brobdingnagian

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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Have enough heart to acknowledge what's going on in front of you.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I wouldn't say causes - but the statistics speak volumes. A quarter of homeless people are schizophrenic.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Right off the bat you tip your hand: you are selecting against people who are depressed. Rather than try to help them, you'd rather let them wallow in misery, fail, become unemployed, schizophrenic and eventually die homeless.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Not getting enough sleep is very unhealthy. Additionally, there is no evidence that all of the micromanagement going on in the wee hours leads to business success.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Although Wikipedia has a cabal, they try to clearly delineate how they censor material. On HackerNews, we are almost entirely in the dark: they do whatever they want with no oversight. Given that, having a conversation about censorship on F
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
It's still hypocrisy. Also, I think there are some unmoderated forums.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
My understanding is that Paul Graham personally censored this website for multiple hours per day for years, and that now there is someone else, or a small team of others, doing it.
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Discussing censorship on HackerNews does not make sense
8 points by brobdingnagian 11y ago|7 comments
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
You think that's bad? Try posting anything critical of what someone else says on HackerNews. Frankly, having discussions about censorship on this platform - including this very comment - is to be willfully blind to the kind of censorsh
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
+1
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
+1
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
What the report actually says is that the typical teen sends and receives 30 texts per day.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I agree.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
IPython Notebook can export a report to PDF with syntax highlighted code - can this?
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
nigritude ultramarine?
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
The field of computational cognitive neuroscience studies the mind as a machine learning algorithm. http://grey.colorado.edu/CompCogNeuro
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I agree - it should be fair game to discuss the interviews at that company and their hiring practices in their job posting threads.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
This app doesn't render correctly on my chromebook.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I like the name GitUp for two reasons. First, it has the meaning "get up," and second, if you say "GitUp" out loud, people would reasonably hear "GitHub," then you'd have to launch into an explanation of t
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
The end of that page says "You should use a product based on the Remote Framebuffer Protocol (RFB), such as a member of the VNC family." I'm personally using a Chromebook, and there is a VNC app that works well. The problem i
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OpenGL-over-VNC-ready GPU cloud instances
4 points by brobdingnagian 11y ago|2 comments
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
This is hand-waving.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
We can theorize all day. Where is the data? The truth is we don't know how to guarantee business success, except via shotgun techniques (funding lots of random attempts). This strongly suggests that technical debt is not that important
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Your brain has incurred all sorts of technical debt. And yet here we are. Technical debt as is typically bandied about is essentially pseudoscience, like most hard positions on software development. It's something you say to make yours
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I'm not at all convinced. If incurring a bunch of technical debt makes your company rich, then it was worth it, and it shouldn't really be considered debt.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Where is the evidence that technical debt, let alone organizational debt, is actually related to the economic indicators of success?
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Where's the evidence that your ranking of developers is causally related to failure?
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by brobdingnagian 12y ago
They are analogous, and an analogy is what we're after.
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by brobdingnagian 12y ago
Are tardigrades conscious?
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by brobdingnagian 12y ago
The mere act of asking for help can help you realize the answer. It's called rubber duck debugging. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

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