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by gnat 8y ago
And research consistently shows that teenagers perform better if you start school later in the day than 7am. E.g., http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0192636502086633... "shifted the school star
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by gnat 8y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17585589
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by gnat 8y ago
See also the Guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/19/work-less-get-... which had a vigorous HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17569391
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by gnat 8y ago
Bluegrass musician here. Jerry Garcia was into bluegrass music and back then the only way for people on the West Coast to hear what East Coast musicians were up to was live tapes (albums being few and far between). So when the Dead took off
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by gnat 8y ago
Not for me: a page that gave a fast 503 on amazon.com would spin indefinitely on smile.amazon.com
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by gnat 8y ago
It would be interesting, and has been tackled eg by http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mheilman/papers/heilman-smith-qg-extr... . Nielsen specifically hypothesises that coming up with the questions yourself is part of learnin
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by gnat 8y ago
More importantly, how can gmail preserve your identity yet after every update it asks again if you want to view links with Chrome (which, by the way will have to be installed), no matter how many times you select "Do not ask again&quot
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by gnat 8y ago
"real-time approach for mapping all human pixels of 2D RGB images to a 3D surface-based model of the body." "Our work shows that one can efficiently compute dense correspondences between 2D RGB images and 3D surface models fo
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by gnat 8y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17306166
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by gnat 8y ago
https://www.principles.com/ is the full site for his Principles of Success. There's a good interview with Ray Dalio on the Freakonomics podcast: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/ray-dalio/ . H
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/wave back ... Dude, LONG time!
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by gnat 8y ago
Obligatory plug for Le Ton Beau de Marot, by Douglas Hofstadter. He explains his accidental fascination with the translation of a simple short minor poem from Renaissance French into English. He experimented with a few different approaches
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by gnat 8y ago
Brian Bagnall’s “Commodore: A Company On the Edge” covers the history of the PET, VIC-20, and C64. There was no master plan that anyone could stick to for more than six months (the management stories are horrifying) and the C64 was a last m
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by gnat 8y ago
Just checked with them. "Not quite yet! We're just testing a ticketing option and hope to release it soon. That will send out a PDF ticket with a unique barcode on it. However, someone will need to be able to read it. At a future
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by gnat 8y ago
reference is to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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by gnat 8y ago
For a non-jerky-you-around-y ticketing option, try https://lilregie.com -- it's a bootstrapped (self-funded) startup from the folks behind the Webstock conference. They built Lil Regie to meet their ticketing needs, offered
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by gnat 9y ago
In case a citation is needed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang > Apple chose to develop a new compiler front end from scratch, supporting C, Objective-C and C++. This "clang" project was open-sourced in
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by gnat 9y ago
Science of Everyday Thinking: https://www.edx.org/course/science-everyday-thinking-uqx-thi... I took the first incarnation of this and it was consistently interesting, entertaining, and useful. A good romp through cogn
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by gnat 9y ago
re $$$, I recently spoke to a musician in a nationally-known touring bluegrass band, winner of IBMA awards. He's making $20k/y, $30k on a good year. He's homeless, couchsurfing with friends and playing gigs outside the band w
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by gnat 9y ago
For all the reasons listed by the other commenters, this is not a great article about bluegrass or software development. There are some parallels, though. Bluegrass music was primarily a male-dominated genre, but that is changing. Early pio
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by gnat 9y ago
There is often a leader, ranking highest in some combination of talent and age, agreed upon tacitly, who gets to tell people when to take a solo.[...] Such leaders can establish a feeling or a culture for the group. Correct. It's not
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by gnat 9y ago
tl;dr: Intelligence ("talent") has a Gaussian distribution, but money ("success") follows a power law. The difference might be "luck", and they use a simple agent-based model to simulate intelligence+luck to ge
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by gnat 9y ago
Ah, so it does. Many thanks. Whew!
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by gnat 9y ago
tl;dr: cert.org website closed, redirects into CMU's Software Engineering Institute website which has been running it. No press releases about this, so fears and conspiracies abound. In the article, it says CERT.org costs $1.8B/y.
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by gnat 9y ago
Whereas, in Perl, we have a module for executable whitespace: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=270023 Damian Conway is a wonderful mad genius.
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by gnat 9y ago
We moved back to NZ where I grew up, and our kids went to a 50-person primary school with not a pair of shoes in sight. You learn where the patches of prickles are and avoid those bits of the grass. (Data point: the prickles are in the same
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by gnat 9y ago
I’m totes down with blocking foreign buyers, for the same reasons as you. I just wanted to note that not every Chinese home buyer is a foreigner. Sounds like you were already aware of that. Awesome!
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by gnat 9y ago
Aucklander here: you're right. One of the effective political tactics against the Labour Party was to suggest they'd threaten house prices: most of Auckland home owners need high real estate prices, either to keep rents (investmen
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by gnat 9y ago
You were outbid by people who don't look like traditional NZ inhabitants (Māori or European) but that doesn't mean they're foreign purchasers. If they've emigrated to NZ, then they're not foreigners any more, and th
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by gnat 9y ago
The Goal also inspired my favourite tech business book, The Phoenix Project[1]. As in The Goal, the protagonist has a mentor who asks pointed questions that are the slow-burning fuse which later unlock understanding. Easy to read, wise, and

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