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by upstill 4y ago
I'm gravitating more and more to using Walmart.com as a first stop. They seem to be ramping inventory way up, their site--especially search--is a pleasure to use compared to Amazon, and shipping is a minor differentiator, if any. For b
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by upstill 5y ago
Ditto.
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by upstill 5y ago
Your opinion about where you lie on the spectrum of capability has everything to do with your own perspective-building and very little to do with "reality", whatever that is. You're comparing where you are with where you can
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by upstill 5y ago
Not just the app but the whole user experience: Amazon. Specifically, they should have figured out search by now, but no: the mapping from search terms to results is just a stab in the dark.
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by upstill 5y ago
It's not just niche users. I hated with a burning righteous rage every single release of iTunes. The overhead of all kinds that it imposed on access to my collection of music never made any sense.
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by upstill 5y ago
Find your edges: read at the edge of what you're familiar with. When you have holes that need filling, you inhale the new information like a dry sponge slurps up water. Reading something just because you think you "should know&quo
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by upstill 6y ago
An old one, but I might as well be the first: There are three hard problems in programming: naming, cache expiration and off-by-one errors.
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by upstill 6y ago
Count another vote for Sophie's World as a breezy introduction. Call it the root node of your tree search.
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by upstill 6y ago
As a man gets older, he seems more harmless, even neutered. At 66, I can now have much more substantive conversations with (for example) young women. Advice: some lessons come only with age. People often don't learn not to care what ot
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by upstill 6y ago
"one gram of his weight over a kilometer of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories"? That can't be true. I weigh 70Kg, and I'm pretty sure I don't expend 10,000 calories riding a bike for a Km.
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Who are the wise men and women of the Internet?
3 points by upstill 7y ago|0 comments
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by upstill 7y ago
Did anyone deliberately create the situation we see out there? Then the assumption that rolling back requires censorship is, well, just an assumption. We've created an ecosystem of "engagement" rife with perverse incentives f
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by upstill 7y ago
Count me in. I've been coding for years and years from just my 15" screen. Tabbing amongst windows (and tabs) that each occupy the whole screen feels far more transparent than hunting for windows that may be hidden anyway. I have
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by upstill 9y ago
I can't read anything and have it stick unless I use it. But the hazard of doing a project is that you'll just recycle skills and strategies from earlier languages, which inhibits your openness to what's distinctive about the
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by upstill 9y ago
I would do Computer Science again because background (defined as a toolbox you can dig into opportunistically) is so important. But I never had anyone to teach me how to program: how to structure a problem and break it down into manageable
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by upstill 10y ago
Well, that's one opinion--unique, judging by the other responses. Someone asking for help and insight is "fake", "self-promotional", "nauseating" and manipulative? And downvotes on such a judgement are som
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by upstill 11y ago
While this is more tactical than strategic, I've saved untold thousands of reading hours by firmly avoiding three kinds of stories: 1) predictions of the future (which are almost always wrong, especially when proffered by experts), 2)
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by upstill 13y ago
It's a seller's market for developers on FounderDating, i.e., far more people with a startup idea than developers to implement it.