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by ejfox 3y ago
Why is > Why did the tomato turn red? Because it saw the salad dressing! the most popular joke between jokes? Is this the epitome of all humor?
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Joy-driven development: a philosophy for better work(ejfox.com)
3 points by ejfox 3y ago|0 comments
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by ejfox 3y ago
I believe the moral of the story is to run your opening line by literally any human ("Modern software engineering is rotten. I should know — it's been my livelihood since I graduated from college in late 2019." - literally la
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by ejfox 4y ago
I learned photoshop for the first time to make signatures for my forum buddies, little did I know I was setting the path of my entire life...
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by ejfox 5y ago
ah, my favorite type of hacker news post: "smart" western person finds a thing he doesn't understand, begins to understand 25% of it, and then decides to "fix it" like it doesn't have centuries of history and l
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by ejfox 5y ago
dork finds a thing he doesn't understand, begins to understand 25% of it, and then decides to "fix it" like it doesn't have centuries of history and learnings around it that impacted the decision, write your own metaphor
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by ejfox 6y ago
Does it work on people of color? Seems like a potentially deadly oversight considering what we know about existing failures in object-detection.
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by ejfox 7y ago
> The Navy email to Navy Times contained hidden computer coding designed to extract the IP address of the Navy Times computer network and to send that information back to a server located in San Diego. Under U.S. criminal law, authoritie
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by ejfox 9y ago
NBC News - New York, NY - Full-time, Onsite - http://nbcnews.com Here at NBC we are looking for someone with a passion for storytelling with data and experience with D3. The role is to create visualizations for NBC News, MSNBC,
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by ejfox 9y ago
I have had exactly the opposite reaction to the "frat boy monoculture"- self-taught and self-motivated, maybe, but I have run into more people than I can count who came into the industry for the money. 10 years ago they would have
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by ejfox 9y ago
You are saying some very out-there things without citation. "The justice system is far more sexist than racist" - what evidence do you have for this statement? "a black man that is unjustly shot by police is more likely to be
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by ejfox 9y ago
I love that nowhere in this post do they explain what Ghost is or who their customers are or any of that. At first I thought, I guess, IA Writer competitor? Then, maybe, 2017 Wordpress alternative? Super unclear.
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by ejfox 9y ago
I am really curious to hear your responses to the questions I raised
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by ejfox 9y ago
What is the difference between creation and generation? What is the difference between me selecting the specific frame made by a generative algorithm and photographer picking a specific moment in time to capture a frame? What's the dif
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by ejfox 9y ago
Art- and in fact, most creative endeavors often DO involve creating many things until you discover something "cool". With my personal experiments with generative art, I think of the machine almost as a work assistant. I have a rou
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by ejfox 9y ago
Personally, I'd prefer a 14-day trial with all functionality that stops working after the allotted period.
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by ejfox 9y ago
That sounds really great. I think that the day-to-day "breaking news" style reporting on this subject is common, but longer more visual pieces that get into the nitty-gritty are rare. I'm a designer and journalist very intere
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by ejfox 10y ago
Okay, real talk, where do I get / buy / make one?
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by ejfox 10y ago
tl;dr - talk like a human and not an MBA and people might actually communicate with you.
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by ejfox 10y ago
This is advice for sadness, not depression. This is the opening quote in the article: "Sadness is when you feel down because things aren’t going your way. Depression is when you feel down even when all is going well." Depression m
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by ejfox 12y ago
Would love a setting to select the number of objects to drop on click, and the spread for them ie (20 objects, 50px radius) and also for objects to gain the mass of objects that hit them, so that if a bunch of huge objects collide, they cre
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by ejfox 12y ago
> Better dumping it on Deputy Joe than letting it rot. This is a central assumption the DoD/Government has been making, that is turning out to be misguided if not flat-out wrong. The police in this country are not properly trained a
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by ejfox 12y ago
I was unschooled, and I think that it really depends on what passion your kid has (which you can't predict, but can impact). If your child becomes really interested in the law, he will have unlimited time to pursue that goal. If your c
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by ejfox 12y ago
I scrolled through this whole thread looking for a mention of Swell who have been my go-to app for this purpose for the past couple of months (feels like it's been forever though, can't imagine life without it). I pretty much get
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by ejfox 12y ago
This is a feature of Swell: http://www.swell.am/
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by ejfox 12y ago
I always felt a donation to Newark with Oakland in your backyard was bizarre. CMD-F for Oakland in this article... nothing.
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by ejfox 12y ago
If you had the option to tap a Bitcoin card and have the same experience, but save 3% on the transaction, would you?
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My wishlist for a modern news organization(medium.com)
1 points by ejfox 13y ago|0 comments
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by ejfox 13y ago
What channel? What server? This is interesting. Thank you for sharing. Still not sure I see your point (you will have to forgive me for not reading through this in it's entirety).
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by ejfox 13y ago
As someone who talked to him on a daily basis, I truly have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. This sort of libel is really poor taste at a time like this.

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