J-dawg

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by J-dawg 11y ago
Firstly, thanks for introducing me to Harrison Bergeron. I'm looking forward to reading it. I love HN for things like this. > Holding back a child until the others have caught up is as much the antithesis of fairness as giving an ad
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I must confess that I haven't read the whole site, but there doesn't seem to be any mention of the possible effect on the child's eyesight. There is probably some causative link between the amount of close work you do and y
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Read the comment in this thread from Luc. It's likely that it will make a difference simply because the author's son will be labelled as "smart" from his first day in school. This might have as much bearing on the outcom
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This effect seems to be frighteningly powerful. Apparently professional athletes are disproportionately more likely to be born in the 2nd half of the school year [0]. They simply grow bigger and show athletic promise a few months earlier th
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I experienced the exact same thing as I got into my 30s, as well as a huge increase in posts appearing in my newsfeed just because a friend 'liked' it. So I'm suddenly seeing the wedding and baby photos of people I've ne
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Thank you for this comment. > very acute understanding of the world without pleasurable inputs. This sums it up perfectly. It's also what makes depression so dangerous. When you're at your lowest point you don't feel like
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Just before quitting Facebook, I made a point of adding friends' birthdays to my iOS contacts, which are shown in the calendar on my iPhone. However there is no option to be automatically reminded of all birthdays, so I still sometimes
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by J-dawg 11y ago
You're right about the placebo effect, I'm sure I once read about a study that found patients reported better pain relief from the pills with fancy packaging. As you said, we're dealing with pain relief which is inherently su
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I like this idea. It seems to me that we are seeing more and more egregious examples of companies pushing their luck with how far they can exploit their customers' loyalty. The difficulty would be in defining an objective "greed i
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This is especially interesting when you consider that the basic product (Nurofen) is already a [massive scam / triumph of branding] (delete according to personal opinion). There's a very strange bug in human programming that we st
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Sports Direct are a vile, abusive organisation. I'm not sure how the owner can sleep at night knowing that his riches are the direct result of exploiting desperate people. This is the story that the parent comment is referring to: htt
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Kudos for getting a 'rickroll' into a conversation about linguistics!
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I don't think I have the skills to get very far in Stockfighter (although I'll give it a try). I wonder if there are any plans to produce an "entry-level" version? It strikes me that this would work brilliantly as a teac
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This looks great, thanks for sharing. Have you used it?
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by J-dawg 11y ago
It would be cool if there was some kind of service to simulate these interviews, where you can code while being watched in real time and then receive good quality feedback. Does anything like this exist?
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by J-dawg 11y ago
The original Elite on the BBC Micro. Coded in assembly by 2 people as a summer project. Used procedural generation to create a universe of thousands of star systems, all fitting into 32kb of memory. It's just incredible what they achie
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I don't know how many years we are from truly autonomous cars that can take you door-to-door with no human intervention other than keying in the destination. There seem to be so many hurdles to overcome that any prediction is likely to
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This got me thinking, a virtual pet could be a great way of gameifying positive activities. Maybe you could exercise your pet by going for a run yourself, or make it more intelligent by doing a language tutorial. You could connect any fitne
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This reminds me of people holding funerals for their Aibo robot dogs. The future is going to get very weird. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
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Ask HN: Would you give your kid a toy that records everything they say?
1 points by J-dawg 11y ago|1 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
If the Gayle Newland case [1] is rape, then the Mark Stone / Mark Kennedy case should be too. I don't know whether either should be considered as rape, I'm just amazed how inconsistent the law can be. [1] http://ww
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This article, about scurvy on Scott's expedition, is also fascinating [1]. I've seen it posted on HN before as well as other (excellent) articles from the same blog, but I think it deserves re-posting. It makes me wonder how many
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Whatsapp web and Google Authenticator spring to mind. They both use QR codes to associate a mobile device with a web app. Definitely nicer than typing in a long token, and avoids an extra step of (e.g.) emailing it to you. I never understoo
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I'm looking forward to the responses to this. I came to programming later than most (early 30s), and it's been a real struggle to break into it professionally. I have occasional low points when I wonder what I could have achieved
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Help me Paul Graham – You're my only hope(shedsimove.com)
2 points by J-dawg 11y ago|0 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Another pop culture reference: The comedy 'Without a Paddle' is about a group of friends searching for D.B. Cooper's treasure
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Ask HN: How did you build self belief?
5 points by J-dawg 11y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: How do you see the VW emissions scandal panning out?
2 points by J-dawg 11y ago|0 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Why would too many side projects be perceived as negative? I'm genuinely struggling to think of a reason.
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Study shows first born children more likely to be myopic(healio.com)
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