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padolsey
4,464karma·578submissions·June 29, 2011
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I'm James. Living between Beijing and London. I like coding. Also plants. Stroke survivor & disability advocate. My dog's a whippet/iggy cross and is called Ducky. He's a beautiful lunatic.
* website: [j11y.io](https://j11y.io) * building: [nope](https://nope.net) * bsky: [@j11y.io](https://bsky.app/profile/j11y.io) * contact: https://tally.so/r/waYPvE * twitter: [@padolsey](https://x.com/padolsey) * book recommendations: [ablf.io](https://ablf.io) * me = founding eng @ [collective intelligence project](https://cip.org)
My work email is my first name at cip dot org.
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recent activity (578 total)
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Thank you for writing this all up. I found this all really interesting but one question remains: what should we do when we have burnout? It's easy enough to say "just employ one of your copi…
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I understand the point about the data resellers, and I agree. But TBH I'm more concerned about the minority of 'good actors' in this space, who have gotten my information the correct wa…
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I feel really bad for smaller companies/orgs. I've received countless emails from various businesses I've had interactions with over the years. I've seen the full gamut of messagin…
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Yep! Or even: const initials = name.match(/\b\w/g).join('')
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I don't know if I buy into that as a line of reasoning. I'm ostensibly an INFP and I actually love problem-solving (hence being a programmer). When I work from home I am motivated to work fo…
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I feel that it should simply reset after X days without any takers, thereby reflecting the market's ill-appetite for the increased price. Or perhaps the price should decrease by $2 each day witho…
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I saw it as an attempt to draw a contrast between the internal struggle of the mother (and that of every human suffering from loneliness) and the relative placidity and pleasant obliviousness of natur…
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Just because we are biologically tuned to "market" ourselves, for leverage in survival/gene-spreading, I don't think it's correct to state that the "entire purpose" …
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Referendums in the UK are, legally, glorified opinion polls and so any resulting democratic mandate is spurious.
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What exactly would that future look like? Where there is no government, one will appear. People seem to have this incurable efficiency whereby we create rules, regulations, and eventually bureaucracie…
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I love these! I tried automating the creation of them a while ago[1] (refreshing the page creates a new one). I should probably revisit it though as the generated puzzles aren't tricky enough.. […
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Maybe, but I feel that the answer to such biases is to introspect and understand your potential prejudgements, and then not let them specifically sway you. Anyway, the accepted alternative, an entirel…
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I get that. I just would rather not feel like a monkey being prodded whenever I attend an interview. An interview being repeatable (for comparative purposes) brings no value to the candidate.
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This methodology may correctly filter the candidates the author is seeking, but if this made up the bulk of any interview I attended, it would probably turn me off the role. FWIW, when I attend an int…
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Agreed! FWIW this is why I made Operative. It gives you a way of writing "inline" JS that utilizes web workers (caveat: not actually inline; no scope/context access of course). It provi…
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With no defined height you can still use the `translate(-50%, -50%)` hack, right? I'm kinda surprised it hasn't been mentioned in this thread at all; I use it all the time. http://…
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To be fair, the article doesn't talk about being merely "good", but the much harder-to-achieve and more subjectively understood virtues of character, generosity and empathy. From what I…
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Yes, but the author explicitly explores the semantics she pushes in regard to other limitations: our size relative to the universe, our inability to fly, etc. With everything taken into account, it is…
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I get your point but, for me, it was more fun back then. There was more to hack on; heck, you could craft your own selector engine and people would use it. Awesome. Now, seemingly, all there is to do …
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There's also http://unlicense.org/
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I'm not sold on the idea of aligning one's failures with charitable contributions. You'd inevitably learn to feel good at the prospect of not having to yield cash to a good cause. Also,…
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3p a minute is the minimum suggested donation. £1.80 an hour is very reasonable. Ziferblat has found great success with this model in Russia. Here's hoping it sticks in the West.
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Visited a couple times already and the atmosphere is notably different from your run-of-the-mill establishment. It feels nothing like a coffee house though. Feels more like you're visiting your s…
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Nice UI! For programmers trying to improve their general typing speed I reckon it could help, but for me it creates an almost uncanny experience. In the JS test I found it incredibly difficult to type…
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Why "extreme narcissism"?