TrevorAustin

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by TrevorAustin 7mo ago
I did! One of the best shows I have ever seen. And Ngaujah had to have been the hardest-working man on Broadway during that run. Just an incredible performance.
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by TrevorAustin 1y ago
I don’t care at all. For what it’s worth, yes, Harvard and other elite universities should be more welcoming to conservatives. But turning to the federal government to enforce “viewpoint diversity” is just an obviously bad idea. I don’t wan
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by TrevorAustin 1y ago
> Every department or field found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty within that department or field who will provide viewpoint diversity; every teaching unit found to lack viewpoint di
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by TrevorAustin 1y ago
A demand letter that said only "Harvard may not use race, gender, or national origin as criteria for admissions and hiring" would be a lot more defensible, and much harder to oppose. But the government's list of demands inclu
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by TrevorAustin 2y ago
I tell my web development students that typography is Lovecraftian cursed knowledge. You can't delve too deep, or it will drive you mad.
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by TrevorAustin 3y ago
Reminds me of http://programming-motherfucker.com/ , but which is maybe 20-30% parody instead of this 80+%.
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by TrevorAustin 3y ago
To be fair, Homebrew is great product design, but actually pretty janky software engineering. Anyone who's had it wreck their PATH a couple of times isn't going to be an automatic yes vote on a technical screen.
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by TrevorAustin 3y ago
And here Oblong itself is the NGO, so mysubdomain.obl.ong isn't that crazy. "Oblong" is kind of an awkward word though. Anyone want to set up a fork at .bi.ngo? Dang, now I'm going to be thinking of .ngo and .ong domains
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by TrevorAustin 3y ago
It sounds like this isn't a Southern phenomenon at all, and is just framed that way to rile up the Fox Business audience. Having a strong regional accent, or more accurately, being unable to turn off your strong regional accent, is jus
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by TrevorAustin 3y ago
The article says that the wage penalty applies to people with "strong regional accents," and that Southern is the fourth most likely accent for job seekers to try to suppress, with New Jersey being #1. Framing this as specific
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by TrevorAustin 3y ago
Ironically Larry the Cable Guy's accent is itself affected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_the_Cable_Guy#Stand-up_c...
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by TrevorAustin 4y ago
A sweeping vista miles into the sky, above an alien world, through a break in the deadly clouds? Hell yeah I'm stepping out on my Venusuvian balcony.
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by TrevorAustin 4y ago
Without having dipped into the code before, how hard would it be run a fork of Chromium that did this?
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by TrevorAustin 4y ago
You would have to be foolish to. However much value may be created, Musk has shown he will try to wriggle out of deals he made when he thinks he can get away with not meeting his obligations to his counterparties. Delaware courts wouldn’t l
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by TrevorAustin 4y ago
Some PMs at my company have been agitating for a switch from Asana to Jira, and now I (as VP Engineering) can guarantee that will never, ever happen.
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
As a legal matter, no, though copyright terms should be shorter. As a civil society matter, I think we should agree that making a secret album so that it ends up in the hands of a hedge fund criminal is uncool . It’s appropriate and even g
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
I'm a hiring manager and while I despise Facebook/Meta ( https://twitter.com/search?q=%40trevaustin%20facebook&src=ty... ), there's no denying that it's a positive qualification on a resume. It's
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
Obviously the web3 use case that gets the most excitement right now is the ability to speculate on unregulated securities, but I do think there's something interesting with letting users keep control of their data and writing API contr
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
The piece isn’t about high gas costs. The conclusion: > Those are just a few ideas from someone who’s new to the field, and people are working on all of them already. But my basic point here is not to forget transaction costs. Lots of tr
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
Do you mean this story about dark patterns? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/technology/e-commerce-dar... Because the author (who does not control how NYT subscriptions work) does mention that in the s
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
This conspiratorial take is a decade out of date. New York Times coverage of tech has gotten more skeptical, but so has public opinion generally as their size and impact has increased dramatically. https://www.pewresearch.org&#
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
I’m actually in the market for an EV or PHEV that seats 6 or more, and my search started with the Model X. But I’ll probably wind up getting a Volvo XC90. It’s around $30K cheaper, which is nice, and more importantly, if I ordered a Model X
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
Also, those SPAs are loading the React literary off of a CDN. It’s not inlined into the page.
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
For fine art, maybe? For music, writing, theater, film and television, video games: seems like it's mostly about the enjoyment the patron gets from interacting with the art. The social signaling part strikes me as kind of squicky. Mayb
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
Ha, just as a small example, this post as typed concluded with a single U+1F61D: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#1f61d Hacker News is the kind of place that strips emoji from your posts, beca
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
Everything about NFTs is irritating. They're pure positional goods, with no real utility beyond signaling social status. They're subject to intense, irrational financial speculation. They attract insiders, hypesters, and scam arti
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
Meh, if the boosters are right, it’s very very early in the space, and we see turnover in frameworks, languages, and operating systems in regular tech all the time. Ethereum has a big first-mover advantage, but at least when I dabbled in So
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
ICOs disappeared because the SEC stepped into what had been a kind of legal gray area and said “Lol, no. All of this is illegal.” They didn’t really go away on their own.
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
Legally, there’s nothing stopping you. The only thing that would make “A” the canonical NFT for “X” is social convention. I imagine that where the original creator of the artwork is involved in the minting of X that convention can be pretty
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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
It’s weird to keep using the Mona Lisa, when there’s a much more apropos metaphor intimately connected to crypto: NFTs are like naming rights. Crypto.com did not buy the Staples Center, and doesn’t have the right to charge admission. They b

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