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Ask HN: How do you measure your level of extraversion or introversion?
3 points by Goladus 15y ago|6 comments
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by Goladus 15y ago
> I identify as an introvert. But are you an introvert? There's a difference between self-identification and scientific observation.
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by Goladus 15y ago
I've spent the last 20 minutes or so digging and haven't found much (though I haven't read the book linked). The most interesting paper I've found is this one from 1990 called The Biological Bases of extraversion: psychophysiological evide
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by Goladus 15y ago
The definition of introvert is already so vague it's hard to take this seriously.
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by Goladus 15y ago
Eh, whatever. As a customer, that sort of thing doesn't bother me half as much as when products are cheapened in order to avoid price hikes. (filler ingredients, subtle shrinking of container sizes, etc.)
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by Goladus 15y ago
I think they want to project power. I don't think they want anyone to be indifferent about them. Beyond that, it's almost impossible to know their motivations.
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by Goladus 15y ago
> Facebook makes some change or introduces a service that appears to make the site less private or secure, everybody makes a big deal about it, and Facebook (typically) goes ahead and does it anyway. Then everyone starts to theorize w
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by Goladus 15y ago
I really like that when I install the evince pdf viewer, it doesn't try to install the Yahoo search bar browser plugin like Adobe Acrobat. I even use evince on windows.
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by Goladus 15y ago
Right, but you can extend that logic to other software, and in general the tradeoffs are very similar. Photoshop vs GIMP, MS Office vs Libreoffice, Scribus vs InDesign. It adds up after awhile. You don't have to switch to linux to take ad
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by Goladus 15y ago
Open-sourceness isn't an unfriendly feature by any measure, and the features I list are useful whether on a server or a desktop, that's the point. Man pages might be the only thing in that list that can genuinely be considered unfriendly,
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by Goladus 15y ago
I like orthogonal, compose-able features. I like self-documenting configuration. I like grep. I like multiple desktops. I like managing my configuration using revision control (though the move towards using databases is making this a bi
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by Goladus 15y ago
I'd be interested to see a more concise and less sarcastic modern summary of how Linux is Not Windows. This reads more like a rant at how windows people Just Don't Get It more than a genuine attempt to be helpful. edit: Here's an example
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by Goladus 15y ago
You're still making the same tradeoff, though it's less obvious.
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by Goladus 15y ago
I do, sort of. I tried a makeshift standing desk and the most significant comfort issue was definitely feet, though standing on a pillow and walking around occasionally helped. I suppose body size and type makes a difference. Ultimately I
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by Goladus 15y ago
This is why I have two machines, one is windows the other is Ubuntu. Most work and browsing gets done on the linux box, and I have very few complaints. My biggest complaint was a bug in the firefox search box that seems to have been resol
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by Goladus 15y ago
> - Utter inability to consume streaming video, be it Netflix, Hulu or YouTube. I'm sort of curious what version of Ubuntu you installed. I've installed Ubuntu 10.4, the default install, on a number of machines and have had zero proble
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Turning off cancer’s growth signals(web.mit.edu)
2 points by Goladus 15y ago|0 comments
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by Goladus 15y ago
Heh, basically, the main difference being that ads almost always reduce app quality.
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by Goladus 15y ago
I would say that depends on the App. And of course, my point is that from the point of a consumer $1 is still enough to be perceived as being worth something (a snack or a bottled drink, perhaps).
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by Goladus 15y ago
I haven't played any of these games, but it makes sense in a couple ways. For one thing, a prototype can suggest something compelling without necessarily delivering everything. I found this particularly true in the Limbo example. I found
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by Goladus 15y ago
No problem, and good luck. I started a number of music-language projects that rarely made much progress, usually because I got frustrated after recognizing my design had some fundamental flaw that made it particularly hard to express somet
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by Goladus 15y ago
> The truth is that X is probably somewhere in between. X depends a lot on the particular piece of software, the target market, and the context in which it's available. There won't ever be any generalized data. One interesting test wou
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by Goladus 15y ago
If I were going to start a project to map elements of a musical score to HTML5 custom attributes, I would probably start with something like Lilypond, which has a convenient formal specification: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation
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by Goladus 15y ago
> As the article mentions, this kind of aid is aimed towards people who have no other options. Right, and that's what makes me uneasy. A student needs to make about 7x the amount of the loan (plus overhead) within the 118 months for the
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by Goladus 15y ago
"That's just semantics" is a common way of saying "you're arguing over semantics instead of the point." When arguing semantics is disguised as a genuine rebuttal, it's a fallacy. If I say the sky is blue, and you assert the sky has no colo
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by Goladus 15y ago
That makes some sense, although I would be really interested to see their numbers. A 14% for 10 years deal would have been horrible for me. I'd have wound up paying back well over 3 times the amount I originally borrowed, and I was paid v
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by Goladus 15y ago
Here's one I've heard about: http://www.cals.cornell.edu/
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by Goladus 15y ago
There was some insight that was muddied by the confrontational language, and the semantic ambiguity introduced by marciovm123. There are two interesting issues: (1) repeat customers to the merchants, which they obtain via groupon. (2) merc
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by Goladus 15y ago
> The heart of a ponzi scheme is continually securing new investments to pay out earlier investors. The difference is the nature of the deception. In a ponzi scheme, you accept an investment, buy yourself a new house, and then tell the
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by Goladus 15y ago
The only thing I notice is that people like and use groupon. Just this past Wednesday there was a status update in my news feed: "I ♥ Groupons!" from a recent college graduate who teaches English as a second language (ie not a hacker or st

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