devilshaircut

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by devilshaircut 7y ago
It should be obvious but, limitations, whether they be related to time, budget, or other resources, make stock assets desirable. For instance, commissioning a custom icon set rather than picking one off-the-shelf is a luxury only some proje
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by devilshaircut 7y ago
If "hyper-rational atheism" were the "Times New Roman of metaphysics", you'd think it would be far more common than it actually is. Going with your n=1 "I meet people like this all the time." theme, I know
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by devilshaircut 7y ago
I definitely agree that there is a perfect world where designs are fully researched with a battery of user tests and for large companies like Facebook, Atlassian, and Lyft this is critical to their success. Every design decision, large and
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
> In October, The Information reported that Bird was spending $551 per scooter with a goal of reducing that cost to $360. The full article is gated, but I'd be interested to know where that figure came from. It is possible for a pri
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
Agree. As a primarily JS/React developer, I think there is irony if JS is held as a good design pattern in comparison to CSS with respect to reusability. Inasmuch as what are being called CSS "workarounds" are in fact workaro
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
Agree. Maybe it is more helpful to think of numbers as adjectives than nouns. Oneness plus twoness equals threeness. The part of speech is sort of irrelevant but it obviates a debate over whether or not instantiation of the unattached idea
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
This also surprises me. If for no other reason than I would imagine that authors who are not guilty of plagiarism are interested to some degree in verifying that their original works do not contain anything that could look like plagiarism.
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
The "How Knowledge Work Happens" graphic is really what resonates with me. I run a dev shop and I hate time tracking for the complexity implied in this image. Questions come to mind. What counts for time tracking and what doesn&#x
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
I don't entirely understand why some people find CSS so difficult to work with. I agree that it has its own challenges, but solutions generally aren't very complex. Global selectors ("variables") collisions? Use namespac
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
I wasn't really referring to economic value, nor was the quote or the cited article itself. The proposition was that people will do the least work for the most reward where possible. The cited article suggested that rewards result in p
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
In your own citation: "Rewards kill creativity. Some twenty studies have shown that people do inferior work when they are expecting to get a reward for doing it, as compared with people doing the same task without any expectation of a
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
I am in my mid thirties and would say I definitely do not think I am as sharp now as I was as a teenager. That said, I am overall much happier now. For me, mental agility has proven less important to me than a number of things. Example: I h
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
I'll offer a third opinion here, which is that the book is literally not possible to recreate accurately in film using current technology. The challenge is that in Annihilation VanderMeer is very interested in the idea of a thing which
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
I loved this book and I loved the movie too. I really like how it was sort of marketed/positioned as a Leonardo DiCaprio teen movie but ultimately when you see it, the film has a much darker, serious tone like the book. The trailer, as
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
I was searching through the comments for this one. 100%. I would even go further and say that an invention is more than the sum of the parts. There is a specific mixture that makes something cohesive and ring true. Early PDAs had versions o
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
Imo, not all websites are web apps. You can certainly still create a static website using just HTML. The term "app" to me implies functionality beyond the presentational.
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
Personally, I hate exercising but I do about 90 minutes of high intensity cardio every day (with no end goal like grocery shopping; just for the sake of exercise). It's masochistic and I wish I were the type of person who actually enjo
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
The author of the article uses "start up" to refer to a business less than 2 years old - fair enough. As someone who runs a business which falls into this category, it certainly is frustrating to know how heavily our government su
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
A.) Pretty sure that statement was made to assuage fears that people would be purchasing an expensive asset that rapidly depreciates in value, only to witness it becoming obsolete in a matter of years because its hardware doesn't meet
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
A bridge designed on purely utilitarian principles would not be 3D printed. Art makes us think about what could be - and imagine a future of solutions that are utilitarian in new ways, or address needs we didn't know we had. There is b
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by devilshaircut 8y ago
The same reasoning would also have applied to Netflix when it was a younger company, though (i.e. back catalog, staying in the good graces of licensors, etc.). Tidal has already been doing most of the stuff people are proposing here. It&#x2
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by devilshaircut 11y ago
Actually the article (in the quote the replier posted) uses statistics to so show, evidently, that drug users commit violence less frequently than a control group; the quote does not discount the causal effect of drugs and violence, much le
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by devilshaircut 11y ago
Actually I believe it is you who misread the article. To pull a quote from the article: > "Both nicotine and alcohol are strongly linked to violence." The poster specifically referred to alcohol in his/her post: > &quot
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by devilshaircut 11y ago
Please see my profile and email me your resume and GitHub. I run a small Rails firm and all of our devs work from home; happy to share details with you if you contact me via email.
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by devilshaircut 12y ago
It really isn't with respect to libertarian values in particular; all I am saying is that in a given scenario regardless of Ideology A, a watered down form of Ideology B that is closer to Ideology A does not necessarily represent the v
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by devilshaircut 12y ago
This isn't the metric you are looking for, but I believe the basis of this argument hinges on the proposition that financial need for medical expenses varies from demographic to demographic. I believe this is trivially demonstrated (st
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by devilshaircut 12y ago
Neat site! If you are looking for feedback, I noticed you were using the skrollr plugin for parallax effect; I only reviewed the code for about 50 seconds but it appears to use the top/bottom/etc CSS properties to achieve the move
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by devilshaircut 12y ago
I really appreciate your sentiment. I will say this (and again I do agree with you): bigotry of varying degrees is so common and so engrained in society that if I were to bother to recognize its presence consistently, it would quickly becom
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by devilshaircut 12y ago
I agree 100% with your reasoning here. And I want to add also into the mix another aspect I feel is relevant: we are talking about journalism . In the field of journalism (and writing in general), there is incentive to represent bold and c
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by devilshaircut 12y ago
I don't agree with that premise though. I agree you would end up with a complement of capable employees but it doesn't address culturally-embedded, systemic discrimination. That is what affirmative action is designed to address. I

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