aaron987

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by aaron987 9y ago
Are you referring to the Curse of Knowledge? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge What you are describing also sounds a little like the Dunning-Kruger effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by aaron987 9y ago
Though it might also be worth mentioning that Tumblr is a total pain in the * to use precisely because of that customization. Every dang page is different and I never know what to click. Worse, Tumblr is so slow that every wrong click is
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by aaron987 9y ago
This was discussed in the book "Flashboys". The real challenge with high speed trading in the long distance communication between the stuff on Wall Street and the commodities action going on in Chicago. That long distance communic
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by aaron987 10y ago
I've been using Duolingo to learn Italian. It was awesome up until about 40% fluency, then it lost its effectiveness. It was a great way to learn basic vocabulary and sentence structure, but after that I learned more by just reading my
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by aaron987 10y ago
Yes! This cannot be stressed enough. Not just for car accidents, but this is true for emergencies in general. Always check your surroundings! For example, if you find a guy laying on the sidewalk, he could have stepped on a down power line,
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Researchers Are Preparing for Trump to Delete Government Science from the Web(motherboard.vice.com)
7 points by aaron987 10y ago|0 comments
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by aaron987 10y ago
What, if any, effect might this have on Android, given that its all Java?
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Centuries of Preserved Shipwrecks Found in the Black Sea(news.nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by aaron987 10y ago|0 comments
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by aaron987 10y ago
I came here to ask about that too. From what I've heard elsewhere, it sounds like Google is smart enough to figure out if you are posting unrelated content just for SEO purposes, and that engaging in such practices is a good way to get
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Google's AI reasons its way around the London Underground(nature.com)
3 points by aaron987 10y ago|0 comments
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by aaron987 10y ago
If it's just JSON, can't you do this: head -10 myfile.json
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Decades-Old Mystery Put to Rest: Why Are There X's in the Desert?(npr.org)
307 points by aaron987 10y ago|78 comments
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by aaron987 12y ago
My thought too, especially when I noticed the typo: "...similar tastes to extrapolate how much the you will like some other movies..."
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by aaron987 12y ago
Headline bait. I was expecting some exciting breakthrough in nuclear reactor technology or something.
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by aaron987 12y ago
I think a very simple step that could be taken to improve adoption would be making it more obvious that you don't need an email to try the demo. I would mention it right on the demo "Signup" page. Judging by some of the comme
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by aaron987 12y ago
My experience as well. Plus, my passwords became stronger. If I know I won't remember it anyway, why stop at 10-15 character passwords? I just crank it up to 40 characters of gibberish, and let LastPass do the remembering. I love it.
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by aaron987 12y ago
Blasting the drone out of the sky is probably not the best option. Drones are becoming more popular for legitimate uses like photography, farming, and maybe deliveries in the future. Without knowing what the drone is carrying, it would be h
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by aaron987 12y ago
I'm confused. How does this work without inserting any code on your site?
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by aaron987 12y ago
"The heavily-redacted reports include examples of data on Americans being e-mailed to unauthorized recipients, stored in unsecured computers and retained after it was supposed to be destroyed, according to the documents." Therein
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Brain-to-Brain Interface Used to Control Another Person's Hand(lernabit.com)
4 points by aaron987 12y ago|0 comments
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How Companies Kill Their Employees' Job Searches(m.theatlantic.com)
1 points by aaron987 12y ago|1 comments
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by aaron987 12y ago
"I am a huge believer in the rule of law, but I am also a believer that no-one in this country is beyond the law," So protecting your phone from thieves means you are "beyond the law"? Sure. I'll leave my doors unlo
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by aaron987 12y ago
This really gets annoying to me too. I think the media is largely to blame for it. Every city with a kid who started a website is referred to as "Silicon <insert word that describes the local terrain>". Likewise, they call e
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by aaron987 12y ago
I have mild depression, and one of the best treatments I have found is martial arts. Physical activity in general is helpful, but martial arts in particular has a very calming effect. Most people assume it has something to do with pounding
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One Step Closer to a Bacterial Battery(lernabit.com)
2 points by aaron987 12y ago|0 comments
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Woman Receives the World's First 3D-Printed Skull(lernabit.com)
59 points by aaron987 12y ago|31 comments
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by aaron987 12y ago
Nice work! It might be cool to allow people to share designs. So if I was creating a web page, I could browse through web pages other people have created and import one, then use that as a foundation for my own design. At any rate, this is
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by aaron987 12y ago
I like Rackspace, but I wonder if and how their position on net neutrality might change if CenturyLink is serious about buying them.
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by aaron987 12y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Evernote. Unless I am misunderstanding your question. I just save things in Evernote. Physical documents get scanned and uploaded. I also use BitTorrent Sync for things like music and videos. Extremel
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by aaron987 12y ago
I don't know about federal regulations, but state regulations have made things difficult. I can't use lending club here in Ohio, and a few other states don't allow it either. Here is more about that: http://www.len

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