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by Fishkins 11y ago
My employer also recently switched from Hipchat to Slack, and I'd say Slack is vastly superior. Most important for me are the notifications. Slack lets you set per-channel notification settings. With Hipchat I'd either miss messag
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by Fishkins 11y ago
I definitely think that's a big part of it. A lot of the people involved in these discussions probably have been sexually assaulted, but relatively few have had their lives affected by genocide (or even murder). Puritanism probably pla
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by Fishkins 11y ago
I agree she would she would retain some fragments of that, but she still could be substantially changed. See vacri's sibling (cousin?) post for an anecdote.
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by Fishkins 11y ago
> Interestingly, Buffet did not call for a raising of the capital gains tax -- the form of income from which Buffet derives his wealth. Um, why do you say that? Every statement I've seen from him very clearly says taxes on capital g
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by Fishkins 11y ago
"Pizza" is just Italian for "pie". http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pizza http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/e02.html
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by Fishkins 12y ago
"force" is certainly an overstatement, but it does add friction to creating small components.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
> Mutually assured destruction Wouldn't that apply to Google as well?
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Yahoo and Netflix are using React, right? Do you (or anyone) know why they consider the license acceptable, but Google wouldn't?
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by Fishkins 12y ago
"We are also working on an Android implementation which we will release later"
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I wonder how much this was influenced by the common bedtime prayer[0]. "Lay" is the right conjugation with the reflexive pronoun added ("I lay [myself] down"), and people probably don't consider that "I lie dow
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I also abandoned pgAdmin because of flaky connection handling, as well as several annoying bugs on the Mac version. I was happy with psql for a while (and still sometimes use it), but IntelliJ's DB plugin is by far my favorite now. Its
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by Fishkins 12y ago
There have been many similar studies performed that showed materials with female names are ranked lower than those with male names[0]. Same thing with black vs white-sounding names[1]. 0: http://www.pnas.org/content/109
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Many British publications only capitalize acronyms if you pronounce each letter separately http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Pronunciation-dependent...
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by Fishkins 12y ago
That quote was correctly attributed to Einstein (although it's unclear whether we used those exact words) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/29/common-sense/
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by Fishkins 12y ago
> Of course, a Java programmer takes it for granted that you restart things every time you change code. But that sucks. Did you not read to the section about jRebel/Play and not needing to restart? But I do agree with you that serve
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by Fishkins 12y ago
In Chrome I think you can only do this with an extension. I use BackStop.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I haven't used React, but maybe he's referring to this: "Composite Component functions can no longer be called directly - they must be wrapped with React.createFactory first. This is handled for you when using JSX."
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Hmm, I do see "vulnerable" print when I run that code on Mac OS X 10.9.5 with bash 3.2.51(1)-release.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I'm all for considering externalities, your examples are terrible, especially Trayvon. It's arguable whether he did anything wrong, and it's also quite possible he wasn't high at the time[0]. Even if he was high and was
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I haven't seen anyone get hit, but all forms of traffic in NYC (especially midtown Manhattan) are very aggressive. Pedestrians do regularly walk out in front of traffic against the light. Cars, especially taxis, will speed up to run ye
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Just one anecdote, but I felt surprisingly clear-headed when I took oxycodone. Aside from feeling more relaxed and optimistic than normal, I didn't feel any of the fuzziness I feel when drunk. Maybe an external observer would have disa
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Exactly. If this were implemented, it would affect me one of two ways* 1) The cost variation would be small enough that I'd ignore it. 2) The cost would sometimes be high enough to dissuade me from taking a bike where I wanted to go, i
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the research actually only shows the peak is no higher than 40 hours per week. Are there studies indicating people are more productive working 40-hour weeks than 30 or 35-hour weeks? Of course y
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I'm not saying it's useful to call sugar a poison, and I don't generally refer to it as one. I'm saying it fits the definitions I've seen of poison, and that makes it literally a poison. > Besides, sugar is the
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Of course sugar is literally a poison. So is water. I think what you mean is in practice it doesn't really matter.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Although the page is great overall, I was also skeptical of the diversity scores. I looked at some of the cities I've lived in, and noticed that Madison, WI and NYC both score 3. That can't be right.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
> In fact, if seeds from your neighbor's field are blown over by the wind to your field, and you harvest those, you can be sued for patent infringement I don't like Monsanto, but nothing I've read indicates this alone is s
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. I've been meaning to try Slick, and YeSQL sounds like a nice way to reduce some boilerplate with no real downside. I go back and forth about how I feel about ORMs. I think everyone can agree you&#x27
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I believe it's relatively common to gamble on dominoes, and gambling is often illegal. Even so, it's an innocuous crime and probably not the real reason they were hassled.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
In general, I do wish more people would explicitly say whether they're listing city population or metro population. In this case the numbers are all clearly metro area. It would be interesting to see how the rankings differed for just

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