alecdbrooks

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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
I'm sure the FDA could be more efficient, but isn't a large part of the difficulty intrinsic to bringing a safe and effective device to the market? The flip side of people dying from not having an Epipen is people dying because th
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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
In another post, the author states outright that she likes many styles [0], so the idea she promotes "sterile, totalitarian looking architecture" is off the mark. The original post itself includes a diversity of good examples, so
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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
>I find it inappropriate and offensive that this author decides to be the sole authority on aesthetics of PRIVATE properties, appealing to some sort of an unassailable, celestial authority that mainstream architecture is and promoting bo
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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
I could be wrong, but I don't think projektir means they "feel like shit" even when they exercise. I think they mean they occasionally feel like shit after exercising, which obscures the benefit. If so, I'm in projektir
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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
I don't think the barrier is nearly that high. I could see people downloading co-op apps if they hear that they have more drivers or better drivers. Getting to that part is difficult, sure, but not out-of-hand impossible.
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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
Totally agree. Hacker News readers like to promote their favorite, but I think most of us are ultimately pragmatists. For example, Vim is a personal favorite, but I've been using Microsoft Office's built-in VBA editor for most of
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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
To be fair, there is some precedent. Printf, QuickCheck, and other libraries and features keep the exact same name as they're copied from language to language.
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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
It fits with Chris Arnade's other reporting on addiction, but it does seem a bit too focused on McDonald's and a bit too uniformly positive (aside from noting that readers might "sneer"). The Guardian does do native adve
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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
I like the theme—I'm guessing it's supposed to be reminiscent of early Mac OS and HyperCard? That seems to fit HyperDev's goal of getting up and running quickly so you can enjoy building something.
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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
Another approach would be to use cron/anacron/launchd. Although these are technically serve a different purpose (running commands automatically), I find a lot of my background commands also should run regularly.
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What I dislike about Python(alecbrooks.net)
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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
I don't think knowing when you're being asked to work too much is a thing that comes automatically with whatever job skills you're hired for. Even if you work in management or HR, where having a sense of "too much work&q
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by alecdbrooks 10y ago
Not to dismiss your experience as a resident of a country that's received significant aid, but there's substantial evidence that cash transfers work, which GiveDirectly has compiled[0], including the following benefits: —Adults mo
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
I would enjoy it if they used +ε and -ε for that, although +0 and -0 is probably clearer.
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
>Try incorporating some java code in a ruby project, however. No possible way that is going to fly. I don't think this example is convincing. There are too many languages to expect arbitrary pairings to combine well. (Not to mention
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
It's planned, apparently. [0] When it was discussed on the mailing list, it sounds like people were in favor of adding a keyword to disable it, making the syntax something like WITH UNBOXED (subquery) or WITH VIEW (subquery). [0]: htt
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
I haven't personally studied the literature, but this study is in line with what GiveWell has concluded, although they are more certain about cash transfers not being spent on alcohol and tobacco [0] than on it not displacing work [1].
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
The other common places are in names like Brontë, Zoë, and so on and in the word naïve. See the the English subsection of the Wikipedia linked to above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Engl... .
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
This is good advice, but I disagree with his example. The entire paragraph reads[0]: >The Upper Palaeolithic cave art of Europe was a tradition that lasted for perhaps 20,000 years and it will always be rightly described as primitive. Bu
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
There's Airtable, and although the form feature is rudimentary, it is point and click: https://airtable.com .
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
Taken together, Coca-Cola's beverages might come close: >Today, products of The Coca-Cola Company are consumed at the rate of more than 1.8 billion drinks per day. [0] However, it's hard to say how that translates to unique peo
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
No. What is it about how the Met Office studies climate change and requests new computers that is interesting? They both seem self-explanatory, so it didn't seem like listening to a 28-minute program would be worthwhile.
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
>Of particular interest is the Met Office's constant demand for bigger more expensive computers, and its recent moves into the more politically contentious territory of climate change policy. It doesn't seem that interesting to
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
From the tables of fatalities per 100 million miles that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration compiles [0], the accident rate for trucks went up from 1.03 to 1.29. Passenger vehicle crashes are actually lower, going from 1.03 to
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
Thanks to you and aaron-lebo for pointing that out. I'm not sure how I missed that, as I distinctly remembering noticing the language selection in the corner. I probably should have written something like "no longer want to parti
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
gnusocial.de has a better pitch, at least for the Hacker News crowd. My translation: >We are a community of microbloggers, distributed over a worldwide federation of independent GNU Social servers, also known as StatusNet. We're the
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
>now, more then ever, the transparency and accountability of governments has increased in response to many of those exact same services (Twitter/YouTube/Facebook/Google). I'm skeptical. Sure, advocates for transparenc
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
American tipping isn't a particularly good system, but it's unkind to not tip if it means cheating the wait staff out of their wages. Similarly, ads have issues, but blocking them is not fair to the creator, who reasonably expecte
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
>... At no point, as a consumer of this content, did I get presented with so much as a simple "In return for consuming this content, you agree that you will look at the ads being shown here". Isn't it common knowledge that
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by alecdbrooks 11y ago
Thoughtless or not, these comments are exclusionary. Accidental sexism is still sexism. Saying she should have responded to the people directly doesn't fly either. We don't know what she did in the moment, and we don't need t

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