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by Fishkins 13y ago
I love this. Upworthy posts are so obnoxious. My favorite title so far is "Try Not To Groan When You Hear This Battlecry." edit: They should also have added pop-ups like "I think water is wet" [agree] [disagree]
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by Fishkins 13y ago
It seems he's saying/joking they're all failed startup founders.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I just found my job[0] through stackoverflow, but I second the recommendations of idealist.org. If you're in the NYC area, you might also want to check out developersforgood.org. [0] - http://www.donorschoose.org/jobs
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by Fishkins 13y ago
For the data I was compressing (JSON) it was getting it to about 17% of the original size. Obviously that will vary depending on your data.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I've been using LZString for data I put in LocalStorage. Obviously you can still hit the limit, but it takes quite a bit longer. http://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index.html
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by Fishkins 13y ago
What agreement did Schmeiser have with Monsanto? He never interacted with Monsanto to get the seeds, right? He intentionally collected and replanted them, but that didn't involve any interaction with Monsanto, either. I guess he purcha
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Thanks for the note about the picture. I knew it didn't look like any remotely recent screen in Epic. I worked for Epic for a couple years circa 2008, and even then it would have looked outdated. Also, at least in Epic, I know there&#x
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I remember reading in at least one study that there's no added benefit of doses above 1mg. I checked the "Brzezinski et al" article and it says: The dose response relationships in 11 of the studies (see Refs. 17,18) su
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by Fishkins 13y ago
If you're talking about the footwear: http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=ugg,uggs
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Yeah, a list comprehension is the easiest way to write it in any of the languages. I think it's a little clearer/shorter to do print sum(x for x in range(1, 1000) if x % 3 == 0 or x % 5 == 0)
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by Fishkins 13y ago
In Haskell it could be sum $ filter (\x -> mod x 3 == 0 || mod x 5 == 0) [1..1000] but I don't think that detracts from the article. He said up front his solution was over-engineered. That's nice in this case, because it lets u
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I agree this is useful, but I also have autocompletion and popover documentation programming Clojure in Emacs. It often is more work to configure than just using an IDE, but the package manager Emacs recently added has taken a lot of the pa
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Did you read his comment? He referred to your "C-level execs" comment, which was in normal font about half way into the article. I didn't really have a problem with your original article, but responding like this doesn't
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by Fishkins 13y ago
IDK about Eclipse, but Emacs comes with M-x artist-mode
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by Fishkins 13y ago
> I also noticed I was subconsciously confusing his statement with the claim that shareholder interests and society's interests are aligned. I noticed this, too. If you don't pay close attention it seems like he's saying t
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by Fishkins 13y ago
It's certainly different from an AirBNB posting in that it can be used by an unlimited number of people in variety of geographic regions, giving it much broader appeal. It's often the way I realize a new bundle is out, which trigg
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by Fishkins 13y ago
That makes sense. I wasn't thinking about that distinction. It's certainly a terrible practice, regardless.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
> dear people who make marketing email systems, please stop requiring me to log in when I follow your unsubscribe link. Isn't this illegal according to the CAN SPAM act, at least for the types of emails it covers? http://
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Although I agree management styles should change based on studies like this, I'm not optimistic they will (at least not very quickly). Evidence against the efficacy of long work weeks has been around for quite a while[0], but that do
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I believe the general ergonomic advice is to hit the modifier and "normal" key each with a different hand, so you're doing it right. I try to follow that guideline, but I frequently make exceptions. This is especially true si
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I'd say the type system is a non-negligible difference. Still, knowing Java and Clojure is a good foundation for learning Scala.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
He's just saying that, in pure functional code, "updating" a data structure means creating a new copy of it with the desired changes instead of actually changing the structure in place. Of course, since the structures are imm
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by Fishkins 13y ago
For me, the interview has always been way more stressful than anything I've had to do on the job. I think lots of people feel the same way (partially based on what I've seen performing interviews myself).
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by Fishkins 13y ago
> Because you're good at something doesn't mean you're good at everything. How is that statement relevant here? The criticism being responded to was that he doesn't know the basics of engineering. The response was t
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by Fishkins 13y ago
It's the topic of the third week of Martin Odersky's Scala FP course: https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
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by Fishkins 13y ago
"relating to your peers" is too narrow of a phrase, but it seems likely having satisfying interpersonal relationships of some sort is very important. I would say it's the most important thing after basic necessities for survi
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I know this post is at least partially a joke, but if there's any correlation between IQ and happiness, it's positive. http://theboostbook.com/2013/01/link-between-intelligence-an...
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I think this style of communication is specific to rap genius. It's just their particular way of merging tech/VC and hip-hop vernacular. I agree it can come off as disingenuous, and sometimes confusing. Like some other posters, I
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I love clojure/clojurescript, but will core.typed really be comparable to Haskell's type system?
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Although the title here closely matches the article title, it seems overstated/optimistic. The actual line in the article is "when boosted with a small amount of silver these drugs could kill between 10 and 1,000 times as many bac

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