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Effective Slack Alerts(8thlight.com)
1 points by ecmendenhall 7y ago|0 comments
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by ecmendenhall 10y ago
I work with a manual QA team who explicitly recruit testers on the autism spectrum. It's a great mission and they've done great work: http://www.businessinsider.com/startup-hires-people-on-autis...
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Refactoring as a Feature Tax(blog.8thlight.com)
1 points by ecmendenhall 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask DTrace: Why are my tests so slow?(blog.8thlight.com)
18 points by ecmendenhall 11y ago|0 comments
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Concurrency Control Strategies for Secret Agents(blog.8thlight.com)
1 points by ecmendenhall 11y ago|0 comments
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Debug like a doctor(blog.8thlight.com)
3 points by ecmendenhall 11y ago|1 comments
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by ecmendenhall 12y ago
The Harold McGee article linked on the right mentions that the alkaline ingredients in ramen noodles are slightly different from baking soda: > As for the particular alkaline ingredients that are added to noodles, Chinese and Asian alk
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by ecmendenhall 12y ago
You're probably using the right thesaurus. The default on Apple devices is the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, which is great at conveying little shades of meaning. I'm always delighted to find a "Word Notes" en
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by ecmendenhall 13y ago
Ah, right. That makes sense. If only it was mentioned on the download page!
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by ecmendenhall 13y ago
This bug was pretty serious. I'd better be extra careful and install and verify this myself. Oh, good: there's a standalone installer available ( http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1726 ). But the download is served
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by ecmendenhall 13y ago
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on an encrypted, backed-up, redundantly distributed hard drive — forever.
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by ecmendenhall 13y ago
I wrote my undergrad thesis on conspiracy theories (in Turkish politics)[1], but it includes a section reviewing academic literature on conspiracy theories and a lot of resources in the bibliography. Karl Popper wrote briefly about conspira
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The Power of the Powerless: Vaclav Havel on "post-totalitarianism"(s3.amazonaws.com)
2 points by ecmendenhall 13y ago|0 comments
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
Money might buy "freedom from depression," but I suspect it does so by buying antidepressants and therapy. I think Robert Sapolsky is on to the best explanation of depression: it's a disease rooted in biology and genetics, similar to (and e
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
This is interesting, but I think completion rates (and enrollments, to a degree) are bogus statistics. All the incentives are aligned toward signing up for lots of courses, with or without any intention to finish. I'm "enrolled" in 13 Cours
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
Here's another ungated Henrich paper on ultimatum games across societies, if you're interested in the research: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/InSearchHomoEconomicus2001... His book "Why Humans Cooperate" is worth a trip to the librar
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Show HN: Partial Applications - random problem solving strategies for hackers(partialapplications.herokuapp.com)
1 points by ecmendenhall 14y ago|0 comments
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
> Side note: Wouldn't it be awesome if composer supported composer.sexpr files natively, so that we would no longer have to write JSON? If you, too, think this would be awesome, check out extensible data notation: https://github.com/ed
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
I second this. But don't take my word for it. Here is 5.24 (one of my favorites) translated by Long: "Think of the universal substance, of which thou hast a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisibl
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
Two of my favorite pieces of "other media:" This Flickr photostream by "Moravius," who is some sort of humanitarian aid worker in NK. There are lots of photos from outside Pyongyang, which I rarely see elsewhere on the web: http://www.flic
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
If you're sufficiently convinced by this, the 538 model, or your favorite electoral vote map, and you are willing to bet your beliefs (and you are in a jurisdiction that has not regulated prediction markets out of existence), Intrade contra
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
Here is a short presentation with another perspective on the Cybersyn project which should be of interest to designers and quantitative visualization types: http://compscifi.com/ It argues that the design of the Presidential control room
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
Technical understanding always determines ambition! You've given me two excellent answers in the last few weeks. (The other was on Aristotle, inter-subjective selection, and N-dimensional optimization). Thank you!
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Ask HN: What can markets compute?
3 points by ecmendenhall 14y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Life as optimization problem
7 points by ecmendenhall 14y ago|6 comments
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
This happened to me, too. For once, carrying travelers checks came in handy. In Turkey, most ATMs accept my extra-long PIN, but very few have UIs designed to fit more than 4 digits. On many of them, the digits will continue outside of the f
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
Ichiro and Steve Nash are wonderful role models, but I don't think they're very good models, which this essay seems to overlook. "Black Swan Farming" is about the enormous, counterintuitive variance of returns to startup investments. Sports
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
Sure. I use CRON-O-Meter ( http://cronometer.com/ ) to track my diet and weight, RunKeeper ( http://runkeeper.com/home ) and Fitocracy ( https://www.fitocracy.com/ ) to track exercise, Moodscope ( http://www.moodscope.com/login ) to track m
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
Here's the direct link to try it out: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=facebook+report As someone with a long history of incomplete self-tracking projects, this kind of automated collection and analysis is great. (If only I could get
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Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
306 points by ecmendenhall 14y ago|103 comments

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