PopeOfNope

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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
> That being said, we can clearly not conclude that 'content is king', right? In my humble opinion, yes, content is not king. But, it's more than just allowing people to put a face to the name. You have to fit in. You have
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
Something that shouldn't be overlooked is the fact the author is John Graham-Cumming and you are kelvin0. Almost every one in the top 10 leaderboard posts under their real name. They have more respect and credibility than an anonymous
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
> It ought to be relatively easy. ... Seems like a fairly trivial experiment to run and reproduce. That depends on what you're testing. "Blood test" and "health test" are ridiculously ambiguous terms. Something l
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
That's something that gets overlooked in these discussions of wordpress. Wordpress has the unique ability to use a single install and backend to manage hundreds of sites. If you need content cross posted across multiple sites, wordpres
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
> What WP did right is to choose a platform supported EVERYWHERE When WP was created, their options were PHP or Perl. PHP was by far the hottest thing back then, so what they actually did was use the hot tech of the day and made it work.
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
Considering some of the people I've made wordpress sites for couldn't even figure out the wordpress interface, command line anything is a no go for a large percentage of wordpress's intended audience.
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
I worked briefly for a wordpress consultancy last year. Our main workflow involved using Yeoman, Grunt, NPM, wp (the wordpress command line tool) and vagrant. Locally, we'd run vagrant just so we don't have to monkey around with e
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
Please do. That would make for very interesting reading, imho.
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
Read Rhetoric by Aristotle. You're using what he calls Dialectic (facts and figures) to convince people. Most people either don't care about facts and figures or can't understand them. You need to make appeals to emotion, or
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
Had you been exposed to those concepts at an earlier age, maybe you would have more of an affinity for them. Maybe not. Also, one of the concepts exposed in football is leadership and hard work. I started at the age of 8 as a lineman. When
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
You probably learned these lessons elsewhere, but I probably learned it earlier than you did and had it reinforced for 8 years (I started playing flag football when I was 8). The biggest lessons were teamwork and sacrifice. Football is uniq
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
We're talking about playing football, not watching it like a lemming. If you don't know what you're talking about, kindly say nothing.
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
Nothing I said suggests otherwise. Why the sarcasm and hostility?
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
I don't understand the hard on people around here have for predicting the collapse of sports. It's like the very idea of getting revenge on the jocks makes you all salivate. Revenge of the nerds writ large? Or is it an extension o
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
It would look like today, sadly. To the extent that fans replace football with another sport (instead of meth or oxy) Yeah, shame.
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
But I think we'll see the end of high school football very soon, when the lawsuits begin and school insurance steps in. It'll never happen. There's way too much community support for football. And thank god. There's no
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
Why do you assume he stopped working? He could be working harder than ever, but his productivity dropped. That's one of the cruelties of burnout. It feels like you're working harder than you ever have in your life, but you have
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
I went through almost the exact same thing working full time for a consulting company in the USA. The situation was even worse since we had to log so many hours a week due to billing hourly. The biggest difference with me is that when I was
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
I'm not sure why this is making the front page of HN now. It's been around since 2012 and it's predecessor was around for a year or two before that. When they started, they advertised it as markdown for script writing (in fac
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
> how else would you have any idea about what happens around the world? Since there's nothing I can do about anything anywhere else in the world, why should I care? Furthermore, if very little the news establishment publishes is cor
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
I had a slightly different takeaway: who asks a candidate to perform a slideshow presentation at an interview?
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
This is the point: if there ever was a baby in that bath, it's dead now. Read what Patio11 wrote again and realize his situation isn't an isolated incident. It's the norm. Tell me, cpach, why did you feel the need to defend t
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
Journalism is a high-prestige field which, to re-use Michael Creighton's observation, we understand is virtually never right about even the simplest consequential facts about things we actually understand, but we trust it to be accura
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
It's the lack of anything better That's ridiculous. That's like saying 'I know drinking sea water will kill me, but, being stuck out at sea, there isn't anything else to drink and it's better than nothing.&#x
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
Ditto. I learned the media wasn't a reliable source of information when I was 10. What baffles me is so few people feel this way, even here on hacker news. A large percentage, if not most, of the submitted links on HN come from media o
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
You hear that? That's the sound of a million security researchers simultaneously shouting 'Challenge Accepted!'
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
How would you find the drone owner and/or operator, exactly? I can see this being used to further erode the right to not be stopped and frisked without probable cause. Now, a drone flying overhead in a public place is probable cause to
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
Sounds interesting. It's too bad you only hire in SF and NYC.
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
This needs to happen. But it won't. After generations of people like you persecuting those who make more money than you, they've learned to dodge the ever higher taxes you would levy against them for the crime of being good at b
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by PopeOfNope 11y ago
After watching the kickstarter video, I think it's terrific if they can pull it off. This is their killer feature: A computer where you don't have to do backups, don't have to set up a new system when you upgrade, don't

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