ryanpardieck

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by ryanpardieck 10y ago
I've lost over 130 pounds in the last two years and I deliberately avoided high intensity exercise during that time. I find it very hard to moderate my hunger when doing regular high-intensity exercise. I would take long, slow walks a
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I think maybe the takeaway here is that you can't always tell the difference between a slightly unbalanced and a perfectly balanced game right away. You can probably spot extreme imbalances immediately, I'd guess. But if this game
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
"know that you were able to go further and faster and better than all the people around you, that you've won" What exactly has been won here? There have probably been ultra-driven people for as long as people have been cookin
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
The only expectation for me is that I can fork the project in accordance with their chosen license. Expecting anything else is a bit too entitled for me. There are tons of different styles of project management. I don't see the point
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I've grown kind of tired of these sorts of posts, where people assume that OSS means handling the community exactly the way you prefer. Does it have an OSS license? Do they adhere to it in practice? If so, then your complaint isn'
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Wow, that's really interesting. Did not expect it to be something so new. I'm going to have to read more about this ...
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
"Inbox functions very much more like a ToDo list than it does an email client." That's exciting to hear, since I've recently started turning Mailbox into a combination email client/to-do list/evernote replaceme
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Well, that's interesting, although I'm skeptical. Can anyone with legal experience say exactly how much this means? If Ello genuinely just did something that makes it difficult for future investors/acquirers to turn Ello into
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
This is great. I hope you guys don't go away. I've been meaning to explore the google cloud a bit more anyway, though, I guess.
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
This thread has included some interesting discussion of how everyone handles the different tasks of a) committing individual units of work, b) saving works-in-progress, c) syncing files, d) backing up files, and e) persistent undo editor fe
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
That's exciting to hear. My gut reaction is that this is far too large. However, the idea of always carrying with me something that is nearly as big as my Nexus 7 is enticing. I love reading on my N7, but I never seem to have it on me
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I love these kind of "man behind the curtain" things. I've had a few somewhat similar ideas I've meant to make, though they were more in the spirit of being silly and fun rather than "brutal truth telling." The
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Yes, for some reason many people think freedom of speech means they--and those they identify with--should be able to speak free of social consequence. I don't really know what leads a person to think that. Maybe they just said stuff fo
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Mailing lists, in my experience, can feature incredible discussion. I participated on one centered around a somewhat obscure literary topic for some years. You almost develop a sense of kinship. However, mailing lists seem to be going extin
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
And it has almost nothing to do with reddit. Reddit could censor all instances of discussion featuring the phrase "hackers news" tomorrow, and it's not as if they would be brought up on freedom-of-speech charges.
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Personally I find the predominant brand of humor at Reddit to be annoying too. An interesting conversation devolves into five trailing one-liners circling around a pop culture reference ... ugh.
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
We can also criticize Reddit for that choice. Freedom of speech, and all. It sounds like you're upset that we choose to criticize Reddit for this. The difference between what a business allows and what a state allows are so different a
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
If the reporting is accurate, then he really got screwed. Your money is taken despite your never being convicted of anything, and then the IRS taxes you for that money that was taken. What a joke.
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I think you've latched onto the wrong thing here. Clearly both things are conferred by the state. I was not arguing that one was more worthy because it somehow wasn't granted by the state, but rather that they are granted for cl
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Sorry I'm like a week late here, I don't check HN very frequently. It's not just "people" that distinguish between copyright infringement and stealing; the law does as well. I find it extremely odd that you're
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
When have consumers ever cared if a firm makes such a costly product that it can't be profitable? Consumers will never care about that. Appeals to make them care about "manufacturing costs" are pointless. I think it's a
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
Wow, it really is sad when you think of it that way. I don't torrent stuff, but this kind of sentiment makes me wish I did ...
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
This is awesome. Reading about his work and the subsequent work on FHE in general was one of my favorite "holy shit this is the future" moments. (And I don't have those moments hardly at all ... kind of silly. But I was giddy
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
The author William Vollmann comically wrote about doing this at a San Francisco (I think?) software shop when he was young and writing his first novel. Living off of vendor-machine candy bars, dodging the janitor, etc ... Probably my favori
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
There was a famous writer once who said that one of his greatest assets was his extreme forgetfulness. Appropriately, I am blanking on his name at the moment, but I'll pop back in here if I recall it. It was a long time ago. However, h
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
It probably depends on why you're learning this. If I understand the concept correctly, the idea is to interleaving complementary skills. i.e. you stay within the same broad skill/activity domain. So if learning this to prepare fo
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
That's a really good point. Entertainment does do the "presented by" thing quite well. I will say though that for me at least, part of why it works so well is most shows have trained me to see that "presented by ...&qu
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
If native advertising is nothing more than brands attaching their names to articles, why don't these publications simply implement a way to buy ads on specific articles, or on articles with certain very specific subjects? As in somethi
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
It doesn't go well on spaghetti.
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by ryanpardieck 12y ago
I strongly agree with this. Not only is the "why is anyone surprised" a cynical ploy at seeming "sophisticated," but it serves to make people feel foolish for their initial anger, distrust, fear, sense of betrayal etc.

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