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by AndrewO 17y ago
It was nice to get an alternative to the idiocracy theory that we're getting stupider because stupid people are having more kids. That sort of thinking is doomed to turn a grave social problem into a two sided us-vs-them culture war.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I think the bigger news is that he managed to get someone listen to the painful truth about online advertising: that it's ignored or grudgingly endured with little actual chance of conversion. Moreover, people are actually learning to avoi
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Reminds me of all the time I spent playing Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. Good game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Weapons_of_the_Luftwaffe
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I'm not one to poo-poo a good hacker story from the 70s nor something that challenges the US government's woeful drug policy. But I couldn't help thinking: how many complicated computer problems have been solved _without_ the use of psyche
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Reading it, I couldn't help but think: I wonder what happened to Utu[1]. The site, http://savingtheinternetwithhate.com/ appears to be dead. Kinda sad. (BTW, this is not meant to be flamebait either way about Zed Shaw. I thought it was
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I never noticed this before, but at the very end there's a girl off-camera saying, "How did he do that?" Like you implied, he didn't say "I'm going to start a dance party today"—just doing something in a certain social environment was all t
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by AndrewO 17y ago
We don't have peasants in America! We're a capitalist workers' paradise... I for one would hope that the CCP would paint a more balanced picture of the dynamics of class relations in the US! ;)
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by AndrewO 17y ago
It looks like this blogger was able to pass that part of the exam! Kinda funny when you think about it: he actually _did_ the assignment while trying to figure out what the assignment was in the first place...
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Words to live by from George III: "Six hours' sleep is enough for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool." Of course, he was... well, mad.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I used to work at a telcom research company. This was required reading for new hires, eight years after its publication (probably still is). Of course, the industry had changed since 1996. A lot of what he predicted hasn't come to pass.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Jonathan Haidt (quoted in the article) gave an interesting TEDTalk along similar lines: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_mor...
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Yeah, neither of us think the company is brazen enough to actually try to use this for hiring or promotion purposes. We're both more worried about the more subtle consequences.
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Sorry, I should have mentioned: they are getting a couple of hours of training on how to interact based on type. Do you think that kind of training makes the whole exercise productive?
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Ask HN: Personality Assessments in the Workplace?
6 points by AndrewO 17y ago|4 comments
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I like it. I hated it at first, but then I looked at my feed. I could actually find things that were interesting in less than 15 minutes (and I'm only following 80 people). Sure this was an option before, but my inclination to drink from
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Between Clojure and Scala (and JRuby and Groovy), it seems like there's a lot of potential for people to start using Java-the-platform without having heavily used Java-the-language (I know I'm in that situation). I think there's an opportu
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by AndrewO 17y ago
It creates repeating groups (gender -> M,F; location -> Boston, Cagliari, etc; dept -> Development, Personel, etc)—to me, that looks like denormalization. I'm not sure this is what you're objecting to, but whether or not the dat
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by AndrewO 17y ago
This method has been the bane of my existence for going-on 5 years now. YMMV, of course, but here's my experience: Back in 2004, we were decided to denormalize a set of records containing year, quarter, and 15 or so data points going back
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I was looking to embed a Lucene based search for offline text search of a CD of static HTML/PDFs. I wanted it to be able to run the same search as our server ran. Applets were the best option there. But, you are right in that they're poin
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I started using an Ergohuman about 3 months ago and am quite pleased. IIRC (and correct me if I'm wrong), the adjustable lumbar support and/or headrest on the Aeron are extra. They come standard on the Ergohuman. http://ergohuman.com/erg
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I see what you're saying and agree that it doesn't fix everything, but this quote from the article sums it up for me: > The ease with which you can slip in and out of traffic, without breaking into a sweat... And there is no battle of w
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by AndrewO 17y ago
The subsidies are quite low, actually. NPR itself only gets between 1-2% of its funding from the government. Member stations average about 11% from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is government funded. The rest comes from l
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I'm wondering how likely this is to work over interstellar distances. Especially, given most (if not all) extrasolar planets have been detected through indirect means (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet#Detection_met... )
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Thanks for reminding me how paltry my Bash skills are. Yeah, thanks a lot... :)
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by AndrewO 17y ago
I recently gained the same sentiment for different reasons. I decided to do (what I thought was) the right thing and buy a font directly from ITC. I chose the Mac option, being that I'm on a Mac. Much to my surprise, the download arrives
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Gotta say, I was a little non-plussed. Then I saw the first comment which put it in a whole new light: > Sounds like someone’s getting frustrated with all their paper rejections. Don’t lose hope. Then I understood a little better where
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Now, granted early 1.8's tests were sparse. RubySpec is a by-product of the alternative implementations and a couple of test attempts ( http://blog.headius.com/2008/05/rubyspec-bringing-ruby-test-... ). A lot of developers continue to use
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Yes. http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/Makefile.in Find "test-rubyspec". It even `git clone`s rubyspec if you ask it to (update-rubyspec).
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by AndrewO 17y ago
> As the cofounder and first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Attali won fame for calling the U.S. financial collapse as early as 2006... But somehow he managed to not predict Europe's own financial tro
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by AndrewO 17y ago
Because they're in the news now and Time has a pessimistic opinion of its readers' attention spans.

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