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by goldmab 13y ago
Thanks. I think a lot of them agree that low-carb approaches work for weight loss and some other outcomes, since that's what the science shows. But his "insulin hypothesis" is pure pseudoscience and I'm not aware of any papers about it.
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by goldmab 13y ago
It took me a little reading to figure out the agenda, but some key phrases like "obesity is a growth disorder" tipped me off. This is a Gary Taubes project. He is a writer of books in favor of low-carbohydrate diets, and he often badly misi
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by goldmab 14y ago
This is a fun demo of functional programming, but Lisp isn't so special anymore. In Python: >>> def deriv(f): ... dx = 0.0001 ... def fp(x): ... return (f(x + dx) - f(x)) / dx ... return fp ... >&#6
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by goldmab 14y ago
Anti-semitism isn't always about religion. Sometimes it's just racism.
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by goldmab 14y ago
Does this bother you? I think they are just trying to eliminate management overhead by using peer evaluation to set the company's direction by consensus. This could maybe be chaotic, but I see it as a trade-off. A traditional structure is c
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by goldmab 14y ago
CRUD wrappers with a pretty GUI are actually really hard to do well. Think of all unusable and unstable CRUD apps you've used. I wouldn't drill someone on dynamic programming for that kind of job, but I would want them to be smart enough
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by goldmab 14y ago
While on a 1:1 audio call, users will see content that could spark additional topics of conversation that are relevant to Skype users and highlight unique and local brand experiences. So, you should think of Conversation Ads as a way for S
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by goldmab 14y ago
I'm a Ruby developer who never uses Rails, and I think this is a major problem. It makes it hard for me to embrace "Ruby developer" as a career path because that means I'll be typecast as a Rails dev, and I don't want to use Rails.
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by goldmab 14y ago
My TV has rabbit ears. I can watch NFL games in high definition with them for free.
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by goldmab 14y ago
I call bullshit. If this guy was bored because all of his software projects were exactly the same, he should have automated their creation and reused his code so that they took an extremely short amount of time to create. Anyone who can't d
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by goldmab 14y ago
What kind of thought process and/or experimentation led you to that algorithm?
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by goldmab 14y ago
Yep. I learned music theory in the course of learning to play single-note woodwind instruments. There's a lot of focus on scales and intervals.
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by goldmab 14y ago
If you want to learn to play guitar, the wrong approach is to pick up a book about music theory and a chart showing where all the notes are on the fretboard. I found music theory knowledge very helpful when learning how to play guitar. In
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by goldmab 14y ago
Of course brains produce false models and find wrong patterns. Modeling and pattern-matching is what brains do . So they're going to get it wrong a lot. The interesting thing isn't how funny it is that the mind screws up sometimes, it's kn
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by goldmab 14y ago
We have no better idea what the typical mind is like than we did a hundred years ago I can't take this statement seriously. Have you ever even taken an intro cognition or perception class? Almost everything is about how minds typically wo
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by goldmab 14y ago
Shouldn't this page be more clear about the fact that this completely insecure and not currently suitable for any public website, due to the unlimited database rights?
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by goldmab 15y ago
My favorite part was this analogy by Guido van Rossum: In Python, I would just say something like, ‘Get up and go through the door.’ In other languages, I might have to say something like, ‘Stand up, but not with so much force that you fal
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by goldmab 15y ago
The advantage that Zuckerberg got from writing Facebook himself wasn't that he could "spend less on coders," it's that Facebook got created at all. Meanwhile, he had been contracted by the Winklevoss twins to implement their idea, which he
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by goldmab 15y ago
Really? All of them? How do you know?
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by goldmab 15y ago
Why are people so angry? It seems like these guys are mostly just acting silly. I don't think it's particularly interesting or funny or whatever, but that's no reason to be mad at them.
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by goldmab 15y ago
Seconding this. I got my first Android phone recently, without even knowing about wifi calling, and it's one of my favorite features. I wish I had it when I was looking for a job and doing all of my phone interviews outside or in my car.
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by goldmab 15y ago
Really? The interviewer asked you to implement a sort on a problem that had nothing to do with sorting?
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by goldmab 15y ago
When I want to look at the train schedule, I just touch the bookmark on my home screen, which takes me to the web page with the schedule.
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by goldmab 15y ago
Swimming is only seen as recuperative by people who never swam seriously. Most competitive swimmers have experienced shoulder tendinitis, and there are many other joints under stress: ankles, elbows, neck, knees. The masters swimmers I know
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by goldmab 15y ago
I used light on dark for a long time, but now I have a Mac with a glossy screen, and a dark background makes it really easy to see reflected objects. So I have switched to dark on light.
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by goldmab 15y ago
It sounds like you're saying something similar to this: http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design.h...
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by goldmab 15y ago
This was posted on HN so that we can make fun of it, and I think we're right to do so. You can be as wishy washy as you like about different situations requiring different processes, but have you ever seen somebody successfully isolate soft
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by goldmab 15y ago
I don't understand what you're saying. The first problem is similar to the second, yes. They both still need to be solved, so what is your point? Unreliable services are everywhere. So what's your universal solution for dealing with them? I
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by goldmab 15y ago
I don't think creating the pipeline is the difficult part at all. When doing this kind of work I think more about things like: - Designing usable APIs, which is to say identifying which aspects of System A are most important to System B, ho
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by goldmab 15y ago
If Paul Graham realized that people can easily lose lots of money by investing, why did he devote himself to investing large amounts of his own money in high-risk businesses? I'm not being facetious, I just think that seems contradictory. I

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