jabelk

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by jabelk 12y ago
This is a reasonable thing for MIT to do. Many comparisons to book burning have been made in various comments, which is not a good analogy. In this situation, the analogue to book burning would be burning his books[1]. MIT is just declining
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by jabelk 12y ago
This is pretty cool. I like her learning style. I do the same thing, and I love the process of going from looking up every other word to being able to actually understand independently, even in small chunks. > She scratched around in Goo
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by jabelk 12y ago
Agree, but I like having everything in one place. I don't get a lot of email, so that may change, but I have a filter and separate inbox[1] set up for stuff I read, including RSS. [1] http://klinger.io/post/71640845
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by jabelk 12y ago
No, because people have too damn many email addresses. I typically have multiple email addresses at all times, with one constant (my gmail) and the others revolving around my employer, my school, and other affiliations. And which email I gi
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by jabelk 12y ago
This is totally off the cuff, but here's my first thought: To sign up for the site, you need only a username, password, and verification method (email/sms/facebook/something to authenticate you as a person, but this woul
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by jabelk 12y ago
Wholeheartedly agree with the article. I have absolute control of my inbox with filters, labels, and signing up for newsletters and/or updates on various subjects. There is no way a centralized end-to-end service is going to eclipse em
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by jabelk 12y ago
Out of curiosity, what are some of the things you're trying to combat the 2nd type of procrastination? I've been experimenting with habits and other organizational systems to use my time more effectively, and it's been going
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by jabelk 12y ago
TIL that there is a market for $150 purple/red/yellow plaid shirts.
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by jabelk 12y ago
There's a big difference between an "internet connection" and "facebook". My opinion (as someone who cancelled my Facebook and netflix accounts this month, never had a TV, but do have a smartphone (mostly for GPS))
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by jabelk 12y ago
I don't know the answer here, but it's something I've considered often, so: Is it possible that those top 1-2 people just knew so much more than you, going into the class, and had such a strong foundation in closely related m
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by jabelk 12y ago
>Most kids want the thousand bucks, Lee said, but the pennies doubled daily over 30 days eventually adds up to more than $10.7 million. 30 years perhaps? Anyway, it's cool to hear about Microsoft Research. This quote is especially e
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by jabelk 12y ago
It seems like some baseline talent is necessary to make the strategy work. I don't claim to have any ability to judge musical ability, plus it seems many artists aren't writing their own songs anyway, so I'm not trying to com
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by jabelk 12y ago
She definitely knows what she's doing. You can't go from that "Jolene" video you linked to sitting naked on a wrecking ball[0] in one year, by accident. The interesting thing is that she would choose deliberately to do
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by jabelk 12y ago
I don't think so - unless I'm missing information about them (they're now rebranded as just "Genius" FYI). Their two main controversies that I'm aware of were the SEO violation thing and the founder's inap
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by jabelk 12y ago
I was hoping for more fleshed-out examples of why the business models were good, but the list was interesting nonetheless. My two personal-favorite business models are (in no particular order): Tesla and Miley Cyrus. Tesla: evident if you&#
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by jabelk 12y ago
Now that you point it out I can see how it could be interpreted that way. I had trouble recognizing that because I don't think being wealthy (owning a Tesla) is an indicator that one "built something substantial".
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by jabelk 12y ago
That was my thought too, math is obviously tied very closely to language. And programming did come from CS which came from math. Web/App dev is just so far downstream from all of the math, that people in those roles can get away with i
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by jabelk 12y ago
"It hinges on a gut-level judgment about what sort of universe we inhabit." The thing is, I don't think a gut-level judgment is the best course of action here. Similarly, I don't make gut-level judgments about whether I
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by jabelk 12y ago
By "washing" I think you mean driving dirty clothes a small distance so that immigrants can wash them for you while you take a cut. Much cushier gig than actual washing.
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by jabelk 12y ago
I have dabbled in a little bit of video production, and on the (rare) occasion that I catch a few minutes of televised football, that yellow line always blows me away. Mentioning how difficult it must be to whoever is actually watching the
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by jabelk 12y ago
I wonder whether they will first become available as a product that individual people can buy, or if Google will open some sort of service where you can sign up for a monthly "car plan" for X miles. Or maybe partner with a taxi co
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by jabelk 12y ago
I believe the tests are closely supervised, with a fully attentive person sitting in the front seat ready to take over. If anyone died or there was some accident, that person would be liable. (Although the public outcry/fear mongering
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Revitalizing My Productivity by Supporting Deliberate Actions(juliabelk.wordpress.com)
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by jabelk 12y ago
Jesus. As someone on youtube noted, take a close look at around 0:50. You can see lights flash, which seems very likely to have been from someone unlocking the car. Right after, the door handles miraculously start working again. The whole t
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by jabelk 13y ago
YOU moved the discussion goalposts by bringing up your trip to Asia in the first place. And then you told me I had no right to be indignant about the systematic exclusion of women from tech because it was a "first world problem" c
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by jabelk 13y ago
That's the thing. That's why some women notice and others don't, and it's always split. The women who notice, notice that the use of the word bro EXCLUDES them from the joke. The women who don't notice, don't r
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by jabelk 13y ago
I do recognize this. All the time. 6 months ago, I would not have batted an eye at this "bro" thing, so I certainly am aware of other women who don't notice. But I wouldn't call myself a feminist so maybe that's the
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by jabelk 13y ago
Ugh. What is not equal to men in my comment? And, irrelevant sidenote, I have never attached the "feminist" label to myself. I'm just a woman, calling it how I see it. So tell me your perspective.
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by jabelk 13y ago
You said "I have literally been denied housing multiple times on the account of not being a local and that fact wasn't even hidden from me. Do I care? Not really" To me, that sounds a lot like you "not really caring&quot
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by jabelk 13y ago
No one is asking anyone to stop using the word bro. It is about context . As in, being mindful about using the word bro when both men and women are involved in a field where women are actively discouraged from participating in the first pl

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