shearskill

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by shearskill 7y ago
David Brooks is not a good writer, yet he has a column in the NYT. Meritocracy. The end.
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by shearskill 7y ago
Strong disagree on that. Reddit has bots and a massive troll population, neither is present in such a way that affects user experience.
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by shearskill 7y ago
Not sure why this comment is gray, it’s informative. Sounds like a similar situation to Notch who worked on Minecraft.
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by shearskill 7y ago
Enjoying reading the content on your site - Mixcloud is a platform I use and the backend breakdown is really interesting.
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by shearskill 7y ago
Totally possible. https://youtu.be/0o_9CHYeRvI Make it play the Spongebob theme and you’re set.
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by shearskill 7y ago
Must be extremely difficult to be a programmer who is unwilling to adapt to changes in language usage.
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by shearskill 7y ago
HN seems to have a small subset of vocal critics who echo the ideology of edgy YouTube pundits. Maybe they align with being fans of Cheetos and other gamer culture commodities? There’s another offshoot discussion on this thread about how “L
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by shearskill 7y ago
Oddly enough kids are using GDocs for messaging in school and during study sessions, etc. Not something to build a network around since they are used as ephemeral ad hoc chat spaces.
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by shearskill 7y ago
Or you could mind your own business about something that doesn’t affect you at all.
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by shearskill 7y ago
This post about Cheetos seems to have attracted a lot of complaints about imaginary leftists and ideological bubbles. Very odd.
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by shearskill 7y ago
I’m with you on this... guess that makes me a pessimist.
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by shearskill 7y ago
International studies major, long ago. This article is fascinating.
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by shearskill 7y ago
The last massive protests that looked like this took place in multiple cities over several weeks. That was leading up to the Iraq war. They were ignored.
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by shearskill 7y ago
Gamergaters were not victims, they were denounced and derided because of their doxxing and gang stalking activities on the boards. Their actions led to their removal from 4chan.
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by shearskill 7y ago
The notion that when a group or person is accused of being racist/fascist it inevitably makes them then embrace that ideology is just not credible. Denouncing racism is easy enough to do, but they didn’t, or they did insincerely. The a
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by shearskill 7y ago
2018: “I’ll pick a topic and just give my opinion about it try to be entertaining, try to be funny, try to be unique and say something other people haven’t said before,” youtuber said. https://redwoodbark.org/46876/cult
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by shearskill 7y ago
The “alt right is the new punk rock” is one of their marketing pitches. Apparently it works, but only for a certain demographic.
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by shearskill 7y ago
Gamergate was fueled by outside interests way beyond “ethics in journalism” and anger at feminist game critics. The online outrage was easily led down a much broader path. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbern
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by shearskill 7y ago
This is exactly what happens. Prager U and Ben Shapiro advertise heavily on content adjacent to them (gaming) and their views go up, up they go in the algorithm.
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by shearskill 7y ago
I’d say having a 13 year old far right YouTube star post a video threatening to kill the CEO might be harmful, but maybe that’s ok? https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2019/...
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by shearskill 7y ago
Mobile games get frequent refund requests and devs are more than a few steps removed from the actual accounting from app stores. The analytics might throw an event if there’s a hook for a refund request but Apple and Google own the bank in
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by shearskill 7y ago
Harmless lonely teens who may be play-acting on 8chan are encouraged to become true believers by the rest who are sincere. The shooter involved in this case stated that he’d only been on 8chan for a year and a half and had learned much in t
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by shearskill 7y ago
I was a hands on stay at home parent. Kid still had a few tantrums. Every kid is different, you’ll probably observe that when your next arrives.
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by shearskill 7y ago
I was a skeptic about the supernanny too and I don’t watch the show but her book has a technique to help reluctant sleepers adjust to staying in their own beds that really worked for my kid. He’s a teen now and still has a hard time falling
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by shearskill 7y ago
The book 1-2-3 Magic tames even the wildest kids if you are consistent. It feels humane to give kids a few chances to change their trajectory. Highly recommend.
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by shearskill 7y ago
From more left to moderate: CurrentAffairs.org, any criticism of David Brooks, Ross Douthat, Bari Weiss, David Brooks, Maggie Haberman.
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by shearskill 7y ago
This is a repost but since you’re interested - Netflix data science is very pro-Jupyter/Python/data analysis packages. https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/notebook-innovation-591e...
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by shearskill 7y ago
Netflix uses Jupyter for data science quite heavily: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/notebook-innovation-591e... But that’s for data science which is (hopefully) the foundation of actionable BI.
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by shearskill 7y ago
This is great. AC is an old friend of mine, you guys are doing amazing work at ProPublica. Nice to see the tech work that runs behind the stories.
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by shearskill 7y ago
‘Discovered’ is entirely different than being genetically engineered.

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