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Be Kind; People Will Remember(thoughtcatalog.com)
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by gatordan 14y ago
It's strange how convenient and accepted unchecked anecdotal evidence can be around here under certain circumstances . If this was a strictly tech article I would hope more people would be saying your sample size here is two or three, that'
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by gatordan 14y ago
It's overly negative and hyperbolic comments like this on HN that make me think "They thought THAT was bad, I can't imagine posting my own work on here". This a high quality 360 degree view of a path along a coral reef - no it's not particu
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by gatordan 14y ago
For a community that is usually quick to dismiss anecdotal evidence and fear, uncertainty, and doubt there seems to be quite a bit of all of the above going around in these comments. Given the update on the Tech Crunch article, and the fact
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by gatordan 14y ago
This is a pet peeve of mine and I think the problem extends past "You're Doing it Wrong" titles. I haven't been reading HN long enough to know the trend but I will say the current state of blog titles is pretty bad. Taking a quick look at t
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by gatordan 14y ago
I will say that the premise is really interesting, "Everyone Should be Upper Class". That idea alone is probably why it made it to the front page of HN. But ultimately this is not well written. There were no citations or strong evidence bes
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by gatordan 14y ago
This is a community that upvoted a story about wearing the same outfit every day to the front page last week. I say we leave the fashion critiques to them and they leave the technology analogies ("they're an iPhone you can wear on your face
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by gatordan 14y ago
Does anyone know the actual percentage of users that access Twitter through third party client applications? And what users are currently getting out of these apps that would make them annoyed enough to quit the service if they were forced
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by gatordan 14y ago
I dislike when an author titles and formats their post in this way. The title is an overstatement about why something that is common practice is wrong ("hey! i use relative dates, what am i doing wrong?"), leading to an article with a coupl
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by gatordan 14y ago
They aren't less worthy as human beings, they aren't "sluts" or whatever you thought i meant. In my experience women who are attracted to assholes simply aren't worthwhile in the context of being pursuing romantically - i dont have much to
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by gatordan 14y ago
I think you should realize your comment - in a thread about counteracting sexual harassment towards women at conferences - is about how incredibly difficult it is to be a man. Nevermind how difficult it must feel to try to fit in as a minor
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by gatordan 14y ago
I commented heavily in the original HN thread because of comments like this. You're not defending the behavior... you're just saying women are literally asking for it. Theres this myth that men who are assholes succeed with women. I suppose
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by gatordan 14y ago
I have to agree with everyone here that this doesn't make sense. I'm currently working on integrating Stripe into my application to create a subscription system. By far the easiest part has been payment form. In their tutorial they have a b
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by gatordan 14y ago
The angst in this post is really off putting. It reads like a series of observations by someone having a bad day after reading a book about existentialism (Mark Cuban is more likely to answer my emails than my friends?). He hints that cari
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by gatordan 14y ago
I agree. If nothing else its always refreshing to read a piece on HN written by someone with a command of language and writing. Sometimes it gets tiring reading bullet pointed articles about how to design an engaging landing page, or poorly
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by gatordan 14y ago
I don't have a blog and I don't know the proper convention for those "Show/Ask HN" posts so I suppose a comment here is the next best thing because my question is related. After reading the "Yes, I was Hacked. Hard." post I updated several
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by gatordan 14y ago
This reminds of a news story I distinctly remember about Circuit City from a few years back. They fired their senior sales associates and hired cheaper presumably less knowledgeable workers to cut costs. They were already on the way out at
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by gatordan 14y ago
I'm not at all convinced that popular sentiment in the world we currently live is that "programming is shit". There was no About page on this blog so I couldn't tell if the author is just very young or if this is dated. Either way the post
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by gatordan 14y ago
I did not say the proposed colored card system was the end all solution and that everyone here should shut up and take it. Absolutely we should question and propose different solutions. But I'm not sure that I saw any comments on alternativ
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by gatordan 14y ago
This is flat out ignorant. Is it "impossible" to google for credible studies about sexual assault. Like this popular one from 2010 by the CDC that interviewed 16,000 people (including 7,400 men) and found that 18% of women and 1% of men ha
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by gatordan 14y ago
I really appreciate you being open to discussion - its the biggest reason why I value the HN community and why I even bother to comment. I read your original comment many times and think that it needed clarity, eventually you did get to you
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by gatordan 14y ago
This article is about a call to action to end sexual assault and harassment against women. It's really disappointing that the majority of comments that have followed are about how things really aren't THAT bad (as a man), or that women shou
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by gatordan 14y ago
The blame the victim mentality sprinkled throughout this comment and a few others is the problem have with them. "Not at all to excuse the behavior, but..." "I'm not excusing inappropriate or damaging behavior. It is important, though..."
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by gatordan 14y ago
Affective - causing emotion or feeling. I was conscious of my usage although ill be the first to admit i make typos all the time. To elaborate, writing can evoke feelings good or bad, feelings of familiarity or confusion, and these feelings
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by gatordan 14y ago
I can accept bad metaphors and analogies in HN comments; this a technically focused community and the comments are so far above above most online forums that nitpicking about literary devices would be ridiculous. But I can't forgive the ho
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by gatordan 14y ago
Not so subtly the author is telling the reader if you program with Vim you'll be just like "all the really great programmers" who can write 4 line solutions to problems that take ordinary programmers 10 pages. You'll produce "impossible pat
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by gatordan 14y ago
Exactly. This reminds me of facebook and every site with "login with facebook" implemented. For example, I choose not to log into hulu with facebook because I'm sure its great for facebook to know what bad shows I watch to serve me better a
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by gatordan 14y ago
Thanks for they reply! I'm using a Droid Bionic, android version 2.3.4 and this is on the default virtual keyboard. Ampersand is the only character affected as far as i can tell.
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by gatordan 14y ago
As an ed-tech cofounder at a company that needs data like this, this is exciting. You guys are YC backed and from all appearances you'll be in direct competition with the Imagine K12 backed LearnSprout http://learnsprout.com/ . It's excit
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by gatordan 14y ago
I was excited to try this out then I encountered a strange issue: in every website I visit when I type an & symbol into an input element it is replaced with a 7 (e.g. I type "password&" the input shows "password7"). It's happening a

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