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dmschulmanon Blue Apron lays off more workers

I left the shared dorm kitchen behind when I graduated university. I prefer not to go back. I'd rather my kitchen be my own. Have you lived in a shared communal space where everyone uses the space but no one takes the time to clean? Try reigning those people in for me. No thanks.

Cooking to scale is also not a problem if you know what you're doing in the kitchen. Smaller kitchens and a lack of proper hardware can make cooking more challenging, but it's super easy to scale a recipe up and store away the extra portions. There are entire communities dedicated to meal prep tips and strategies.

It more comes down to training and time for most people, not a lack of hardware.

dmschulmanon Before sale to IBM for billions, Red Hat started in cofounder's closet

Red Hat was initially financed by opening 8 different credit cards and accruing $50,000 in credit cart debt before they began bring profitable. I never knew this before but really drives home how hard/risky it was to bootstrap your own business back then.

dmschulmanon Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

Christopher Wray is the Director of the FBI

dmschulmanon The American Circus in All Its Glory

Very cool series from PBS!

dmschulmanon The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world

The New Yorker

dmschulmanon How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

Chiming in to say I'm similarly semi-disconnected from Facebook at this point. My account is still active and I still post occasional updates from a third-party platform (mostly articles I've read), but I rarely browse the site anymore.

The only thing I find useful on Facebook that I can't find reliably anywhere else is a comprehensive listing of local events and concerts (as well as invites to things my friends host). If there were a separate site that could aggregate and organize events content as nicely and completely as FB does I would have deleted my account outright a while ago.

dmschulmanon Setting the Record Straight on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Erroneous Article

Amazon really feels the need to get in front of this story before their stock falls any further, down almost 3% as of writing this comment.

dmschulmanon BlackBerry announces a new quantum-resistant code signing service

It's a feature not a bug

dmschulmanon Is the podcast bubble bursting?

There's no way to whether or not YOUR ad was consumed by the audience. As a company who places an ad on a podcast this puts you in a very difficult position when justifying ROI of the ad buy.

dmschulmanon Myst at 25: How it changed gaming, created addicts, and made enemies

Some of the best music ever composed for a computer game I'd argue.

dmschulmanon Myst at 25: How it changed gaming, created addicts, and made enemies

The documentary that was included with the CDROM definitely looks 25 years old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94pzx_9LkVI

I still watch this thing every couple of years and remember how much I loved that game.

dmschulmanon Ranch Nation

I worked at a haunted house one summer/fall and the experience completely turned me off to ketchup for about 4 years.

dmschulmanon The US has spent $1.5 trillion on war since Sept 11 attacks

$900,000,000 per day

dmschulmanon Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence: study

Or maybe take the information as a sign that perhaps caution is warranted in some areas and it might be worthwhile to consider how you might change your behaviors based on the evidence.

I agree that scientific conclusions are sometime editorialized to convey the pressing nature of the findings (the evidence is what it is), but 100% wrong or 100% right I don't think it would do you much harm to reduce the amount of pollution you're exposed to on a daily basis.

dmschulmanon PepsiCo Is Acquiring SodaStream for $3.2B

I assume it's based off of Pepsi's sales figures (and therefore only pertains to their beverage selection).

dmschulmanon Why There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America

Is this viral marketing or have you eaten thai food from Thailand in order to make that judgement call?

dmschulmanon Almost 70% of Millennials Regret Buying Their Homes

https://www.yelp.com/c/la/home_inspectors

Also friends, family, coworkers, local real estate agents you trust, etc.

