alexssung

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by alexssung 9y ago
You're gonna get downvoted, but there is truth in your comment. I wouldn't have made money with Bitcoin if I had paid attention to all the negative comments on HN. I know I know, just because I profited on Bitcoin doesn't rul
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by alexssung 9y ago
> First, because some random idiot on a blog post does not know whether the person "performed poorly at their job" in general. He just has a specific gripe. The other person might have done miracles in other parts of Cortana. T
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by alexssung 9y ago
Ad blockers are extensions to browsers. And I would actually argue that blocking before closing the tab should be a decision up to the developer, not the browser.
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by alexssung 9y ago
The difference between autocomplete=off and the rest of your examples is that there are actually positive UX use cases for disabling autocomplete on certain inputs (e.g. when you are an admin editing existing users)
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by alexssung 9y ago
Yes, the pain is only there before your nerves get burnt out, but even just a minute of being burned alive is enough to make any normal human being, including you and me, react involuntarily to the pain. And yes, I have been in high pain in
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by alexssung 9y ago
And I think I could fly, but I'm not going to try. See how that works?
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by alexssung 9y ago
It at the very least shows that mindfulness gives you more control of your reaction to your thoughts. A normal human being gets constantly bombarded by random thoughts, a lot of them negative, and it tends to affect his or her behavior. Min
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by alexssung 9y ago
No, you wouldn't be able to do that. They burn themselves to death.
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by alexssung 9y ago
Videos of monks performing self-immolation are enough proof to me. These monks practice mindfulness meditation for decades, and as a result, they have such control over their minds that they are literally able to "ignore" the pain
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by alexssung 9y ago
Meditation (at least mindfulness meditation) is meant to rid you of inner monologue though. It can be immensely helpful considering depression is often caused by constant negative thoughts.
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by alexssung 9y ago
"Since not caring enough to do the basic gruntwork associated with a decent relationship is almost always a male problem in our society," That's some hilarious hypocrisy.
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by alexssung 9y ago
I'm disappointed to see RiotJS not getting much attention lately. I've been using it for a B2B SaaS application and it has been intuitive and elegant to use, and easy to pick up for any Javascript developers. I tried learning Angu
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by alexssung 10y ago
I've never heard of death by a thousand control variables. What's exactly wrong with data controlled by relevant variables such as education, hours worked, and experience? If you find a combination of variables that reject the hyp
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by alexssung 10y ago
This has to be the worst post I've read on HN so far.
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by alexssung 10y ago
Comparing dynamic and static programming to creationism and evolution is passive-aggressively condescending and only weakens your credibility
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by alexssung 10y ago
Have you seen recently released software synths? They are much different from traditional analog synths and are capable of way more possibilities of sound. Definitely modern. I don't get why "traditional" musicians tend to di
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by alexssung 10y ago
That wasn't the point of my post. My point was that, no matter how you fudge the numbers, it's impossible to chalk up bad divorces as outliers. Outliers are defined as 3 standard deviations from the mean in a normal distribution,
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by alexssung 10y ago
Uhh considering how divorce rates are near 50%, your assumption of divorces occurring amicably as a second-most common case would heavily depend on what portion of that 40-50% _does_ actually end in a friendly manner. Let's be extremel
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by alexssung 10y ago
This. I'd like to emphasize the QA part and their using the public as beta testers (absolutely true and totally unacceptable). Microsoft's quality control on everything has been terrible lately, which is saying a lot because their
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by alexssung 10y ago
Agreed. I grew up in China for ~5 years and I felt that the cultural mindset in China does not breed creativity nor greatness. The social culture there conditions people to be conformist and one-dimensional. The censorship is absurd. People