shib71

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by shib71 6d ago
Shame was more effective in the past is because it came with consequences - lost business, lower standing in the community, fewer romantic prospects. It used to be part a healthy survival instinct. Without repercussions, shame is just a han
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by shib71 1mo ago
Do you have evidence? Because that claim doesn't pass the sniff test - why would people who have large amounts of money care about data centers?
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by shib71 11mo ago
Yes, I could see a lot of GMs being interested in plug in and go product that fills that niche. Implementing the right feature set is challenging, as existing dedicated virtual tabletops have already shown. But something like a simple Owlbe
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by shib71 1y ago
Real world example of: Patient: Doc, it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Then stop doing that.
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by shib71 1y ago
My first thought was that it would be explaining Quicksort using an Ikea warehouse as a metaphor, to show how different algorithms suit different constraints. As for the actual Ikea-style instruction pamphlet... I suspect that making it was
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by shib71 2y ago
Might be useful to add tags. The more complex credit-based services often have categories (e.g. ec2, s3, etc). It could be useful for the dev to track service usage by spend, the client can get visibility into their own spend breakdown, and
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by shib71 2y ago
> Art is ... mostly about surfacing the inner world, and only in part about skill. I like the phrasing of the first part. But what art is "about" is very subjective. For me, part of what I look for in art is intentionality - th
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by shib71 3y ago
Reminds me of an old Discworld chestnut: Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times o
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by shib71 3y ago
I wanted a Markdown notes app that I could access over the internet, and stored files in a files-on-s3 structure that would makes sense if I accessed it directly and would be stupidly simple to backup/restore. Ended up with an Amplify
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by shib71 4y ago
> "If the solution is complicated, you are probably wrong." True in so many situations, Vincenzo.
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by shib71 4y ago
In Australia, the fees for a four year engineering degree is around $30k AUD, and that's with very humane packback rules. $80k a _year_ is mindblowing. Rich folk and scholarship students I get, but why would anyone else go there?
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by shib71 6y ago
I've backed quite a few projects (150), so I did a review to look for patterns. * 33 software/game projects * 23 board game projects * 20 "thing" projects (i.e. requiring manufacturing) * 60 rpg material projects (advent
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by shib71 7y ago
The copy implies very strongly that comments can be a respected part of the article as a whole, and by implication - of journalism. My experience in the past has been that comments are not taken seriously by the publisher, seemingly just ad
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Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events(swizec.com)
9 points by shib71 11y ago|0 comments
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by shib71 11y ago
I found the repetitive use of "outdated" to be off-putting. It implies that much of the value of a new interface (including this one) lies in it's novelty. Except for a minority, the precise opposite is true - most people are
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by shib71 12y ago
I would be very interested in seeing a tutorial for how to build a custom developer tool in this. Something I've been very interested in over the last couple of years is the idea of creating once off, task specific, development and int
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by shib71 13y ago
I personally find the characters very sympathetic and laughing at the BBT characters is like laughing at myself. It's refreshing to see the extreme qualities which other shows merely caricature be shown in the context of fully fleshe
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by shib71 13y ago
I also like it for sites that have ads everywhere . But the outright intrusive ads are the worst.
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by shib71 13y ago
I'm not familiar with LKML or any of the developers, but Sarah is very impressive in this thread. Every time someone else tries to shift the topic, she brings the conversation back on course. She's right about a minimum standard o
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by shib71 13y ago
This inspired me to find a scale comparison of Africa vs my home (Australia) which led me to MapFight: http://mapfight.appspot.com/africa-vs-au http://mapfight.appspot.com/africa-vs-europe http://mapfight.appspot.com/africa-vs-usc
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by shib71 13y ago
They won't be able to do this, for the same reason they couldn't open source Flash - too much proprietary code and licenced stuff.
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by shib71 13y ago
I think the question might be better put this way: Pick 5 random points on an infinite plane. Draw lines between all of them. One of those lines will contain another integer point. Prove this is true for every set of 5 random points.
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by shib71 13y ago
I've had the same experience as Tesla, though not so extreme as to cause problems. For as long as I can remember I have enjoyed extremely detailed "daydreams" where I explore worlds and meet people inspired by the books I read. I suspect th
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by shib71 13y ago
You need to explain more - for example what do you mean by a "partial"? A quick search for "partial functions" gave me several links to mathematics articles. When I followed the links to the composition modules I got more of the same impene
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by shib71 14y ago
Their target audience is non-expert consumers. These new features are perfect examples of what their target audience wants. Any feature that requires editing a configuration file will probably never be implemented.
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by shib71 14y ago
His arguments triggered a sense of deja vu. I've made those same arguments with clients who want a system to process a specific product differently to all the others, and colleagues who think our framework should have special code to handle
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The Post fails a young blogger(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by shib71 14y ago|0 comments
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by shib71 14y ago
Redesigning a popular site is a good way for up-and-coming designers to show off their skills - but it's important to consider the target audience and their priorities. Yes, HN users want speed, but mentioning page load times and moving on
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by shib71 14y ago
God help us all.
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by shib71 14y ago
For a novice - absolutely. There are very few languages that make it that easy to develop a web application. Developers that already have experience in another server-side language probably won't get as much value. The exception is PHP deve

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