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by adg 17y ago
I sat on the homepage for a minute trying to think of something I wanted to buy. You should offer some suggestions. You're making me choose a category before I see the results? And also confusing me with text about getting spammed? I thin
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by adg 17y ago
Successful online poker players have managed to sell their e-books for nearly $1000 (see http://www.balugapoker.com/books.html or http://dailyvariance.com/let-there-be-range.html , for example). I really doubt they're doing the same volu
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by adg 17y ago
I disagree. Luck may play a role in one's success, but it's not the deciding factor. The problem is that people like to play off their success as just "being lucky". Why? Because this answer is a lot quicker and sexier than explaining to so
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by adg 17y ago
Recent, similar article with discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1042545 .
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by adg 17y ago
I didn't read the Gladwell article, but it sounds like he's a victim of hindsight bias [0]. It's easy to think that there was less risk involved when reflecting back on someone's decisions after they succeeded . [0] http://en.wikipedia.or
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by adg 17y ago
I found that paper really interesting, but didn't see multi-layered abstractions mentioned at all. It just said people must be able to deal with the "meaninglessness" of the syntax of computer programs. Anyway, I'd love to read more about t
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by adg 17y ago
The article only talks about how tuition hikes affect the very poor and the very rich. But what about the middle class? If the distribution of parental household income is normal, then wouldn't hikes significantly hurt a large portion of co
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by adg 17y ago
The author is quoting from an article he wrote in 2003.
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by adg 17y ago
I doubt anyone will have trouble finding it, but A History of Western Philosophy is actually by Bertrand Russell.
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by adg 17y ago
I really like stuff without lyrics that's fairly repetitive. Some examples: http://www.songite.com/#c1f21f .
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by adg 17y ago
Do you have any specific examples? I've been bumping up against this wall a bit lately and have never tried Debian.
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by adg 17y ago
What exactly is 'day dreaming'? The author seems to make up his own definition for it, interpreting it to include activities such as reading Wikipedia and watching YouTube videos. Personally, I find many of the tasks he mentioned too intera
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by adg 17y ago
Some people claim learning Dvorak will actually slow down your typing speed on a QWERTY keyboard. Since typing is mostly done with muscle memory, knowing two layouts creates a bit of conflict when your brain tries to decide which finger to
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by adg 17y ago
You have to realize who Gladwell's audience is. I think you're severely underestimating the number of people who have done any research into IQ studies. Now, you could argue that he is not rigorous enough in his arguments, and while this is
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by adg 17y ago
Gladwell popularized the "10,000 hours rule", but he didn't invent it. It's originally from a paper by K. Anders Ericsson on "deliberate practice" [1]. It cites a ton of other research in the area and is definitely worth reading if you like
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by adg 17y ago
Original article (with content!): http://www.ngoilgas.com/news/us-foreign-oil/ .
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There is something about this 110 MPG car that does not smell right(blogs.howstuffworks.com)
58 points by adg 17y ago|20 comments
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by adg 17y ago
I believe the proper name for it is, in fact, the "awesome bar".
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by adg 17y ago
Original blog post about it (with comments) here: http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=580 .
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by adg 18y ago
I wonder why Google isn't offering a DOM Storage implementation of this. Versions of Firefox 2 and later offer built-in support for WHATWG's DOM Storage API, which would (theoretically) allow users to have this functionality without install