Timpy

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by Timpy 8y ago
I thought this article was pretty poorly written too, and the website is a clear example of the "Bullshit Web." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655089 However, the number of people who have read a book pub
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by Timpy 8y ago
Do you guys program? Google is like a brain extension, I'm worried DDG wouldn't give me the same results, and it would hurt my work flow.
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A MIDI keyboard interface would be great for music notation software, latency would be a non-factor
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by Timpy 8y ago
I've tried using Anki for music and I don't think it works very well. You want to drill chords so your fingers don't forget them. If you get the flash card right you will only see it once. Flash cards may help with learnin
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I skimmed this article, and I skimmed the comments here too
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>Users skip over things that look like ads, so be careful how you display images Several paragraphs earlier the author writes "Do you know that feeling when The Onion is eerily right?" and I had no idea what they were talking a
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Agreed, a complete text is quite a different thing from editing text. Recording your typing session would be interesting, it would be interesting to see an analysis on where common typos keep happening.
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by Timpy 8y ago
I watched Linus's TED Talk where he's being interviewed (which is unusual in TED Talk format). [0] He seemed so nice and I thought he was so cool, like a hero in the CS world. I want to rationalize and defend him because his beh
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I administered the self test and as I was checking my results I started patting myself on the back for doing so well, then I realized this is no different from giving yourself an online IQ test; I just wanted to affirm to myself how smart I
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by Timpy 8y ago
A movie is a story you experience, the physical copy that you own is representative of the experience but it is not the experience. If we lived in a world where I could have ready access to my favorite movie without having a physical copy
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>> “So how does it work?” I know this is supposed to be a parable, but it reads like a script from an infomercial
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I think that would incentivize ideas that conform to the community, and the community to conform to certain ideas. Reddit is a good example, they've wrongly crucified people before for things that don't fit their narrative. Pers
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by Timpy 8y ago
Vim by default reminds me of organ donors. In countries where people are considered organ donors by default and have the option to opt-out, organ donor stats increase dramatically. https://www.cesifo-group.de/DocDL/dic
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by Timpy 8y ago
You're addressing something that is not really related to raverbashing's point. It's just a quick look at learning curves. >I'm arguing here against the stupid - and stupidly common - approach that proper UX means a
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I'm kind of surprised that they published the memorandum here, especially with contact information. I suppose I don't see how it would be a security risk, I just assumed it would have been.
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I didn't know who John Holmes was. Don't google it at work guys.
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I see this is referred to as a deck, but I don't know what that means. What is the specific meaning of deck in this context? Where do I see more decks like this?
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I honestly thought you were joking. Their data presentation wasn't good, who would pay this???
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Give a politician $100K and they'll allow you to upend a democracy
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"But security is not something that’s ever done." I initially read this as "Security is something that nobody ever does." Not to be pedantic, but "finished" would have been less ambiguous.
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by Timpy 8y ago
Khan Academy has a lot of nice things going for it, but it seems like there's a lot more presentation than there is practice. I don't care about the gamification of learning. The practice problems, of which there are only a few,
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by Timpy 8y ago
It's a nice idea, but the library is the place I go when I have books I would rather give away for free before chucking them out. What do I do with the free books I took when I'm done with them/can no longer accommodate them
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I'm not trying to be inflammatory but I think the first issue that comes to mind is that giving stars at random kind of circumvents the meaning of stars.
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I'm glad you asked this question, and you worded it so well. I'm in the exact same position and I was having trouble articulating my frustration. I've done some Khan Academy but it's not congruent with my learning styl
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Maybe I wasn't reading closely enough, but I don't think this was supposed to be a persuasive argument as to why everyone should change their sleep habits to match the author's. I read it as an interesting exploration of som
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I think there are a few variables, like time of day and competing headlines. I saw some breakdowns of the concept on reddit a while back, it's seemingly pretty random.
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I was speculating with a friend recently, "who would ever need 64 GB of RAM?" Then it dawned on us; Pixar.
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I know almost nothing about cave diving, but I can't imagine sedating the people being rescued would be a good idea. Is sedating people in cave diving emergencies a normal thing?
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I like Hello Internet https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwez9XDNV_wS0WNDZteXjgw It's in the genre of "two dudes talking" podcasts, but technology and futurology are some of the topics they touch on often.
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Very clever implementation of this technique

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