mstroeck

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by mstroeck 7y ago
I was the lead dev for Vienna for several years, and it still feels great to see a shout-out like this. Glad you enjoy it :-)
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by mstroeck 8y ago
It is not generally true that physicians will treat people with somatic diseases well (or at all) if they personally believe symptoms are actually caused by psychological issues. This is an unproductive, even dangerous thing to tell suffere
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by mstroeck 8y ago
jessriedel, the consensus is that this is a physiological disease with an unknown mechanism. That's why it's an area of active research. I don't know where you get the idea that the null hypothesis for the cause of any set of
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by mstroeck 8y ago
The issue here is that you did some "brief googling" (your words) on a complicated, confusing, cutting-edge area of clinical research, and now feel competent to state your completely uninformed "null-hypothesis"... Here&
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by mstroeck 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "position statement by an encompassing field."?
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by mstroeck 8y ago
ME/CFS is an under-researched, multi-system disease that affects people in a multitude of ways and is very hard to diagnose. There are no accepted bio-markers yet. There are, however, many well-respected researchers in the field, and
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by mstroeck 8y ago
Only on the very surface. Sleep apnea is relatively easy to test for. ME/CFS sufferers experience a kind of fatigue that is distinctly different from that caused by sleep deprivation. Look up PEM / PENE: https://solvecf
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by mstroeck 9y ago
Co-founder of Gustav here. Thanks for the kind words :-) The 3% is of course a blended rate. There are positions/sectors where that would never fly, but others where 5% is feasible. Also we cover the full spectrum of what staffing agen
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by mstroeck 12y ago
Probably not. The event is off the record and will heavily feature group mentor session. You can still apply, however!
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by mstroeck 12y ago
Both are a great choice, both are easy enough to travel to. It's awesome that this is happening. Berlin would draw more people from Eastern Europe, IMHO. Here in Vienna, we'll have an event with quite a few YC alumni on May 29: h
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by mstroeck 12y ago
Love it! Much better than the default, especially in Chrome.
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by mstroeck 13y ago
You might have noticed (from her screenshots) that she is using Mac OS X. Simply gaining physical access to the machine should ABSOLUTELY NOT enable an attacker to extract practically all web passwords in something like 15 seconds, without
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by mstroeck 14y ago
I'm the project lead for Vienna, the open source RSS client for the Mac. We support Google Reader, and we want to support this: https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss/issues/160 If you're a Cocoa developer, feel free to jump right in. If
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by mstroeck 14y ago
I had no clue what the hell you want me to do :-) Seriously, this needs two or three lines of good explanatory copy.
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by mstroeck 14y ago
Nice one, Oliver :-)
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by mstroeck 15y ago
Exactly my point. All fluff, no informational content.
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by mstroeck 15y ago
Ugh. Please don't read this and think you know anything about "closing" a sale. Closing techniques work well for small, unimportant, everyday purchases. They do not work at all on sophisticated buyers. They might in fact cost you the sale.
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by mstroeck 15y ago
Being first is worthless in and off itself. Execution and customer service are what counts. If you are: a) an entrepreneur; and b) think that "rip-offs" like this one are in some way unethical... ... you need to get your head out of your as
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by mstroeck 15y ago
Here's my question: HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT MATTER. They are a business, they want to make money. Consumers will choose whichever product they prefer. Everybody wins. End of story.
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by mstroeck 15y ago
1) This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read. 2) I finally realize what has always fascinated me about him. He was ALWAYS working, with every single breath he took. He seems to have found a way of taking the hazy concept of
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Valve is crowd-sourcing the translation of all Steam content(zanfr.fr)
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by mstroeck 15y ago
This. I've always wondered what's so difficult about pointers for some people, mainly because I used a similar mental model from the very beginning.
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by mstroeck 15y ago
How is pattern matching not computation? The fact that you don't notice the underlying computational complexity is just a measure of how freaking good humans are at pattern matching.
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by mstroeck 15y ago
5% is actually pretty huge. Here's my simple heuristic, I call it the Income-Loss-Wince-Factor: How would feel about a 1% decrease in income next year? How about 5%? 22%? Ouch.
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by mstroeck 15y ago
That's exactly what I was trying to say. Thanks.
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by mstroeck 15y ago
In my humble opinion, GitHub should bend over backwards to get this to work for him. Project admins really need better control over who can create pull requests, and what they should look like.
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by mstroeck 15y ago
Is it just me, or is the entire article 100% hand-waving and ridiculous assumptions?
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by mstroeck 15y ago
Wow, are you sure you're talking about the Mac OS X Finder :-) ? -) This option makes navigation much easier, I don't know why it's not turned on by default: http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/findertip1.htm -) You can drag any file
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by mstroeck 15y ago
Have you heard of Spotlight? It's the button at the upper right of your screen. It indexes all your files. If you are talking about files that belong to the UNIX underpinnings of Mac OS X: that's what locate is for, for example - try typi
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by mstroeck 15y ago
No - Linus' machine is still just another node. Git is fully distributed. Everything in that article still holds.

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