Tichy

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by Tichy 14y ago
Startup Mountain camp anyone? This sounds like a great place to host a hacker convention now?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Probably this guy? http://ep1.half-life2.com/img/desktops/desktop7_1600x.jpg
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by Tichy 14y ago
Then again, it's not as if a traditional organization is super efficient. If they have less money, they simply can distribute less bonuses. I don't see how the organization itself costs money, unlike other companies who go for physical perk
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by Tichy 14y ago
ebay
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by Tichy 14y ago
Still, the argument "either A has happened or it has not happened" is silly. What matters is the knowledge we base our decisions on (ultimately we don't even know the outside world really exists, we only have a set of measurements and infer
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by Tichy 14y ago
Wondering about subvocalization, what about reading in a language I never learned to speak?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Thanks!
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by Tichy 14y ago
"you can write it as a Markdown document — a document that also happens to be executable CoffeeScript code" Am I missing something or is that line literally the only explanation/documentation given as to what is literate CoffeeScript and ho
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by Tichy 14y ago
Do most people really live like that in their twenties? Getting laid all the time, unstable relationships and so on? I kind of thought that there was a lot of media hype in that story. Anyway, I think the main thing is that having kids in y
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by Tichy 14y ago
In what way do you think you are a bad person? It sounds a bit as if you are carrying a baggage of possibly irrelevant morals with you (as in you don't really subscribe to those morals, but somehow feel bad for that). Perhaps you could simp
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by Tichy 14y ago
Apparently you can install Ubuntu on the Galalxy Nexus and the Nexus 4. Might be an option? Firefox OS is also coming up...
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by Tichy 14y ago
GameSpy and Gamespot are the only gaming sites I knew. Where does one look for information on games now? Edit: thanks for the suggestions so far! They all seem to be in blog style, with the typical horrible navigation (basically, you are li
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by Tichy 14y ago
Is there any point in countries doing that alone, rather than global cooperation?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Why, there are people whose sleep cycles makes 1am a perfectly sane time for being awake?
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by Tichy 14y ago
How do you "man up" against sleep deprivation? I think in general you shouldn't man up against your own body. I'm actually fascinated by this: popular mythology seems to push the "man up" principle for getting things done. But the real chal
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by Tichy 14y ago
Just read the part about breast feeding in Jared Diamond's latest book on traditional societies. Interestingly apparently most traditional societies use on demand feeding, the baby is always within reach of the breast and can drink whenever
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by Tichy 14y ago
Some of those are so infuriating. Luckily by now there are also some experts who speak out against the "let her cry" theory. Turns out that feeling safe and cared for actually gives kids more confidence and in the long run than being left a
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by Tichy 14y ago
Yay, we had that and it was great, highly recommended.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Incidentally I just read the child rearing chapter of Jared Diamond's latest book about traditional societies. Turns out they all tend to co-sleep, but usually they sleep on the ground or on hard mattresses. As JD points out, it is easier t
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by Tichy 14y ago
Our doctors told us that mothers don't kill their babies while they sleep, due to some instinct. Fathers might, but apparently mostly if they are drunk (so we've been told). What we had and loved is a "baby bay" - basically a half open crib
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by Tichy 14y ago
It sounds like Pascal's wager to me. I haven't really thought it through in much detail, though - for safety reasons...
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by Tichy 14y ago
That sounds scary, but not crazy?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Didn't know that, I never actually had to deal with the US admissions system.
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by Tichy 14y ago
"Why not ask candidates to write an essay, or tell you in person, about how they've overcome adversity?" Wouldn't such a system be very easy to attack, how would you avoid the judges being biased, or the claim that they could be biased? Sin
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by Tichy 14y ago
I don't think you have to feel attacked, isn't it natural to ask what is going on if you produce an outlier? It could be genuine curiosity. In the same vein it is interesting to ask why most companies receive more male applications. Without
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by Tichy 14y ago
He might have a point in that a lot of women seem to aspire to be teachers. For example when I got my maths degree, 99% (estimated) of the women sitting in the lectures with me were studying to become teachers. Perhaps working for Khan Acad
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by Tichy 14y ago
Breaking my planned HN abstinence, but this is exactly the one thing I worry about: "for instance if they display a preference for talking to or dealing with male colleagues over female ones" Why is this discrimination? I think people shoul
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by Tichy 14y ago
I think it's a valid opinion. This will get me thousands of downvotes, but I have been wondering, too, why some men seem to be eager to proclaim "yes, we are pigs". I'm sorry, I'm fighting it, but sometimes "good doggy, good doggy" is shoot
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by Tichy 14y ago
Ah, political correctness... While I don't subscribe to the theory that women's brains are primed towards different things, I don't think it is really established that (on average) they aren't either. Therefore, to be honest, I think it sho
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by Tichy 14y ago
I'd like that because it would prevent me from rescanning the homepage over and over again, and eventually reading even the stuff I don't really want to read because I am procrastinating. I'd like to decide once "don't want to read" and be

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