thehooplehead

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by thehooplehead 10y ago
Agreed. I think HN is the kind of forum where a picture isn't quite worth a thousand words. With these types of articles, I'd be more interested in bulleted summaries than thumbnails. I appreciate HN for being information-dense&#x
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by thehooplehead 10y ago
I'll never understand why people act like a forum is a TV channel. Can't people just hide threads, or avoid topics that don't interest them? It's not like HN only has one discussion at a time and that politics has crowde
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by thehooplehead 10y ago
Halfway through, I started thinking, this piece is incredible marketing for the wife's attorney, Fisher. He's the only one really likeable character (the wife didnt care about defrauded customers, the husband was always the villai
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by thehooplehead 10y ago
I pretty much do the opposite. I remember that everyone was a child once and some, unfortunately, still are. Basically attributing annoyances/disagreements to ignorance/differing values rather than malice.
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by thehooplehead 10y ago
I agree. It doesn't have to be collusion, in fact, I can easily imagine that there's no large scale coordination, maybe just coordination in small 5-10 person teams. For any incentive scheme, there's going to be a subset of p
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by thehooplehead 10y ago
What worked for me was removing barriers to exercise. It's been an odd, decade-long progression, but here's how it went: ------------- I. Initial Annoyance with Gym a) The biggest barrier is building the willpower to get to the gy
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by thehooplehead 10y ago
Agreed. I enjoyed getting a better idea of how people lived back in that era. Casanova, as he presents himself, was a perfect trickster archetype. For example: He mentions being at a dinner where an actress lamented a lisp that would impede
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by thehooplehead 10y ago
>> Every service is, on IFTTT or not. We care about the people who use them and build them. The changes we are asking for are indeed more work, but we know they will lead to a better Pinboard Channel on IFTTT in the long term. This st
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by thehooplehead 11y ago
Never seen it taken this far, but I do the same thing in Pro Evolution. I've had a few players with bad ratings that suit my gameplay, players with unused skills (fast defenders who can shoot), etc. My biggest gripe with any of these g
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by thehooplehead 11y ago
The initial description of the library had me thinking of 'the Man Who Was Thursday', a book which includes its own absurd secret society. Also, anyone interested in real-world social games might enjoy Journey to the End of the Ni
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by thehooplehead 11y ago
Then Apple wouldn't be Apple. This makes me think of the reflexivity idea Soros wrote about in Alchemy of Finance. It's valid to bemoan not buying Apple stock 20 years ago, because the purchase wouldn't influence company traj
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by thehooplehead 11y ago
Understanding this perspective will be a huge benefit to anyone who wants to contribute as a non-technical founder. About 6 years ago, at the end of undergrad, a technical friend and I started working on a project. I had made websites, bui
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by thehooplehead 11y ago
They needed a much better explanation. I listen to most of my music on the subway with a lot of background noise; I never worry about low sound quality.
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by thehooplehead 11y ago
It's not just "date invitation." This is a woman complaining about a guy talking to her at a bar. As a guy, I'd be flattered if a woman asked me out in general, but extremely annoyed if she did it during a job interview.
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by thehooplehead 12y ago
No to be a bastard, but I disagree. The design is really off-putting. It instantly made me bounce off the site. If design isn't an early concern, just go for something boring/popular/obvious. Lobste.rs isn't going to get
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by thehooplehead 12y ago
I like this quote, it's well laid-out, but I don't think the reasoning is sound. At heart, the argument it voices anger at advertisers for forcing you to see things you don't want to see and feel things you don't want to
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by thehooplehead 12y ago
For anyone interested in playing dodgeball as an adult, check out the World Dodgeball Society ( http://dodgeball4ever.com/leagues/ ) They're not aggro-competitive and most of their leagues use very throwable, virtua
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by thehooplehead 13y ago
Ditto. How about in this thread? I was watched the video waiting for some big reveal, but was sort of let down by the offering. The site says more about the notebook's quality than the OCR/digitization, which is what I was more in
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by thehooplehead 13y ago
These days, I see computer time as a limited resource. My eyes started acting up last summer and so I've cut down on my computer time. I save articles into something like Pocket and use the read-aloud feature while I go take a break fr
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by thehooplehead 13y ago
It looks like Dropbox just shut down the account's transfers. I take it a couple dozen people started mass-downloading each state's data. This would be the ideal use for a torrent network, right?
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by thehooplehead 13y ago
I like your initial point about technology needing an implementation. I see this with things like the Leap Motion controller where I think it's an interesting product, but I have no idea why I need/would benefit from one. Then I c
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by thehooplehead 13y ago
I thought the same. In my opinion, the article should have been edited down to about 10-20 great ideas. I liked the idea for a competitor watch service, I think it's much better than the one for 'Myspace 2.'
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by thehooplehead 13y ago
This is fake right? South African sounding name (which happens to be one of a former president) + no mention of it anywhere else on line. Are we posting Onion articles now? It'd be cheaper to fly up 25 hunters, expenses paid.