shamney

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by shamney 11y ago
starting strength involves perhaps 30 minutes of active exercise in a week with most time in the gym sent recovering between sets. that is simply not enough to develop any sort of cardiovascular fitness unless you have an abnormally strong
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by shamney 11y ago
strength training 3x a week will with no other exercise will leave the average person with extremely poor cardiovascular fitness. if you lack the strength to carry out household tasks you would be better off with basic bodyweight exercises.
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by shamney 11y ago
heavy lifting is inherently risky. there is little evidence that "correct" form will protect you from potential injury. there is also no real reason to do a strength focused routine if your reason for going to the gym is to improv
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by shamney 11y ago
is there any evidence for this theory or did you just make it up?
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by shamney 11y ago
one very old question does not prove anything about the actual cultural bias of the SAT now or then! research on this topic mostly shows that cultural bias is not a serious problem: http://lp.wileypub.com/HandbookPsychology
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by shamney 11y ago
how will this make any difference? if you're a non urm who doesn't already know that top colleges provide very generous financial aid, it's highly unlikely that you will have developed the right all round profile to get a pla
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by shamney 11y ago
seems a little silly to support low income students like this yet continue with class biased "holistic" admissions
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by shamney 12y ago
what new technological advances in back end web development have occurred in the last five years? why should senior developers spend their spare time learning new ways of doing exactly the same thing?
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by shamney 12y ago
it isn't bad for us at normal levels of modern consumption
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by shamney 12y ago
why the obsession with cutting out a harmless and tasty part of a normal diet?
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by shamney 12y ago
could you link to some of this literature? competency based interviews are standard for junior positions with large companies in the UK. however, this approach often turns interviews into a bullshitting competition.
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by shamney 12y ago
are competency based interviews really a well established method of finding the best people?
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by shamney 12y ago
what were you not able to accomplish with vba? you can use c# with excel as well. http://exceldna.codeplex.com
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by shamney 12y ago
was vba too hard for you to learn?
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by shamney 12y ago
why would the bmj take such a strong stance when they simply don't have the evidence to back it up? the linked study does not show that moderate consumption is harmful or demonstrate that previous results are exaggerated...
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by shamney 12y ago
"In summary, the study is grossly underpowered to convincingly prove a plausible protection, and they have committed the cardinal sin of saying that non-significance is the same as 'no effect' in a study lacking sufficient ev
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by shamney 12y ago
where does it show that moderate alcohol consumption is bad for health promotion??
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by shamney 12y ago
30k is at the top of the range once you exclude finance jobs...
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by shamney 12y ago
i didn't say anything about screening kids out at that age -- i'm not sure where that came from?! i was simply pointing out that there is another very important factor in explaining success at cognitively demanding tasks like prog
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by shamney 12y ago
practice, experience AND intelligence
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by shamney 12y ago
most people are not smart enough to be even mediocre coders
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by shamney 12y ago
what is "correct form"? and where is all the research demonstrating its success at preventing injury?
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by shamney 12y ago
what about the countries that are then deprived of this talent?
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by shamney 12y ago
interviews for graduate legal jobs in biglaw are mostly focused on "fit".
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by shamney 12y ago
most of the work GPs do is far easier than bog standard web or mobile development
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by shamney 12y ago
it is not the same writing or simple arithmetic for most people. this sort of comment is exactly what the original post was talking about -- programmers are often unable to imagine other people will struggle with tasks they take for granted
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by shamney 12y ago
not everything can be taught to all people. a person of average intellectual ability will always struggle with cognitively demanding tasks like mathematics and programming.
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by shamney 12y ago
would you really want to hire a young steve jobs for a junior software developer position?!
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by shamney 12y ago
the downvotes are quite amazing. this is just a basic factual matter -- nothing to do with whether watson's broader claims are true -- yet it seems some people are simply incapable of dealing with reality...
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by shamney 12y ago
why would someone downvote this? I'm simply pointing out facts. For example, see this paper by Wicherts et al [1]: "Our estimate of average IQ converges with the finding that national IQs of sub-Saharan African countries as predic

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