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If any students hear the word wrong, you'll get some really funny drawings. (my guess)

White "Elder millennial" here, who grew up in red states with a Boomer dad who tried really hard not to drop the N-word in anger around me, but I still heard it a couple times. The…

TL;DR http, properly implemented, supports a ton more stuff than even many “web developers” are aware of, like… range requests, which are exactly what you’d think they’d be.

I’d assumed Painting with John was as much about painting as Fishing with John was about fishing. Is he actually, seriously trying to teach people to paint?

> They call themselves communists but they're really fascists -- the merger of state and corporate power. The “corporate” in Mussolini’s famous quote re: fascism meant something el…

http://spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html TL;DR copyright becomes absurd surprisingly fast when you have a large population, widely-available authoring/recording tools, an…

I think skepticism and dismay are understandable reactions to “we stream a remote web browser to a local web browser so you can browse while you browser, and it costs $50/m” Doesn’…

> Distinctive characters in fiction stick with me, but not order of events: I couldn't tell you anything useful about the plot details of my favorite films and books despite revisi…

Yeah, seem to have middling abilities there. I’m fairly normal in most other ways, mentally, with really high (tested) spatial reasoning, and a good-but-nothing-special (on HN, any…

Middle aged here. Almost, but not quite, no autobiographical memory. Been that way since I was really young. So that’s fun. Often I remember that something happened. Order gets won…

Liability insurance in the US may end up paying out for medical bills.

Same here, read it when it was posted elsewhere in this thread with an implication of “this’ll show you how basecamp management’s in the wrong” and that was the only part that stoo…

Hubris drives you to re-build things you shouldn't... which is how you learn why they work the way they do. And maybe to try things you "shouldn't", which end up working out OK fai…

I don't notice much difference on the mid-grade beans until a week out, but the expensive top-end stuff is going downhill on day 4, maybe day 5. It's not ruined yet, but if you pai…

Vacuum packer is a thing I don't have. Might work. I've heard conflicting things about freezing (I've tried it with lesser beans in Tupperware, didn't seem to make much difference …

> Best way to get flavour out of coffee is cold brew (not cold trip). Can confirm that this is the best way to brew all but the finest beans. Elevates mid-tier beans quite a bit.

IMO coffee is basically three distinct drinks: 1) Really, really, really shitty coffee that just tastes like bitter and stale, always. Often lots of ash tray in the flavor. (instan…

They like real buttons, lacking flat nonsense, and densely-presented functionality. I do too, so I get the impulse to resist calls for change, but agree with you that a light-touch…

Consider: visual novels, even when entirely linear, probably count as “games” for mobile sales. They’re damn popular, are often episodic or series or have DLC to drive more sales, …

Don’t forget: “I want to go from two models of mobile OS ecosystem to one, in the name of choice and freedom”

Kicking a business out of your mall for abusive behavior has got to be the lamest variety of “violating freedom” ever.

Since don’t-have-monsters isn’t an option—yes? Especially since most of the ones being “murdered” by Apple aren’t the vulnerable, in any kind of relevant sense, but software develo…

I just know that these things won't happen right now: 1) Job interview? The big corporate sales prospect I'm courting? "Company policy is that we do all our calls through [some cor…

Absent government regulation? Yes, exactly. If Mecha-Godzilla shows up I'm very, very happy to have Godzilla around to fuck them up, even if Godzilla is a dangerous monster and it …

Some definitely do charge more for e.g. subscriptions on iOS than they do if you go through their website. They can't advertise the website option in their app , but it can exist. …