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by Wilduck 15y ago
Are you familiar with the Humble Indie Bundle? This is like that. It's an indie game released for pay what you want to support charity.
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For small transactions you often don't have to sign anything or enter a PIN. I think the rational is that it would be fairly hard for someone to drain all your funds with < $20 transactions. Hopefully I'd realize fairly soon that my car
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I do the exact opposite. I only upvote articles if I read it and know that I will almost certainly want to read it again later. I'm not sure if this is better or worse practice...
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Markets are Anti-Inductive(lesswrong.com)
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While the assumption of rational actors is a problem in Macroeconomics, I wouldn't go so far as to sat that it's a huge problem. Almost certainly the larger problems of Macroeconomics are problems of endogeneity. Problems associated with as
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I have no idea why you're being down voted. I see it as a very real possibility that there is a "C" leading to both increased TV consumption and developmental challenges, namely, poor parenting. There are statistical tools that can be used
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Which are all fine if you're using GTalk. However, if all your friends use FB chat, you're probably not going to switch. Back when I was in middle/high school, people I knew used AIM, not Yahoo Messenger, or MSN Messenger because that's whe
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I was very surprised how well this worked on my android phone. Normally these sorts of things are frustratingly worthless. Here I was able to interact almost as well on my phone as on my laptop. Color me impressed.
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I think that an individual user would be unable to modify much in the "work" partition: >> Control over apps in the "work" partition is handled by the end user's corporate IT team So maybe each time the phone checks in to the networ
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This is especially true when thinking about those reading from a smartphone... Adds a hint of irony to the piece.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I regularly only see two things that make windows 7 significantly better, and both are essentially UI changes. The first is the taskbar reorganization. It just works well for me, I like being able to pin my programs and toggle between them
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I would love something like this. Ideally, I would want something that stores all of the content in a single file/folder/partition (I don't care which) and will not render my data inaccessible if I simply copy/mirror it somewhere else. From
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by Wilduck 15y ago
This is an "AI Koan" that I've read before. I love all of these, and it's nice to hear that there's some truth to (at least one of) them. http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/s/someaikoans.html
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A huge one for me is that for some reason I can never correctly type the word "Length". As if to highlight my point to myself, I consciously thought about how to type it, and still ended up with "lenght" on the screen. Python's built in fun
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I may be crazy, but does the regularity of feedback sessions sound terrible to anyone else? I'm most productive when my supervisor let's me just code for a few days strait. I like getting feedback, but I want to have something significant t
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I had a similar response to the article, but I can see at least one reason why this explanation doesn't fit. Despite any inclinations we may have P vs. NP is still unsolved. So, claiming that a problem is in NP is "easy to check but hard to
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I was about to upvote you despite your overly aggressive presentation. However, I then saw that you are a new account with the name "econlessonbitch", which gave me pause. There are certainly some times when a throwaway account is valuable
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Well, the only methods implemented in this class are the __init__ method, which is a constructor and the __str__ method which tells Python what to spit out when print is called. Since Python has the capability of duck-typing, if I had an in
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by Wilduck 15y ago
1.7x is probably misleading here. The example in the post is less than 100 lines long, which makes it very difficult to tell how the python code could be shorter. For example, in this tiny example program he writes, the author creates a "ar
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I'd just like to note how fun the book Starting Forth is. It's a bit like The Little Lisper in that it's entertaining (there are comics), but thicker, with a fuller treatment of the material.
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I would guess it's a phishing/brute force scam, and the address change is (as mentioned in the article) just a way to validate that it worked. I would say that Apple's actions around refunds are just a simple way to make sure they don't tak
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Here's how to not make a fool of yourself on the day of your interview: Don't have the first contact with the company be the day of your interview. What I mean is, make sure that you've talked to people in the company. Like others have sugg
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Warhammer 40,000? Surely you meant to reference Isaac Asimov's Foundation? ;)
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I have a feeling that once you learn vim, you'll want this plugin, because it will be infuriating not to have it once the muscle memory is in place. However, I doubt you'll find it even remotely useful unless you've put in the time to learn
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I actually just made somewhat of an opposite transition. I've been an Emacs guy for a while, and just started using a visual IDE. There are certainly things I like about having an IDE, mostly when it comes to building projects, browsing cod
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They didn't forget it. Just use ALT.
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To me, the most important sentence in this article was actually one that seems to invalidate his main point: > I don't want to install an app for a one-time hotel room reservation Most of my time spent on my phone is spent doing mundane
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I'm fairly familiar with Python, somewhat familiar with R, and fairly familiar with Stata. The scenarios where you're doing OLS analysis can generally be broken in to two categories: 1) Exploration of a given data set. 2) Automatic collecti
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I lived in Portland for four years and loved it there. The city is wonderful for so many reasons, especially if you like good food and great beer. However, I hate to let you down, but if you've only been there a couple months, you have not
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by Wilduck 15y ago
This may not be true for every consumer, but for me, the salesperson who is most effective is the one who is willing to educate me about what I'm buying. I'm almost always willing to shell out a few extra bucks to buy from someone who has a

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