ronilan

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by ronilan 4y ago
To generate GIFs use: https://github.com/dstein64/gifcast Works in the browser and locally. No install needed.
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by ronilan 6y ago
So the person with all the power, the one who speaks in plural about what he allows is suddenly some how the victim? Please just delete all my comments. Including this one.
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by ronilan 6y ago
Will the next implementation of Arc also include the ability to delete posts and comments? Surely there might be some portion of the 1,200 people who posted today that may want to delete their submission in the future. Allowing them to do s
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by ronilan 6y ago
The misguided idea that there is more than one sense of something being someone’s data, and that thus, some how, the public has eternal right to any comment I make in Hacker News. As expressed here by Paul Graham https://news.yc
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by ronilan 7y ago
There is obviously a way. It’s not unfortunate. It’s a deliberate choice. כשאנשים קטנים מטילים צל ארוך זה סימן שהשמש שוקעת
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Ask HN: Help I want out I want to leave HN
3 points by ronilan 7y ago|9 comments
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by ronilan 7y ago
Takes his snowboard and goes home. Yes.
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by ronilan 7y ago
Two long time friends walk down the street. Sees one something shiny and picks it up. “A gold coin!”. At exactly the same time a bird poops on the second’s head. They are upset. They blame their friend. “If you hadn’t stopped the poop would
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by ronilan 7y ago
Can you post the phrase as written in Russian?
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by ronilan 7y ago
Can you paste the words as written in Farsi?
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by ronilan 7y ago
Thanks. That would match the current German version below and makes sense as languages evolved from same tree.
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by ronilan 7y ago
Maybe I should post in /r/therewasanattempt/ instead :) To the point: 1. Obviously the meaning of words change over time. 2. If this difference in metaphors has real bearing on how people act than the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis,
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by ronilan 7y ago
Can you post the language name and then the phrase in native type?
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by ronilan 7y ago
The metaphor used by the language differ. That’s the point.
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by ronilan 7y ago
Thanks. Clarified. Awareness is gained by that action that differs between languages.
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by ronilan 7y ago
In English awareness is gained with money - pay attention In Hebrew awareness is gained with emotion (put heart) - שים לב Any native speakers of other languages able to chime in? Sapir-Whorf revived? Edit: used word awareness to clarify wha
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by ronilan 7y ago
Not sure it’s interesting. But it did become a problem :) Anyway... This summer & fall I wrote a JS core lib and a set of compatible packages that together greatly simplify the creation of terminal based node apps and games (in the real
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by ronilan 7y ago
Fittingly by rock band “Sixpence None The Richer”.
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by ronilan 7y ago
Inflation is a concern though the last two decades have shown that the fear may be overrated. In any case, nothing is worse for inflation than UBI and people talk about that seriously... P.S - After reading more into this idea I think that
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by ronilan 7y ago
Median !== Average
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by ronilan 7y ago
As in Minimum wage should be raised to meet the Median. As a result, the majority of people will have equal wage. In BC, Canada: Minimum wage is: $13.85 CAD Median wage is: $23.98 CAD Minimum is going up to $15.20 in next 18 months. It’s no
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by ronilan 7y ago
This phrase just popped up into my head a while back: “The minimum wage should be the median wage” I’m not sure if it should be a rule or a goal or be anything at all, but thought it’s a thought worth putting out there. Edit: thinking in
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by ronilan 7y ago
It’s a little meta but I think the way this has unfolded doesn’t shine well on Danny Sullivan and his role at Google. Danny been in the search industry from pretty much the get go, he knows anyone who was anything in search, he “studied the
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by ronilan 7y ago
This is a horribly edited Wikipedia article yet it is such a delight to read.
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by ronilan 7y ago
There’s more. I think people are afraid. First from having to do something “unpleasant” and on a deeper level from loosing their own status of “importance”. It’s a pity indeed.
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by ronilan 7y ago
“ you won't have many to build your video platform left. ” I’m not building a video platform. It’s already there. I’m just, totally hypocritically, fixing the company that operates it.
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by ronilan 7y ago
“ I am not going to choose a week every quarter to do something that is not going to help me towards career goals I have. ” In which case, if it was up to me, and it is not, obviously, I’d open a short discussion about goals, and if we coul
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by ronilan 7y ago
“Most of their top engineers would quit and go to work for another company that values their time.” Maybe. But I doubt it. First because people don’t quit that fast and second because I think something else might happen that is worth the
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by ronilan 7y ago
If this was up to me, each and every employee of YouTube (and Google, for as long as YouTube is not set free) would be trained as a content moderator and would be required to do so for a couple of weeks (or as sufficient to complete the tas
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by ronilan 7y ago
Thanks. I learn a new thing every day.... updated text to #afafaf (which according to https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ is WCAG AA OK in contrast to the ugliest colour in the world)

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