slimetree

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by slimetree 11y ago
On the validity of MBTI, the main use I've found is to use the eight functions as part of my vocabulary. It's a pretty handy approximation to be able to say to someone in conversation "wow, Stephen Fry has a really developed
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by slimetree 11y ago
Common Lisp.
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The Null Process(kateheddleston.com)
2 points by slimetree 11y ago|0 comments
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by slimetree 12y ago
The Happy Hacking Professional keyboard solves this in an interesting way: just kill off all the keys you don't need and use Emacs-style modes. http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards,hhk... (It's
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by slimetree 12y ago
This is an excellent thought experiment I genuinely wish were reality. That said, the root problem with standardized tests is that they're inherently hackable. Standardized tests are like desktop software: you write once and ship every
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by slimetree 12y ago
"Must is a free lifestyle photo recommendation app for discovering, capturing and sharing new experiences across the world." "DISCOVER. EXPERIENCE. CAPTURE. SHARE." I'm having a hard time understanding what this
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by slimetree 12y ago
I've just been using oDesk. I get referrals from these, but bad clients generally aren't friends with good clients. Last year I did a cute thing on HN where I offered to build prototypes for $2,345. That was much better, but I can
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Ask HN: How to find first good client?
1 points by slimetree 12y ago|2 comments
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by slimetree 12y ago
Am I the only one who prefers to use Vim bare and just have a terminal open in another tab/window? For some reason having all these plugins weighs me down in a spiritual way, where the benefits of being able to edit a bit of text or op
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by slimetree 12y ago
Wait, ack. I used that phrase wrong. I have nothing to say for myself.
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by slimetree 12y ago
Steve Jobs said something I think about a lot: "focus is about saying no." He was talking about what to work on in a company, but it extends without loss of generality to individuals. The world is presumably always going to be a f
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by slimetree 12y ago
Still, that just means the long tail is worse, which necessarily happens when anonymity is granted. The best comments-- i.e. the ones that make using the app fun for users-- are also uniquely possible on Yik Yak (or services like it).
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by slimetree 12y ago
Those are the long tail of comments. If VCs judged all user-content services by the long tail of submissions, most wouldn't raise any money. (I realize that might be a good thing, but I presume then that you have the same complaint aga
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by slimetree 12y ago
While their response is pretty roundabout, my experience with moderating/owning several community sites is that advertisements for competitors really are one of the largest categories of spam, and I wouldn't default to reading a
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Succinctness vs. Readability(alexanderw.xyz)
4 points by slimetree 12y ago|0 comments
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by slimetree 12y ago
Oh? Could you please elaborate more on this insight?
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by slimetree 12y ago
What CoffeeScript did was lodge the idea in people's heads that JavaScript can be treated as an assembly language to compile higher-level languages into. I'll bet many programmers' attitudes toward ES6 are: someone will write
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by slimetree 12y ago
Couldn't you have omitted the last two sentences, which amount to a polite version of "we've already made this and theirs only looks nicer because they spent more time?"
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by slimetree 12y ago
This made me smile, but it would've been nice to read more about what he and Dennis actually talked about.
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by slimetree 12y ago
For someone who doesn't get it, why do you need https on websites that just show you some text?
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Price of Bitcoin drops below $200(preev.com)
2 points by slimetree 12y ago|0 comments