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by goodside 16y ago
Only trash like Nature are sensationalist enough to squeeze the word "flummox" into the title of this article. The TLDR is that the experimenters tried and failed to demonstrate a gaping flaw in quantum mechanics, which is widely accepted b
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by goodside 16y ago
Instead of asking HN, ask a doctor. What you're describing sounds like the textbook symptoms of ADHD. Numerous studies have shown psychotherapy to be ineffective for ADHD compared to medication therapies, which have remarkably high success
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by goodside 16y ago
The better solution is search, which is notably not an organizational tool at all as far as the user is concerned. Will there some day be a solution that's better still? Yes. But I guarantee it won't involve the user sorting into buckets or
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by goodside 16y ago
This whole effort is misguided. I can't fathom wanting to name a group of tabs. As it is I barely ever take the initiative to organize bookmarks, and those are permanent. People don't need a filing cabinet for something that should be eph
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by goodside 16y ago
Wishing for normal people to understand statistics isn't reasonable. I'd also like a pony. But the first point is important: journalists shouldn't be allowed to publish statistical musings without some oversight from a statistician, which a
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by goodside 16y ago
I'm usually a fan of Jonah Lehrer's writing, but his reasoning on this point just doesn't follow. He writes: "However, the same thoughts that can be such annoying interruptions are also the engine of creativity, since they allow us to come
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by goodside 16y ago
The inclusion of const in JS predates its use by Microsoft in Internet Explorer, which doesn't support it (at least up to IE6). It's not that it won't respect its const-iness; it won't even do the initial assignment. The original designers
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by goodside 16y ago
If guidelines were meant to be enforced, they'd be syntax.
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by goodside 16y ago
The \\Foo\ example I gave was poorly chosen, because they put in a kluge fix so that anything that resembles a Windows file path will pass through unparsed. You cannot use \\ in any other circumstance, which is why \\Foo failed.
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by goodside 16y ago
This does not work. Nothing obvious will. This is an acknowledged issue that they are opting never to resolve. Here's a relevant issue on their bug tracker that has been open for four years: http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6405 It w
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by goodside 16y ago
A few months ago, I wanted to insert a double backslash into a Confluence wiki page. This isn't as odd as it sounds; Windows network file paths begin with \\Foo\. Since backslashes are of course an escape char, you usually have to use \\\\
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World War II was totally unrealistic(squid314.livejournal.com)
255 points by goodside 16y ago|152 comments
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by goodside 16y ago
Demonstrating the ability to go four years without getting kicked out of school for discipline problems and/or getting incarcerated. The GED is sold heavily to inmates as a way to get back on their feet after they're released, so the people
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by goodside 16y ago
The immorality of copyright infringement is not contingent on whether the industry can survive in spite of it any more than the immorality of traditional theft is contingent on whether the victim can afford to suffer the loss. The fact I ha
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by goodside 16y ago
Prior discussion from two weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443873
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Read a Classic(overcomingbias.com)
3 points by goodside 16y ago|0 comments
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by goodside 16y ago
I'm not involved in any great moral war between discipline and sloth. I'm a civilian. I'm sorry for making you waste your bullets. The factors that determine how much of one's food intake passes through the body undigested are numerous, and
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by goodside 16y ago
Right, that's why I say I think they're at least partially right. However, I can come up with a few other theories for why the opposite could be true as well. Just off the top of my head: Whether the food you consume is burned immediately o
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by goodside 16y ago
"If you consume calories that you do not burn, you store them for later use in fat." This is completely and utterly not true. There is significant caloric content in excrement, and countless factors that determine how much of the food you c
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by goodside 16y ago
There's an obvious alternative explanation here: Overweight people are generally hungrier than average. Hungrier people also tend to eat faster. Eating speed does not cause obesity, but correlates with it because it proxies a general propen
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by goodside 16y ago
I have a Droid on Verizon. Do not let the keyboard influence you too much, because it sucks. I almost always use the onscreen keyboard instead of bothering to open it. The only situation where I ever use the keyboard is for games that benef
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by goodside 16y ago
Zack, don't take this wrong way, because you seemed pretty chill when we met at the meetup a while back, but this post is not even remotely close to any sort of coherent thought. It's unsubstantiated speculation, bad writing, and worse yet
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by goodside 16y ago
I upvoted it because, on top of being interesting, it fights the passively accepted wisdom that "newsworthy" is synonymous with "worthy".
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by goodside 16y ago
You answered your own question. Why would you want to stop the elevator for people who have no intention of getting on?
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by goodside 16y ago
"One interface optimization would be to replace the up and down with a single call button. Passing elevators would stop and indicate which direction they were traveling." You might want to ponder that one a second longer.
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by goodside 16y ago
Thiel says immediately afterward that the average CEO he funds makes $100K-$125K, so when he says CEO pay should be low he isn't exactly talking about ramen. I would be extremely suspicious of any CEO who makes more than this and still cons
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by goodside 16y ago
Vague complaints about "inflation tax" do not contribute anything constructive to monetary policy discussions. No one disputes that excessive inflation is a regressive and unsustainable tax. Currency collapse is almost always caused by, or
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by goodside 16y ago
Safari Books Online can use either HTML or Flash. I'm writing this from my iPad and I have SBO open in the next tab.
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by goodside 16y ago
If you refuse to learn anything that isn't explained in a jargon-free blog post, the world will seem devoid of anything that can't be.
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by goodside 16y ago
You're right. I apologize for having wasted your time and humbly award you three karma points.

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