ergothus

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by ergothus 8y ago
> Good criticism is a lot of work Bingo - Good criticism is a matter of considering how it will be taken, because you aren't feeling good about the criticism itself, but rather the results you are trying to achieve. Bad criticism
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by ergothus 8y ago
> I feel good when I help someone. I feel good when I have made a great project. I feel good when I made a good decision. Those are all good things to feel good about. You're feeling good about the results, not the criticism. If y
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by ergothus 8y ago
> I recall the moment’s emotion: I felt I was performing a good deed, being helpfully clear and honest, I know this emotion well - it has led me to any number of problems. Some cases where in retrospect I was being a self-indulgent jerk
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by ergothus 8y ago
When I was a young kid, my mom once told me that she never wanted to hear of me committing a crime I couldn't retire on. She doesn't remember saying it, this was an offhand statement when we saw a news item about someone stealing
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by ergothus 8y ago
In the video we see many people stealing from porches with video cameras, and the author mentions that the police didn't take action even with video evidence. While I think your suggestion would reduce the chance of theft, I think you
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And yet the article mentions distilled OR saline, which definitely raises the question. If I wake up feeling like crap, it is far easier to use a salt packet than to go to the store for distilled water. The article implies that is fine (bu
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm not sure if I'm countering your point or supporting it, but I think a better example than trees is to point out how human cultures bear (and arguably, exist as different entities because of) after effects of events beyond the
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For areas where occasional failure and/or occasional required provider changes are tolerable (basic education, for example, may not qualify as one of these): competitive market > govt control > uncompetitive market to be more rea
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I recall reading an article many years ago that said that a repeated pattern in history is that an oppressive government attempts to be somewhat less oppressive, but this creates a feedback loop where being less oppressive creates self-awar
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Those are not my recollections. Yes, we GenXers had "oh, what will we do with them" articles, but the tone and acrimony were different, and faded quickly once GenXers hit 30, whereas the Millenials are definitely into their 30s a
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by ergothus 8y ago
> What does “global level peace” mean? I've often read that we're at an extended level of peace between major powers that is basically unprecedented. While we still have too much violent conflict all over the place, it's
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by ergothus 8y ago
I appreciate the response, but this is exactly the viewpoint I'm trying to evaluate. Yes, every generation has good/bad. That in no way means that each generational conflict is roughly equivalent. I mean, I don't think MY
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by ergothus 8y ago
First, we get articles blaming Millennials for things. Then, as people start to push back (prior to this article), we have off-hand mentions that every generation blames the younger/older generation. But is this really equivalent? My
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm not anti-arbitration...I'm anti-FORCED-arbitration. I have suspicions about the incentives and stances of the arbitrators vs the law, but I'm not well-versed enough to state those with confidence. Almost everything you sa
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by ergothus 8y ago
You're correct, it does not work as I describe. My description of the problem was just wrong, so thanks for pointing that out. However, it doesn't work the way it used to either. I get frustrated once or twice a year about this,
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by ergothus 8y ago
Perhaps I'm not average, but I certainly liked the ideas of separating my posts to family, close-friends, friendly-friends, and work-friends! Not because of secrecy, but just to be relevant/inoffensive. Not to mention people wh
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by ergothus 8y ago
> we have no evidence I know you can't say "no one did", but I wish announcements like this gave some level of confidence. "All API calls are logged and no 3rd party made calls that exploited this vulnerability"
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by ergothus 8y ago
It's not really "term" - at least, it can't handle multiple words. "foo bar" is actually treated like "foo" "bar", which is far less useful than it once was.
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by ergothus 8y ago
A bacteria replicates at a much smaller rate than a virus. A virus requires a cell to replicate, bacteria require a much more limited range of hospitable environments. Both bacteria and viruses "attempt" to create exact copies, ju
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by ergothus 8y ago
A few questions: * Do we have a good grasp on the number of prions in the world? My recollection from when MadCow became a big thing in the late 90s was that prions weren't even looked for and were hard to find as a general rule, but
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by ergothus 8y ago
> fearing that fire will evolve. Well now I have new nightmares... :) But in seriousness, I don't know much, but I believe that protein-folding is a hugely complicated problem that still lies at the edge of our understanding, theref
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by ergothus 8y ago
Can you explain why? I'm not saying this is wrong, but they definitely replicate (by encountering and warping other proteins), so are you (and grandparent) saying that the replication rate is too slow? If so, why? Are you saying we
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by ergothus 8y ago
I like your viewpoint, but my experience with GUIs was largely that THEY hid power...from me. Any setting that could only be managed from within a GUI meant automation was pretty much off the table (and by "automation" I mean any
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by ergothus 8y ago
I don't disagree...but then we need to follow politics and make reasoned decisions as to who to elect to do a good job representing our interests. When we get too comfortable that things will remain the same level of corruption and ef
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by ergothus 8y ago
> anything invested in a young employee was just investing in the company itself. We often discuss the modern lack of perks you listed, but we rarely discuss this consequence. I recently left a tech company and was surprised when engine
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by ergothus 8y ago
> should put a fresh breath of life into Minecraft for sure If you mean "new options from a different group", then yes. If you mean "Minecraft has gotten stale and this will pep it up", then no. Minecraft has a very
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by ergothus 8y ago
I think you underestimate the various causes for willful ignorance. It is very easy for a tiny human to assume the planet is huge and little the human can do will be significant. Ask a human to imagine 100,000 people and they are already o
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by ergothus 8y ago
As a vegetarian that actually doesn't like many vegetables (I don't like bell peppers, for example, which severely limits my options) and who was a huge carnivore before going veggie ( and with more than one hunter in the family):
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by ergothus 8y ago
This advice ("avoid unspecified pronouns") also applies to communicating in text, period. SMS, IRC, Slack, in all of them you can avoid a lot of confusion by being clear in your nouns. BAD: "We're hooking up the refresh
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by ergothus 8y ago
When I was a younger developer, I did an interview for a contractor and while the candidate was okay, I wasn't convinced (basically he hadn't shown any reason NOT to hire him, but he hadn't put himself in the MUST HIRE catego

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