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The Dubious Art of the Dad Joke(daily.jstor.org)
107 points by jamesfe 4y ago|118 comments
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by jamesfe 5y ago
This exactly. I once tried the twitter game, I thought it was important to have a big following or say clever things, whatever. I was lightly burned by a tweet (of my own authoring) once, and I thought "I make $XYZ per year, twitter p
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by jamesfe 5y ago
What you really want is NROL-11 which inadvertently revealed the classified location of the payload: https://gizmodo.com/decoding-hidden-messages-in-those-geeky-...
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by jamesfe 5y ago
TL;DR "People watch fewer videos if they see more dislikes which means we make less ad revenue, the result of this A/B test is we will continue to optimize for ad rev"
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by jamesfe 5y ago
Is it? How do they bill you without knowing how much data you transferred? How do they debug what went wrong with your connection without logs? This stuff is barely scratching the surface of the data those companies collect and maintain, li
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by jamesfe 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand - it took me 28 keystrokes to type 13 characters. The value must come from somewhere, where is it?
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by jamesfe 6y ago
The author makes one mention of New York Times, the target of his confusion, but only in the very last sentence. Maybe he's the bad writer? Cherry-picking ten bad sentences from tens of thousands written per day seems like a long-tail
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by jamesfe 6y ago
You are right, but she is a GCP ML advocate, so her job is to distill this stuff down into blog posts or 45 minute talk tracks.
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by jamesfe 6y ago
I'd pay. But mostly, I'd pay to know the customer service would respond to me. Customer service at Google is like trying to cancel Verizon service - endless transfers.
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by jamesfe 6y ago
What's another good email provider? I am starting to feel really nervous about storing my life in Google. It's not that I wouldn't pay for these things...it's just that I worry one day I'll lose access and fall int
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by jamesfe 6y ago
Sure, but say your engineers cost you $100/hr, and every hour beyond 2,000hrs per year they work, they become more unhappy. I think it's worth spending the 8 hours/yr/site, supposing you have relatively few sites. Plus,
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by jamesfe 6y ago
"X is Broken" is the new "Uber for X"
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by jamesfe 6y ago
"If you’ve ever been on either end of the table, you’re probably mad at the state of hiring, too. Whether you have given it a lot of thought or whether you just feel it deep down, something about the whole process feels off." This
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by jamesfe 6y ago
The author proposes that we're somehow blocked from success because we can't type fast enough. Is that true? I don't agree; in fact, I'd rather be concise and communicate well than vomit more words onto the screen. Add
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by jamesfe 7y ago
Then it must have been the police that broke into the Dior and luxury stores on the Champs Elysees and looted them...or that set fire to buildings. Or it was police that spray painted "the gilet jaunes will win" on the Arc de Tri
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by jamesfe 7y ago
Can someone source the US Government directly funding the construction of churches?
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by jamesfe 7y ago
True in that sense. Also true that the two-tier system existed in one of the big tech giants and with it many of the same symptoms. It is interesting to see it again with Google, although I wonder if Amazon/Netflix/Amazon have a
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by jamesfe 7y ago
It seems really similar to an article from March of 1998 about Microsoft: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/30/business/equal-work-less-...
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by jamesfe 8y ago
Required seems strong. Is there a need for that?
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by jamesfe 9y ago
In short, there is no objective way to value art, so galleries charge as much money as possible for the art. The author of the article is somehow either confused or offended by this.
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by jamesfe 9y ago
I'm not sure why you feel the need to defend yourself. HN has a low opinion of the concept of selling user data, but in practice, there are plenty of ad-supported startups represented here. Google is selling your data to marketers. F
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by jamesfe 9y ago
Well, not everybody who dug for gold in the gold rush got rich, but those who sold shovels certainly did. Nice job.
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by jamesfe 9y ago
It was probably different back then, but now you are paid for each pay period plus some hazard pay and additionally, you receive automatic timely promotions (on a schedule specific t each rank) up to a certain point (you cannot enter a POW
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Aggregating Reddit comments with golang and visualizing with d3(medium.com)
1 points by jamesfe 9y ago|0 comments
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by jamesfe 9y ago
I may be simplistic or naïve, but if your business isn't profitable, that's what kills it. Travis or no Travis, it doesn't seem like Uber has found a way to cut a profit yet and at some point, profit becomes a requirement.
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by jamesfe 9y ago
Cool! I'll check it out.
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by jamesfe 9y ago
I like to use Python for quick, fast, flexible things. I like to use Java and Go for things that require more structure and type checking. I like to use Scala for functional programming. I suppose we all have our preferences, but I'm g
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by jamesfe 9y ago
I think you're right. It's sad to see many people are looking at these tools and performing a sort of "Allegory of the Cave" by extrapolating, then, the evils that can be done with these tools. Something, mostly common
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by jamesfe 9y ago
Well, maybe. I don't want to discount this concept entirely because some info is being "leaked" if that is the right word, but... Let's say one of your contacts chats a lot because it's a chatty person. They'
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by jamesfe 10y ago
I came here to note this. People bring this up every year or so - when I was in Iraq in 2006, this was an issue of the "any moment they could all die" sort but nobody seems to care enough to fix it since there isn't a firm t

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