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by Fishkins 12y ago
Of course they won't say "well, you have the technical chops, but I'm not going to hire you bc you're a woman." What they might say is "she isn't technically qualified" when an identical technical dem
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Yeah, Citymapper works well for me since I live near two different numbered line stops (ones that actually have live times). I can decide which station to go to ahead of time. I also have it push alerts to me when there are delays on my mos
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I agree this would be a major problem. It's one of the biggest problems listed with unlimited vacation, and that's when you're still getting money for it. I think the underlying problem is the conflation of hours worked with
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I agree there could be other explanations for the difference in accessibility of those drugs. I hadn't considered the the idea that weed/cigarettes are less bulky and easier to hide. Overall I think the effect of legalization on a
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by Fishkins 12y ago
That may be true, but I'm not convinced it is. There's some evidence to the contrary [0]. The explanation I've heard is, if what you're selling is always illegal, you won't discriminate much about whom you sell to s
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by Fishkins 12y ago
> ...you'd still be paying essentially the same price Which is exactly the goal. It's not about paying less money, it's about eliminating a confusing, unnecessarily-complicated system. If it were just restaurants it wouldn
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Per what pwman said in a previous thread, I believe it's decrypting your info client-side using JS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7554974
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say it's a bad idea, I'm just saying it's equivalent to using lastpass since it's a third party hosting your data. I think the usability of a third party syncing service is worth the potential
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I've heard people say this before, but I'm a little confused by it. Do you only use one device? If not, how do you keep the PWs for your devices in sync without uploading your data somewhere?
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Most of the criticisms of the study are inaccurate, but I would like to see this redone with the old violins receiving the same tuning/treatment as the new ones. Depending on the condition the old violins were received in, not being al
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I wouldn't call it "failing miserably." Although it doesn't appear to have been the main focus of the study, the antepenultimate paragraph of the results section does say most violinists couldn't identify whether th
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by Fishkins 13y ago
According to the abstract, the study was performed "under double-blind conditions" http://www.pnas.org/content/109/3/760.full
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by Fishkins 13y ago
The abstract you linked does say something about identifying them: "most players seemed unable to tell whether their most-preferred instrument was new or old." And in the full text of the study: "Asked about the making-scho
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Just for context, Google was #1 on their general "most innovative" list. I think it's pretty common to try to have a variety of companies topping different lists, even if one company really should be at the top of them all. T
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by Fishkins 13y ago
The point is, at least in the case of Twitter, they switched from Ruby to Java/Scala because they needed performance. Before that you could have been forgiven for thinking twitter was just a static page displaying the fail whale.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I used to use ChompSMS and liked it.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I'd say the biggest reason is they aren't subject to traffic or (usually) weather, which makes them much faster and more consistent in urban areas. All the other factors are just little perks IMO. Although I personally like that I
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by Fishkins 13y ago
His comment says he leaves early. That could be problematic with some managers, but maybe the lunchtime work is appreciated at his job.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Several other colleges have a similar course. Where I went (U of M - Twin Cities), they still use Scheme. I also would be interested in any papers about it.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I've always enjoyed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpYBT0XyvA&feature=kp
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by Fishkins 13y ago
> this tool is truly excellent for breaking the subvocalization habit Which, according to all the research I've seen, is exactly what you don't want to do if you want to retain any information. (I couldn't find the study
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I know someone who used to work as a programmer in finance. One of his coworkers liked to use creative placeholders in his email templates. One day something went wrong with the placeholder substitution, and a bunch of their clients receive
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by Fishkins 13y ago
1) If you want to be able to view Quora posts in general, I'd recommend installing https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quora-unblocker/pc... for Chrome or https://addons.mozilla.org&#x2F
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by Fishkins 13y ago
That's probably true, but I'll bet you can get a lot more accurate than that. Punk and folk are fairly white genres, but I'll bet they're a strong indicator you don't vote Republican.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
People have different expectations of Mozilla than they do of Google. I wouldn't be surprised by Chrome adding more ads, but I was very surprised by this headline. That being said, I think the proposed ads are very tasteful, and it won
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I assumed "times" meant "instances", not multiplication, ie y = x - 1.5
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I also remember seeing such comments on HN, but all the references I could find searching just now say a combination of Erlang and C++ is used for FB Chat.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I don't understand why making the pattern invisible isn't the default. When it's visible, everyone within 20 feet of you can tell your unlock pattern. I wish you could also make failed patterns invisible, but AFAICT there&#x2
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Just a nit pick, but index-only scans were added in 9.2 https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Index-only_scans
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by Fishkins 13y ago
And you can Ctrl-Y to paste the line you killed. This is a separate copy/paste buffer from the normal Cmd-C one, which can be nice.

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