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by bcbrown 12y ago
I use a rowing machine. When I'm relatively untrained, I start with rowing at a steady rate, working up to 20 minutes. Then I add in HIIT, starting at 20 seconds work/ 40 seconds recovery. When I can do 6-8 intervals, I'll ch
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by bcbrown 12y ago
Everything works. HIT works. Riding your bike once a week works. Walking every day works. Taking up tennis, or soccer, or frisbee works. The point is, short-duration studies on the untrained provide little to no information. It would have b
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If something can neither be modeled nor observed, in what sense does it exist?
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We can observe processes that rely on lack of observation in the microscopic world. Look up the one-slit and two-slit experiments[0]. In the two-slit experiment, we don't observe which slit the photon takes, but we can observe the inte
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by bcbrown 12y ago
An interesting assertion. I don't think it's valid to object that this is just about hard-to-solve equations. As I understand the article, this is the argument: 1) It's not possible to directly observe a macroscopic quantum o
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If they bumped the numbers up $50k and advertised that, I bet they'd get a lot more applications, assuming they're in a tech hub or allow remote work.
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That's exactly why it was chosen.
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If you can get a naive n^2 solution, or build a complicated nlgn solution, and you know the size of the data will be ~100 items, certainly never >1000 solutions, I'd choose the naive solution. Edit: and it's not in the middle o
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by bcbrown 12y ago
I'd love to see a page that just had the "What is $STARTUP_NAME" responses for all the startups. Some way to easily browse and discover. A grid of logos and names really doesn't allow me to anything other than jump aroun
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I take D in the wintertime.
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My thinking on vitamins is governed by several principles: The data is inconclusive As a recreational and occasionally-competitive athlete in powerlifting, my vitamin requirements are likely abnormal, especially during intensive training Me
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by bcbrown 12y ago
What I do is write down ahead of time 10ish questions, then ask each one of 2-3 interviewers. That will usually lead to one or two follow up questions, and that's about enough. Yes, all-day interviews are grueling, but with preparation
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by bcbrown 12y ago
I feel like I have a disincentive to share salary info with recruiters - they'll just give that to the company for whom they are soliciting me. I know that's less true in the agency model you've talked about before. What&#x27
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by bcbrown 12y ago
>Every call with the recruiter was more painful than the last Why did you continue to work with that recruiter after the first call?
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by bcbrown 12y ago
>QA is making sure things work as designed. That is why I don't like describing the Test discipline as QA. It's not QA. When I worked in Test, I viewed my role as making sure things work well for the user, which includes '
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by bcbrown 12y ago
I just turned 31 last week. Life has been getting better every year. Work is more fulfilling, my skills are improving, my social life is good, and I'm finding new hobbies and pursuits to explore and learn. What I notice in what you wri
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by bcbrown 12y ago
You look at it.
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You can click through to the comments, and upvote from there.
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Those are bunk. The cooling power of ice comes from the phase change from solid to liquid, which absorbs a ton of heat. The temperature change from 25 to 32 degrees Fahrenheit is minor in comparison. Whiskey stones do not change phase, and
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by bcbrown 12y ago
Fantastic advice. As a software developer, this is how I'd like to be recruited. A strong signal for me is when the first contact contains: a personally crafted appeal (why specifically are you interested in me?), a "technical vi
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by bcbrown 12y ago
I would suggest attending talks and meetups, where companies sometimes discuss their architecture.
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A summary: They use the bag-of-words model with stopwords and stemming, and compute document vectors, where each word is a dimension, and the weight is the TF-IDF value for that word. The metrics covered: Euclidean distance, cosine similari
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by bcbrown 12y ago
Yes, but the visualizations I programmed started with http://polygeek.com/images/chaos/fig_01_BifurcationGraph.png
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I've loved complex numbers since first learning about them, and my first significant programming experience was writing these types of programs for my TI-89 graphing calculator in high school in the late 90s. This is a good introductio
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No, there is plenty of criticism internally. It's just not criticism about the same sort of thing. It's more political than technical/product. Frankly, I don't think my friends who work on Windows Phone realize that it&#
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It looks like the purpose of the article is to explain why it's not a big deal that the company's database solution doesn't support auto-incrementing primary keys.
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I'm not, in that at work I use a Mac. I write Java server code for web servers and batch data-analysis, deployed on Linux boxes. A significant portion of my time is spent either ssh'ed into a Linux machine, or using the various Un
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I feel similarly, and seriously. It's not so much just the usability of the command prompt, but that it would be a symbol of a change in priorities towards adding functionality for developers, and welcoming non-Windows technical audien
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The "other side" of those bits is paying their internet service provider. They pay their ISP, you pay your ISP, why should they also have to pay your ISP?
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From the phys.org link in a sibling comment: "It’s difficult to determine their exact source as the magnetic fields of the galaxy and the solar system alter their trajectories so that they end up having a uniform distribution in the sk

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