bulletsvshumans

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by bulletsvshumans 12y ago
> (a) Society is currently less stratified than pretty much any point in recorded history, so if you don't like stratification then don't complain. In terms of the share of U.S. income going to the top 10% or 1%, the data would
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by bulletsvshumans 12y ago
One problem with overlapping plots here is that it doesn't convey that we are dealing with parts of a whole. Both the stacked area chart and stacked column chart naturally relate the growth of one component to the shrinking of another
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by bulletsvshumans 13y ago
There's a semi-recent study showing that people's recollection of the material two weeks later is higher when they see a chart junk version vs. the clean chart. That's the real game changer imho.
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by bulletsvshumans 14y ago
This is listed as 'undetermined' on Snopes, for what it's worth. http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/tide.asp
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by bulletsvshumans 14y ago
Is it me or is it not possible to adjust the volume on their player? I'm using standard iPod headphones right now, and even with my system volume turned down to its lowest setting the output is too high.
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by bulletsvshumans 14y ago
I look forward to a future where many natural interactions are improved through computer augmentation. Unfortunately, for the vast majority of today's computing interactions, you need some way of conveying more information than what is natu
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by bulletsvshumans 14y ago
I'd be very interested in coming along as well, if at all possible. I'm near Michigan State often, doing UX Design at TechSmith. Feel free to email me at bulletsvshumans@gmail.com .
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by bulletsvshumans 15y ago
In my experience people like the Shadowrun game on Sega Genesis (it's one of my personal favorites actually), but not so much the Super Nintendo one. And the recent Shadowrun first-person shooter borrowed the Shadowrun branding without much
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by bulletsvshumans 15y ago
EFF?
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by bulletsvshumans 15y ago
Do they let you filter your language partners by gender? Because otherwise my girlfriend will not use this, even though she is very excited about the idea in general. She wants to work on her Hindi skills in exchange for English, but after
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by bulletsvshumans 15y ago
It would be an interesting twist if someone were to sign up an AI bot, using machine learning to work its way through the course.
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by bulletsvshumans 15y ago
So maybe one significant difference is that this time, there isn't a new frontier for people in developed countries to immigrate to.
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by bulletsvshumans 15y ago
Perhaps it's not because of technological change per se, but an increasing rate of technological change. There are new jobs, but it is becoming more and more difficult for regular people to learn the skills necessary to fill those positions
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by bulletsvshumans 15y ago
The article says that they surveyed only "ranchers in north-eastern South Africa".
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by bulletsvshumans 15y ago
Programmers that hate ads use Adblock.
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by bulletsvshumans 15y ago
We do code reviews in person, at the reviewee's workstation. It does take time, but we've found that it leads to lots of productive discussion that might not otherwise occur, and that it helps strengthen relationships between team members.
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by bulletsvshumans 15y ago
I just picked up rails for the first time this month. My background is primarily in the desktop environment, but using rails 3 has been nothing but a joy so far. Glad I didn't take this guy's advice.
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by bulletsvshumans 19y ago
w00t is no better or worse than 'yay!' (or yikes). I've also heard plenty of people (nerds) say it in real life.