FrankyHollywood

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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
> "The best test of when I'm about ready to solve a problem is whether or not I can think about it sensibly while swimming" My personal variant is "when I don't have problems to solve while I'm cycling it&#x
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
Not completely agree, I work at a company who makes money with semantic web consulting. It is really powerful technology, which we use to index and unify customer data, but also for dynamic React front-end generation. I was a bit hesitant t
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
I do think one should not bring it all to adhd being a physiological deficiency of the brain. For me personally it is also about being above average smart. I'm intensely bored by a lot of people and activities. I lose interest, can&#x2
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
The bible is a collection of many books and resources by various authors. It contains valuable ideas and experience which have survived the centuries. Many religious people however like it to be a 'single black & white truth of the
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
yes, that and go to sleep the moment you get the urge to eat lots of sugars, which usually means your brain needs rest.
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Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste(news.utexas.edu)
369 points by FrankyHollywood 4y ago|274 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 4y ago
Yes fasting has beneficial health effects. A body can can't handle a constant high food intake. I read a lot of research last years about the subject, try search for 'fat inflammation'. Fasting and a more plant based diet see
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From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by FrankyHollywood 4y ago|0 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 5y ago
Drilling is not the problem which stands in the way for using earth warmth. It is pollution of ground water, risk of earth quakes, transportation of the heat, local cool down and having to drill new wholes. In Europe we have tried, and test
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by FrankyHollywood 5y ago
> If I start lifting 20lbs and 3 years later I still lift that of course I won't lose weight. I don't understand, your body optimizes, and uses 20% less energy. However, you are still using the 80% which is more than not doing
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Deep Sleep Gives Your Brain a Deep Clean(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by FrankyHollywood 5y ago|0 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 5y ago
nice story, reminds me of https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/50824/creating-windows-9...
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by FrankyHollywood 5y ago
Awesome! Takes me back :) My 8 yo son is playing it now, he knows all the modern consoles, but this is challenging him. He is frustrated things are hard from the beginning, jumps don't work right away and he stopped after a few minutes
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by FrankyHollywood 5y ago
> Evidently, Jan Sloot was a crank. He showed all the signs attributed to cranks. He was paranoid. He felt himself an expert in a field he had no higher education in. He worked alone. He spent decades on one problem any mathematician cou
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by FrankyHollywood 5y ago
I like the incubator example. It is easy to jump to (extreme) conclusions, and not see what's really there. Reminds me of https://www.logicalfallacies.org/
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by FrankyHollywood 5y ago
> In our experience non-ASCII characters are pretty rare in code. Many development teams chose to use English as the primary development language Is this true for the whole world, or just Europe/US?
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by FrankyHollywood 5y ago
a great to hear! I was searching for something with a bite. The hot water has a nice contrast with the cold water, but I still miss something :) Hope I can find this in Europe. Here we have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by FrankyHollywood 5y ago
I needed better sleeping and tried various things. In the end I stopped drinking coffee and tea. For me its now just hot or cold water, sometimes a herbal tea, and an occasional beer or orange juice. First caffeine-free weekend I had terrib
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by FrankyHollywood 5y ago
Search for a specialized software company helps. Don't go for the standard web bureau building webshops. I used to work in finance, with complicated calculation software, and at the moment I work at a bio-informatics scale-up. Very int
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by FrankyHollywood 5y ago
I'm in my 40s, and I build software at a scale-up. They explicitly searched more mature developers, because of several failed projects with large over spending the past years. Management had enough of it, and now wants a more experienc
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Raspberry Pi Torrentbox
5 points by FrankyHollywood 6y ago|5 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 6y ago
At the same time, all kids go to school these days. That is a kind of collective parenting. All kids in a country learning the same stuff. Sure, most is about cognitive skill, but you also learn social conventions, manners. And if you have
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by FrankyHollywood 6y ago
> I can be impatient with people. I dislike and distrust bureaucracies. I don't have enough patience for incompetence. I hire people with these qualities, most intelligent people I know are like this :)
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by FrankyHollywood 6y ago
I recognize much of what you say. Worst experience I have is with devs who call themselves 'coach' and know it all. They should be quiet more often. At the same time, I have this junior dev in my team who is very stubborn and nev
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by FrankyHollywood 6y ago
> What do you do if you genuinely don't want anything? Exactly that, people react offended when I say I don't want anything. Nowadays I ask for coffee, or beer. You end up with kilo's of coffee beans, and enough alcohol to
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by FrankyHollywood 6y ago
life is a "a big slop of global mutable state" :)
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by FrankyHollywood 6y ago
Same can be said for almost any high-school class. In physics and mathematics you learn mostly tricks to get at an answer for a question, where the sole purpose of the question is entertaining students. Only in my 20s I read biography'
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by FrankyHollywood 6y ago
haha, you gave me a good laugh there, nicely spoken! :) But you are right. People who are lonely or depressed are better off having some good friends they can call to hang out on a Friday night. Having some huggy colleague or kisses from yo
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The Online Trap of Tales [dutch, subs](youtube.com)
1 points by FrankyHollywood 6y ago|0 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 6y ago
I had this feeling recently reading Voltaire quotes >200 years old, but could have been written today :) https://www.azquotes.com/author/15138-Voltaire

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