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by bd 18y ago
I find it hard to believe that consulting firms would rank so high. Also US Army at no.43?
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by bd 18y ago
Nice application, wrong workflow. You shouldn't be bugged every x-minutes polling your state constantly. It's better to track just state changes. I use a tiny free application that does exactly this, with minimum clicks needed. http://crat
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by bd 18y ago
Although without any information on the real "pink fix", this MetaFilter thread on chili peppers is quite awesome: http://www.metafilter.com/58885/Pink-fix Teaser: capsaicin works by hacking our heat and pain receptors. It's a signal, tel
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by bd 18y ago
Then it is even more surprising, at least for me. I had Russia associated with strong families, people sticking together and so on. And it doesn't even seem to be a recent phenomenon. It looks like already in 1970s divorce rate in Russia wa
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by bd 18y ago
I wanted to comment on cultural differences, though via brief googling I found out that US and Russia have actually very similar divorce rates. In both countries almost half marriages fail. Interesting. http://www.divorcemag.com/statistics
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by bd 18y ago
See also this comment about Yahoo's deployment process from the discussion here on "How do big web sites roll out new versions?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411399
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There are no mom and pop oil rigs in Norway (2002)(groups.google.com)
28 points by bd 18y ago|17 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Isn't Live.com actually composed of gazillion sites? I think Alexa counts all subdomains together. On Wikipedia there are listed more than 50 subsites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live With many of these being used directly from
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by bd 18y ago
That's true, though I would guess that for the upper echelon success you need all: luck, timing, intelligence, competence, etc. "Syndrome" just means this is a common pattern for successful people (independent of whether they are right or n
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by bd 18y ago
Ah, Atari, good times :). For me it was Adventure and Mercenary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary_%28computer_game%29
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by bd 18y ago
"Regardless of what level of success they may have achieved in their chosen field of work or study or what external proof they may have of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced internally they do not deserve the succes
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by bd 18y ago
Quickly growing shape in front of your eyes is a good heuristics to indicate that something is going to hit you in the head. Incidentally, that's why I never liked ball games.
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by bd 18y ago
It is not rarity ordering. Just ordering. Simplified view: people solve a test with a number of questions. They are getting ordered by how many questions they get right. Tests are constructed to produce Gaussian distribution of numbers of c
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Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man(ted.com)
2 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Well, it's not like developing fart application took massive amount of brainpower that was diverted from quest to cure cancer :).
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More or Less Christmas Quiz (math, statistics, puzzle)(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
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Scientists discover new forest with undiscovered species on Google Earth(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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How Much Has Harvard Really Lost?(huffingtonpost.com)
17 points by bd 18y ago|11 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Here is the original article: http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nnano....
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Carbon Nanotubes Will Rewire Your Brain, Make You Smarter(io9.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Yet it may be exactly the right advice. Sometimes you don't need to know more, you just need some good spanking :). If you noticed, the author is a professor specializing in studying procrastination: http://www.carleton.ca/psychology/facul
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by bd 18y ago
"The other surprising thing about trolls is that they tend to come from very high-achieving and wealthy families." Is it really that much surprising? Trolling would fit well with the stereotype of "spoiled rich kids". No offense meant.
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How to reduce procrastination(blogs.psychologytoday.com)
23 points by bd 18y ago|11 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Hmmm, now I realized why child psychologists still use old ratio based definition. It's just more useful for them to think in terms of mental ages. To respond to your original question, I have a hunch that intelligence variance (as opposed
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Smoother image scaling for IE6/IE7(code.flickr.com)
6 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Well, it's not even quantitative metric, it's ordering metric. Making quantitative statements about IQ is quite meaningless. It is not like height or weight. It seems to be easy to get it wrong. Even the author of the article, who studies g
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by bd 18y ago
I just checked ModelMayhem. Wouldn't their growth be explained by the fact that a significant chunk of their content appear to be naked ladies?
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by bd 18y ago
Reddit is indeed a strange beast. I was surprised when I recently found out it is not anymore one big community but instead it got fragmented into many smaller ones. People from one subreddit can be completely oblivious about what's going o
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Compromising electromagnetic emanations of wired keyboards(lasecwww.epfl.ch)
2 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Exactly. It's kind of like nuclear-test-ban once you already have supercomputer simulations that make real world tests unnecessary. After all, it's just 33 bits you need to identify a person. http://33bits.org/about/

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