doctorOb

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by doctorOb 6y ago
I had a friend call me–practically in tears–because YouTube removed his highest viewed video game montage for violating their hate speech policy. Context: WWII tank game playing as the Germans, usually with some old german language folk son
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by doctorOb 6y ago
Hey, those are my weekend plans you're talking about!
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by doctorOb 6y ago
No, seems more like remove-js and hacker news aren't playing well together. HN reference's it's one stylesheet relatively, so the remove-js output builds an invalid URL like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by doctorOb 6y ago
I've had a few Big Macs lately, and from my perspective the meat is perhaps the least consequential part of that sandwich, both flavor and texture-wise. At one point I asked for 4x extra cheese (gross, I know) and after the first few b
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by doctorOb 6y ago
A PagerDuty family account?
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by doctorOb 6y ago
K-12 is a terrible system in the US which seems entirely reliant on the desperation of people who devoted 4-8 years of education to retain their jobs in a very limited market.
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by doctorOb 6y ago
A teacher friend's district claimed to be investing in training their teachers, but all it boiled down to was a high level overview of google docs, with no guidance on adapting a curriculum.
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by doctorOb 6y ago
> a "panel" of "experts" discuss how "issue x will destroy america." My friend who worked in news regarded this as the first incarnation of "fake news".
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by doctorOb 6y ago
Or, more charitably, the 90s?
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by doctorOb 6y ago
From what I can tell, New England IPAs–especially the coveted ones such as Heady Topper–really only work when you can control for freshness. As soon as the beer gets canned its got 2-4 weeks where you can drink it and say "wow, that&#x
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by doctorOb 6y ago
It varied episode to episode. I'd usually end up putting 10-15 hours into research and writing but with some topics I couldn't tackle in 7 days, I'd have to slap a roman numeral after it and try to finish it next week. Or, co
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by doctorOb 6y ago
> The biggest thing to me was that I learned that motivation was something that could come after you force yourself to wake up early and just get started I had a similar experience doing a podcast [1] with a group of 6 others, each putti
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by doctorOb 6y ago
My favorite memory of FFmpeg involved wowing a friend with the "magic of computer hacking" by slicing a subsection of a youtube video, cutting the source audio, and replacing it with audio from a song he had discovered "fit p
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by doctorOb 6y ago
This is a bit like saying "why would someone take a ferrari to the corner store, a honda sedan works just fine". The implementation of the task at hand is without consequence, their boss just wants X to happen even if it gets done
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by doctorOb 6y ago
A number of years ago, I was conducting an interview for a front end developer position. I started with a mostly algorithmic question hoping to gauge the candidate's comfortability with javascript. It was something like “use a for loop
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by doctorOb 7y ago
I was especially irked by this the last time I went to a Lensecrafters. They said it's because Ray-Ban now makes the lenses themselves. So I was shopping at a store front for branded frames with in-house lenses, all owend, operated, an
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by doctorOb 7y ago
No refund on the flights so we ended up paying a ticket change fee and rescheduling for september! Some of the lodging was less flexible unfortunately :(
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by doctorOb 7y ago
I just cancelled my trip _to_ Tokyo this morning at the last minute because I was worried about unwittingly bringing the virus back to the states and getting friends and family (children and immune deficient) sick.
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by doctorOb 7y ago
I'm quite literally in the same position as you right now. As long as the CDC doesn't bump their warning up to a level 3, I'm going. The cost of the flight + no refund makes it difficult for some of my party to walk away from
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by doctorOb 7y ago
A job in the hand is worth two in the bush. The friends I've had who drove for DoorDash and/or Lyft were in between proper jobs (e.g CVS and reception at a hospital or something), and that in between period was lasting longer than
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by doctorOb 7y ago
Itinerary information they get from Amadeus[1] or ITA software (which google acquired to kickstart their flights product). Prices I imagine come from integrations with the hundreds of online travel agencies like Expedia, eDreams, etc. [1]
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by doctorOb 7y ago
My friend has worked in a number of different pre-school facilities throughout Boston and most of them had a carved out screen based activity (usually tablets) for at least part of the day. I'm sure the science is still out but in prac
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by doctorOb 7y ago
With both looking like they come with a built in VHS player.
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by doctorOb 8y ago
Or processed cheese food [1] [1] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...
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by doctorOb 8y ago
I had this view for a while, until I thought about it from the perspective of my loved ones. They may very well prefer that I live past 65.
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by doctorOb 8y ago
I'd say this is an open problem in the metasearch space right now. Airlines are increasingly splitting out what you do and don't get with your ticket into different fare classes, which they brand and line item themselves, making i
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by doctorOb 9y ago
The Bitcoin whitepaper came out just three months after this post, if I'm not mistaken.
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by doctorOb 10y ago
Something similar happened to Naughty Dog, when they used the MBTA Map in "The Last Of Us"[1]. [1] http://transitmap.net/post/53696766419/boston-theft
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by doctorOb 11y ago
Oh, citation fishing ;)