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by dsuth 12y ago
This is all a little bizarre, as these are my two favourite colours, especially in combination. As a teenager getting to paint my walls my own colours for the first time, I chose orange walls with blue trim. I had not idea it was so prevale
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by dsuth 12y ago
This brings up a really interesting point - how do blind people visualise code, conceptually? When people talk about stacks, heaps, lists etc, there's generally a visual representation that goes along with it. I wonder what kind of abs
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by dsuth 12y ago
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
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by dsuth 12y ago
I was going to reply, but you said exactly what I would have. As an electrical engineer, it's been beaten into me from a very early age that my job is not to get shit done quickly, but get it done right . The client always wants thing
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by dsuth 12y ago
Or philosophers, or linguists, or arts majors. Honestly, the whole view that only programmers know how to break things down is incredibly myopic, and somewhat ironic given the topic at hand. The new literacy is the same as the old literacy.
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by dsuth 12y ago
Working consistently longer hours has been shown to be counter productive, in every study I'm aware of. This has also been born out in my role as an engineer and technical team lead managing other engineers and coders numerous times. I
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by dsuth 12y ago
I do this too, some nights (and I have young children). It's a good time to reflect on trickier emails with no time pressure. Of course sometimes I blow work off completely and hang out with the mrs, or get some gaming time. I'm v
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by dsuth 12y ago
This one surprised me least of all. The issue with upgrading these systems to newer technology, especially on general purpose operating systems, is that they're far less reliable, precisely due to the fact that they are more powerful
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by dsuth 12y ago
I thought the authors questions were pretty good, slightly less impressed with the next two (although I would also identify with the first guy more, so maybe there's something to this whole thing). The thought I came away with was that
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by dsuth 12y ago
"Even a small black hole would suck in our entire universe". Jesus fucking christ.
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by dsuth 12y ago
Women and men have distinctly different energies, even over text-based mediums. While this wouldn't necessarily stop them from doing this, it's not how I'd design the service.
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by dsuth 12y ago
Thats really not how dating works, at all. Competition spurs attraction, not the other way around.
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by dsuth 12y ago
I think what yarrel meant, is that GamerGate was always about misogynistic views and attacks, as has been described in a number of articles about its origins.
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by dsuth 12y ago
I like this answer, but sometimes I work from home. When I know this will be the case, I use dropbox to sync relevant files. I have also used dropbox in remote locations, to keep a team synced up. It works ok, but works best if you keep a s
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by dsuth 12y ago
Check out Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind for a good book on practicing meditation. It's not religious, but basically a transcript of a Zen Master's talks on zen and the practice of meditation to his group of students. It's wh
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by dsuth 12y ago
> In my experience, mobs like 4chan tend to descend on people who have high and mighty ideas of their actions. In my experience, people who defend 4chan's actions like to victim-blame. > The authors inability to empathise with
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by dsuth 12y ago
Right. Well, obviously . Off to google...
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by dsuth 12y ago
> “Privacy comes at a cost,” Uhh, no it doesn't. Not in today's world of backlash against Facebook, iCloud leaks, and NSA spying. Privacy is now paramount, and must be built into the bedrock of any system to be trusted by the p
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by dsuth 12y ago
One doesn't have to be a good teacher to make a good, free, online University. But one does need at least some content to get started ;)
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by dsuth 12y ago
That would be the point of government investment in research though - to drive commercial advantage in their country. Everyone in governmenthas an agenda; there's no free money. That leaves insanely wealthy companies or individuals wit
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by dsuth 12y ago
I think the insinuation is the Microsoft Research is beholden to business drivers, and therefore not truly 'free, blue-sky' research. That doesn't seem unfair, given the layoffs.
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by dsuth 12y ago
Exactly. Constant focus on a single thing is a recipe for burnout. 'Downtime', whether that's a hobby, exercise, cooking, or watching mindless TV, is a good thing. Humans need time to rest their brains; every person who has
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by dsuth 12y ago
Think you meant 'intertwines'. Thanks for the laugh :D
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by dsuth 12y ago
Reported death toll. The biggest cause for concern is that every story that comes out immediately starts talking about how we don't really know how many people are infected or have died, due to the distrust of the local population in m
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by dsuth 12y ago
It works in that context too. It would have to be a Small Frog (proper noun) to make sense as "green Small frog". What an interesting and unexpected thing to find on HN :D
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by dsuth 12y ago
Agreed. Anything framed as a 'debate' has only ever been two sides arguing their point, whilst studiously ignoring any potential validity in the other side's opinion. Confirmation bias is an issue, but not because of social m
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by dsuth 12y ago
We don't talk about Spore.
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by dsuth 12y ago
> It never feels like you're in a new world each time, it just feels like you're in the same world jumbled up. This was always the feeling I got from games like Daggerfall / Arena Scrolls, which procedurally generate dunge
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by dsuth 12y ago
It's not MBAs per se that get negative attention. It's MBAs with no technical background in the companies they manage, who sound (and act) hopelessly inept(ly), all the while ignoring advice from the technical people inside the bu
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by dsuth 12y ago
950+, and I also subscribe to the zero inbox philosophy :S Time to get organised (again).

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