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by frossie 16y ago
"Guys who would never buy Smirnoff before are even buying it now to shield against attacks" What, "I'm not playing your dumb game, dude" not an option?
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by frossie 16y ago
Indeed tenure at a top university is much harder, and therefore small number statistics, and so I would be even more surprised to see it linked to a sub-one percentile spread in seventh grade scores.
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by frossie 16y ago
Even when you consider only members of an elite group like the top percentile of the seventh graders on the SAT math test, someone at the 99.9 level is more likely than someone at the 99.1 level to get a doctorate in science or to win tenu
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by frossie 16y ago
I can't see a mix that doesn't dilute one or the other There's no reason to be pessimistic at this stage. Fivethirtyeight did some coverage of the UK election for The Guardian (major British newspaper) and it wasn't particularly diluted t
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by frossie 16y ago
Hell, if you don't watch sports, just Netflix will get you a long way to being cable-free.
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by frossie 16y ago
But Palm wasn't a smartphone company, either. Wasn't Treo the first device that could really be called a smartphone?
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by frossie 16y ago
hire a part-time personal assistance and make it their job to get you medical appointments. Too late to edit my own post, but I have since found that there are actually professional medical advocates - a random example I found by looking
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by frossie 16y ago
He's been doing that for 18 years, it's natural to try something different. The likelihood of him not having found the right doctor vastly exceeds the notion that he can get a diagnosis on HN. Of course I certainly don't blame him for try
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by frossie 16y ago
If you want to crowdsource, obtain all your lab results that have ever been done, scan them, and post them. The other effect of doing this might be some media attention; this is a case where this could actually be a good thing, as you are
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by frossie 16y ago
People can't solve problems like this one without experience in the medical field, which you're unlikely to find here. Can I stress this? This person doesn't need medical advice from HN. What he needs is to keep seeing specialist doctors
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by frossie 16y ago
That's a good story. By the way, no matter the use of "we" and professional titles, it's not hard to tell which places out there are one-man-shops; I hope there is no shame attached to that in this day and age. Even though I don't work in a
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by frossie 16y ago
I recommend you read "How to handle requests for a salary history" for some good advice: http://askamanager.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-handle-reques... Really it boils down to "in an ideal world they shouldn't ask you, but refusing might
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by frossie 16y ago
I second this enthusiastically. If the workload is not taxing for you, instead of finding things to fill your spare time, just do the things you have to do as "inefficiently" as possible. One of the barriers to trying new things is the drop
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by frossie 16y ago
As a general rule, how many here don't prefer Safari over web-pages-as-apps? Don't forget that the iPad is also positioned as a "family" device. While most people here would chiefly check email/twitter/RSS/recipes/etc, their kids want to
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by frossie 16y ago
Having ambitious and well-defined goals is important, but it is useless to think about them much. My job is to focus on the small wins that enable my people to make a little progress every day. I am not sure I agree with this one, not in
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by frossie 16y ago
I agree with that. As somebody with a science background, I feel self-study is great if I want to understand something, but for anything relating to manipulating a physical object, I find it much, much faster to have it demonstrated first
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by frossie 16y ago
BTW one of the nice things about netflix is how well it treats its outliers :-) For example for ages I patiently filled in the "when did your DVD get to you" survey not expecting anything better being out in the boondocks (Hawaii) and them
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by frossie 16y ago
Slide 21 I found particularly interesting in that they are testing micro-innovations by releasing them to specific user segments. I'll say upfront that this is a great idea, but as a longtime Netflix subscriber I have to say the "satisfacti
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by frossie 16y ago
My wife still sings "Flash, ah-ah" to me every time we talk about it I am hereby up-voting your wife's sense of humour.
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by frossie 16y ago
Because it took a while to set this up. It seems like they are trying every solution they can think of, in the order in which they become ready.
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by frossie 16y ago
Dude, if it's 1/10th as mindblowing as plain-text Anathem, I am first in line to buy this thing. The downside is that even if it is transformative, that only tells us one thing: that Neal Stephenson can do this. It certainly doesn't tell us
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Research confirms that youth care about their reputation(zephoria.org)
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by frossie 16y ago
What Apple needs, and I imagine this is what it is working towards, is a way to make its gadget products (iPhone, iPad)"unethered" from a computer. In other words, you should be able to have an iPhone or an iPad and no computer . This is n
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by frossie 16y ago
Now, laugh Well, I'll admit that was... unexpected, but I am certainly not going to laugh. After all, the best code editor is the one you feel most productive in, and you seem to have a rational explanation for it so sure, knock yourself
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by frossie 16y ago
Either we have too many scientists, or not enough science funding. A little bit of both, to which I would add a third: the way we fund science is... I'm going to charitably say "sub-optimal"
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by frossie 16y ago
If you look at enough variables, you WILL find a correlation with whatever you are looking at. Key paragraph: Vinyl flooring is commonplace in Sweden, where only about 1 percent of homes have carpeted floors. But it is uncommon in U.S. bed
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't know the cannon world very well, but those guys talking about Nikons 18-200 is truly one of the best lenses there is What's the best camera? The one you have on you when you need to get a picture. There's a lot of sneering about "
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't think she is comparing him to a child. I think she is saying that sometimes people behave badly because they lack the ability to understand and/or express what is really bothering them. A toddler having a tantrum is the canonical ex
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by frossie 16y ago
Can I make the obvious point that there are significant cultural and even personal variations in these things. Exhibit A: If I lean back and cross my arms while you are talking to me, this generally means "you have said something so intere
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by frossie 16y ago
Shady is right. In fact one could say it is perilously close to blackmail.

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