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by chipuni 8y ago
I'm a US citizen. Am I "financially supporting fascists" by paying Federal taxes?
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by chipuni 8y ago
The kind of people who would ask you to break your morals are also the kind of people who, when asked for a promotion, would say, "What have you done for me lately?"
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by chipuni 8y ago
Keyboard: Advantage2 QD from Kinesis. Nicely curved, very ergonomic keyboard with all the bells and whistles; it has both Qwerty and Dvorak layouts at the start, and every key can be remapped, including to macros.
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by chipuni 8y ago
First, create CLEAR instructions that shows how to access the database from outside the company. It's best if you create a script. If you have zero tolerance for risk, then print out the instructions and a copy of the script AND put th
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by chipuni 8y ago
If you want to play on the Poincaré disk, then try the game Hyperrogue ( http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/ ). It's a Roguelike game set in this geometric world. After a while, you intuitively realize the di
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by chipuni 8y ago
Please look up what the Republicans were saying about Hillary Clinton's private email server. For years. And years.
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by chipuni 8y ago
Being in your thirties has little to do with learning. How you learn is much more important than your age. If you learn best in a classroom, you may have a local college that teaches math in the evenings. (I got my Master's in Statisti
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by chipuni 8y ago
Extremely misleading title. Kotlin is not a "new language". It already exists, and has code that depends on how it The title would be better if you had said "How Kotlin handles null references better than stock Java" or
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by chipuni 8y ago
With a title like that, the article should explore many new languages out there and what they offer a programmer. Instead, this article just answers its question with one word: Kotlin. I get it; Kotlin is easier to write in than Java. But t
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by chipuni 8y ago
I do use noise-cancelling headphones. I use some inexpensive Sony headphones that have basic noise cancelling, and they have helped a LOT in the open office.
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by chipuni 8y ago
I've found that http://mynoise.net offers better sounds for concentration than most music. Using https://brainaural.com/ with brainwaves at about 13.5 Hz - 14 Hz also seems to help my concentration. (I have
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by chipuni 8y ago
Not down any more.
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by chipuni 8y ago
I agree that using the tuning knobs was not very intuitive. I guess that you're supposed to click on the knob, hold it down, and move up or down to tune -- but there was no feedback (except from the sound, which changed slowly.)
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by chipuni 8y ago
Compare and contrast: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-20/h-1b-work... ( Hacker News discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16887739 )
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by chipuni 8y ago
Dogs understand spoken words. A few dogs figure out they can speak, too. I grew up with a Cocker Spaniel who both recognized and used "Mom". (She recognized other words, too.)
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by chipuni 8y ago
For the past seven years, whenever I learn something new, I put it into my set of Anki ( https://apps.ankiweb.net/ ) cards. Details tied to a job are tied to that particular job; when I leave, I delete those cards. Almost eve
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by chipuni 8y ago
<i>Another good example, which I recently learned about, it is against the law for a computer program to generate a medical diagnosis.</i> Here's a counterexample: https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Ne
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by chipuni 8y ago
Sometimes, "people have more dollars to spend" causes inflation. Sometimes, "reducing the number of things to buy" causes inflation. Here's an article: https://www.economicshelp.org/macroeconomics&#x
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Take any answer you get on ANY discussion with a grain of salt. Bluntly, most people will answer "The language I use." Instead, visit jobs websites with current positions. Look for software jobs. Make a list of the keywords (langu
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by chipuni 8y ago
Fifty BILLION people worldwide who suffer from neurodevelopmental disorders? BILLION?
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by chipuni 8y ago
Notice that this article was published in year 02014 (following Long Now's style.) Has there been any further work on this project?
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Weird. I've tried the 'flip a light switch on and off' in my dreams -- and the lights do go off and on. Every time. I use reading and re-reading to test whether I'm in a dream.
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The article isn't about lucid dreaming. It's about the liminal state. It can take months of active practice to have lucid dreaming. The liminal state takes about five minutes to learn. The article has a story about Thomas Edison d
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by chipuni 8y ago
Yes, this is a well-studied problem. Here is some information from SuperMemo: https://www.supermemo.com/english/ol/sm2.htm This algorithm is used in other programs like Anki ( https://apps.ankiweb.net&#x
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by chipuni 8y ago
Incuriosity. If someone thinks: I have learned enough, and I don't need to learn more, I would never hire that person.
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I use Dvorak, because it's available whenever multiple keyboard layouts are available. Be aware of a few things when you switch layouts: - You will probably lose your facility with Qwerty. If you often type on machines other than your
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Every day, I enter information using a Kinesis keyboard using Dvorak (at my desk), at a MacBook Pro's keyboard (taking notes at meetings), and using an Android on-screen keyboard. I guess that this service would only allow me to log in
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The best way to learn Japanese is to head to Japan. Good luck!
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My answer is: Unsuccessfully. A different, more useful question is: How should you deal with toxic co-workers? It depends. Here's a guideline: 1. If you can, talk with the coworker about what's making them toxic. 2. If that doesn&
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by chipuni 9y ago
I thoroughly support this way to improve your English. Tip well.

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