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by flashman 11y ago
A situation I've found myself in before: asking our devs why the site is broken, only to find it's my overzealous script blocking.
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by flashman 11y ago
It would definitely change. For instance I'd expect Kyle's words-per-sentence (or at least his 90th percentile sentence length) to be higher than Stan's, due to his speeches.
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by flashman 11y ago
Diversity isn't about telling white males to step back. It's about encouraging other types of person to step forward, and creating an environment that welcomes and values them.
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by flashman 11y ago
> If you see someone say "slut" or "bitch" in hipchat or whatever, I would try to ignore it and get to a point in your career where you can set the culture if you disagree with it. The standard you walk past is the st
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by flashman 11y ago
Maybe farmers have to dowse for water because they're looking at a huge drop in rainfall due to climate change: http://www.vegetableclimate.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/C...
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by flashman 11y ago
Don't worry, the head of CSIRO is "interested in the development of technology that would make it easier for farmers to dowse or divine for water on their properties."[1] That's right, the head of our national scientific
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by flashman 11y ago
Did not know that. Our company gets deductions for R&D spending, which is sort of like investment.
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by flashman 11y ago
Property is an investment. Can you get deductions for other types of investments?
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by flashman 11y ago
It boggles my mind that Facebook blocks message text between mutual friends. This could admittedly be useful for stopping hacked accounts from exploiting your trust to make you click bad links. But it should be enough to display a warning m
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by flashman 11y ago
509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded, here's a mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20160204103028/http://jessicaabel...
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by flashman 11y ago
Australia's also committed to buying 72 - seventy two! - F35s, as part of the block buy program mentioned in the article. Sure, it arguably helps keep prices down, but the ongoing integration and support costs for foreign buyers pose a
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by flashman 11y ago
Just on the SAHD point: make sure you can get blocks of guaranteed uninterrupted working time. My experience of working at home is that it's very, very difficult to achieve anything when switching between Dad and Worker roles, and kids
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by flashman 11y ago
Then there's Rumsfeld Solitaire, in which upturned cards are known knowns, downturned cards are known unknowns, and unknown unknowns, which are cards slipped into or removed from the deck.
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by flashman 11y ago
Just heart rate - I believe it's logged at 5-second intervals during rest, and 1-second intervals during physical activity. I'm trying to get Python Fitbit working to download my HR data but am having API issues: http:/&#x2F
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by flashman 11y ago
Speaking of analysing large numbers of health trackers, there was that time Jawbone used its data to figure out which areas were woken up by an earthquake: https://jawbone.com/blog/napa-earthquake-effect-on-sleep/
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by flashman 11y ago
> Getting a puppy Yep looks like my 'parenting two kids under 3' sleeping hours. > It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?" My resting heart rate went up 15% wh
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Detecting Match-Fixing Patterns in Tennis(github.com)
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by flashman 11y ago
"trendy with hipsters out-of-touch with reality" If only you knew some actual Etsy users. Many are suburban mothers that like to craft.
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by flashman 11y ago
My wife does papercraft with a Brother ScanNCut, could she use this to pack her designs more efficiently? The machine apparently does this packing but not well... maybe you could sell them know-how.
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by flashman 11y ago
You can upload them to redbubble.com and set your royalty to 0%.
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by flashman 11y ago
> Work weeks of 50, 60, or more hours are common at companies in the area, and even more so at startups. To be a little glib: is that just something you've resigned yourself to because you think it's inevitable?
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by flashman 11y ago
I got 'page not found' and had to go here instead: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/pinterest-worth-11-billion...
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by flashman 11y ago
Perri-air? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiabeNR_q0U Actually, a Chinese entrepreneur started doing this in 2012: http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/09/18/china-is-now-selling-c...
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by flashman 11y ago
Ah, while I was writing my response you said the same thing a lot better. I think any alternative to ProductHunt still needs an editorial team of some sort. But the fix could be as simple as changing PH to include 'staff/influence
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by flashman 11y ago
This seems like an unnecessarily negative way to pitch a positive service: * anyone who missed the story on HN today would have no idea what this was about, * leading with accusations that PH is an "elitist/bro community" is
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by flashman 11y ago
> http://top.hatnote.com/ Wow, it's like a window into the zeitgeist.
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by flashman 11y ago
I wonder if you could use this principle to treat people who've just suffered a traumatic experience? Give them a task that requires inhibitory control, and perhaps they won't commit as much of the traumatic experience to memory?
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by flashman 11y ago
> These people really need ad salesmen to turn their channels into real businesses. That's what multi-channel networks[1] are all about. MCNs build a roster of marketable talent and (the best ones) work out things like ad sales, pro
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by flashman 11y ago
> But by a reasonable standard this is not an anticipated event. It might not apply in this case, but there is a legal doctrine called the "Eggshell Skull Rule"[1] which roughly means you're responsible for any outcomes of
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by flashman 11y ago
"Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like small children playing with a bomb." A bomb is dumb, its explosion just raw chemistry. I would argue we're like small children playing with a sleeping pare

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