Oxryly

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by Oxryly 16y ago
Anyone actually read all of this? Some strange theories there, and it's hard to see if they're true/useful or not.
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by Oxryly 16y ago
"I would not expect any new major software effort to be written in Lisp." How many companies have purchased companies whose flagship is developed in Lisp only to shutdown or redo all Lisp work? WTF is this pattern? Is there a name for it
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Waits for the inevitable "we're switching from Lisp to Python" announcement...
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Good message, good content, but that was some dry presentation. I suppose the problem with every graduation speech is that it's some knowledgeable wise person up there talking essentially down to a bunch of life newbies down here . That
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by Oxryly 16y ago
That seems right. However I think with an organization like Pixar there is an enormous energy that can potentially spew technical debt like nobody's business. If it goes off the rails, it could go off in a big way. For that reason a man
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Very cool stuff. I was expecting a lot and still I was blown away.
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by Oxryly 16y ago
The article describes the basics of vipassana (insight) meditation. The same description applies to zazen, the meditation practice in Zen. I believe it is actually the basis for all meditative practice. You can layer on certain guided thou
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by Oxryly 16y ago
I certainly hope that point isn't lost on anyone familiar with Google.
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by Oxryly 16y ago
It might be kind of cool to have a little quiz style game at the end of each story, and you earn points for correct answers. I'd play... (I think)
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Nice insight there; clearly spoken from direct and current experience. I think it's just one way a consistent low level fear manifests itself in our lives. Breaking out of that secure routine is not just scary by itself -- it'll dredge up
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Not to pile on, but that sounds like more rationalization as well. Did the resistance to school increase the closer you got to graduation? I think the problem you're facing may be much closer to home.
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by Oxryly 16y ago
She's actually describing the archetypal enlightenment experience that many world religions (Buddhism in particular) attempt to convey. As such trying to put the experience into words is going to be unsatisfying and even absurd. It's vague
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Good post. Today I was fortunate to have my Dad meditating right beside me for awhile. For the first time in 37+ years (i.e. exactly how old I am) I felt his presence and realized that it had always been there. Every second of every day of
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Excellent observation. I'd go a step further and say you'll wind up avoiding your own self in the process -- which in turn will make you miserable. The Boy Scouts certainly helped me face my self directly, almost always against my preferenc
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Identify that maximum amount you'd be comfortable charging, then add 15%.
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by Oxryly 16y ago
The black swan strikes again and we all know how and why only after it happens. Except of course this should not have been a black swan to BP and regulators.
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Inside Edition, Hard Copy, A Current Affair...
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by Oxryly 16y ago
I've been doing mindfulness based meditation (vipassana and zazen) for several months now. I'd say that it does help in a number of ways. For one, it is an excellent way to hone the practice of focusing your mind on your immediate activity.
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Or that "width" ends with a "th" and "height" ends with just the "t". Just use "sizex" and "sizey" like a Microsoft programmer from the '90s.
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by Oxryly 16y ago
He seems to be telling his younger self to do an awful lot of stuff. I'm not sure that advice would have the intended effect. It'll lead to an alternate world where he advises things like: 4. Stop it with the relentless busyness -- take s
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Would you recommend Debix's OnCall service? How does it work?
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by Oxryly 16y ago
That's a crucial point. I wonder why that angle keeps getting overlooked when there are studies that support and explore it so well. Are the scientists dropping the ball? Are the writers?
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by Oxryly 16y ago
I would like to nominate Mr. Norvig for the post of Internet Resident Expert please.
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by Oxryly 16y ago
The lawn needs mowing and the dishes are dirty!
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by Oxryly 16y ago
And I just tossed my last batch of old 3.5" floppies yesterday. Clearly they're going to be worth something now!
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by Oxryly 16y ago
It's not so much that your life will get worse, but that at some point in the future everything you have now will be taken from you (ultimately by death). When these things are taken away, will you assign different value to them? Maybe y
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Without a control group, or at least a group doing something other than playing games during that time, it's hard to say the games caused the effect they observed. Maybe just staying after school with highly interested researchers had a kno
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Just out of curiosity, is there anything particularly bad about doing this? Looking through the guidelines they do in fact encourage self posting, so I'm wondering if there's some sort of "community" discouragement of this sort of thing.
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by Oxryly 16y ago
The fatal problem: the train is arriving in N minutes whether or not the car is ready. Just as car loading is to be finished (no more people allowed), the last person trips and falls, twisting an ankle. Do you have time to help them on boa
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by Oxryly 16y ago
Although it's not as if switching to distributed revision control will eliminate politics. It just transforms them and pushes them around. Who owns the mainline of a project? Why won't s/he accept my patches? etc.. etc...

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