J-dawg

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by J-dawg 10y ago
Yep, I learned about rumination from some therapy I had about a year ago. I'm very far from being an expert so take what I say with a pinch of salt and see a professional therapist, if you can afford it. It sounds pointlessly glib, but
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Thanks, I don't know why I didn't just Google it! I'd still be interested to know whether this has found any commercial applications. It seems to be an idea with so much potential. I guess it might be too expensive for "
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I just scrolled down this thread and started reading a few of the different regrets. One thing I realised is that a lot of them are contradictory with each other. e.g. Not marrying that girl vs. Rushing into marriage Not working harder in s
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Somewhat related: A while ago I saw a video online of a "cockpit" which was suspended in the middle of a big room from multiple cables. The cables would tension and release making the cockpit shoot around the room, so the user wou
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I've seen several articles recently saying that chatbots are The Next Big Thing. I just don't get it. Every chatbot I've ever used reminds me of playing those text-based adventure games, where you need to rephrase your questi
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Is there a test to find out whether you're deficient in Zinc, Magnesium etc? Tailored vitamin/mineral supplements could be a pretty cool startup.
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Ask HN: Do you “deep work”?
3 points by J-dawg 10y ago|0 comments
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Even national newspapers sometimes have sections on consumer rights. I'm pretty sure The Times still has this as part of the money section (maybe the Saturday edition? It's been a while since I read a newspaper). This also sounds
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I'd really like to understand your worldview better (and I don't mean that in a belligerent way) because I hope I can learn from it. I really cannot muster any level of compassion for this guy. Sure he's poor, but he committe
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by J-dawg 10y ago
> You sound like you are interested in small tech startup teams that are location independent Thanks, this is exactly right. I will check out the links you suggested.
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Ask HN: 'Nomad' startups?
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by J-dawg 10y ago
> This wouldn't work in the UK because you can almost never pay a "subscription" with a credit card - it would usually be a direct debit, or they might accept a debit card. This isn't quite true. A lot of American com
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I only heard the term "deep work" yesterday, listening to Cal Newport on James Altucher's podcast. It's a pretty good introduction and he talks about his own approach to work. He's also a professor of computer scien
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Ask HN: How do you concentrate when you have non-work things on your mind
6 points by J-dawg 10y ago|3 comments
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Pornography was a poor choice of industry to make your point, considering that that female performers routinely make more money than their male counterparts. Also, we're talking about IT. I'm not sure what it proves to cherry pick
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by J-dawg 10y ago
It is well worth watching Derren Brown's demonstration of the Barnum / Forer effect [0]. If you've never heard of it, I recommend watching the video before you Google anything. It's only a short video (less than 4 minute
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by J-dawg 10y ago
To really get everyone fired up, it's best to have your own company song book. http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/tripping-through-ibm...
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by J-dawg 10y ago
This is fascinating. How close did the unsuccessful candidates get? Did you give them any hints? Did you let them run their code to test it, or was it a pure whiteboard exercise? For the successful ones, what did you ask them next?
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by J-dawg 10y ago
This is a massive over-simplification. Imagine a human driver encounters somebody standing in the road on an otherwise empty highway. Experience will tell him how much to slow down, whether to swerve around the obstacle, edge past slowly or
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I'm probably taking the question too literally, but do people really use FizzBuzz as a hiring test? I only ask because until recently I'd never written a FizzBuzz program. I've seen it mentioned so many times that I thought I
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by J-dawg 10y ago
You really think so? Sure, in an urban environment cameras and alarms might work. But good luck protecting a truck on an open highway miles away from the nearest town. HN conversations about autonomous vehicles are normally focussed on the
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by J-dawg 10y ago
When this time comes, the problem will be sabotage/theft. I think this will be a problem with all autonomous vehicle technologies, and it's often neglected in conversations on the subject. Imagine you get to the point of perfectly
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Thank you for this. I've never seen it before. I'm curious about how the letter was found after his death. Who decided to make it public? I'm glad I had the opportunity to read it, but I doubt it was ever intended to be relea
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I didn't see that anyone had replied to my post until now. HN could really do with an inbox feature! I just wanted to say that I agree 100%. The UK's laws on obscenity and freedom of speech in general are a terrifying mess. You ca
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I'll admit I was playing devil's advocate with my arguments. What I was trying to point out is that making a moral defense for EU freedom of movement (as many remainers did) is basically impossible without being a hypocrite. The
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by J-dawg 10y ago
But that brings us back to my original point. We end up discriminating against individuals based on which country they're from. I'm fine with discriminating against individuals based on how "beneficial" they are as a per
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by J-dawg 10y ago
So you're saying the UK would agree to free movement of people from Nigeria, provided that it was reciprocal?
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by J-dawg 10y ago
You're right, I don't think EU freedom of movement is based on ideology. But it was definitely used as an ideological argument by both sides during the Brexit debate.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
The UK has obviously seen a lot of debate about immigration recently, around the Brexit referendum. I've often felt like non-EU immigration was the elephant in the room during all this. 'Leave' voters have often been portraye
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Here in Airstrip One, cartoons of children may be illegal. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fan-japanese-anime-make...

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