Kaizyn

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by Kaizyn 14y ago
News is only free because the newspapers got into a war for eyeballs on the Internet. It is only now after they've had their businesses decimated that they realize that free content wasn't such a wise move on their part. There certainly isn
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by Kaizyn 14y ago
You might try shifting your reading to the early morning before work.
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by Kaizyn 14y ago
I think more and more people are trying to treat the iPad like a real computer. This seems misguided to me because the existing development tools and systems are rooted in the keyboard and (optional) mouse. Since the touch screen interface
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by Kaizyn 14y ago
Do you suppose that medieval master craftsmen had to pick and choose between being very good at using specialized tools to make things and being very good at knowing about the 'human factors' that go into making an object appropriate and de
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by Kaizyn 14y ago
Right now, the field has decided that the coder-designers are worth their weight in gold. As such, at this moment and for the foreseeable future, you are in a great position to pretty much write your own ticket wherever you want to go in th
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by Kaizyn 14y ago
Most places won't let you take unpaid time off when you have vacation days left.
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by Kaizyn 14y ago
No, the difference is that in the days of yore, Microsoft wasn't the market maker for your applications. Now, with the Apple App Store(s), you are being put before a large potential customer base. Considering how easy it is to pirate applic
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by Kaizyn 14y ago
Do you have any sort of logical explanation or intuition about your stated result - that 75 percent of tests do not improve business results? It seems to suggest that design just has to be good enough. Below some set threshold for visually
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
This is widely believed but not true or supported by scientific evidence. Have a look at Gary Taubes "Good Calories, Bad Calories" for a rundown on much of the relevant research.
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
If you cut the highly processed carbs (sugar and wheat based snack foods primarily) from your diet, you will stop having the 2-3 hour cycles of hunger, energy rush, crash, and food cravings. Once your body has corrected itself, you will no
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
If you cut the highly processed carbs (sugar and wheat based snack foods primarily) from your diet, you will stop having the 2-3 hour cycles of hunger, energy rush, crash, and food cravings. Once your body has corrected itself, you will no
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
Yes, sugar is toxic. It was never found in a natural diet for humans in the high quantities it is now ingested by people. The two major effects it has on the body is: 1) simultaneously raising blood sugar levels while promoting insulin resi
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
Psychologists found a while ago that people are more open and less inhibited when technology mediates their interactions with other people. This same effect probably carries over to providing personal data to online services. Somehow it doe
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
Of course not, now get back to work.
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
Python probably does the moderation. Sharepoint is for dead simple communication of info to the user community.
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
It doesn't. Sometimes two wrongs (the prediction and the measurement) make a right.
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
Yes, it deals with everything involved in "parsing" which covers all aspects of starting from a text document and converting it into a tree structure that can be used either for code generation or for manipulating the code. Lexing isn't all
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
I am noticing that duplicates appear in the book listing(s) as well as books without all the proper metadata such as title and author. There should be an option to let people flag both types of problems with the books.
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
As I understand their placement of stores, the "cannibalization of customers" is how they determine if they have sufficiently saturated a metropolitan area. Basically, they keep building stores in a city until adding one more doesn't increa
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
The problem with your statement is that Isaacson interviewed Steve Jobs, his family members, and all his closest work associates and friends. His statements can't be dismissed as "lies about Steve Jobs" just because you or John Gruber don't
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
Earlier on, PG experimented with an upvote only scheme and later discarded it. I don't recall if any public reason was given for why the experiment failed, but downvotes were found to be of sufficient value to be worth retaining.
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
I have a hard time telling which one is for which, sometimes.
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
When the Internet was started, the researchers had no concept of the Internet growing to become a world-wide phenomenon where bad actors wold also exist on the network. Everyone involved was basically from an academic/research background an
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
Talking about what journals you have published in and why is way off topic in this thread. Not surprisingly, it got you downvoted.
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
This post has been downvoted because it is not relevant to the discussion started by the OP. Instead it addresses a minor detail found within that OP. Also, because it is so long and also discusses your relationship to the HN site moderator
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
I always know when my posts will be downvoted, and I don't understand why anyone else would have trouble identifying the same. The community here has its norms of behavior. When you violate one of them, expect to get the karma smacked out o
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
It isn't as satisfying as arguing about vi vs. emacs or K&R vs the One True bracing style.
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
The only problem with your classification is that nerd and academic social groups do not have a high enough social standing with normal people to count as elite. Just try bragging about being a Linux kernel hacker at your next party and see
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
It's doubtful at best. Email PG or another site admin, they are exceptionally responsive.
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by Kaizyn 15y ago
If your "pointed question" doesn't sound nice enough, the community will punish you for it. There are also a couple sacred cows that you would be well-advised against questioning.

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