wyclif

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by wyclif 11y ago
I have an old MacBook 4,1 (w/ Core 2 Duo), 4 GB RAM, lying around with the latest version of Chrome on it. It's usable, but not snappy, and you can't have dozens of tabs open or it will get sluggish fast. You have to clear th
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by wyclif 11y ago
Essentially, Germany made it clear that they didn't want Street View. So Google took the hint.
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by wyclif 11y ago
"Having a political view" contra SSM might not only take the form of "non-heterosexual marriages are icky." Engaging in caricature doesn't help advance the discussion of PC in the workplace. People might believe tha
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by wyclif 11y ago
To someone whose account is 2961 days old? Yes.
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16 CSS Lessons via Post-It Notes(medium.com)
2 points by wyclif 11y ago|0 comments
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by wyclif 11y ago
That's not what an ad hominem is. It's Latin for "to the man." It means an argument directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining, which is not what I did at all. I argued against your false ass
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Newton's N-Body Simulation(140.180.128.243)
2 points by wyclif 11y ago|0 comments
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by wyclif 11y ago
"There's no shortage of smart, hardworking engineers. There's a shortage of smart, hardworking engineers willing to work for very little money." ~ David "Pardo" Keppel If you're having trouble hiring, it&#
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by wyclif 11y ago
It's not an "ad hominem" to observe that accounts with low-quality comments are new.
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by wyclif 11y ago
I've never gotten a job from LinkedIn, though I'm connected to lots of people I know IRL and have loads of IRL recommendations. Most of what I see is generated by recruiters, even agency recruiters. I get loads of contact requests
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by wyclif 11y ago
I'm not crying, pal. I'm responding to a false assertion. Deal with it.
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by wyclif 11y ago
Most churches don't have enough money to fund their ministries.
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by wyclif 11y ago
Someone's a troll. Plain and simple. That kind of comment is why visible account creation dates matter.
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by wyclif 11y ago
churches already make enough money as it is No, actually they don't. Let me explain why. The vast majority of churches are very small and underfunded. They are not at all like Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church, or some kind of megac
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Saying yes(blog.watsi.org)
3 points by wyclif 11y ago|0 comments
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by wyclif 11y ago
No, they don't on average. This has been discussed many times on HN. Apps like this are outsourced to UK offices to keep budgets low. I routinely get offers and recruiter calls from the UK, I usually don't respond to them because
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by wyclif 11y ago
I don't know about you, but my FB is a free speech zone. I don't think that overlaps well with FB at Work in terms of usage and social patterns.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Kerning Like a Designer(designschool.canva.com)
227 points by wyclif 11y ago|74 comments
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by wyclif 11y ago
You're assuming that Facebook internal is the same, feature by feature, as commercial Facebook. I promise you it isn't.
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by wyclif 11y ago
Location: Philadelphia metro region Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Linux, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Vagrant, HTML/CSS, bash/zsh, AWS, Git, SSH. Want to learn/am learning: Ruby, JavaScript Résumé/CV:
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Making a Service Worker: A Case Study(smashingmagazine.com)
1 points by wyclif 11y ago|0 comments
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by wyclif 11y ago
This is a great read. The notion of "six kinds of light" is an important one for aspiring filmmakers to understand. Is this new? I am not a fan of the recent trend of refusing to date posts. It seems like that is done to milk adve
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by wyclif 11y ago
Is this what @joshu has been working on?
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What is going on at Twitter?(ft.com)
1 points by wyclif 11y ago|0 comments
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Measuring hourly snowfall with a webcam and PHP(boutell.com)
7 points by wyclif 11y ago|1 comments
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by wyclif 11y ago
"The company initially confirmed the outage by, somehow, tweeting, from its @support account. We were unable to see the tweet, because Twitter was down."
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$20K housing for Serenbe's artistic residency program(artsatl.com)
2 points by wyclif 11y ago|1 comments
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by wyclif 11y ago
Dropbox is a hybrid, both B2B and B2C.
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by wyclif 11y ago
Why don't hackers disrupt labor? 1. Because that's hard 2. Because it would require cooperation and coordination with large groups of people, and the grand mythos of the hacker is one of individualism. This applies to both persona
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by wyclif 11y ago
That line about how it's "only possible for the wealthy" to get an education is demonstrably false, even though I wouldn't discount some of your other points. Have you ever heard of federally-guaranteed student loans? Th

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