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by ellyagg 15y ago
Suggesting that IQ is not set in stone also implies that IQ exists. That they don't claim otherwise, and in fact show structural brain changes in accordance with the measured changes, should be well noted by folks who make a habit of discou
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by ellyagg 15y ago
When people say things like this, it sounds just a little condescending. It's not nearly as stupid as your indifference suggests. Humans are abstract thinkers. We like to generalize principles from our observations. We often live our lives
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by ellyagg 15y ago
No kidding. The emphasis on forced made it a little confusing. It seems extremely likely that the "forced" can be internal. When I'm at CrossFit, the criteria of the workout force me to exert much more strenuously than I'm comfortable with.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
The numbers you mention were for smartphones alone. The source you cite claims total iOS device install rate is slightly higher than Android.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
You too, huh? That's what I do now. Our company's been a paying user of Google's APIs for a couple years, and it's been a nightmare the whole time: Inadequate features, bogus data, weird malfunctions, etc.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Jews had a hard time getting into some Ivy league schools for a stretch, but not colleges in the US in general, c.f. elsewhere on this page. What is it with you anyway? I found your comment earlier today about "the US does it too!" re the D
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I find it exactly as fascinating as the Tea Party movement, which is to say silly and ignorant. I hate when political posts make it on hacker news with just enough hacker context to qualify under the site guidelines.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Wow, I hadn't even read this comment yet. Who is the zealot again? Everyone, EVERYONE, including you, believes uncountable things purely through conditioning, purely through repeated exposure without direct confrontation of the ideas with t
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by ellyagg 15y ago
As an atheist, I think it's pretty clear from your post that hatred and bigotry is alive and well outside of religion. You know what else is typical in religion, including Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, etc.? Tolerance, love, and generosity
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by ellyagg 15y ago
You don't think hearing Jobs and Wozniak discussing the future of personal computers would have been all that enlightening? Did you watch the linked video? Wozniak explicitly refutes you. He says they discussed personal computers extensivel
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I don't normally say things like this, but seriously, how is this hacker news? It seems more like a peevish reddit-style reaction to the Jobs articles.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
It's good for CmdrTacoMalda that he's too busy trying to get his site back up after its current HNing. Otherwise, he'd probably have time to read and be annoyed again by this comment. ;)
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Wow, as exemplified by this comment, this conversation is getting really inappropriate for hn.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I can't scroll the page with the up/down arrows. It don't get why no one mentions this. Sometimes I'm afraid they're targeting just me. Is it really the right trade-off to steal the arrow key to scroll the results with a cursor? Who uses th
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I don't know about scienctists in general, but at least in climate science it is not true that scientists rarely keep the data secret. You can review untold number of cases of this on climateaudit.org and the justifications by the stonewa
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by ellyagg 15y ago
His techniques for focusing on development tasks are also very useful. It boils down to a bubble sorted todo list, constantly refined and structured for high throughput. Do you have a reference for this? I'd love to know more.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
If it's true that the widespread HN resentment over Google Apps[1] and other issues is overblown, then you must consider that the widespread HN excitement over Circles and privacy features is irrelevant. Regular users don't care. [1] And yo
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by ellyagg 15y ago
It's unique now, but people are cost/benefits calculators. Right now, most people do not think that they could become among the best at something through a definite and discrete amount and type of training. If someone succeeds in a highly p
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by ellyagg 15y ago
If a random guy with no prior training became a PGA Tour golfer with 10,000 hours of deliberate practice and it was not considered highly persuasive because it was "just a single data point" then I'd suggest our methods need revisiting.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Good point. I'm an atheist, but it always makes my blood boil when atheists apply false moral equivalence between the effects of different religions, as if all religions have equally bad consequences.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
You probably thought that because it's uncommon in good writing and you're taught not to do it. It's probably against style guidelines for major newspapers, for example, and it sounds elegant to educated native writers.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Ok, but being less enthusiastic than baseline doesn't mean "I'm secretly holding back negative thoughts about almost everything". I'm less enthusiastic than baseline, but it's not because I look upon everything around me as distasteful or l
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by ellyagg 15y ago
This is an interesting and useful perspective, and it's not the first time it's come up on HN, but it's unfortunate that it doesn't draw any thoughtful criticism. This advice is best when one is implicated or thinks there's any chance they'
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by ellyagg 15y ago
What do you mean "again"? That's your scenario and it and even its variations are rare. In the likely scenario, you stand out like a sore thumb every single time. Whenever this comes up on HN, I find the pattern of comments to be a little
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by ellyagg 15y ago
They make a lot of money out of the mileage they get for their reputation for "goodness". Everyone needs to understand that Google doesn't make selfless decisions, like you understand it. Without pointing out these examples, people will con
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by ellyagg 15y ago
And that's fine. And Google's reputation for the morality of its decisions should be equivalent to Apple's in that case, as well. But it's not, and that's the reason to point out issues like these, to puncture the undeserved "goodness" repu
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I think the criticism here is hypocrisy. Google has a reputation of being extremely honest, open, fair, what-have-you. This reputation is exemplified by their offering a an initial choice in other markets. But, as this example illustrates,
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Target.com doesn't ship outside the US: http://www.target.com/HelpContent?help=/sites/html/TargetOnl... The USPS has an authoritative package of zip info including cities: https://www.usps.com/business/address-information-systems.ht...
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by ellyagg 15y ago
He was also comparing to CoffeeScript, and sadly there's no way to do it there. This is the one feature that keeps me from using CoffeeScript, the lack of REPL integration--I have no idea how other people do without MozRepl or SwankJS or so
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by ellyagg 15y ago
You can actually view the live Trello Development board itself here: https://trello.com/board/trello-development/4d5ea62fd76aa113... I'm impressed they're so transparent with their development process.

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