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by doorhammer 11y ago
Yeah. Definitely. Usually part of the fun for me is finding a used book store wherever I'm at and exploring it. That was particularly interesting in Thailand, because one of the shop owners wanted to talk about buddhist philosophy and
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by doorhammer 11y ago
This is almost an aside, but you should take a look at some of the stuff that comes out of Microsoft Research. They employ some of the biggest names in Haskell (Simon Peyton Jones for one) and have done some really interesting and bleeding
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by doorhammer 11y ago
It was funny to me, because I immediately liked the second version most, but implemented as as function that takes the range of numbers I want to use. The only reason I liked that version more is because it "solves" common "
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by doorhammer 11y ago
This isn't terribly profound, but I think I just like to read books in different places. I enjoy it; it feels satisfying. The volume on that seems to edge up when I'm in a really different location, like another country. That&#
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Warning: I only glanced through the code real quickly, so I haven't checked to see if this has unintended side effects to the game logic, or to make sure it's a complete solution. It looks like there's a variable that control
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I don't think the parent is saying that the title is definitionally/grammatically incorrect. I think they're saying that it's not the typical/idiomatic use of the word when used in the context of a GUI. I got the
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I immediately though "Man, has hacker news always been so angular? Wonder if styling changed... my task bar seems harder too... wat" Really interesting effect
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I used to buy one powerball ticket a week. About ten guys at work would pool together and buy ten tickets on the pretense of splitting it if we won. We saw it pretty much exactly the way the article described. There'd almost always b
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by doorhammer 12y ago
If you want to see similar technology that's being used now, check out the Leap Motion being used with the Oculus Rift. They mount it on the front. I've personally only got experience with the rift (I have a DK2), but I've
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Yeah. Implicit bias is tough. For anyone interested, there's a quick rundown here: http://med.stanford.edu/diversity/FAQ_REDE.html
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I should have said "there's no data you're presenting to support this claim." The problem I have is with phrases like "I would bet there is" or "I assume those blacks [with white sounding names] are more l
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by doorhammer 12y ago
> No I'd really encourage you to read it an other articles on implicit bias; they're really important issues that have disastrous impacts. > I'm pretty sure that if you run statistics, you would find out that people fro
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Yeah. This is anecdotal, obviously, but I always tip online and tip pretty well. My pizzas always seem to get here as quickly as when I tipped in person, and the drivers have thanked me specifically for it a few times. Be an interesting t
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Throwing in another two cents here. I'd say I lean toward introversion, though I've tried to spend a lot of time learning to engage in social situations, and do fairly well. I've been a full time trainer, and participated in
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I think people are downvoting you because you're post reads something like, "This is neat, but useless and it's been done before." Fwiw I didn't downvote you, but it'd probably be taken better if you just said
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I should also say that I think whether or not upvoting and downvoting should have guidelines is largely a choice about what kind of community you want to create. If you provide guidelines, you're prescribing the behavior you'd lik
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Yeah. I think the real answer to "where is an upvote defined" is that it isn't, and there are probably good reasons for that. I try to ask "does it add information to the conversation?" and upvote or downvote based
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Yeah, this is how I generally approach it. I don't care if I agree with someone. I just want them to provide more information and add some value to the discussion. If the information is invalid, I just do what I can to provide counte
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by doorhammer 12y ago
The question I'd have about a downvote being opposite of an upvote is what is an upvote supposed to be for? I mean that as an honest question. Is it because it's something I like? Is it because I think it adds value to the conv
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I've only read about half of the article so far, but it's pretty clear they're not talking about people the US wants extradited; that's a completely different story. These are activists who ostensibly haven't commit
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I'd really like to get a surface pro 3 at some point for on the og type stuff. I really like literally sketching things out and when I tried the surface at best buy I loved the feel. I'm doing a lot to learn higher math that I nev
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Yeah, I'll have to look into it. I assumed you could take the course, but I didn't know if you'd need to be sponsored by a company or anything like that. I don't know that I'd see it as a waste of money. I just li
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Ohhh, yeah. Sorry. I reread what I said and realized I expressed myself really poorly. I'm interested in taking the course without getting a job doing it, not the other way around. I was wondering how much it was to take it on my
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Interesting; I wish I'd known about this a few years back. Might have been a better option than moving companies and gas stations. But really, my friends and I used to do a lot of building climbing for kicks when I was younger (probab
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I'd say it's a fascinating social manipulation, but mostly it just satisfies my own intellectual curiosity. The HN guidelines on what to submit: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Yeah, I agree. This wouldn't work in most companies because that's just not the culture, but like you said, I think there's definite value in it. You also have to deal with people perceiving your optimizations as a threat to
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by doorhammer 12y ago
Nice! Yeah, I've done the excel bit with \n and \t as well. I have a little text-munging javascript app I wrote for splitting and merging things in certain ways. I also use the excel -> db route a lot, but I'm working with MS
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I think my favorite two examples of getting more out of my computer lever are Sikuli Script and Sublime Text multiple cursors. Sikuli Script lets me script almost anything that has a visual element/gui. I've been able to automate
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I think the example is apt enough for the situation of "repetitive tasks which humans are terrible". I agree that additional more complex examples might be interesting, though. It seems that there's always going to be a slidi
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by doorhammer 12y ago
I'm wondering about the user specific dictionaries and whether or not adoption would be aided by the communities trying to define sets of standard dictionaries that seem to be particularly efficient and effective at different tasks, li

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