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by Fishkins 13y ago
I've never been in any of those countries, but I totally agree with the sentiment. By the way, you meant "kind of action," right? Unless that was irony.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Right, there are 25 total (I think), but only 4 have been disclosed to the general public.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I've heard cruise ships all have morgues for this reason.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
This is basically what I was going to say, but more specific. I can't believe they could write such a long article without even mentioning the direct negative impact your job could have on the world. It's still possible working your high-pa
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by Fishkins 13y ago
This doesn't apply to me, but couldn't this be a catch-22? To get a job/social status where you're making good money, you need to get a suit, but you need the money for a suit in order to get that job. Also, you could just be averse to a pe
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I really doubt there's any full suit that isn't unbearably hot for me. I'm often wearing a t-shirt and shorts complaining about the heat while others are wearing sweaters and shivering. Casual attire gives you a range of options, whereas fo
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Upvoted for being a good comment, but also for the (unintentional?) "apt" pun.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I'm the same. Hunger is often my limiting factor. I'll be in the middle of working on something in the late afternoon or early evening and want to finish it, but I get too hungry. Then I have to leave the office and decide where to get food
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Similarly, Q: What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice? A: Zorn's lemon
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by Fishkins 13y ago
That was my reaction, too. The idea seemed ridiculous from a scientific perspective (although it may be very good advertising).
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by Fishkins 13y ago
I disagree. Sure, "beauty" isn't a very robustly-defined term, but the headline is reasonable. The most important point is that people's views of themselves are objectively wrong, because the identify modified images of themselves. Converse
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by Fishkins 13y ago
> Cards Against Humanity is fun because it lets you come out and say truly horrible things. Apples to Apples is fun because it lets you imply truly horrible things in really creative ways. To each their own, but this is precisely why I
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by Fishkins 13y ago
Even easier, they could probably just provide a list of items to enter in an existing todo/calendar app.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
This is great for consumer web/mobile apps, but it doesn't work so well for medical software or avionics.
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by Fishkins 13y ago
How are you defining power user? I feel like I have a solid command of the key bindings for both editors, but I only really know the Emacs ecosystem. My editor use is similar to linuxhansl's: Eclipse (with Emacs+) for day-job Java, Emacs (
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by Fishkins 13y ago
x is the input variable to that anonymous function. Instead of the named syntax e.g. doSomething(x) { return x * x; } the syntax for C# anonymous functions is x => x * x
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by Fishkins 14y ago
Even a tweet about this website itself is categorized as negative: https://twitter.com/LeviDayley/status/313711985437073409
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by Fishkins 14y ago
Function names give you at least a vague idea of what the function does, but operators don't. I think Haskell's operators can make code more concise and elegant to someone who's familiar with them, but it does make it harder for a beginner
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by Fishkins 14y ago
That setup works well for me. I work from home Mon and/or Fri, and I'm always in the office Tue through Thur. It's nice to save some commute time and being able to really focus on coding, but I think I'd go crazy doing it every day. There a
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by Fishkins 14y ago
I like another variant of the joke (which would work in octal): Q: Why was 6 afraid of 7? A: Because 7 was a registered 6 offender
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by Fishkins 14y ago
For quite a while a majority of the US did believe Saddam was directly involved in 9/11 [0]. Although it's a minority opinion now, it's still a quite sizeable minority. Anecdotally, I remember hearing such claims/speculation in the news fre
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by Fishkins 14y ago
There's (inconclusive) evidence that cell phones or cell phone towers are disrupting bees' lives. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/cellphones-contribute-bee-c...
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by Fishkins 14y ago
Why do they call it a prank? My impression is what was nothing of the sort.
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by Fishkins 14y ago
Another example is http://blogs.balsamiq.com/team/2011/09/12/salary/
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by Fishkins 14y ago
There's definitely evidence that meditation alters your brain in positive ways [1]. The phrase "impulse control" isn't used in the list of benefits, but they list improvements in traits I'd associate with impulse control, e.g. increased sel
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by Fishkins 14y ago
You've provided one uncontrolled anecdote that condradicts all the object research I've seen [1]. I don't find that very convincing. Not only does code review identify bugs, it does so much more effectively than any other method tested. [1]
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by Fishkins 14y ago
The main other difference I can see is that one button actually functions as "login via gmail, hotmail, yahoo mail, or any other countless email providers", and no work needs to happen on the email provider's end to make it work. Lots of pe
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by Fishkins 14y ago
To be fair, the user can still compromise all their accounts by choosing a weak password for their email account. It does reduce the onus on them from coming up with dozens of (hopefully) unique, strong passwords to one, which is certainly
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by Fishkins 14y ago
I do. I believe it saves battery, and it's really quick. In Touchwiz, the WiFi/GPS/4G controls are built into the notification pulldown. I believe the same is true of cyanogenmod. Having it automated might be better, but it's never bothered