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by adammil 13y ago
I'm with the author until he says to encode extra information into the URL. If the docs and the site are built well, you should find everything you need while completely ignoring the URL structure.
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by adammil 13y ago
Can anyone acquainted with the hard sciences comment on whether this paper passes even a basic sniff test? The title of the paper and so many references to other psychiatry journals seem like potential red flags.
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by adammil 13y ago
Humans evolved for a long time before we understood anything about how our bodies work, so why would a brain have to understand itself to evolve?
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by adammil 13y ago
The announcement was good enough for pastebin but not their own homepage?
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by adammil 13y ago
That's quite fluffy, ethereal "bad hire" criteria. Nothing about ability to get the job done, communication with the team, quality of deliverables, reliability, or really anything a reasonable person would use as objective cr
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by adammil 13y ago
I have two daughters and I would tell them to say forcefully "Get your hand off my waist/leg" so everyone can hear it, and then physically remove his hand from her body. Then it's her option whether or not to make it a p
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by adammil 13y ago
I don't think it's equivalent. Handing out T-shirts that are clearly labeled "unisex" suggests you are trying to accomodate both men and women. Maybe you could accuse someone of ignorance about how unisex T-shirts fit wo
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by adammil 13y ago
You can have a female founders conference, whose purpose is to uplift women, and allow men to be there as well. True story: I once attended a "women in tech" style conference as a hiring manager looking for potential recruits, and
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by adammil 13y ago
It happens outside government too. It happens anytime your higher-level boss tells you: "Yes, I'm on board! You're right, a system like that would help us tremendously in several ways! Please estimate the costs for it so I ca
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by adammil 13y ago
This sounds more like "We don't negotiate with customers." because even if the customer had been professional and polite about it, their policy is no refunds. Even considering the behavior of the customer, IgnitionDeck is get
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by adammil 13y ago
It is nice to read about this in plain language. But, can someone explain what the X and Y axis are meant to represent in the graph?
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by adammil 13y ago
A useful survival strategy is to focus primarily on what you can control. I occasionally struggle to implement my own advice, however.
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by adammil 13y ago
If you win in small claims court, what's the process to turn that win into an actual check from the company?
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by adammil 13y ago
You'd better be sure the objections are inconsequential before you slap the ad-hominem "That Guy" label on someone out of frustration. Sometimes you're so committed to a particular course of action that someone who raise
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by adammil 13y ago
Icon consistency is far more important than flat/skewmorphic artistic concerns. For example, my kid has never seen a 3.5" disk, but knows the icon means "Save", probably because it is consistent among the UIs he uses. Ev
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by adammil 13y ago
I just donated. If you want to fight government abuse of power, you literally have to start somewhere.
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by adammil 13y ago
You can buy several high quality, factory-made guns at any gun store for the cost of just one 3D printer, so why do you call out 3D printed guns as particularly dangerous? Unless you mean their likelihood of just exploding instead of firing
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by adammil 13y ago
If anyone from Watsi is reading, your auto-replies for Contact Us are still saying this: "Thanks for the message! Our entire team is currently in Nepal and will be slow / unable to respond to email until Wednesday, 9/4. Looki
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by adammil 13y ago
Watsi wants your credit card number including CVV to simply register for an account. This is before choosing anyone to fund. How about I only provide payment information at "check out" instead?
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by adammil 13y ago
After handling lots of contracts back and forth, my experience is that you avoid adding new conditions to a contract for a large company if you can, but you had better remove anything that you don't intend to actually comply with. As a
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by adammil 13y ago
Elections are not the only place to drive change. I donate to the EFF monthly because I was impressed to see them actively challenging things in court, which in my opinion is far more effective at driving change long term.
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by adammil 13y ago
Many people I know, including me, simply need to know that the outcome of the work matters. Shipping product that results in zero feedback is a motivation killer. Even a little customer feedback provides an immediate productivity boost whet
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by adammil 13y ago
Sometimes they randomly open and close security lines between scanners and metal detectors. To avoid the hassle, I pick the lines that are obviously headed to a metal detector. When I opt out, I do it firmly but politely, and never had anyo
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by adammil 13y ago
People do this when they feel stress and internal conflict for bending their own morals to do what they think might be best for their country overall. Sort of like the things you might do to save your own kid, even if immoral, but finding s
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by adammil 13y ago
There's no rational reason for you to say that about a person you don't know. That's ignorant and textbook prejudice.
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by adammil 13y ago
It sounds like you are calling us gun owners trigger happy idiots and borderline sociopaths.
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by adammil 13y ago
I think you meant murder is bad for society, because gun ownership never killed anyone.
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by adammil 13y ago
They are opening messages that don't cross borders.
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by adammil 13y ago
He's mastered the arcane and delicate technology that we software people work with every day, but that doesn't make everyone else a moron. His experience blinds him to how bad the user interfaces are for most things we use. The sa
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by adammil 13y ago
Yeah, tell that to the architect we had.

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