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by Spellman 11y ago
Clyde will have one thing on his resume. Solved the CMS problem. Alice will have plenty of other things to put on her portfolio instead and should show the 10x other things she fixed with all the time freed up.
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Sesame Credit: China Gameification of Obedience(youtube.com)
8 points by Spellman 11y ago|1 comments
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by Spellman 11y ago
Learned something new today
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XKCD: Hoverboard(xkcd.com)
49 points by Spellman 11y ago|15 comments
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by Spellman 11y ago
http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/supplemental-nutrition-assistan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assista... Basically food stamps
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by Spellman 11y ago
One of the more perverse things I learned back in the day was exactly this. I even saw the school counselor and we worked on actively ignoring taunts. It didn't work. Later I realized it wasn't about a reaction, it was tribal post
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by Spellman 11y ago
In a related concept, what is a reliable way of checking whether your phone has the patches? Recently I got an update to my Moto X 2nd Gen to Version 23.16.5.en.US (Verizon carrier) which takes me to Lollipop 5.1. But most lists I see about
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by Spellman 11y ago
Similarly, here's another fellow rolling a Yahtzee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTwar7mFws
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The Minimum Wage Muddle(nytimes.com)
1 points by Spellman 11y ago|0 comments
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by Spellman 11y ago
Also, at the national level, the Three Strikes came around when most of America was in the middle of a lot of drug-related violence. So the Three Strikes rule, plus the War on Drugs, plus the Kingpin laws were used with extreme prejudice to
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by Spellman 11y ago
Plus he has moved to 3 different countries, picking up viewers from them all. And how YouTube's Recommended Videos system works. Here's someone's analysis of why he got so popular. Looks, editing skills, and personality also
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by Spellman 11y ago
I haven't seen a formal analysis, but I can tell you for sure that it is highly skill-based until everyone plays optimally at the game. Then it becomes luck-based. Best example was a tournament for Settlers. In the early stages one pla
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by Spellman 11y ago
I've been playing FPS shooters for most of my life. But I've had to stop. For some reason HL2 would give me headaches. Really, really bad headaches. I thought it might be the Engine, or me being tired. But I don't get headach
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Median Salaries of Higher Education Staff(chronicle.com)
1 points by Spellman 12y ago|0 comments
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by Spellman 12y ago
You're understanding the actual data quite well as it turns out. Moving from $40k -> $50k is a much bigger gain on the happiness scales since it is a larger % increase. Moving $120k -> $130k is much smaller relatively, even thoug
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Why are all the 'good' restaurants starting to look the same?(medium.com)
17 points by Spellman 12y ago|18 comments
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Gmail usernames and passwords leaked(freedomhacker.net)
3 points by Spellman 12y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Acquires Twitch(phx.corporate-ir.net)
4 points by Spellman 12y ago|0 comments
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How to be Polite(medium.com)
2 points by Spellman 12y ago|1 comments
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by Spellman 13y ago
So much truth here. Especially the fact that you cared. As someone who had his share of poor TAs and was a TA, caring is what sets apart the good teachers from the poor ones. Taking the time to sit and figure out the fundamental misundersta
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by Spellman 13y ago
Exactly. These are fallacies that are constrained to arguments that are logical in nature. That is, the agreed upon rules of argument and discussion is to use logic. And most arguments even of your second or third category use elements of l
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by Spellman 13y ago
You are primarily attacking the supply side of the equation. Locking up those looking for this is working on the demand side. Both are valid means that should be done in concert.
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by Spellman 14y ago
You may not need to be a math genius, but it severely limits what you can do. There are much fewer programmers working on game logic and many more resources devoted to graphics, physics, pathfinding, AI, tools, and so on. And if you aren't
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by Spellman 14y ago
I personally started using an RSS Reader to keep track of webcomics. Especially ones that update infrequently. Now they're all in one handy place and I never miss a panel.
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by Spellman 14y ago
This is a well-known cognitive bias called Anchoring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring Just by giving a starting value predisposes people towards that value. And in this case, it was low enough people would impulse buy with the def
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by Spellman 14y ago
Reminds me of this ancedote: http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_forsyth_what_s_a_snollygoster_... When forming the US Government they had to name the new position. Some wanted it to be regal and powerful, others wanted to keep it humble so the
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by Spellman 15y ago
I was more annoyed that the karma system wasn't attributed to other sites who used it first. Which is to say not terribly.