yalestar

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by yalestar 11mo ago
I don't have a flight number, but here's an archived news article of the incident. https://www.deseret.com/2004/12/13/19866420/model-of-plane-t... Oh I guess it was 2004, not 2005. Yes, Perfect
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by yalestar 11mo ago
This really reminded me of a colleague who had a part-time night job flying cancelled checks from Centennial Airport (KAPA, south of Denver) to SLC. A bunch of us went out to lunch on a Friday in December 2005. That night, on his return to
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by yalestar 3y ago
I've noticed that too during this teachers' strike in Portland! It was really one of the most unexpectedly heartening things I've seen in a while.
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by yalestar 3y ago
True, there aren't very many. But I was shocked to learn that the wife of a friend of mine had grown up in Oregon City (15 miles south of Portland) and she had only ever traveled to Washington state and had never pumped her own gas.
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by yalestar 4y ago
What makes you think OP is a he?
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by yalestar 6y ago
That is indeed a super-skill! If you remove as much of the perceived power imbalance between interviewer and interviewee (often difficult, to be sure), and you can engage in a two-way conversation with them about the experiences on their re
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by yalestar 8y ago
This is really excellent. I used to use Altap Salamander when I was more of a Windows user, and it became one of my most indispensable tools. I've tried most of the Mac commander-style clones (Forklift, Pathfinder, fman, Nimble Command
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by yalestar 11y ago
Here's a nice plugin to add the vim command bar: https://atom.io/packages/atom-vim-colon-command-on-command-p...
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by yalestar 13y ago
+1 to your quitting acknowledging sneezes. That has always seemed to me like a pointless injection of politeness that continues only because of cultural inertia. Not sure how much it has improved my life, but it sure feels nice to be one le
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by yalestar 13y ago
Will do! Sorry coach!
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by yalestar 14y ago
If we all told the author that he was an utterly fascinating contrarian, would that help him not feel so angry?
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by yalestar 15y ago
Wow, I had almost totally forgotten about TextPad. I absolutely loved that editor back in about 2002-3. Unfortunately, the site looks exactly the same as it did back then (although, surprisingly, there have been fairly recent new releases)
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by yalestar 15y ago
I followed the entire genesis of StackOverflow pretty closely via Jeff & Joel's blog posts and the first go 'round of the StackOverflow podcast. During that time, and to this day, I never ceased to be impressed by Jeff's committment to
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by yalestar 15y ago
Automatic apostrophe correction algorithms? ;)
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by yalestar 15y ago
I dinked around with Play a while ago and was impressed all around. However, am I the only one who thinks it would benefit immensely from a better name? "Play" just makes it sound so... unrobust. It needs a name that conveys that it's indus
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by yalestar 15y ago
I dinked around with Play last week and was impressed all around. However, am I the only one who thinks it would benefit immensely from a better name? "Play" just makes it sound so... unrobust. It needs a name that conveys that it's industr
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by yalestar 16y ago
One really simple thing that was driving me crazy was when an app pops up a dialog with buttons. Coming from Linux and Windows, where you can tab between the buttons and just hit enter to click the selected button, I was shocked that Mac do
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by yalestar 17y ago
It's not really that your living in suburbia is evil, it's the fact that suburban development is a hugely wasteful, inefficient, costly, and completely unsustainable mode of development.
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by yalestar 17y ago
Amen to this. I've never understood the appeal of glossy displays. To me they're almost unusuable except under the most ideal lighting conditions.