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by jowiar 6y ago
Are you clicking with the pointing finger? Every time I see someone do that (which is common), it looks incredibly awkward — especially a click and drag. Fingers for pointing and gestures, thumb for clicking. Use arm or fingers rather than
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by jowiar 6y ago
I’ve found boring in this context to be a function of 3 things (in no particular order): - Your experience using the tool in question to solve this problem or very similar ones - Your teammates’ experience using the tool in question to so
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by jowiar 6y ago
I spent years following Lowe for the Things he Won't Work With, but somewhere a few weeks ago I was made aware of his coverage of COVID drug development, which has been phenomenal (and is what he actually does work with).
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by jowiar 6y ago
I think the two places I'm seeing this right now are in the Processing/P5 community ( https://editor.p5js.org ), and interesting things built on top of Glitch. Hydra is fascinating -- I sat down with it for a couple hour
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by jowiar 6y ago
Within the US, of the cities I've lived in (NYC, DC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Chicago, SF), it's thoroughly mainstream in DC, and that's it. In NYC, Ethiopian Food is something I can get if I want it. In DC, everyone I knew ate Et
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by jowiar 6y ago
Fried pizza is most certainly an authentic Italian thing -- it's street food in Napoli, and it's absolutely fantastic.
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by jowiar 7y ago
Their logistics are absolutely phenomenal. The general practitioners I attended before One Medical always was overcrowded, any appointment required sitting in a waiting room for an hour past the appointment time until I finally got in. For
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by jowiar 7y ago
There's a big difference between people specializing and teams specializing. In every organization I've seen, when you take all of the individual specialists with the same skillset, put them on a team consisting of them (and only
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by jowiar 7y ago
Java, Ruby, and ML had a wild night that resulted in some massive scrambling of DNA. The child was then adopted by Haskellites and raised in a fundamentalist commune.
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by jowiar 7y ago
FWIW, the resolution for me eventually came when I was able to get a nice feedback loop of breaking off what I thought was a day’s work at the beginning of the day, doing a day’s work, and either succeeding or taking the loss and rescoping
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by jowiar 7y ago
It took me over 10 years to overcome this. For the longest time, I needed fatigue to kick in to overwhelm the anxiety and enable productivity (albeit at nowhere near my potential).
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by jowiar 7y ago
I’ve lived in SF, NY, DC, and Chicago — all liberal cities. SF is the only city where human shit on the sidewalk is a common occurrence. It’s absolutely the problem it’s made out to be.
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by jowiar 7y ago
Capitalism coupled with a tax and social service regime that hasn’t been torn apart over the past half century, for one. It’s not all or nothing, and all or nothing thinking by fanatics of “Jesus” and Capitalism has destroyed America.
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by jowiar 7y ago
I'm not sure who drives into Manhattan-below-60th, but AFAIK it's very Uber/Lyft/Taxi-heavy, so this will probably get rolled into fares. It will be interesting to see how that ends up being priced. If it prices more tri
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by jowiar 7y ago
It’s not about rich folks Scrooge McDucking it — it’s that if a rich person does a unit of work and a non-rich person does a unit of work, the rich person accumulates more wealth than the non-rich person as a result of the work. “Rich perso
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by jowiar 7y ago
The problem with this mentality is feedback loops. If money flows to those who own things more easily/readily than those who do things, society will be heavily stratified despite any individual efforts to improve one’s lot.
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by jowiar 7y ago
I was at a talk recently where one of the main points was that doing pretty much anything with fabric is exceedingly difficult for robots.
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by jowiar 8y ago
The framework for regulation of these sorts of systems will almost certainly come down to “possession of data”. You can build/host things anywhere, but something centered around “if you generate profits in the USA, and hold the data of
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by jowiar 8y ago
“Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer” — for large enough employers, this encompasses a lot.
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by jowiar 8y ago
The one MAJOR caveat I have with this is that, depending on what you have signed with your employer, there’s a pretty good chance that your employer can claim ownership of what you’re doing. And it’s one thing if you’re making art or someth
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by jowiar 8y ago
In addition to the pushback against the tax incentives, the cancellation of the L-Pocalypse made a massive expansion in LIC less desireable. LIC was a perfect location to recruit folks whose easy commutes from Brooklyn to Google were going
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by jowiar 8y ago
For some cities 25k is a big deal. For NYC it’s rounding error. NYC is big enough to have a healthy relationship with Amazon, and part of that is knowing is that you’re the seller, not the buyer.
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by jowiar 8y ago
Just googled a bit, and this seems to explain it: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2018/04/heres-why-your-airpods-or... In short, it's the combination of no walls + lots of signal congestion. Times Square + Oculus
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by jowiar 8y ago
My AirPods work fine in NYC, with the exception of one specific place: The Oculus. I would love to know why.
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by jowiar 8y ago
The general thing that's supposed to stop this is replication -- when an experiment is published, another researcher should be able to replicate the results. Here's an example of researchers being caught doing exactly this: https
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by jowiar 8y ago
Along those lines, though, I’ve always found online dating to be rather fun when enjoying each date for what it is rather than putting any pressure on myself with long term expectations. Interviewing is a whole lot less stressful when you d
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by jowiar 8y ago
This landed in my twitter feed last week: https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/1076219616735780870 There's "frustrating", and then "are you fucking kidding me" with regards to cutesy cop
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by jowiar 8y ago
It’s up there with using a bazooka to kill a fly, but the best toaster I’ve had is a benzomatic+Searzall. The intensely hot but non-penetrating heat adds a bit of crunch without drying the innards of the bread.
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by jowiar 8y ago
The issue is not personnel — it is data privacy/ethics. Apple has come down heavily on the side of “we aren’t going to do creepy shit with your data”. Google, Amazon, and FB can all pull ahead because they have no such scruples.
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by jowiar 8y ago
It is an investment, in the sense that you are buying an asset that you may sell in the future. It just may not have a positive return, and you almost certainly want a reasonably diverse portfolio of investments (if a high percentage of you

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