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by dood 11y ago
If used wisely, at-home coding tests should be far better than the average mess of a technical interview. The problem is in the hands of TrendCo, they can be used crudely to find the trendy hire who has the exact same ideas about engineerin
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by dood 11y ago
The suggestion to ignore academic studies of the lives of people in medieval Europe because they contradict your experience of villages in 21st century China does not make sense.
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by dood 11y ago
Things were different in the past. Most people's lives involved far more leisure than today, for long stretches of the medieval period. source: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/ho
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by dood 11y ago
I think that is a bit harsh. Some people find saving very difficult. Interest rates are rock-bottom anyway. This is a service which, for a small fee, helps you to save if you are really bad at it. It's not for me, but I can see this be
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by dood 11y ago
In my experience the double-bind is typically a result of doublethink/cognitive-dissonance, which explains why people react poorly when it is pointed out. Of your 3 solutions the first two are non-starters for me, and have found the th
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by dood 11y ago
Was a senior backend/full-stack Python developer, now considering career options, thinking about contracting or perhaps finding a remote position. On the side I'm playing with Elixir/Phoenix and working on an experimental kno
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by dood 11y ago
He isn't doing this thinking he will become The Rock. From http://rockingfor30days.com/why-im-eating-and-training-like-... "I admire that level of discipline. And want to see if I can do it myself, if only for a m
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by dood 11y ago
Personally, I've found myself sleeping better and feeling happier when I manage to stick to an early start, regardless of whether I'm working or when. For a long time I generally got up as late as I could get away with, but am now
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by dood 11y ago
Yup, they must be about a mile apart.
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by dood 11y ago
This makes a great deal of sense. How would an average dev, with experience of fixing sales/marketing/etc, go about becoming this kind of consultantant?
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by dood 12y ago
Mindfulness in Plain English is what you are looking for. You can read online but there are OCR errors: http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html - I'd recommend buying a copy.
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by dood 12y ago
Script which approximates the effect, paste into your browser's console (epilepsy warning): document.body.innerHTML = ''; setInterval(function(){document.body.style["background-color"] = 'black'; set
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by dood 12y ago
A while ago I switched to drinking plain old green tea instead of tea/coffee. Great stuff, feel clearer-headed, more relaxed, more energetic, and more productive. All of the good effects of tea/coffee, but without the unnecessary
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by dood 12y ago
This is interesting. What happens when you lose the right to the land your home or factory is built on? Are there common provisions for renewing the land-use right? Do people expect that their land-use right will be renewed?
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Google, Microsoft and Amazon paying Adblock Plus huge fees to get ads unblocked(uk.businessinsider.com)
5 points by dood 12y ago|0 comments
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by dood 12y ago
Yes, this is the source: http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=18097... It seems respectable and concludes: "Clinicians should be aware that meditation programs can result in small to moderate reducti
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by dood 12y ago
Amazingly, you have cherry-picked the part of your source that agrees with you. This is the full quote, including the bits you left you: "Mindfulness meditation programs had moderate evidence of improved anxiety... depression... and p
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by dood 12y ago
That meditation research has historically been inconclusive and of poor quality does not mean it doesn't do anything. Also, meditation research has come a long way since the studies cited in your source. Something I dug up quickly: ht
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by dood 12y ago
Reddit's source is available: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
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by dood 12y ago
I'm looking for a simple text editor for a side project. I hacked something together with contenteditable, but am quite frustrated with it for various reasons. Recommendation for a simple text editor that doesn't get in the user&#
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by dood 12y ago
Why not use execCommand?
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by dood 13y ago
Different traditions recommend different breathing techniques, but the most common teaching (that I've come across) is to not make any conscious effort to modify your breathing, instead concentrating on simply observing the breath as i
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Wizard School(steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk)
4 points by dood 13y ago|1 comments
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by dood 13y ago
I'm reminded of the origin of Youtube - loads of video startups tried a similar thing, until the underlying tech became sufficient, and Youtube found the sweet spot of product-market fit (with enough capital to run at a loss for long e
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A window to another world(adammalinowski.co.uk)
2 points by dood 13y ago|3 comments
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Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech(youtube.com)
10 points by dood 15y ago|0 comments
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What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?(edge.org)
72 points by dood 16y ago|32 comments
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by dood 16y ago
It should be noted that this is a fairly unusual practice, quite different to the more common concentration, insight, and awareness meditation systems.
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by dood 16y ago
I use the approach from "Mindfulness in Plain English" [ http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html ], where the object of meditation is your breathing, and the purpose of meditation is cultivating mindfulness. Here are the key conceptual
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Preliminary Study Shows Meditating Turns off Stress-Related Genes(abcnews.go.com)
3 points by dood 16y ago|0 comments

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