Afton

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by Afton 15y ago
Did you read it? I ask because it's all rumour. The best they can get is that they 'fact checked' with two (two!) employees who were there and they refused to confirm that people were leaving in droves (and if you're familiar with how repor
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by Afton 15y ago
I realize that I may be being overly critical of a site called 'winrumors.com', but this is thin gruel by anyone's standards. Because I work at MS, I don't want to flag it, but please, someone without a conflict should flag this.
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by Afton 15y ago
Also see: source stripping, where we remember 'facts' without remembering their source. Slightly OT: I used to think all ads were stupid, and the industry run by morons. Then at some point I thought that at least some of the ads seemed clev
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by Afton 15y ago
Actually, if their solution is bit luke-warm, I often follow up with 'now find the second greatest int'. Those that don't consider sorting the array go in the big pile. :)
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by Afton 15y ago
How do you avoid interference between devices? Is this meant for receiver-only, or bidirectional transfer? (he says bidirectional in the ted talk, but only talks about phones using their cameras to receive). Seems a little like a technology
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by Afton 15y ago
I've resorted to starting with "find the greatest int in an array of ints". And yes, I'm routinely disappointed.
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by Afton 15y ago
Disclaimer: MS is a big company. I don't see this attitude in my group at all . Not saying it doesn't exist elsewhere, but people are extremely generous with sharing credit/praise, and people overall are pretty good at standing up and publ
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by Afton 15y ago
No, you'd still want exams as a focusing tool. But they'd be corrected, not graded. (and depending on your stance on pedagogy, they might be timed, closed book, or they might be take-home. ) Remember also to include advanced studies in your
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by Afton 15y ago
Thanks, but I did. And I'm still not criticizing their interpretation (which seems like a good faith read of the pyramid). I just disagree that the HP is the only way to eat healthily, and I'm mixed on whether the HP is a generally health
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by Afton 15y ago
No, why? Also, your first example is ungrammatical, and the second is seems somewhat awkward when it begins (as theirs does) with 'With Tulalip you'.
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by Afton 15y ago
I'm very very sympathetic to this view. I eat a high-fat diet, and have for over a year. But Google is probably right to act conservatively here. Don't blame Google for following the Harvard Pyramid, blame the Harvard Pyramid. They're the o
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by Afton 15y ago
The experiment was to detect spherical imperfections. That experiment failed to detect any. You're proposing limitations on how we'll detect spherical perfection, which is the opposite issue.
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by Afton 15y ago
'Near-Perfect' == 'Perfect to within our ability to measure' That is, the headline might lead you to believe that they are not perfect spheres, but that is not known to be the case. Also: cool.
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by Afton 15y ago
Speak for yourself. :) I've been on a high-fat, moderate protein diet for almost a year now. I eat occasional small servings of vegetables because it's easier than arguing with my wife, but my diet is probably 95-98% meat/eggs/(dairy). "Low
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by Afton 15y ago
This work is sufficiently preliminary that it isn't really worth reporting on yet. They have goals. They are building techniques and equipment. They plan to do experiments/data collection. This may be interesting work at some point in the f
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by Afton 15y ago
"Fair trials to those we have an open and shut case against! Continued detention and possible military trials for anyone else" doesn't sound like a slogan I can get behind.
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by Afton 15y ago
Same problem. No reason to think that historical change is 'complexification' either. Lots of evidence in both directions.
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by Afton 16y ago
gah! "He analysed the number of phonemes found in 504 world languages, and hypothesized that languages with the most phonemes were the oldest. Also, the dialects furthest away from the 'mother tongue' were found to be less complicated." I'd
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by Afton 16y ago
stands up Hi. I'm a programmer who's never been in the zone (as I understand it). This is in spite of being engaged in my work, and vigorous efforts to improve my practice. I wonder how many of us there are.
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by Afton 16y ago
This is a big gym's business model. I've read that the goal is to have around 10% active members. The other part of the model is to get folks who are active into additional cost classes.
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by Afton 16y ago
thanks. Interesting idea.
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by Afton 16y ago
> Welfare doesn't make as many hops through the economy as defense spending. What does that mean?
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by Afton 16y ago
You are substantially mis-characterizing modern linguistic theory/linguists. The 'grow them like you grow teeth' is meant to indicate that, given certain inputs/environment, a child will develop normal language function. You don't need to '
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by Afton 16y ago
I have a sit-stand. I found that over about a month I went from 1/2 to 95% standing. I still sit occasionally (if I overdid it at the gym say), but if I had to have a fixed station, it would definitely be a standing one.
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by Afton 16y ago
He's not self-taught. He has a coach.
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by Afton 16y ago
There is virtually no downside to this. Your university/college has coop advisors and employment offices. Go and get some advice for salary negotiating.
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by Afton 16y ago
Right. And yet it's hard not to feel that swell of pride when your child 'overachieves' on some milestone. But often when a child hits a milestone early, it's actually because they are doing something differently than age-equivalent child
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by Afton 16y ago
The important thing is that, as a parent, it's easy to fall into the trap of comparing milestones. There isn't the evidence that e.g. knowing the alphabet early means being a better reader later in life. Just like early walking milestones d
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by Afton 16y ago
There's no mandate (that I know of), but there is a strong culture of dogfooding that tends to push one to using IE. There's also many intranet sites that won't work without ActiveX. But certainly no one's dropped by my office to ask me t
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by Afton 16y ago
I think you're reading the parent wrong. They're not calling you a coward, they're classifying"[anyone who does] everything she says she wants" as cowards.

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