seen these magnetic power cords on water boilers for a long time. We got one from Asia in the 90s. http://www.zojirushi.com/products/cvdyc That may have merited a patent (if it wasn't already invented, and I suspect it was), but Ap
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by wildgift 14y ago
Teachers get paid OK and have a lot of job security compared to the average workers. I think they deserve it, for the most part, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking they are paupers or working class. It's a solid middle class job w
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by wildgift 14y ago
It is unfair, but it would be better to focus on how to lift more people up to the level of teacher retirements than to bring teachers down. Trying to lift all boats strengthens and enlarges the middle class.

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