mtpn

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by mtpn 9y ago
A few things: I'm sorry for all the pains you have been through. Yes, people assume things based on how you express yourself, and what you choose to mention or not. This is normal. Especially when you leave room for ambiguity. What the
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by mtpn 9y ago
I'm more concerned with, when you discount the studies that have been shown to be poor, does the overall system 1/system 2 model become weaker? I think it does, a bit, but he takes pains to point out that it is just a shorthand an
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by mtpn 9y ago
This comment itself seems much more accurate than your original post. It allows for the fact that - sometimes - you don't have the power to change things right then. Sometimes the best you can do is survive, endure, and accept. You can
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by mtpn 9y ago
> But telling someone they can face their problems, and having that person feeling guilt or worthless because of that is not the same thing. That depends on who is listening, which is why, initially, I urged care to be taken in how we fr
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by mtpn 9y ago
> The ones that are meant to program would flourish under a computer with just a black and white Terminal app on their disposal. I don't know about "meant to". I avoided writing anything but plain HTML and CSS for years be
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by mtpn 9y ago
Man, as I continue to try to see the shades and subtleties in what you are saying, statements like this gross oversimplification get in the way: > If you do that, it's not possible to be depressed. If you try this and it doesn'
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by mtpn 9y ago
Some good recommendations here! I do think that in the original parent post, but not in yours, the implication is that people who had problems had simply not found the correct motivation to solve them. I appreciate your take too though, and
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by mtpn 9y ago
> If that person reads my writing, they don't get any value from it. To be fair, they may well think you are referring to them, because of your words here and how you don't seem to acknowledge the reality of their condition: &g
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by mtpn 9y ago
I know people who escaped severe depression and suicidal thoughts only through medication, after trying all the talky-thinky stuff they could. I also know people who manage their depression with just cognitive behavioral therapy techniques,
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by mtpn 9y ago
> I call bologna on that, we can change anything. Please be cautious about making such statements. I respect your experience and success at changing things for yourself with this model. I don't for a second doubt your sincerity. But
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by mtpn 9y ago
It's essentially an ad that gets you to click it by making you think you are somehow logged in on a site you don't have an account on. I emailed them about this because I think it's an awful pattern, and did get a response bu
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by mtpn 9y ago
Good to hear- I’m hoping to switch to full time web development some time in the new year. It's actually my favorite thing at these other jobs.
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by mtpn 9y ago
I’m a web developer in my spare time. I write little things that solve problems in my two day jobs, they haven’t tended to be pretty because often I’m learning as I go and when it works then it’s truly time to move on to the next problem,
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by mtpn 9y ago
When a customer is burned by a bad product with excellent reviews, especially more than once, ordering from Amazon could quickly become more trouble than it's worth.
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by mtpn 9y ago
(please ignore this, I apparently didn't read your comment fully!)
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by mtpn 9y ago
> It must have been the introduction of the typewriter that brought the idea of "two spaces" instead of "wider space". Come to think about it, why not the movable type printing press as the starting point?
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by mtpn 9y ago
> Proportional fonts help pack letters within a word, not pack words within/between sentences. I was probably wrong to try and fuzzily remember an anecdote rather than look it up :) but my understanding was that in a proportional fo
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by mtpn 9y ago
The anecdote I heard was that the extra space made it more clear when sentences were ending based on how the fixed-width typeface would read. With proportional fonts the spacing is already clear enough with 1 space, and that has become the
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by mtpn 9y ago
I came to vue liking JSX pretty well, but it does seem that culturally (or maybe just among newer developers like me) the single-file component with directives in the markup is more popular. Especially in tutorials. I haven’t really felt an
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by mtpn 9y ago
I’ve heard this so many times, and don’t get me wrong I really like Vue, but I’m so surprised people find it easy to learn compared to the others. It wasn’t an uphill battle but I found getting started with vue to be about the same, if not
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by mtpn 9y ago
Thanks! And also, ugh. The line between business and residential shipping has blurred enough that this distinction, though convenient for UPS, does not reflect the reality of how many small businesses like ours run. Bummer. But thank you fo
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by mtpn 9y ago
Once, I made an SPA for an interview with plain JS and handlebars for templating. It was for a react team and I was not big into react but wanted to show I get how all the pieces fit together, but still be able to understand and debug what
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by mtpn 9y ago
Not to detail this too much, but can you confirm a story my boss was told last week is possible? We've had the same stuff "out for delivery" for several days to a residential address. They told my boss "well, you're
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by mtpn 9y ago
I bet that for folks who are designers and get the reference his choice makes perfect sense and it might even be nice. But for me, most importantly, after loading the page it was unclear what to do. Use the menu? Scroll? I don't think
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by mtpn 9y ago
Indeed. Certainly most useful for getting a ballpark idea of where, in general, your users are located. I would guess anything that really depends on knowing an individual user's location oughta use something more specific. But you cou
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by mtpn 9y ago
Unkown, but very probably within a certain range whose boundaries are known.
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by mtpn 9y ago
> I'm imagining a stereotypical hipster sipping kombucha, going "Ugh, tax reform used to be cool before all the fucking college kids got into it. I've been into legalizing meth lately--it's so real, y'know?"
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by mtpn 9y ago
Windows phone nailed this. As you change volume, a panel comes in with two sliders: one media, one ringer, so if you were in the wrong context and changed the wrong volume, you right away have access to the other one. I find (on iOS now) I
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by mtpn 9y ago
Rachel Andrew has a great presentation on this that you can find on YouTube. But the summary of comparing them is this: flexbox is designed to help with 1-dimensional layout. It gets a bunch of elements to behave well when laid out in a row
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by mtpn 9y ago
> I'm fairly sure that if you tried to get approval for using lots of micro-clips it would be incredibly time-consuming, prohibitively expensive, or both. But approval is not needed. These videos are pretty much textbook examples of

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