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by njonsson 4mo ago
The best high-GI food I have found is Welch's fruit snacks. They are superior to glucose tablets: (1) Can be swallowed whole quickly and easily, or dissolved by saliva. (2) More concentrated, so you can pocket or pack more glucose in l
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by njonsson 4mo ago
The sound is more like that of a kayagŭm (a Korean traditional instrument) than violin pizzicato.
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by njonsson 6y ago
In 2020, the Amazon Principal Engineer community added a ninth tenet. Much effort went into crafting the new tenet, as was the case with the others. The new tenet may be my favorite of them all. LEAD WITH EMPATHY Principal Engineers shap
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by njonsson 6y ago
I got a lot of mileage out of the x modifier, too, until I bumped into the Composed Regex pattern. https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/ComposedRegex.html
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by njonsson 7y ago
Nitpick: The talk by Dr Cliff Click is dated February 2007, closer to 13 years ago than six years ago.
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by njonsson 7y ago
I’ve performed Jean-Marie Leclair in recital — the violin sonata, op. 9 no. 3 in D major (see https://imslp.org/wiki/12_Violin_Sonatas%2C_Op.9_(Leclair%2C... ). There are beautiful recordings of this piece by Szeryng a
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by njonsson 8y ago
Simpler, yes, in the sense that just one instrument (the soloist) would have to play notes they were not prepared to play. But a concerto (typically a long piece for one or more solo instruments accompanied by orchestra) showcases the solo
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by njonsson 8y ago
“Solvitur ambulando.”
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by njonsson 9y ago
The size of S is k .
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by njonsson 10y ago
It only applies to procedural knowledge, of course, but there’s a similarity here between “teaching it to a toddler” and writing a program that does it. I often find huge gaps in my domain knowledge and understanding, not while I’m composin
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by njonsson 10y ago
Unless they chose the ternary path. It’s closer to base e and therefore closer to optimal than binary.
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by njonsson 11y ago
Unless I’m mistaken, if Alice pays 9% of $117,000 (i.e., $10,530), then Bob pays 11.7% of $234,000 (i.e., $27,400). An 18% tax rate would apply to earners of $1,170,000 (i.e., $210,600 in tax). The high end would be a 63% tax rate applicabl
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Meeting music’s Nostradamus: economist predicted decline of music industry(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by njonsson 11y ago|0 comments
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by njonsson 11y ago
This calls to mind the office scene in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash in which Y.T.’s mother reads a directive from her employer. She self-consciously scrolls through the dull text — aware of her employer’s automated surveillance system as
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by njonsson 11y ago
I’d love to see a permalink feature. If you don’t want to store poster definitions, put them in the URL.
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by njonsson 12y ago
DIY biotech. Bespoke pets for the risk-averse, and bespoke personal physiology for the rest.
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by njonsson 13y ago
It strikes me that an hourly rate that increases over the life of a project might be a way for a freelancer to skew his billable hours toward new development and away from maintenance. It also reflects the fact that the freelancer’s knowled
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by njonsson 13y ago
I had an elevated Lp(a) level and was able to reduce it dramatically by taking niacin, under the supervision of my cardiologist. YMMV?
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by njonsson 13y ago
I have to admit that the “OVER!” scene from “Portlandia” came to mind as I read Tom’s post. http://youtu.be/YlGqN3AKOsA
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by njonsson 14y ago
Plus, in the history of the world, he said, is there one thing you can think of that has been hand-made, and on such a large scale as software, that was as complex? [I cannot not.] Yes: musical compositions. The largest softw
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by njonsson 15y ago
All decent suggestions. I quibble with this, though: // Don't do this: function getData() { } // Do this instead: var getData = function() { }; The assignment is righteous, but by omitting the function’s name, you make stack tr
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by njonsson 15y ago
Making semantic line breaks (such as for bullets) is understandable, but it still feels wrong that we’re otherwise doing the job of `fold`. I started breaking lines in commit messages because it’s convention, but I still believe this is a t
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by njonsson 15y ago
There’s an irreverent wagging tongue in there, too. greetings to AAPL GOOG :) :P :) MSFT Was it prophetic of iCloud and Google Drive??
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by njonsson 15y ago
That’s the most compelling argument I’ve heard for regularly paying down technical debt, and/or for acquiring it with great care. The craftsmanship argument — made by Uncle Bob and others — holds guilty appeal for me as a hacker but strikes
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by njonsson 15y ago
An amusing quip, but the comparison only serves to beg the question. McDonald’s is ostensibly in the hamburger business, but the engine room of the company is real estate. See http://money.howstuffworks.com/mcdonalds2.htm .
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by njonsson 15y ago
Successful economic models cannot be divorced from the cultural context in which they arise. American-style Capitalism was born during the Protestant Reformation. This religious movement provided a theological basis for individual property
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by njonsson 15y ago
“What’s new in htty v1.3.4: Rails view emulation — PUT and DELETE are sent as POST requests with form data of ‘_method=put’ or ‘_method=delete’.” http://twitter.com/get_htty/status/53649180652093440
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by njonsson 16y ago
http://test.rubygems.org addresses all your concerns related to RubyGems, except that it’s an opt-in thing — you must configure RubyGems to run tests upon gem installation, and the results are optionally uploaded for use by the gem author
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by njonsson 16y ago
On a purely superficial note, here are Knuth's recent Google searches, according to the Safari search box dropdown list that flashes by at 2:22: • google calculator • wolfram alpha • williams cutlery • craig gentry • "the lost chord" • acro
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by njonsson 16y ago
No, you aren't.

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