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by hellodevnull 12y ago
I've noticed from years of reading Wikipedia that on articles on people, if the side section or first paragraph contains anything related to their background (religion or race) it almost always is there to state that they are Jewish. I
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
Listen to the end of the Charlie Rose interview. Last words something about not jumping off a building any time soon.
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
>More than 3.3 million people who would have died of malaria are alive today. This does make him sound like a saint, but is number of lives saved really a good metric? I mean, what's the quality of life like for these three million
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
For the first five minutes I kept worrying it was going to be a scream (see Maze Game).
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
Reasons 1 and 3 are enough for me to stop someone who is relatively new to web app development to use something other than Angular. egghead.io saved me when trying to learn it, but before that I was stuck trying to follow their tutorials an
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
>Controls are too big >Designed for touch screens by default It says "mobile first" in the tag line.. but this is a trend in front-end design in general. Today it's all controls, fonts and you have to scroll down severa
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
What I liked about her lecture is that unlike the previous ones that were full of general ideas about starting a startup, she related her practical advice to her own experiences and the mistakes she made. Examples are very useful and for me
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
It is not often practical to use dictionary definitions to describe political or social ideologies. If we go by definitions, both feminists and men's rights activities should believe the exact same things. I don't identify with fe
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
>often racist/sexist discussion I'm confused. Reddit is one of the most anti-racist/sexist communities on the internet. That's the hivemind, so you'd expect anything that's racist or exist to quickly be dele
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
The general idea is the same in education and almost every other aspect of life: learning enough, then applied practice. You do a programming language tutorial then work on your own programs to really grasp it. If you skip the first step yo
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
>However as I see it, research into human evolution sheds light on what the optimum diet would be. The idea of knowing the optimum diet for humans is exciting. I used to spend a lot of time reading these studies, then I realized that lik
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
You've made an interesting observation regarding the trend taking place in large tech companies. >but no one is comfortable going back to the 'good old days'. Except the open source community. Both recent and on-going proj
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
To me this isn't additional regulation to standard contract law. A transaction is a contract between two parties, if the contract is intentionally deceitful you have the right to dispute it. So this it's great that they're pu
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
This 'ugly gender problem' is so blown out of proportion.
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
Making millions on the stock market could be seen as a waste of time to somebody who's more interested in doing well on the Second Life game or whatever. If you look at things in terms of making money and contributing to the 'real
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
Back when it was beginning to get difficult to buy Bitcoin in the UK (when MtGox and Intersango stopped accepting bank transfers) I used TransferWise, a p2p currency exchange, to send money to European bank accounts as an alternative. For e
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
I used to this like this but honestly once an editor like vim or emacs becomes second nature, typing and editing and moving text around the screen feels a lot smoother and make programming more enjoyable. But I still don't think "
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
Mistype. The point is don't take academic psychology seriously.
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
The half-life of knowledge in psychology is thought to be one year, so by now most of the famous experiments (and their findings) in the field are considered flawed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
Yes I'm sure you do and I too know many people who improved their lives without going to AA. We're not going to persuade anyone talking about our personal experiences and how this guy Bob we know is doing really well. Also I'
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
As I read these techniques for fighting addiction - "solving emotional and behavioral problems, rather than having abusers forever swear off the substance", "hourlong meetings once a week at which they discuss their goals for
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
Yes I thought everybody knew by now that intelligence is pretty much insignificant when you're up against somebody with years of experience at something. There was even a very popular pop psych book about it that everyone has read (Out
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
Okay and I have somehow said something terrible because I didn't pick up on this hilarious dubious sarcasm in a post about benchmarks.
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
So? Should we give criminals an easier time because the majority are from poor backgrounds? There will always be poor people and there are always things you can do to make their lives better, complaining about insurance companies isn't
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
>because they both allow me to write stupid programs with performance problems. Which language doesn't?
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
The penalty is for being unhealthy, not poor. There are poor people that are healthy, just because a lot aren't, do you expect insurance companies to give them special treatment?
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
>The operator of an exit node is guilty of complicity, because he enabled others to transmit content of an illegal nature through the service. This logic would make running an exit node illegal in all of Europe.
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by hellodevnull 12y ago
This is funny, a couple of months ago everybody was saying how publishing the identity of a man who holds millions in an anonymous virtual currency would most likely lead to somebody attempting to extort him and put his life great danger. N