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by dwc 11y ago
I think the median numbers (in combination with mean) would be very interesting. I am suspicious that numbers like that are not spread anywhere close to evenly through those demographic groups.
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by dwc 11y ago
I would rather not say until I've thought it out some more. A bag of mushy thoughts with a grain of truth in them would probably be provocative and wouldn't provide much utility for the CL community. Instead, here's one of th
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by dwc 11y ago
> mostly going to appeal to newcomers to CL ... you'd have to focus on attracting new users It's my observation that CL regularly attracts new users, who grumble a bit at first and then fall in love. Then they drift away to oth
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by dwc 11y ago
I'm a little surprised that there weren't more and better examples of how ad tech is misused. Also missing was any sort of vision of how things should be. It's nice to see this attitude in Ad Age, though.
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by dwc 11y ago
This parallels how I try to approach learning. For me, the "meta" idea is that I need some kind of mental model / framework before I can learn many details. Once that framework is there I can hang new knowledge on it without
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by dwc 11y ago
I'd substitute tutorials for videos . I usually avoid videos for many of the same reasons as you. But I've also taken advantage of some excellent ones.
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by dwc 11y ago
> Humans have a physiological aversion to the very idea of eating less, evolution baked it into our bones. I'm not so sure about this. I recall reading (but can't find right now) about some Asian cultures (IIRC) that find eat
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by dwc 11y ago
I study Norwegian, and I've seen some odd things like that in Google Translate. For instance, one time I translated a sentence containing a prominent Norwegian university that got translated to Princeton in English. I'm inclined t
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by dwc 11y ago
I'm a language learner myself, and I also frequent various reddit language subreddits and read all the stories of other people. My belief is that "don't have time" usually means "I've lost motivation after th
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by dwc 11y ago
> over-abstraction is not a disease that affects only OO languages Agreed, it's present in other languages and has been with us a long time. It does seem to have reached a fever pitch in mainstream OO culture. OO seems to encourage
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by dwc 11y ago
The ideas are still useful today, surprisingly often, despite Pike's quote.
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by dwc 11y ago
> Maybe you understand it because you accept sociopaths as your representatives? Now, now, let's not be like that. You do NOT have to agree with something to try understanding someone else's point of view or thought processes.
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by dwc 11y ago
There's a difference between bowing to practicality / trusting someone, and trusting everyone in the chain that gets the packets from the server to your device.
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by dwc 11y ago
For an analogy, before there was anything like modern math notation people would write out the problem and solution in plain language. On one hand, that made it very accessible as long as you knew a few terms like "sum". On the ot
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by dwc 11y ago
> Obviously they've found a loophole Yes, Apple and any number of other companies have all cleverly discovered the sneaky loophole that was created unintentionally and has been left open purely by oversight for lo, these many years.
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by dwc 11y ago
I was also wondering about the jargon angle. In my experience, jargon is also prominent on mailing lists. I don't understand what's problematic about jargon on IRC that it's true elsewhere.
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by dwc 11y ago
I agree. The whole point of dumping all these things out of your brain and into the system is so that you can let go off all that because you know it's in the system and the system works. If you're still fretting over the list of
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Experimental Meta-Programming for Lua(mr.gy)
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by dwc 11y ago
FreeBSD on the desktop used be take a fair amount of fiddling. If that's no longer true then that's awesome! :)
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by dwc 11y ago
Yes, I have. My experience was good. It's easy to install, configure, and maintain, and it's rock solid. But it's not the only tool in my toolbox.
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by dwc 11y ago
Have you tried OpenBSD for desktop? FreeBSD on the desktop is, well, a pain. Hence PCBSD. But OpenBSD is actually pretty good at being a desktop, as long as you can live without some things like Flash and other things that will never be the
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by dwc 11y ago
You're implying that OpenBSD is a toy OS. It's not. There are people using it for real work under real load. Is it the fastest? Nope. If you're spec'ing out a server and cutting edge performance is your major concern the
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by dwc 11y ago
> soon becomes a pain when you have hundreds of cards to review every day If you have hundreds to review each day then you've gone nuts adding new items too fast. I know, because I've done exactly that and have seen tons of oth
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by dwc 11y ago
It's suboptimal that you get down votes for asking an honest question hoping to understand better. I think replies to your question will give a fair number of people a better understanding of the issues.
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by dwc 11y ago
Often people also have trouble with breakfast foods. There's often no rationale for what makes an "appropriate for breakfast" food except for what you've grown up with.
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by dwc 11y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by compatibility problems. Would you elaborate, please?
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by dwc 11y ago
I pretty much stay away from all this stuff, but I keep a keen eye on it. The whole virtualization space is pretty interesting (potentially), but it seems like people aren't too clear about the different use cases. Rather, they promote
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by dwc 11y ago
Of course you could use awk or anything else, but for most tasks there are already transforms in the netpbm tools that work well. In addition to being in text format, the meta info always comes first, which facilitates streaming. That in tu
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by dwc 11y ago
From articles and interviews about the health effects of vaping, I've gathered that there are basically two distinct groups of people: 1) ordinary people, who hold views ranging from skepticism to enthusiasm, and 2) anti-smoking activi
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by dwc 11y ago
If you change "species" to "population" in the parent comment everything still works.

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