Fordrus

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by Fordrus 7y ago
As person with a similarly vicious voice, part of the answer lies in cognitive behavioral therapy techniques - information is the enemy of hyper-criticism (usually, anyway). The voice of your own critical judgment can be vicious, but if you
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by Fordrus 8y ago
I love a good name, one that is spelled such that many/most native speakers of the language will pronounce it approximately correctly when they see it, and isn’t too difficult to spell, but also lets a person feel a baseline differenti
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by Fordrus 8y ago
I have a depressingly banal name and have experienced pretty serious annoyance about it. I wouldn’t say depression, but when society already makes me feel like a faceless drone, being <banal name>#476 exacerbates the problem substant
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by Fordrus 8y ago
Sometimes mental illness turns a person into the moral equivalent of a natural disaster. We don’t exactly blame natural disasters for arriving. They didn’t intend malice towards us. But we don’t therefore let them destroy our homes or ki
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by Fordrus 8y ago
The issue is that an extremely sensitive negotiation (interviewing and hiring process) is utterly disrupted by their presence, so nobody is in a good position to legally challenge them. If almost ANY non compete is in place, the potential
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by Fordrus 8y ago
There isn’t some function we can feed a different argument here to value agreeableness more highly though. I generally agree, but that more collaboration would be good isn’t so much the question - the question is HOW these tweaks can be do
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by Fordrus 8y ago
Man, so many memories. I was involved in a MUD called Dragonstone and had so much freaking fun, when I first entered college I had to stop cold turkey because every time I tried to announce that I had to quit to get my homework done, sayin
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by Fordrus 9y ago
Seems like it might be tasty milk, but I have neither time nor space to care for a cow. XD :D
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by Fordrus 9y ago
On the other hand, I valiantly tried a number of variations of “learn C++ in a weekend” when I was a teenager, and finding most of them too difficult/annoying, presuming prior knowledge I didn’t have, I decided programming just wasn’t
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by Fordrus 9y ago
Well, banning the practice is the first step towards doing exactly that. The whole world is a lot more understanding of the stance, "Sorry, we cannot go and rescue [person X]," when person X got in trouble because of illegal ac
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by Fordrus 9y ago
FANTASTIC, many many thanks!!! With that in mind, I can move forward in relative peace, again, very grateful!! :)
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by Fordrus 9y ago
I'm finishing up at WGU in Software Dev but sure wouldn't mind switching to CS proper - I keep hearing this and "soon," but can't pinpoint the source of the rumors whatsoever - do you know where you heard / got
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by Fordrus 9y ago
A very simple hypothesis as to why doctors can argue this effectively but teachers cannot is that teachers are not as powerful a lobbying group as doctors. Doctors have effectively been able to defend their "turf," from hostile en
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by Fordrus 9y ago
There is substantial argument that our focus on standardized testing is literally ruining the advantages traditionally associated with a Western Education. But then, perhaps I would be a "below-average" teacher, and my opinion
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by Fordrus 9y ago
Oh... oh my Gosh..... it's full of... he globally declared his LOOP INDEXING VARIABLES?! I really appreciate him making that available, fantastic little cautionary tale, clearly from an enthusiastic and thoughtful learner of Java - gla
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by Fordrus 9y ago
But one main alternative to that value neutral statement and one major outcome of truly caring about the context of technology is literally Ludditism- like, if we figure out a way to make unlimited free energy with zero waste, do we REALLY
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by Fordrus 9y ago
>How is TV better than an iPad? The iPad IS more dangerous than the T.V. BECAUSE it is so much more engaging. Unless you have super-cable-satellite T.V. with more channels than you could possible ever watch - and sometime still even th
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by Fordrus 9y ago
This is incredibly beautiful. I don't like to think of things as unbeatable, but I prefer to think of them as quests that the hero can't be expected to complete presently. In video games it's not at all uncommon to encounte
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by Fordrus 9y ago
"It didn’t cure his depression, any more than you can cure a werewolf by ripping out his fangs." I don't have the same issues as the author's father, but I've often thought of almost exactly this analogy when treati
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by Fordrus 9y ago
It's altogether possible that you're correct, but I'd say that most of the responsibility lies in this: if you look at pondwater with your naked eye, you can see cloudy pond water. If you look with a carefully made glass bea
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by Fordrus 9y ago
I think we are understanding each other very well! Yes, learning to "sell ourselves" and highlight our own successes well enough to influence social structures when we need to is a hard problem, we're trained quite strongly
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by Fordrus 9y ago
Short story: from German Literature to Neuroscience, after a family member was diagnosed with mental illness. Once In Neuroscience, almost literally no research questions I was interested in could be answered without substantial computer s
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by Fordrus 9y ago
When I was still in the humanities (German Literature Major), my program was making a MAJOR push for all graduates of the major to be able to articulate to others and interviewers the skillset they'd gained during their time at univers
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by Fordrus 9y ago
I cannot express how fantastically hilarious I found that expression, I am absolutely going to be using that as shorthand for the position from here on out! I often have the same worry when it comes to people asserting that state government
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by Fordrus 9y ago
Well, it was two clinics: a running shoe store in Utah that does not sell vibrams, and then a university physical course called "Jogging.". I already in the vibrams back then, but was not permitted to use them in the class, this w
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by Fordrus 9y ago
Having been to a run clinic, I can absolutely call bull on the claim "Footwear is irrelevant, here.". At least the run clinic I went to assured me multiple times that my impression that wearing "trainers" specifically an
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by Fordrus 9y ago
I agree the the posturing is not the essence of the infection, and didn't mean to communicate that. It does make wading through papers substantially more difficult, however, and that is a sincere and severe annoyance, though the tende
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by Fordrus 9y ago
While this is partially true, it is also DEFINITELY true that there is a large amount of academic posturing going on in the field of Molecular Biology, at least. I've read MANY papers that could've been both more exactly and more
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by Fordrus 9y ago
My Gosh, that is an extremely salient and DEEPLY DEPRESSING point. I've been drawn to question what to do about that quite often, but I havent happened across an acceptable answer as yet.
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by Fordrus 10y ago
Importantly, the same research that indicates that kids would do better starting later also indicates that they (teenagers, at least, who were also the indicated population in the study about later start benefits) will generally have troubl

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