JohnnyBrown

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by JohnnyBrown 12y ago
Better: quote the actual authors. > We therefore tested whether the mindfulness trait predicted a reduction of grammatically congruent preferences ... Mindfulness was shown to correlate negatively with grammatically congruent responses
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by JohnnyBrown 12y ago
Is there an argument to be made why $HELL is not a problem for the human race?
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by JohnnyBrown 12y ago
Deploying a rails app to a VPS (e.g. digital ocean or linode) isn't that much harder than setting up a development rails server on your work machine. If you have some time in the next few days for a screenshare I'll walk you throu
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by JohnnyBrown 12y ago
If you liked this comment, you will most likely enjoy the prince. It's a pretty faithful homage to Macchiavelli's argumentation style
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by JohnnyBrown 12y ago
I believe the 0 m/s refers to the boost stage's speed after a successful landing.
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by JohnnyBrown 12y ago
bandwidth is the derivative of transfer over time. It has the same relationship to transfer as speed has to distance. bandwidth = d(transfer) / dt
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by JohnnyBrown 12y ago
I've been emailing one of your colleagues about working at cognitect - any chance you could help me get inducted into that software illuminati?
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by JohnnyBrown 12y ago
Actually my first thought was also, "well, it is targeted toward gamers". But Starcraft? Was your handle "uglyblacklesbianexxonexecutive"? I play starcraft II almost every day and I find the community very polite. The wo
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by JohnnyBrown 13y ago
> we’re getting roughly 80% less activity from Asia than we should in the absence of language constraints Bit of an assumption here: absent language constraints, Chinese and anglophone developers would use Stackoverflow at the same rate.
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by JohnnyBrown 13y ago
I believe you are speaking past my point. [repeats point]
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by JohnnyBrown 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote Bioinformatics software developer, experience with the numpy/pandas/scikit world, analyzing FASTA data, flourescence images from microfluidic arrays, and reliability information from lab processes (SPC). I&#x
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by JohnnyBrown 13y ago
> ... nearly all agree that we need to move with great deliberation when altering the ecosystem of the ocean. It's been quite a while since Humanity applied anything like deliberation to our ongoing alterations of ocean ecosystems.
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by JohnnyBrown 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote Bioinformatics software developer, experience with the numpy/pandas/scikit world, analyzing FASTA data, flourescence images from microfluidic arrays, and reliability information from lab processes (SPC). I&#x
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by JohnnyBrown 13y ago
It's also interesting that whenever the subject of losethos is brought up, the discussions take a strangely reliable turn. Someone (or several someones) makes a comment that includes the words "mental illness", racist/ra
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by JohnnyBrown 13y ago
That's certainly one way to look at it. On the other hand, the same powerful army has struggled on several occasions recently to put down insurgencies from determined, armed local populations in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Colombia, an
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by JohnnyBrown 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Malcolmxm1carbine3gr.gif
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by JohnnyBrown 14y ago
This is really interesting to me. How do you compare societies in terms of their materialism? Which are the most/least materialistic?
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by JohnnyBrown 14y ago
I've spent some time making web-based software while sitting across the lab from the scientists who use it. This looks like an interesting project, I'll email you for more info.
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Integrating Linkedin OAuth with an existing django app(blog.stafftacular.com)
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by JohnnyBrown 14y ago
The thing that excites me most (as a realist with a soft spot for anarchy) is the potential for crowdfunding to deliver public goods. One example is a pitch I saw at DjangoCon, someone was running a kickstarter campaign for a detailed open-
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by JohnnyBrown 14y ago
Apple is literally preventing lifesaving technology from being deployed into the world. Due to this politically-motivated decision, actual real live human beings are being denied a simple tool that could allow them to literally avoid death.
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by JohnnyBrown 14y ago
Are women allergic to hot tubs or something? I wasn't aware there was anything particularly masculine about a hot tub.
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by JohnnyBrown 15y ago
As an anecdote, most of what I know about the Harry Potter universe comes from reading Elezier Yudkowsky's remix. I've never read the original and only seen two or three of the movies.
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by JohnnyBrown 15y ago
I've never met anyone who refers to himself as a brogrammer. Pretty much all I know about the term is what I get from it's construction and this article. I take strong issue with the idea that celebrating masculinity is somehow automaticall
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by JohnnyBrown 15y ago
Good points. Also MLK and Malcolm X could stand as pretty prominent counterexamples to my argument.
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by JohnnyBrown 15y ago
Another key difference is that the set of thoughts whose public expression could get a person killed, and the actual danger from expressing them, has been much smaller in the US than in those two countries for the past hundred years or so.
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by JohnnyBrown 15y ago
>Temporary staffers aren't legally entitled to decent health care because they are just short-term "contractors" no matter how long they keep the same job. This to me actually sounds illegal. I've worked in other industries where signif
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by JohnnyBrown 15y ago
So redefine the problem as "Use my software skills to address an unmet need in a sufficiently large market" or "find a scalable business model" or something else along those lines.
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by JohnnyBrown 15y ago
Perhaps this would work: x-axis is time, y is approval/disapproval, width of line represents percent neutral. But then where's the excuse to play with the neat video library?
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by JohnnyBrown 15y ago
I totally get and sympathize with the enthusiasm part. But the CL-specific parts (to an outsider) reek of megalomania and no-true-scotsman.

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