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by braindongle 7y ago
Great work, Jake Albaugh. Needs one critical revision, though: I, V, VI, IV in major MUST NOT be allowed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
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by braindongle 7y ago
Suggest: "Things Rob Pike Attributes Go's Success to". Dangling preposition, but what we're actually talking about.
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by braindongle 7y ago
The Great and Wise Randy Marsh has said all that needs to be said about this. https://www.facebook.com/southpark/photos/a.412559132004/101...
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by braindongle 7y ago
"...They are an acceptable way to represent a data definition, but a poor way to write queries and a bad way to store object state." Rails perspective: Pump your brakes there, friend. This claim depends completely on your applicat
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by braindongle 7y ago
Thank you for the zero-indexed reference list. Brought a smile.
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by braindongle 7y ago
If you're unhappy with NYT, consider their mainstream-educated-conservative counterpart, WSJ. NYT had a porous paywall for a long time, intentionally. WSJ has always been on lock-down. In both cases, it's a strategy, not do-good
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by braindongle 7y ago
Nicely done. I wonder: what is the use case that prompted this investigation? 40-50 milliseconds is correct in terms of latency that musicians notice. If you're aiming at any realtime musical collaboration over the internet, the Big Pr
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by braindongle 7y ago
I'm coming from a web development perspective. When the browser is your gui, or your app doesn't need one, Docker (running on Linux, Mac, or, cough, Windows) just takes away your concerns about environment consistency. Like a VM,
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by braindongle 7y ago
Docker is the way. Darwin is a mess for development, but it doesn't matter. Start with a 137 MB bare-bones Debian image, add just what you need, Docker is the way.
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by braindongle 8y ago
Wet blanket researcher: No randomization, purposive sampling, high attrition, this is not great science. Doing randomized trials for this sort of thing is difficult but necessary. A correlational pre-post study is a good start!
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by braindongle 8y ago
This is the most entertaining (false) stereotype that I've seen in some time. Those artists with their big egos and weak constitutions! Makes me nostalgic. “Artists have very fine and delicate natures, they have a very delicate nervous
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by braindongle 8y ago
Woo-woo! Engineering word police, open up! "We dampen sponges. We damp vibrations."
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by braindongle 8y ago
Riders can certainly be over-concerned about weight, but uh, it is pretty important. How much to these expensive beasts weigh?
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by braindongle 8y ago
I'm interested to see what the future of the Research Scientist role is. It's basically a place for people who didn't do a post-doc and aren't bad-ass enough to not need one. And, one could argue, people who just don&#x2
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by braindongle 8y ago
...also, in a ponzi scheme there is no product. I aim to produce useful, generalizable knowledge. That's what the NIH is paying for. A valuable product.
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by braindongle 8y ago
The academic ponzi scheme thing is overplayed. I'm a Phd Research Scientist at a good school. I'm not faculty, but I have a lot of freedom and I get to do research that is fulfilling. Yes, it's a pyramid (aren't all org
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by braindongle 8y ago
Those of us in the field of psychiatric research encounter innumerable illness narratives of this sort. Everyone has their own story to tell about what went wrong and what helps. While these anecdotes may be of value to the storyteller, the
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by braindongle 8y ago
There's the convenience of these tools, then there's convenience of having a small number of non-standard tools to carry along with you, however easy that may be. For example, for any diff'ing or cat-like need, I find it SUPE
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by braindongle 8y ago
Wait. Incentive structures in academia are screwed up? No. It can't be.
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by braindongle 8y ago
I see similarities here with pharma and medical research. Conflicts of interest are endemic there, and they will be here, too, but this sort of sponsorship is inevitable. What can be done? In the case of pharma, I'm OK with them sponso
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by braindongle 8y ago
What to buy instead? My 2015 MBP has been a wonderful machine to work on, and there's no way I'm getting one of these little gray turds. So, I'll be using Ubuntu for my daily driver, which is fine. But that last generation MB
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by braindongle 8y ago
Neighbor to neighbor, not medical advice: Navigating the mental health care system in this country is difficult. From what you've described, here's what I would do: - Start with an in-network therapist. My personal bias is to look
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by braindongle 8y ago
As a person who has experience with severe depression, studying evidence-based psychiatry, and conducting psychiatric services research, I wholeheartedly endorse the advice in this piece.
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by braindongle 8y ago
I disagree. If you Google for primary literature related to Tuskegee, you will find, front-and-center, publications describing the ethical disaster that it was. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2609060&
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by braindongle 8y ago
> Facebook has acted on this and intentionally made hundreds of thousands of people fall into a depression, just to see if they could, and then they bragged about it. No, they did not. They adjusted the proportion of positive emotional e
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by braindongle 8y ago
What specific user-affecting changes would the new overlords make that suck for developers? I don't doubt that there are good answers to this. They could treat it like a cash cow and just start charging more for less, but I mean functi
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by braindongle 8y ago
All good points. The most interesting thing about Reddit to me (again, the tiny slice of it that I see, I always come in through the front door) is civility in the presence of anonymity, in 2018. "Come for the cats, stay for the empath
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by braindongle 8y ago
IMO, groupthink is worse here than on Reddit, or at least the subs I visit. Divergent thinking is often celebrated. Here it's more about convergence to the most defensibly informed perspective. I may be wrong, and these differences are
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by braindongle 8y ago
Is there a prevailing approach to thinking about (accounting for?) false negatives in ground truth data? I'm new to this area, and the question is relevant for my current work. By definition, you simply don't know anything about f
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by braindongle 8y ago
It's a bad sign when a self-proclaimed authority lifts the definition of the topic from Wikipedia. Unless said authority wrote the Wikipedia entry, in which case I humbly apologize.

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