WillEngler

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by WillEngler 9mo ago
Yeah, I've done this. I've bought records for years but only bought a record player recently. I would want to buy something at the merch table for a small band I like. They don't always have a shirt in my size but they always
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by WillEngler 9mo ago
Good move, gotta watch out for complicated contractual claims in Schleswig-Holstein. Microsoft might ally with the Danes and claim Schleswig, and then we'd have an 1864 situation on our hands again.
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by WillEngler 10mo ago
> What is the precise qualification for which illegal alien is permitted and which one is deported? I don't think I raised choosing who gets to stay and who gets deported. My big objection to the current sweeps is that they function
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by WillEngler 10mo ago
This is a common objection I hear raised, so I think it's good that you raised it here. Respectfully, I think there is a lot of rhetorical slippage in your argument. First, I did not support the very loose amnesty policy, but I also do
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by WillEngler 10mo ago
There are some who voted for Trump and do celebrate the cruelty on display in Chicago. But I also think many wanted to deport "the worst of the worst" and that is what they thought they were promised. And per the media many consum
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by WillEngler 1y ago
> Can it be brutalist when you have the richness of wood in full display, veins, shimmer and knots all apparent? Insofar as brutalism is about showcasing the raw building materials, yes, I think this is precisely what brutalism is about.
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by WillEngler 2y ago
https://detroitzoo.org/animals/zoo-animals/pig/
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by WillEngler 5y ago
I enjoyed the framing but to each their own.
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by WillEngler 5y ago
I can't decide to use Rust at my current job, but there are a lot of people on HN for the last ten years telling me that I'm doing it wrong with memory-unsafe programming languages. I still think this is interesting and useful inf
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by WillEngler 5y ago
Slipping the phrase "consider the lobster" into a place where it was germane to the conversation made me lol. Well done.
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by WillEngler 5y ago
Yeesh, thanks for sharing all this. I would eagerly read that blog post! I've gotten really into Ableton this past year and I've been curious whether I should get into Max for Live. Being a programmer and looking at their marketin
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by WillEngler 5y ago
Can anyone in the know compare and contrast bespoke's feature set with Max for Live? ( https://www.ableton.com/en/live/max-for-live/ ) It also has a circuit diagram-ish UI and supports scripting with Node.
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by WillEngler 5y ago
Contrary to the author's claim, the photo booth at Rainbo Club is still there.
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by WillEngler 6y ago
Yes, "community areas" is bureaucrat-speak for neighborhoods. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_areas_in_Chicago ) It's useful for city planners and the like because "neighborhoods" have
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by WillEngler 6y ago
FWIW Youngstown has also placed some big economic development bets on white collar industries. Last I checked, the Youngstown Business Incubator had a solid success with at least one software company: https://www.google.com/
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by WillEngler 6y ago
Yeah, specifically the GM plant in Lordstown, which is not in city proper but is in the metro area. They made Chevy Cruzes there. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/podcasts/the-daily/genera...
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by WillEngler 8y ago
Agreed on most of what you're saying here. > For me, a house isn't an investment but it's a place where I house my family. I really want to view the world this way :) I wish housing were a boring commodity that depreciates
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by WillEngler 8y ago
I think some smart companies in "third tier" cities are tapping this. There are some hilarious targeted ads I see for an Austin company (HomeAway) that prominently shows the median home price in Austin and a link to their open job
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by WillEngler 8y ago
Let me try and complicate this :) First, I submit that $430,000 is still expensive. Instead of buying the median home in Pittsburg and commuting 60+ minutes on BART to downtown SF, I could add an h and buy a huge home in my favorite neighbo
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by WillEngler 8y ago
Hear hear! It's a good solution for this domain using reliable, free tools. And other folks without a lot of compute resources or experience setting up Spark clusters or whatever can easily adapt their approach. Hats off.
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by WillEngler 8y ago
"If you owe the bank $100,000 the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100,000,000 you own the bank." Not a perfect parallel to this situation, but a nice aphorism.
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by WillEngler 8y ago
That's useful to foreground and I agree that's his target. There is a reasonable argument to be made that a constellation of policies targeted at courting big businesses will bring more of the likes of McDonald's, Caterpillar
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by WillEngler 8y ago
Yeah. IMO the stakes aren't super-high because, as the journalist mentions, Chicago already has decently fast and consistent service via the Blue Line from downtown to ORD. Given that, it would be odd for CTA, Cook County, or the feds
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by WillEngler 8y ago
Check out The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein for an extensive treatment of this topic. (His focus is not on Jim Crow per se, but on the entire web of policies used to enforce segregation across the States, thus locking African Americans
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by WillEngler 9y ago
Urban Center for Computation and Data at the University of Chicago | Lead Software Engineer | Chicago | ONSITE FULLTIME Help us build out Plenario (plenar.io), our open access hub for data about cities. Plenario aggregates open data about c
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by WillEngler 10y ago
Yep. Conversely, it's interesting to see some urban planning folks warm up to ride sharing as a way to extend the reach of existing transit networks. But still a lot of hostility, to be sure.
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by WillEngler 10y ago
Chicago also released their taxi trips dataset recently: http://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/chicago-taxi-data...
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by WillEngler 10y ago
I thought "artisanal, shade-grown code" was such a delightful phrase. I took it to mean not bad, but rather too costly for practical/mass use. Like some people can afford to buy $6 lattes, and those are likely very tasty latt
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by WillEngler 10y ago
This was one of the main takeaways from a delightful interview about depression with Peter Sagal ( https://www.apmpodcasts.org/thwod/2016/12/peter-sagal-opens-... ) "Avoiders" who push themselves into
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by WillEngler 10y ago
Yes yes yes. I seemed to me that the article defined "hot" cities as ones with expensive housing, which prevented it from looking at hot cities with less housing problems. Pittsburgh and Columbus come to mind as two cities with gr

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