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by buckler 15y ago
Do you feel the moderation over there is enough though, even on the "nicely moderated places" that you mention? Compared to other communities where admins/mods delete users' comments to a much higher frequency relative to Reddit and freely
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by buckler 15y ago
To add to this, it also feels as that in most cases, for every topic that a niche subreddit (or multiple similar subreddits) covers, there usually exist better online communities dealing with the same topic elsewhere on the Web. For example
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by buckler 15y ago
If you're interested in books published in 2011 and that are not necessarily picked by HNers: http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2011/11/online_b... This blogger aggregates "Best of 2011"-type book lists from all types of sources
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by buckler 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism I'm not sure if the same term is used in the U.S., but few British journalists have spoken out about what you've mentioned - the race to get the story out first without applying strict fact-checking
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by buckler 15y ago
Do you usually ask the same question to white Canadians as well ("Where are you from?", "Oh, where are your parents from then?")? It would be safe to assume that white Canadians are generally confronted with those questions with much less f
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by buckler 15y ago
As for the post-it/to-do lists, what helps me is to develop a point system (scale of 0~5 or whatever) and assign a point next to a criterion at the end of the day, depending on how well you think the task was accomplished. It works even bet
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by buckler 16y ago
Just as an additional note, MIT came up with a set of OCWs for introductory courses back in January that are specifically intended for independent learners (IIRC, one of the MIT's original aims for the OCW project was to provide materials f
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by buckler 16y ago
Previously: - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606148 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868006 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576677 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1365094 (entrepreneurship & specific subre
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by buckler 16y ago
Bias put aside, you get to detect certain patterns about the articles after you read BBC's online news service for a while. Most of the time, they seem to lack depth as well. If you're familiar with their articles, you've probably seen a pa
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by buckler 16y ago
I cannot agree more with this. Perhaps this might apply to almost all discussion-based sites, but often at HN (especially Ask HN posts), it's sometimes frustrating seeing how new conversations regarding a specific topic - most likely as a r
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by buckler 16y ago
There was a pertinent discussion about height adjustable desks few days ago, see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1285775 I highly recommend them, if you can get one for your home office (or if you work in a office that allows de
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by buckler 16y ago
May be you've seen these HN threads about self-learning maths already... if not, hopefully you'll find these textbooks useful. Here's a little HN link dump, in the order of time at which the discussions took place (from the oldest to the mo
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by buckler 17y ago
Relevant HN discussions from the past: - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108723 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201913
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by buckler 17y ago
Just had to post a comment to say thanks. Even the archives on searchyc is good enough, but this will surely save me a lot of clicks. Cheers.
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by buckler 17y ago
A dedicated site (rather than personal blogs that are already in place for this purpose) would be great. At the moment, I keep a Delicious account to index learning material and look for additional content using relevant tags or looking thr
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by buckler 17y ago
Wasn't WoW supposed to be the new golf amongst the Silicon Valley lot?
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by buckler 17y ago
Dude, asking out of curiosity, could you elaborate on your experience? Did your health literally get worse? Did you miss out on a lot occasions/opportunities during the time you read heavily? Was it too much of an information overload than
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by buckler 17y ago
In case you're unfamiliar with the IAmA series on Reddit (which I see is getting positive feedback from HN readers, needless to say), a 'starred' post such as this one means that the OP has verified his/her identity with a subreddit moderat
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by buckler 17y ago
From the viewpoint of a HN lurker: -pg - Because he's PG -edw517, mechanical_fish - Due to frequent sighting of their comments -tokenadult - You'll always find him in threads that contain discussions about human intelligence/alternative edu
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by buckler 17y ago
For some reason, I've heard the exact same thing from residents of Chicago, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, etc. So does "average" exclude major (maybe East Coast) U.S. cities? Should I look at cities of smaller scale... say Oxnard, CA? Whic
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by buckler 17y ago
Technological: -Compilation of "Best How-To and DIY Sites" from PC Magazine (includes Instructables, WikiHow, Expert Village, WonderHowTo, etc.) - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347650,00.asp -DIY from Popular Science - http://www
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by buckler 17y ago
Past Discussions (search for more): - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576677 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199103 Suggestions: - http://similicio.us/search.php?url=news.ycombinator.com&... - I was also going to suggest
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by buckler 17y ago
It isn't a documentary to begin with, but an investigative news program (rather a sensational one at that). Can't speak for shows in non-English speaking countries, but I'm sure we all have shows like this one in our respective countries of
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by buckler 17y ago
Yes sir, Kindle 2 does it (via http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix ).
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by buckler 17y ago
If you have certain areas that you're particularly interested in, make a customized feed. For example, I've used Yahoo Pipes to create a feed to filter out Delicious Popular items that contain words (topics) that do not interest me (e.g. Tw
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by buckler 17y ago
With the option limited to expensive/not very well-built iRex iLiad at the moment, I am happy that more large-screen devices are coming out. Meanwhile, after researching & researching, I'm still reluctant to adapt to the new technology
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by buckler 17y ago
I also agree with this notion. Also notice the absence of spam here... In addition to human editing by the admins, active users on HN here really care about the quality on the site. It's as if sites like Digg, Reddit, & Slashdot have se
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by buckler 18y ago
This solution pertains to Delicious (since I assume it's the best option for now). If you were to create a new account (just to start off fresh) and import your bookmarks, you do have an option to set all of them as private. For future save