The User Is Drunk • Hacker News Board

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by richardlitt » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:05 AM UTC

Zak wrote: post #62

If you're concerned about your drinking habits, you should probably not check out aa.org. There is little solid evidence that AA is a particularly effective treatment for alcoholism. Various types of therapy with real trained and certified therapists have good success rates backed by actual scientific evidence, as do certain prescription drugs. Combining them likely has an even better success rate. Talk to your docto…

Thanks. Noted, and updated.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by LeonRobrotsky » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:06 AM UTC

I've been very thankful that I couldn't navigate some websites drunk in the past.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by richardlitt » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:07 AM UTC

jabo wrote: post #48

Wonder if the author dog-fooded his concept, that would provide some real life use cases to serve as reference.

I did. Wasn't an ideal real life case, though.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by meesterdude » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:09 AM UTC

hey! thats crazy that matt took the photo - i work with him.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by kelnos » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:14 AM UTC

practicalpants wrote: post #67

hueving wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your last sentence/paragraph comes from a pretty myopic perspective. Some people enjoy getting drunk occasionally. It's like saying "getting high is just sad", "running marathons is just sad" or "eating high fat foods is just sad". They are all sacrificing something for a high.

Which is why I said "getting drunk regularly," which is the implied activity in a business built around a guy getting drunk. Either way, amusing to see someone compare getting drunk to running a marathon.

Define "regularly". I get drunk fairly regularly (1-3 times a week), and I'm pretty happy with that for of fun, as well as the sober kind.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by amagumori » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:17 AM UTC

> Is this your only job? No. I have a full-time job changing the world.

dude, you do frontend development for a social network. how self-aggrandizing can you be. just say you work for a social network ffs.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by jmtame » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:18 AM UTC

hacker news is now singlehandedly responsible for this guy being completely wasted for the next month.

well done, everyone.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by JacobJans » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:18 AM UTC

qzervaas wrote: post #37

ccvannorman wrote: post #5

well, i threw my $50 in. looking forwards to the results! (mathbreakers.com)

Same here, for http://transitfeeds.com

> "An extensive collection of official public transit data from around the world, including GTFS, GTFS-RealTime and more. "

A drunk person is not going to want to read that many syllables per word, or think about weird acronyms.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by bcook » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:23 AM UTC

Zak wrote: post #62

If you're concerned about your drinking habits, you should probably not check out aa.org. There is little solid evidence that AA is a particularly effective treatment for alcoholism. Various types of therapy with real trained and certified therapists have good success rates backed by actual scientific evidence, as do certain prescription drugs. Combining them likely has an even better success rate. Talk to your docto…

I never could really commit to AA, the organization, but... I met some great people there. I ended up in AA, thinking my life was over, but when I heard what other people had been through (awful awful things), I was very humbled. The people and their shared experiences helped me gain perspective.

Although I mostly solved the drinking problem myself, outside of AA, AA still helped me.

I compare it to attending Church. I am not a fan of organized religion, nor am I religious, but I have met some great people there.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by dudus » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:27 AM UTC

amagumori wrote: post #76

> Is this your only job? No. I have a full-time job changing the world. dude, you do frontend development for a social network. how self-aggrandizing can you be. just say you work for a social network ffs.

Social Networks changed the world. Building one, even a small part can be rewarding. Maybe not everyone in the same position will feel the same way, but you should definitively not criticize him if he does.

Good for you, I also believe I'm changing the world, and I'm not here building rockets or anything like that.