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by zachrose 5y ago
> In that case, in 2002, a man named Larry Hope sued Alabama prison officials for chaining him, shirtless, to a hitching post designed for livestock. For seven hours in the hot Southern sun, Hope had minimal water and no bathroom breaks.
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by zachrose 5y ago
Get them to yearn for the sea and they’ll Google around trying to figure out why Nokogiri won’t compile on their own
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by zachrose 5y ago
Download the Charles app on your iPhone, turn it on, use the app you’re interested in, then look at Charles to see what network calls the app made while you were using it.
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by zachrose 5y ago
SMS 2FA isn’t secure, but what about a small retail/delivery business that uses SMS as the only means of authentication? Payment is not done over SMS but separately through cash or Venmo, so it seems like the worst that could happen i
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by zachrose 5y ago
To think that one day Etsy was one of those businesses, and now they have $1.63B to spend on the new thing
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by zachrose 5y ago
The Nicholson Baker piece published several months ago made a compelling but not watertight case to me, a non-expert.
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by zachrose 5y ago
I’ve also heard that if you’re good enough at poker you can grind away and make minimum wage at casinos in Vegas.
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by zachrose 5y ago
What competition is being hampered by this law?
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by zachrose 5y ago
You might get a lot out of the documentary Helvetica by Gary Hustwit
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by zachrose 5y ago
Are that any that can serve the same index.html file to any request with an Accept: text/html header?
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by zachrose 5y ago
Marshall McLuhan said something along the lines of the development of linear perspective in the Renaissance ushering in a world that had at last a single point of view. I’ll give Rudnick some rope.
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by zachrose 5y ago
I agree, but also find joy in the larger “burger experience” (toppings, bun, fries, soda, presentation, etc). I hope I’m not the only one.
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by zachrose 5y ago
> But the decision to avoid actually writing javascript at all costs Who's JavaScript is it anyway? ES7? ES6? Internet Explorer 11's? How do you isolate things for the sake of unit tests and then bring them together into a perf
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by zachrose 5y ago
But it seems like there's a lot more that goes into making a palette specifically for user interfaces: https://design.gs.com/news/color
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by zachrose 5y ago
It seems to me that the aerodynamic picture of an F1 car would also have to account for all the air getting sucked into the engine and blown out the exhaust, no?
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by zachrose 5y ago
AAMP?
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by zachrose 5y ago
Still though you’re right, those industries still don’t have has much clout as medical insurance
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by zachrose 5y ago
No entrenched industries except for alcohol, private prisons, medical cannabis and big pharma.
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by zachrose 6y ago
Because CEO recruiting is insanely irrational. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691120393/se...
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by zachrose 6y ago
A lot of this was really cleared up for me by Evan Czaplicki's documentation for the Elm time library: https://github.com/elm/time
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by zachrose 6y ago
Would it still be unethical if your client was supportive of the larger strategy? If your client were unaware of the strategy, would it be unethical to tell them?
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by zachrose 6y ago
Except that ISO-8601 doesn’t include anything as useful as a political time zone, just an offset from UTC. That’d be good if UTC offset was useful for anything, but instead it just adds to the confusion.
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by zachrose 6y ago
Why doesn’t one do this? Because it exposes their individual clients to greater risk?
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by zachrose 6y ago
Took me a second to realize he said this before the election. Whew.
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by zachrose 6y ago
Hmm. Something like, "humanity serves humans, not the other way around." If there are no humans around to enjoy the fruits of humanity, I don't assume that something is lost or wasted. The problem I have with the "eggs i
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by zachrose 6y ago
I never understand this sentiment. I get that "we" is "the human species" but in practice it just means "some people." A magnetic pole reversal would be nobody's fault, but knowing that some humans survive
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by zachrose 6y ago
What was this company? That sounds amazing.
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by zachrose 6y ago
Active military suicides are also more common than combat deaths. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/14/169364733...
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by zachrose 6y ago
I recently finished the audiobooks for The Years of Lyndon Johnson. It was 14 months of on-and-off routine listening. The thing about these books is not only that they're about a famous person, but that they also are about a person tha
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Ask HN: Documenting Design Regrets?
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