MJR

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by MJR 8y ago
The point was that I don't believe anyone should act to normalize a behavior, in any context, of using a medical disorder as a metaphor for anything, in this case, software usability concerns.
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by MJR 8y ago
100% agree. I stopped reading when I saw that. What exactly is "Windows autism" exactly? My autistic son would like to know... And I would encourage you not to say it in private contexts with friends either.
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by MJR 9y ago
Hopefully saving people some time - Equifax is "unable to process" online requests - which they tell you after your submit the form. And Transunion's website for fraud alerts is currently "temporarily unavailable".
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by MJR 9y ago
If anyone is considering building their own, this is a good reference. Dan Benjamin's site detailing his recommendations: http://hackintoshmethod.com/
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by MJR 11y ago
Did you read the court document? Amazon employees signed up, sometimes with fake addresses and then immediately began running wide ranging searches across numerous categories in completely separate areas across the country from their primar
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by MJR 11y ago
How are you going to compete with insurance companies who have all of the data, existing relationships will their entire networks of providers and pre-existing negotiated rates with providers? Insurers are already creating local provider sp
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by MJR 12y ago
Blogger was a static blog generator well before this. It launched in 1999 and was around for a few years in that form before it was acquired by Google in 2003 and transitioned . You logged into the Blogger site and wrote your posts and then
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by MJR 12y ago
It's just another web framework, Coca-Cola is just another sugar water drink, Calvin and Hobbes is just another comic and a Lamborghini Aventador is just another car. "Just another" is a really easy thing to say when it'
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by MJR 12y ago
Last month Patrick Geraghty, an administrative law judge with the National Transportation Safety Board ruled "the FAA regulations approved for manned aircraft did not apply to unmanned aircraft any more than they applied to paper airpl
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by MJR 13y ago
And on top of that, when you get to that point, up and down don't do anything. You should be able to combine those tiles vertically.
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by MJR 13y ago
Am I the only one who was confused by the title and thought that the article was about someone named 'Tory Boss'?
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by MJR 13y ago
Seriously? Go look at the games, we're talking about a single image of a character in most cases. And showing something off doesn't have to be putting it up on Microsoft.com for the world to download. The kid is 15, my point is fi
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by MJR 13y ago
First, no being an artist isn't a requirement to be a gamedev. That's why I said find a friend who is. Second, If, as you say, the app isn't the end goal, then don't release it and this issue doesn't even come up. T
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by MJR 13y ago
This doesn't detract what the fact that you had the initiative and drive to complete 30 different games. But if I can offer some advice now, rather than when something real happens: Create your own characters rather than borrowing some
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by MJR 13y ago
His books were written over 24 years so they idea of writing one great book is just not a practical one. He made his living as a professor not simply self-publishing, lectures and book sales. For someone who evangelizes effective presentati
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by MJR 13y ago
I completely disagree. 'Funny ways to market it' will instead be 'Offensive and inappropriate' in many settings. The average person on the street doesn't give presentations, so immediately you're trying to targ
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by MJR 13y ago
Back in the day we had these things called webcams and bloggers would set them to take snapshots every few minutes and automatically upload them to their blogs. As an example, Kottke had his running for a long time: http://kottke
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by MJR 13y ago
Previously on HN... Nuclear Explosions since 1942 (map) (datavis.tumblr.com) 3 points by transburgh 4 years ago | 1 comments | cached Animated History of Nuclear Explosions (ctbto.org) 2 points by brianmckenzie 3 years ago | 0 comments | ca
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by MJR 13y ago
You have a PPO plan so you pay a copay. Many people have HSA, High Deductible or Catastrophic plans where they pay out of pocket until their hit their deductible. So all of these people have an incentive to shop on price. You're just c
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by MJR 13y ago
These are called cost and quality or transparency tools in the industry. Many insurance companies have tools that can do this exact thing for their members AND apply it to your specific plan at the time of the inquiry. So you can choose bas
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by MJR 13y ago
I completely agree about social isolation and missing the in-between conversations. I also don't think the next generation will suddenly all become insular thinkers because of technology. I'm someone who really enjoys and needs di
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by MJR 13y ago
Thanks pg. Based on filling in the details you provided I agree with you. As a reader I assumed this was his analysis as a true founder - present from pitch to alumni. Clearly, that's not the case.
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by MJR 13y ago
(many of which were about what to do about you) What does this mean? Is this as an attack on the author's credibility, character, skills or otherwise? It seems like there should be a distinction on whether he shouldn't have writ
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by MJR 13y ago
Looking at his profile: I'm a co-founder of JGraph. We make mxGraph and draw.io http://www.jgraph.com/ http://www.draw.io/
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by MJR 13y ago
It's actually been posted 6 times over the past 5 years. Why I Hate Frameworks (discuss.joelonsoftware.com) 193 points by gavingmiller 2 years ago | 103 comments | cached Why I Hate Frameworks (discuss.joelonsoftware.com) 123 points by
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by MJR 13y ago
Or something like the type of business. A local service-based business like a hair salon, diner or hot dog cart shouldn't even be considered as a business that has the possibility of being worth a billion dollars. If this is based on t
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by MJR 13y ago
There was a similar story in NC with energy efficient windows melting vinyl siding on homes: http://www.wncn.com/story/22737381/homeowners-frustrated-by-...
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It's difficult to trust the Ouya store(merseyremakes.co.uk)
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by MJR 13y ago
For a free trip to the colonies, you paid with all of your output for the next 20 years(or longer) - not just 3%.
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by MJR 13y ago
I used 100K as an example showing even if you made that much a year 3% would still only be 72K over the 24 years. If you were only making 35K a year, say as a teacher, 100K in student loans would take a LONG time to pay off. With this progr

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