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by Afton 12y ago
That's because you find them obscure. If your community used them more frequently you would just read them in place, like people do with IANAL, LGTM, AFAIK, etc. Incidentally, I didn't understand this one, but I don't blame O
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by Afton 12y ago
It's interesting, because I hear this kind of line all the time, that we need to e.g. "learn to do work we don't like because sometimes in (high-school, college, work) we have required work that is essential, regardless of wh
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by Afton 12y ago
The three points from the article: > [1] Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting. > [2] High School students are sitting passively and listening during approximately 90% of their classes. > [3] You feel a little bit like a
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by Afton 12y ago
Thank you!
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by Afton 12y ago
It's not super clear who this is aimed at. No company that I'd want to work at would be willing to outsource hiring, so at best, I'd be paying for a weak prejudice of a manager becoming mildly positively predisposed towards m
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by Afton 12y ago
I can't find it now, but the guy running http://www.viemu.com/blog/ has a good explanation for this problem. Basically, while there are modes, you don't work like that. You are always in command mode, and you
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by Afton 12y ago
> making the parasites of our society wealthy just for investing. Are they less parasitic if they just sit on their money, or are they parasites just for having the money in the first place?
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by Afton 13y ago
At least two reasons: 1. It's been the default answer for millenium, and there has only been pushback on this for the last 50-ish years. 2. Because individual variation is often larger than the group variance? 3. (Related to 2.) Becaus
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by Afton 13y ago
How is that relevant? You can solve the same problems in Java as you can in Ruby. An ENT surgeon is not interchangeable with a physical therapist.
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by Afton 13y ago
Nope. It's play-acting. They are learning the question/answer role. You can tell this by the simple fact that a rampaging 3 year old is not listening to the answers . Don't get me wrong, I'm in the unschooling/home
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by Afton 13y ago
In Canada, as a poor student/underemployed person, I lived in mansions with 6-10 friends. Those things are •very• hard to rent out. The neighbors hated us though ( we were young, drove crappy cars, sometimes had loud parties, and just
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by Afton 14y ago
Sure, and if you want to go down the road of constructing metrics for language, you can. I should warn you that you will likely find it fruitless and arbitrary. Your point about how every variation makes a language is correct. The term is i
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by Afton 14y ago
I'm not downvoting you. But your position is untenable, and comes from a misunderstanding about what a language is. It's not that it's not politically correct, it's that it's factually incorrect. No one is arguing that there is or isn't a c
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by Afton 14y ago
While excess weight is an contributing cause, lots of underweight and normal weight people have sleep apnea. Much of it is just based on your jaw morphology. Source: I am typically underweight, and I have sleep apnea.
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by Afton 14y ago
> for the same reason everyone knows that 5 small meals per day is much better for you than 2.5 huge meals. Is 'the same reason' that it's false? Your common sense and mine appear not to jibe.
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by Afton 14y ago
I bought a first act acoustic for my daughter to learn on. It was untune-able. I've been learning the uke for a year now, and after a few months, I've been irritated by my uke on some chords. Talked about it with my uke teacher, she pointed
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by Afton 14y ago
The science on this one seems clear, stretching is only useful for increasing range of motion. It doesn't prevent injury ( in the studied contexts), it doesn't prevent DOMS, and it doesn't lengthen muscles. on phone, but sources are a quick
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by Afton 14y ago
The scientific consensus on salt seems to be changing. I think that current thinking is that salt is unlikely to be a major influence on health, all other factors being equal.
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by Afton 14y ago
> You can learn a new skill literally by browsing the Internet these days Nope, you can learn of a new skill by browsing. And that's quintessentially shallow work. I'd also point out that HN ( like the original reddit) was full of "ha
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by Afton 14y ago
I'd be very surprised if this were true. Care to elaborate?
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by Afton 14y ago
I find the most challenging part to putting this into action is the same things that one finds challenging when designing a test for a class: getting the challenge level correct. For a while this summer I'd write out simple math problems fo
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by Afton 14y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xgjrw/we_are_the_team_... Disclosure: I work at MS, but not on this product and have no special insight into their workings.
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by Afton 15y ago
Sounds like you're putting the cart before the horse. How are you identifying 'the very best' but by their successes? The argument is that you need both to 'succeed'. So, sure, if you only look at the ones that were both hard-working/relent
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by Afton 15y ago
It's hard to understand from this blog post what the problem is. Can someone summarize the complaint beyond "Amazon was willing to republish some out-of-print books that other publishers weren't!"
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by Afton 15y ago
Thanks, that's a great clarification.
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by Afton 15y ago
> * When dealing with strings in your favorite programming language, always know whether it's an array of Unicode code-points, or of bytes in UTF-8, or some third messed-up thing. What is an 'array of Unicode code-points'. I actually re
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by Afton 15y ago
I'm confused. The surest way to get 45K in 9 months would be to just get a job. If you're a programmer, then this kind of job is trivial to find ($60k/year is about the minimum you'll find at any medium sized company), and you can quit in 9
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by Afton 15y ago
I'm deeply skeptical about these massively shortened sleep cycles too, but to be fair, Steve Pavlina gave it up for the same reason Dyson did; it's too hard to interact with the 'awake-during-the-day, asleep-during-the-night' crowd, not bec
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by Afton 15y ago
Your use of the generic 'MSFT employees' is misleading. Your statement suggests that MSFT employees in general consider traffic more important that the CEO laying out the companies future. That statement is essentially false. Some tiny numb

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