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by freyr 13y ago
I've noticed the same thing with Apple's Messages. Sometimes messages arrive on my phone, sometimes on the Messages application on my laptop, sometimes both. Even when a message arrives at both locations, there's often a sign
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by freyr 13y ago
> Didn't the fact that I already wrote that "Twilight is targeted at teenage girls" stop you from writing all those dreadful "counter-examples" No, merely reference Twilight is not enough because in majority of
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by freyr 13y ago
Right. You're the center of the universe. And "Gilligan's Island" was made for people stranded on desert islands. "Taxi" targeted that coveted taxi driver demographic. "That 70s Show" targeted time-tr
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by freyr 13y ago
>> It has been called "referential humor", but I don't think it should be classified as humor, although for some people it seems to be a completely satisfying humor surrogate. You're just completely missing the poi
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by freyr 13y ago
I don't know anything about 10x engineers. I know about 1x engineers, maybe 1.5x engineers. And I know about 0.1x and 0.5x engineers. They're the engineers who scraped by in college, whose heart isn't in it, who clock in and
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by freyr 13y ago
I hate to cast doubt on the guy, but he seems to have based the entire article on his own personal experience. So we have one side of the story from the most partial participant. Despite claiming to have approached the problem scientificall
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by freyr 13y ago
The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) awards the top performers of the Uniform CPA Exam each year, and has since 1923 when the Elijah Watt Sells Award was established. The criteria for winning has changed over the years, but last year, for
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by freyr 13y ago
Your examples would probably be more effective if you chose companies that didn't die and fall off the map. In fact, it's been suggested that Facebook's clean and simple design gave the site an edge over Myspace's garish
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by freyr 13y ago
> This sounds a lot like you are telling us what you value in life. That's true, just as you're telling us what you value in life (e.g., the opportunity to learn to learn). However, I'm suggesting that it's be benef
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by freyr 13y ago
If you want measurable results, just start measuring your results. You just need a pad and pencil, and it won't cost you $150 to $200 per month in membership dues.
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by freyr 13y ago
Wrong, it's extremely important. You're devoting the next 5+ years of your life to a single task. You're forgoing your programmer salary for the next 5+ years, which could easily add up to $300k - $500k in opportunity cost.
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by freyr 13y ago
Yes, and the med school student will earn substantially more than the PhD student (or the PhD degree holder) after completing med school. So there is significant financial incentive to finish the degree (which has likely put the med school
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by freyr 13y ago
There are many studies. Here's one: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=185157 This study found that SSRIs provided little to no benefit over placebo for patients suffering from mild to moderate depressi
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by freyr 13y ago
>If the drugs had no effect, then why are people (ab)using drugs like Adderall to improve cognition, etc? Placebo effect is certainly an effect. But the claim is not that the drugs don't have an effect (though it's true, some
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by freyr 13y ago
>> Greenspan is not alone in his thinking that STEM worker salaries should look a lot more like non-STEM worker salaries. In March, over “100 executives" [wrote an open letter begging Obama to increase the number of H1-B visas]
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by freyr 13y ago
It entirely depends on perspective. When I moved from the west coast to the east coast after completing a STEM PhD, my perspective changed completely. My girlfriend worked for a hedge fund, where her co-workers and bosses received bonuses t
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by freyr 13y ago
> In fact, most leaders — whether in politics or business — fail. There's a sentiment here that leading a complex organization (or even a team of complex humans) would be easy , if only all leaders were competent. In my experienc
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by freyr 13y ago
> It sounds like you've lived life very much on your own terms until now, It sounds like he's getting his very first dose of reality, and it's putting him into a state of shock.
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by freyr 13y ago
> The idea of three twenty-somethings in a studio apartment, writing code and eating ramen is romantic to entrepreneurs. Really? Maybe to aspiring entrepreneurs in their teens and very early twenties, that sounds romantic. To everyone
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by freyr 13y ago
I also pretty much use Google's search as a proxy for Wikipedia search or StackOverflow search at this point. But I highly doubt much Yahoo's traffic is coming from search. They've got Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, omg! (which i
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by freyr 13y ago
Interestingly, neither the current linked article nor the original article referenced Vitamin D or even the benefits of sunlight. The original article linked to a scientific study in which nocturnal animals (rats) were exposed to light over
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by freyr 13y ago
The cited scientific study was actually performed on nocturnal animals (rats), and the scientists found that long exposure to light caused the rats stress: "...the brain of nocturnal rats generates a stress response to a long-day pho
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by freyr 13y ago
> Because there are already dozens of people who did that already? Do you really expect people to scour a newsgroup to find the meaning of your vague and unsubstantiated claims? Someone could similarly say "Scala is an unmitigated
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by freyr 13y ago
Your post has no substance, other than to say some people on the mailing list don't like it. But other people on the mailing list do like it. So your post is meaningless and useless. If you actually have problems with Go's packagi
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by freyr 13y ago
Take his criticism (not sure it even merits that title) with a grain of salt. Many people on HN and on the mailing list have sung the praises of Go's packaging system.
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by freyr 13y ago
I had the same experience. While that's undoubtedly a credit to our tremendous intellects, it also supports the idea that education in "computers" needs to be rethought. We've been teaching kids math, writing, reading, e
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by freyr 13y ago
> why does class availability matter at all to this discussion? It matters because that's exactly what this discussion is about: making coding/programming part of our educational system. It's about teaching kids programm
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by freyr 13y ago
Every student should have, at least, exposure to coding and the opportunity to learn it. This has not been the case in my lifetime. In middle school, a special instructor was brought in to teach programming to the GATE kids. She decided she
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by freyr 13y ago
> "We will give you this much money. We will charge an annual interest rate of x%. Interest will not accrue until you graduate" It's pretty much exactly like that, in most cases. But I think an underlying issue is that m
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by freyr 13y ago
> there will be no end to the cries that millions of young Americans are being denied a college education by well-to-do politicians who are out-of-touch with the economic realities of the average American. I'm not convinced it wou

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