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jlynn

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    For me, it has been easier to have uninterrupted focus time when I know that "in X minutes, I can address that notification." Without the preset breaks, a notification begged to be…

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    Comment #33647881

    Actually speaking with people at Amazon, teams are accepting internal transfers. External hiring is frozen.

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    Comment #32744805

    I'm not convinced proof-of-stake means less equity. PoW is very capex intensive between hardware and energy. Especially during a time when energy prices are soaring, the big player…

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    Comment #32073951

    The phrase "giving a shit doesn't scale" makes as much sense to me as "honesty doesn't scale." It's not a question of scaling it out, its just a question of how you operate. Do you…

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    Comment #30253652

    The average of 23 and 21 is indeed 22.

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    Comment #30095022

    There are a few things that I think would be really interesting to do with this data: 1. Provide a different scoring mechanism. Number of guesses is a bit simplistic. I'd like to s…

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    Comment #29929272

    Two things I've wanted to explore with Wordle: 1. Some sense of "par". Can you crawl twitter for everyone's solution tweets and get a sense of the average guesses for the day? 2. "…

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    Comment #11988517

    Carfree Cities is a book (and website) that I've really enjoyed and explores the concept of how to design car free cities http://carfree.com . It approaches the problem from severa…

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    Comment #10108084

    I once called a repairman to look at my dishwasher because it was stuck repeating the wash cycle over and over. He power cycled my dishwasher and the problem was fixed.

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    Comment #10090100

    Get a job or internship at the right company. I work for a hardware startup and recently spent two weeks overseas at our manufacturing facility along with two of our interns. The o…

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    Comment #9870424

    This leaves me wondering how you might a site like SO that incentivizes participation and quality answers, but disincentivizes poaching and incomplete first answers. Could you buil…

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    Comment #9283809

    I do not think the purpose of "gendered expectations" is to say that all "white males" behave this way and that other types of people do not. It is not meant to be predictive. As y…

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    Comment #8743940

    I think the phrase that deserves a lot of consideration is "better work environment." To me, the question isn't about whether men and women are equals in the workplace. The questio…

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    Comment #8743900

    I think it is important to point out that equality has a huge impact on diversity.

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    Comment #3759854

    The site will use javascript if you don't have Silverlight installed, so it's not a requirement.

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    Comment #3759294

    I also converted the 450mb tiff http://zoom.it/dNMW

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    Comment #3759017

    Check out http://zoom.it/VGFr

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    Comment #3759010

    Looks like the image has been added to zoom.it. You can browse the full resolution image without downloading all of it: http://zoom.it/VGFr