esperluette

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by esperluette 10y ago
I agree that this is dumb of IFTTT. But I am all in favor of a 'recipe' that consists of "startup does dumb stuff=>Maciej writes a hilarious takedown=>I LOL so hard people ask me what's going on from two rooms away
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by esperluette 11y ago
First off -- I'm so glad the OP is okay now. A couple of things in your story seem weird to me, though. Did they really foreclose on your rental house that fast? There were so many properties going under in 2008 that I thought the bank
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by esperluette 12y ago
I'd search it for new words to add to Wordnik. :-)
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by esperluette 12y ago
aw, thank you!
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by esperluette 12y ago
You can get Wordnet through the Wordnik API too ... as well as from the American Heritage Dictionary, The Century Dictionary, Wiktionary, and the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English And Wordnik is becoming a
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by esperluette 12y ago
Findings from betaworks did something similar, and I really liked that service. They didn't get any traction, though. :-( Are you going to have an API? Because that would be sweet.
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by esperluette 12y ago
EVERY word is a "made-up word". Some words were just made up longer ago than others. If you held everyone to this criteria you would severely impoverish language.
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by esperluette 13y ago
It's not that wages would necessarily go up without collusion, it's that the companies would become significantly less productive. If you can keep your top people from being poached by your peers, you reduce the number of opportun
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by esperluette 13y ago
Actually, the lack of women in cartooning/comics is a topic that has been written about quite often, here's an example: http://comicsalliance.com/superhero-comics-women-sexism/ There are also many apprentices
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by esperluette 13y ago
I don't think you have been paying attention, or maybe you are hanging out in the wrong places. Have you read "Lean In"? There are plenty of women out there who don't expect their husbands to be the main breadwinner. Go
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by esperluette 13y ago
Uh, no. The OP was trying to imply that women are naturally worse at the competitions cited, and I pointed out that women in the age demographic that wins those competitions (usually men 20-50) have less free time than the men. And ... many
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by esperluette 13y ago
And this couldn't be in part because women have less free time across the board, about five hours less?[1] Hard to get to tournament quality if you don't get as much time to practice. [1] http://www.pewresearch.org/
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by esperluette 13y ago
It's okay to be privately surprised, as long as you think about WHY you're surprised (e.g. "girls don't code" vs. "there aren't as many women coders as you might expect given the # of women in the US"
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by esperluette 13y ago
And of course the handy Time Traveler's Poster from Topatoco ...
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by esperluette 13y ago
Only if your wife doesn't have paying work ...
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by esperluette 13y ago
what does "her writing style is masculine" even MEAN?
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by esperluette 13y ago
Wow. Feeling pretty good about my HS Pascal class (yeah, I'm old, so what) now. I was only ignored and dismissed, not harassed and told to make sandwiches (!). The OP's daughter sounds awesome. The OP's daughter's teache
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by esperluette 13y ago
I don't agree that tablets are terrible for e-reading. I love reading on my iPad, and hate my e-ink reader. The page refresh times are terrible in e-ink, they really slow me down and are disruptive.
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by esperluette 13y ago
Sorry, I only know what would work on me (and my friends). Didn't think I was that much of an outlier ...
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by esperluette 13y ago
would something that's 100% OSS be smarter for people just getting started? Swagger jumps to mind. :-) https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-core/wiki/Downloads (Node inspector recently added for command-li
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by esperluette 13y ago
Maybe you should try talking to technically-inclined women? We do exist and I would probably pepper you with tons of questions about what you do if we met at a party. (Of course, I'm married ...) Why not say something like "I make
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by esperluette 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that you could do that, the only problem is that it would accelerate the sun going nova and the eventual engulfing of Earth ... It's all a matter of priorities. :-)
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by esperluette 13y ago
Wow, all I can say is that it is wonderful to read a "can you do a startup and be a parent?" article that is not about MOMS. (Although since the original post didn't mention anything about school responsibilities, doctor's appointments, bed
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by esperluette 13y ago
The ESL-voice was part of the charm. It adds a note of authenticity. :-)
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by esperluette 13y ago
I generally don't mind being hugged (given adequate cleanliness of the hugger and absence of anything that could be considered creepy, e.g. lingering groin contact) but I prefer the two-handed handshake (the "full Clinton") as a way to expr
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by esperluette 13y ago
their rules include "supplies," which include fabric. I have bought fabric on Etsy, both new stuff and vintage. (I have yet to buy handwoven fabric on Etsy, but it's just not my style.)
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by esperluette 13y ago
So cool! I've been waiting for a bunch of bike-apps-in-progress to come to fruition (415bike, I'm looking at you: https://github.com/415bike ) but now the wait is made much easier with this!
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by esperluette 13y ago
I can't be the only person who wanted to write this: tl;dr
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by esperluette 13y ago
oh and one more thing ... have you tapped UVA's alumni network? I went to a good (but "wrong" for the Valley school) & I get calls quite often from people who want to leverage alumni connections into startup introductions. There have to
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by esperluette 13y ago
1. Finish just one project (not to shiny-perfect, just to functionally complete) and put it on GitHub. This is to show you can finish something. It's a huge risk mitigator if someone can look at your code. Nobody's code is perfect, but some

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