smarterchild

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What makes the best teams so effective?(gamasutra.com)
1 points by smarterchild 11y ago|0 comments
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by smarterchild 11y ago
The keyword for the problem you're talking about is the "long tailpipe theory." [1] I was just reading Wait But Why's article [2], which concluded that the overall greenhouse impact will still be lessened by using electr
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by smarterchild 11y ago
I really like the use of tools that make focus the default, low-motivation option. If you're not on a Mac, Firefox has LeechBlock[1] and Chrome has StayFocusd[2]. Also, if you're on HN, there are built-in settings under your usern
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by smarterchild 11y ago
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/lsu_privil... If this is considered "Medium" Severity, how bad would it have to be to become High?
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by smarterchild 11y ago
Where did you get the piano score for the Tocatta?
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by smarterchild 11y ago
Have you tried setting her up with a standard user login by default? I did that with my folks and the number of computer questions seems to have gone way down.
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by smarterchild 11y ago
Vestigial structures! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestigiality
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Ask HN: Recommendations for Computer-Science Fiction?
1 points by smarterchild 11y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Did Google's Data Liberation Front Shut Down?
1 points by smarterchild 11y ago|1 comments
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by smarterchild 12y ago
Do you think that another danger of inconveniences is that it's easier to make an inconvenient mechanism more and more inconvenient than to start restricting something that hadn't been restricted before at all? Like having a tiny
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Ask HN: What should we know logistics-wise to launch an int'l marketplace site?
2 points by smarterchild 12y ago|0 comments
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Death by a Thousand Cuts(blog.strafenet.com)
1 points by smarterchild 12y ago|0 comments
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by smarterchild 12y ago
> Hidden functionality is a UI and UX anti-pattern I suppose the entire terminal, by that argument, is an anti-pattern. I feel a little better about not ever getting past mediocre in shell. :)
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by smarterchild 12y ago
People get outraged when you tell them how they should think, but the fact that the argument has no (obvious) logical holes causes cognitive dissonance because it's harder to phrase why you dislike it.
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Programming is a game with an inventory(blog.strafenet.com)
1 points by smarterchild 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: So we made this open source library. What do we do with it?
2 points by smarterchild 13y ago|0 comments
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by smarterchild 13y ago
Do you do testing by hand now?
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Ask HN: How do you test web UI/JavaScript?
13 points by smarterchild 13y ago|7 comments
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by smarterchild 14y ago
Ooh, text adventures! Some suggestions: If you haven't played any before, your first question may be: Why would I play a game made up just out of text? The IFComp is a good place to start. It really helps to what really talented people can
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Dicking people around considered harmful(blog.strafenet.com)
2 points by smarterchild 14y ago|0 comments
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by smarterchild 15y ago
> when someone gives me the "top 5", I consider it only a trailhead; it's unlikely my top 5 would be the same. That's a fair point. The important part, it seems, is identifying not just which books to read but why. That information woul
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by smarterchild 15y ago
Not that these are bad books (I've read a lot of them and they are quite interesting), but I think there's more value in compiling a list of the 5 most important books we should read, rather than the 30. Of course we can learn something
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“When you have enough data, sometimes, you don’t have to be too clever”(blog.strafenet.com)
45 points by smarterchild 15y ago|13 comments
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"The most dangerous species of owner is one who gets into the business for love"(slate.com)
2 points by smarterchild 15y ago|0 comments
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by smarterchild 15y ago
Strict equals - it doesn't cast types. Programming distinction, and no idea why the author used that. Mostly the same meaning though, for conversational purposes.
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by smarterchild 15y ago
Apple's design reputation is so established at this point that, if they hadn't used the Golden Ratio, I suspect there would be articles titled "Why does Apple's iCloud Icon deliberately ignore the Golden Ratio?"
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Taking too long to deal with emails? Separate writing and sending.(blog.strafenet.com)
2 points by smarterchild 15y ago|0 comments
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by smarterchild 15y ago
While I automate some computer related tasks, I can't automate house chores, working out, etc. So I wrote an app to remind me: http://i.imgur.com/exzb0.png I find this sort of thing most useful if you have chores that you want to do regul
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by smarterchild 16y ago
They're in the business of coding first, the coding of business second.
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by smarterchild 16y ago
I've used/loved http://chris.photobooks.com/json/default.htm since the beginning of time for debugging. It isn't embeddable, though I find that it's more readable.

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