elbenshira

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by elbenshira 16y ago
There are a ton of these out there nowadays. A lot of them are OK, but I use: http://github.com/olivierverdier/zsh-git-prompt
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by elbenshira 16y ago
I think Google released something similar a while back ago. Anyone remember the name and link?
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by elbenshira 16y ago
WARNING: this rant might sound like I hate you, but I'm really trying to help you. First of all I am a programmer. I understand your frustration at not being able to build stuff yourself. A lot of people (MBA students, engineering students)
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by elbenshira 16y ago
Aaron, how did you go about learning about programming languages implementation? I'm mostly interested if you went theory (e.g. reading a PL book) down to implementation (e.g. reading the ruby source code) or the other way around?
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by elbenshira 16y ago
It took me a while, but now one of two things happen during my naps: 1) I don't ever fall asleep. So it's mostly just resting and relaxing with my eyes closed. 2) I fall asleep 10 minutes into the 30 minutes and wake exactly one minute befo
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by elbenshira 16y ago
It's probably because you wake up when you're in REM ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_eye_movement_sleep ). The key is to wake up before you hit REM. I wake up after 30 minutes because I usually will hit REM if I nap for longer.
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by elbenshira 16y ago
We obviously won't force people to take naps, but I want an atmosphere where napping (or just resting ) is encouraged and not looked down upon. And you're right, sometimes I can't fall asleep during my naps, but that's OK for me. Then I ju
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by elbenshira 16y ago
Lose 45 minutes (30 min nap + 15 min setup/teardown) for oh so much more energy for the rest of the day? It might not work out for you, but try it for a week!
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by elbenshira 16y ago
A friend and I have this running agreement that if we ever do a startup together, we will force all employees to take a nap after lunch. As a college student, I understand how useful naps are. Students live in short bursts of concentration
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by elbenshira 16y ago
You are exactly right. Making usability and user design into a science is difficult because we'd be trying to model the human mind, which is, well, pretty much impossible. For example, in the information retrieval community, companies like
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by elbenshira 16y ago
I don't care how awesome or successful this guy is; his slides are impossible to go through. Great stuff too. Don't do a start up if: (1) you love your kids or (2) you love your spouse.
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by elbenshira 16y ago
I don't think Python is the "de facto" language at Google. They also use Java extensively. And anyways, who cares what Google uses? The OP isn't trying to get a job at Google, he's just trying to get some work done.
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by elbenshira 16y ago
Python and Matlab are two different beasts, and it's not really fair to compare both of them side-by-side. If you want to Get Stuff Done (tm), then I say go ahead and use Matlab. I've used it for computer vision projects in the past, and it
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by elbenshira 16y ago
I gave up on Digg not because of features of lack of features or power users gaming stories. I gave up because the community turned south (I don't remember when, but it was several years ago) and became a picture/video/-posting site. I used
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by elbenshira 16y ago
Can someone tell me what RubyPay was about? The (ex)founder took down everything.
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by elbenshira 16y ago
It's great that we're using iPads and technology to make textbooks interactive (and cheaper!), but shiny toys cannot fix a deeply broken system. The "boring" part of learning is always going to be there. You are always going to lose passion
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by elbenshira 16y ago
2. Anyone who believes that it is critically important to get 8 hours of sleep every night. I can get less than 8 hrs of sleep a day, but I pay for it eventually in fatigue and crankiness. My work quality just diminishes. If you
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by elbenshira 16y ago
You are right that it's easy to misuse "other cultures," but my comment comes from my experiences of living in different countries. I am not saying that one way of thought is better than the other. I just wanted people to understand that th
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by elbenshira 16y ago
I didn't mean to offend. I've worked with Indians who were punctual. In fact, I don't recall ever working with one who was not. I think parties are bit different, though. My point was to compare cultures, not to put down one or the other.
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by elbenshira 16y ago
Interestingly, this is mostly an American (and a also a Western) problem. In most of the world (South America, Middle East, Africa, East Asia, etc), "on time" ranges anywhere between 30 minutes to 3 hours later. We grade our personal produc
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by elbenshira 16y ago
I tried it for a few minutes and I love it. The oh-so-refreshing interface makes it such a joy to use. One thing: I was confused as to whether or not my searches were round trip or not. I finally realized that they were not based on (1) the
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by elbenshira 16y ago
BackType, what is the time frame for the internship position?
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by elbenshira 16y ago
Is this article satire? His "reasons" are completely invalid. >>> “Examples” of unit tests suck donkey balls every time. So lack of good examples imply that the whole system is useless? Yes, an example of "assert True" is useles
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by elbenshira 16y ago
Google Wave was ahead of its time. I'm sure Wave or something similar will show up and prove to be useful maybe five years from now.
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by elbenshira 16y ago
I went to a talk given by one of the most senior guys at Microsoft Research, and it seems that they work on interesting problems there. One of the few gems in the dark Microsoft mine, I suppose.
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by elbenshira 16y ago
I've never understood the "American dream": study hard to get a "good job" (whatever that means) to work hard to save a lot of money for a nice house and a nice family and work even harder for a nice retirement so that at the end of your pa
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by elbenshira 16y ago
What's up with all the spammy comments from fake users?
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by elbenshira 16y ago
Are you kidding me? An airport is the last place I'd want to work. Expensive and crappy food, tired and annoyed people, and the endless noise of foot-traffic and zooming carts and loud-speaker announcements make airports one of the worst pl
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by elbenshira 16y ago
Awesome stuff. Did you write a script to find all the Ask HN posts?
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by elbenshira 16y ago
I've never used a VA, but from what I've read, it seems that they can do your menial tasks for you really well (spreadsheets, basic research, etc). In other words, they offload a lot of of the stuff you have to do and let you focus on real

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