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by dwc 13y ago
Uff! Min paranoia fortalte meg å slå av automatisk opplasting. Jeg er veldig glad jeg gjorde.
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by dwc 14y ago
I think that's largely true, but doesn't speak to whether meditation is actually worthwhile. And I'd think it's less true for people here. For myself, I never tried it until I started hearing of studies. After that, I found some nice secula
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by dwc 14y ago
I frequent some online meditation communities, and I've seen people reporting adverse effects, ranging from extreme detachment in everyday life to odd physical reactions. If it's not too personal... What's the harmfulness your wife has expe
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by dwc 14y ago
I'm sorry, but that's just hilarious, as in absurd. You might as well throw out mathematics because so much of it originated in India and China. I'm a skeptic myself, but that cuts both ways.
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by dwc 14y ago
Yes, that kind of focus, or 'being in the now' is an example of mindfulness. It's great, isn't it? The idea of meditation is to exercise that ability so that you can bring it to the rest of your life. Ideally, you should have that state in
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by dwc 14y ago
This isn't a clear cut line not to be crossed. It's a matter of personal ethics. There are times when you do something differently precisely because you think it's a better way and gives your company and your customers an advantage. When
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by dwc 14y ago
> One could easily poke holes in this complaint; the characterization of PAM as "modern" is somewhat amusing; it is 1990s technology. There is an evident case of cognitive dissonance shown in the simultaneous desire for the comfortable
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by dwc 14y ago
Perhaps a better title would have been "Science versus gun violence research: why would we expect meaningful answers?" Given someone with critical thinking skills who is well versed in scientific methods, they would quickly move to asking
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by dwc 14y ago
I've read the book (and TTL Cookbook, of course) and met Don Lancaster a couple of times at social gatherings. I think the biggest message of this book is how to bootstrap yourself in making money doing something you love to do. This book i
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by dwc 14y ago
With decades of experience, my lack of a degree isn't a large problem. But let's be clear that many companies will cull my résumé in the first pass. I'm fine with that, as I'd rather work for people who pay more attention. When I was youn
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by dwc 14y ago
> software for Linux Er, no. Happens to run on Linux, as well as other Unix-likes. Ordinarily this would be a nitpick, but not in the context of Uriel.
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by dwc 14y ago
When we got first light on LROC, pretty much everyone on our team looked over images like crazy. The PI was a madman in that regard. I imagine that some person spotted this.
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by dwc 14y ago
No, I think there's a valid point. The difference between a mild interest and a passion is precisely how much attention and effort you devote to it. When I was young, computers at home were quite rare. But once I was exposed to them I was h
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by dwc 14y ago
凄い！
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by dwc 14y ago
I agree that it should work as you describe. But there's always a danger of courts making a broad ruling. The norm seems to be for content purveyors to push for a broad ruling, as it's in their business interest. Edit: the particulars of
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by dwc 14y ago
Once you buy something, why would you need the original seller's permission to import it? I find myself personally concerned: I am studying Japanese and there is a paucity of media (books, video, et al) available in Japanese in my country.
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by dwc 14y ago
I've tried and failed to use to-do lists off and on over many years. Now I'm using the ultra simple Reminders app that comes with iOS, and it's working for me. The only good thing about the app is the complete lack of features, and that it'
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by dwc 14y ago
You are right that #2 is well served by exceptions when done right. It's also well served by checking locally and returning your own error status. Both ways can be done well. IME exceptions tend to pass the buck to the caller when they sh
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by dwc 14y ago
I've also noticed and observed this for a long time. There seem to be a lot of "this isn't new" and "who are you to say what's interesting" comments here, but they are wrong and I can tell you why... As we all do, I know people in person wi
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by dwc 14y ago
This only makes sense some of the time, like in your OpenBSD example. Native compile for an embedded app brings much less benefit and significantly more pain.
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by dwc 14y ago
If you're estimating it's 25-50% done, then it's almost certainly 25% done or less, counting the rewriting/restructuring. Just pick how you would write it if you were doing it from scratch. Honestly. Really. Whenever I've been wrong about t
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by dwc 14y ago
While what you say is true, GHC is the de facto Haskell standard. At least the last time I looked, most widely used and well respected Haskell code would only work in GHC using various extensions. That's the actual state of Haskell: GHC
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by dwc 14y ago
The article is a bit mixed. The valid complaint of pull requests v. send-email is fairly important. The rest of the complaints aren't well thought out, and seem to be pure whinging.
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by dwc 14y ago
> It's basically a chicken and egg problem that needs some established company to make a big bet on Linux to initiate change. Yes, this. That company may or may not have to take a monetary hit to do so, but I can see it happening at s
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by dwc 14y ago
> That there are very few preinstalled Linux options is the reason it hasn't taken off commercially. There's a lot of truth in there, but also some complex reasons why that hasn't yet come about. A fairly large part of the problem is
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by dwc 14y ago
I have this pre-ordered there. I just checked now, and it says it's available for pre-order. See http://www.amazon.com/Measurement-Paul-Lockhart/dp/067405755...
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by dwc 14y ago
I've had this on pre-order for about two months, and it'll be a little like Christmas morning for me when it finally arrives.
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by dwc 14y ago
If we ever plan to have an extended presence in space then examining artifacts left on the moon would be very informative. We left a lot of machinery up there, exposed to the vagaries of space for 40 years. There's a lot to be learned from
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by dwc 14y ago
For those interested, here are some of the underlying posts on the LROC site itself... 1. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/620-Questi... 2. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/619-A-New-... We have a huge
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by dwc 14y ago
These considerations certainly exist in every day code as well. If you change the daily reporting process to have a worst case run time of 25 hours then you lose, even if the mean run time is cut in half.

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