Going into the entire home buying process without preparing adequately is the buyer's first mistake.

dmschulmanon Almost 70% of Millennials Regret Buying Their Homes

The buyer has every right to find and hire their own home inspector...

dmschulmanon The Cosmetic Class

I think it's worth noting that the author of this piece has a private Instagram account.

dmschulmanon SEC Charges Failed Fyre Festival Founder and Others with $27.4M Offering Fraud

The Wikipedia entry is a gift that keeps on giving:

> She added that McFarland's short but eventful career showed a "pattern of deception" and "overpromising luxury experiences that were not delivered". McFarland told the court that he was broke and could not afford a private attorney. McFarland later hired a private attorney.

dmschulmanon Apple Developer CD Codenames (1999)

Hmm these are interesting but not quite the Apple CD I'm remembering. When the multimedia application automatically loaded I remember some kind of video feature that included a country music band along with a lot of image and videos included on the disc. Of course this was a long time ago, I might be misremembering some details, but I'm surprised more archives of this kind of thing do not exist. I hope I can find a copy of this CD online someday and relive some of those glossy childhood Mac memories

dmschulmanon Apple Developer CD Codenames (1999)

Is there anything out there like this for consumer Apple CDs? I'm talking about demo CDs and other retail media that came packaged with Macintosh computers and accessories from the day.

I distinctly remember browsing through an incredible multimedia CD that came packaged with one of the first consumer CDROM drives that Apple put out. In addition to some cheesy video presentations this CD had a bunch of Bloom County comics and some games to boot. I wish I could find my old copy but I think it's been lost to time at this point.

dmschulmanon Ask HN: What’s your “Everyone has a price” experience?

It's just as valid for people with first-hand experience to post stories about when they refused to cave to the increased reward. I think many here would, rightly, not want to share stories about the times when they had compromised their own morals and ethics for money.

dmschulmanon Ask HN: What’s your “Everyone has a price” experience?

I believe this is one of many reasons why tech companies, especially unscrupulous startups, look for the youngest talent they can afford.

Not only are these workers hungry for a job (and can be hired for less money because of their relative inexperience), but they also have not worked in the industry long enough to cultivate an ethical barometer (or are hungry enough for work that they would be willing to compromise their own ethical standards, if any).

When I read about or see a developer/engineer/etc stand up in support of the ethical or moral factor of their work it always makes me proud.

dmschulmanon Dank Learning: Generating Memes Using Deep Neural Networks

Considering most deep learning results are interpreted as absurd/bizarre, I don't think the machine will have much difficulty intentionally or unintentionally emulating meme culture.

dmschulmanon Id Software

Never read Masters of Doom but this excerpt about id Software in John Craddock's new book Rocket Jump was a fascinating long read:

http://www.shacknews.com/article/101156/rocket-jump-quake-an...

I grew up in this era so I'm certainly enamored by the nostalgia trip but I have a lot of respect for the team at id, it's fascinating to read about all of the mundane aspects of ray tracing and compressing color palettes enough such that a game like Doom or Quake could actually work. id probably did more than any other company at the time to make programming seem like an alternative subculture instead of a science and to make games these dark and moody experiences that were a blast to play (especially with friends via LAN).

dmschulmanon If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power

There's something painfully ironic about this article being behind a paywall

dmschulmanon StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migrated to Mix

StumbleUpon was one of the first web services I came across that actually provided a new and exciting way to traverse the internet. I'll never forget the sense of discovery and wonder and amusement it provided, my only other sources for cool and interesting content were things my friends would share with me or sites I would find via an article/web page.

StumbleUpon took me out of my "filter bubble" if you will and introduced me to corners of the web I would have possibly never discovered on my own. It will be missed.

dmschulmanon No, there is no epidemic of loneliness

We need a good catchy term for the fallacy that "the media is reporting on X but not reporting at all about Y!".

This is mostly confirmation bias since no one individual has the bandwidth or resources to look at every single story produced on every single topic on a single day. I tend to see people complain "this tragedy happened today and I don't see it being reported by the news!", implying that the media has something to hide or they value certain groups of people over others, but this is not a claim worth its salt.

There are many reason, both from the organization's standpoint and from the individual's standpoint, why this claim isn't true. It's a weak argument that only serves the purpose of distracting from topics at hand.