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by arctangent 9y ago
I'm surprised that Fortitude [1] hasn't been mentioned yet. It's a fairly good TV show on this topic. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortitude_(TV_series)
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by arctangent 10y ago
I think CydeWays quoted the word "weird" so as to make it clear that they did not think that those people were weird (but that society at large does).
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by arctangent 10y ago
I don't know which article thetli8 is referring to, but this might be a good place to start an investigation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronotype > I'm quite skeptical of the concept of humans "e
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by arctangent 10y ago
I agree that Django's admin interface isn't perfect. However, it's only there to get you started - as you say, it's flexible and generic. If you have a complicated application then you should be building your own admin i
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by arctangent 10y ago
I'm working on the NHS.UK Transformation project: http://www.nhs.uk/transformation/ "We are designing a service that better connects people to the health information and services they need, when they need the
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by arctangent 10y ago
The designer producing work for my team is using Sketch and it looks really good to me.
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by arctangent 10y ago
To answer this I suspect you need to know a bit about Stewart Butterfield, who founded Slack. A very very long time ago, SB created a social game called GNE (Game Neverending). The game (and it's participants, of whom I was one) were s
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by arctangent 10y ago
This really ought to be pinned to the top of this HN thread.
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by arctangent 10y ago
I suppose the definitive example of this would be the Watergate scandal [1], which led to the coining of the phrase "It's not the crime, it's the cover-up". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergat
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by arctangent 10y ago
And of course the accusers know this - it's Politics 101. There's an old saying: "Throw enough mud against the wall and some of it will stick."
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by arctangent 10y ago
I think the gist of it was that "suffering brings one closer to God"...
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by arctangent 10y ago
> and after all that he managed to lose 2 IIRC elections!!! How is this possible? Churchill was very much a "war leader". After a period in the political wilderness, Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty at the ou
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by arctangent 10y ago
> They might as well elevate the manager offices I worked in a call centre a long time ago. At the end of each row of desks was an elevated desk where the team managers sat, precisely to enable them to watch each person on their team.
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by arctangent 10y ago
It would be extremely unusual if all people had exactly the same circadian rhythm; some variation in sleep-wake cycles between individuals would be expected in the same way as a variation in height would be expected. Wikipedia [1] says: &qu
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by arctangent 10y ago
> Such a big decision should have been a two thirds majority. If I recall correctly, all advisory referendums in the UK have been winnable by a simple majority. I imagine there would have been an outcry if the bar for leaving the EU was
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by arctangent 10y ago
I'm fairly sure that such an approach plays a part in what would be a mixed strategy approach to mitigating risk. Other ingredients to the mix would include insurance and complex financial trades (e.g. derivatives).
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by arctangent 10y ago
It's a hedge bet.
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by arctangent 10y ago
I think spacemanmatt might be implying that working in IT has a tendency to make one feel stupid. ("The more you know about IT, the more you realise you don't know about IT.") This isn't unique to IT. There are many fiel
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by arctangent 10y ago
> Jeff Bezos apparently wasn't a developer Before launching Amazon, Bezos worked at "a financial-trading company on the cutting edge of computer technology" [1]. Wikipedia says he has a degree in "electrical engineeri
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by arctangent 10y ago
Or perhaps philosophical zombies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
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by arctangent 10y ago
Ivey recently lost an almost identical case here in the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/nov/03/poker-player-l... http://www.flushdraw.net/news/eight-surprising-details-phi
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by arctangent 10y ago
> Charge daily or weekly, not hourly. This can work for the provider of a service, in certain circumstances. But my opinion is that it is always better to charge a price that reflects the value delivered, no matter how long it takes to d
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by arctangent 10y ago
Good point. Perhaps people just "feel better" (i.e. experience less regret) with the decisions/actions they would have taken anyway, if they believe they have taken those decisions/actions with the benefit of some specia
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by arctangent 10y ago
Opinion isn't as clear cut as Wiles makes out. There are definitely opposing viewpoints. This would be a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics
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by arctangent 10y ago
The original TED talk is still worth watching. Amy Cuddy is a strong communicator and lessons on public speaking can be learned from that. As for the efficacy (or not) of the "power pose", it might be worth considering that for so
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by arctangent 10y ago
The Hillary narrative would have you believe that because he is a man that he is inherently sexist. Only a woman could represent women effectively. And of course forget that Trump had a woman running his campaign and has many high-paid wome
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by arctangent 10y ago
One Reddit user has already implemented a bot which does something similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/
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by arctangent 10y ago
Parent's comment is entirely correct and shouldn't be downvoted. To learn more, read about hypergamy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy TLDR: All women seek higher status males, inevitably leading to th
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by arctangent 10y ago
It doesn't have to be this way. Unfortunately, we live in a world where younger developers "show their skill" by making things overcomplicated in order to create unnecessary barriers to entry to our proto-profession. My usual
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by arctangent 13y ago
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

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