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by ideonexus 8y ago
I followed the recent championship matches on chess24.com and was blown away at how compelling and engaging computers have made the game. There was a chessboard on the screen with the current board state and a computer analysis on the side
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by ideonexus 8y ago
Could anyone recommend an open-source software for cataloging generic objects that allows setting up these columns of categorization dynamically? I've been looking for such a software, preferably web-based, that could be used to catalo
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by ideonexus 8y ago
This. My website traffic picks back up in September as well. So does the vehicle traffic on my commute.
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by ideonexus 8y ago
Fifteen years ago, I suffered from impostor syndrome. It made me defensive whenever someone criticized me because I thought that they were exposing my ignorance--exposing me as an impostor. I would bristle when other developers would say, &
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by ideonexus 8y ago
I had a lot of success with code.org's Hour of Code. First with my five-year-old, and then two classes of elementary school-aged children. It's extremely visual, introduces kids to actual code syntax, and lets the kids choose what
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by ideonexus 8y ago
This is a fantastic idea. An arduino and renting time on printers in your neighborhood with 3DHubs is brilliant (our family is a hub and there are dozens of others in our local network). The possibilities are endless, the skills are directl
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by ideonexus 8y ago
This is such difficult but important advice. I've been sitting in nearly a year of unproductive meetings for a project that goes nowhere because of one middle-manager's abrasive personality and an upper-manager's inaction on
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by ideonexus 9y ago
This is the flip-side benefit to living in Right-to-Work states. On the one hand, it's nearly impossible to unionize, but working as a contractor in Virginia, I had an agency try exercise the non-compete against me when I tried to take
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by ideonexus 9y ago
This principle is also why creationists don't understand how the world around us seems so engineered for us. That's because it was engineered... by our ancestors. The peach is a great example of this. Peaches didn't exist 3,0
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Neil Postman wrote, “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” As a humanist, I don't have invisible gods or an afterlife to comfort me into apathy about the human condition. If I want the world to be a bette
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Thank you for sharing this research. As someone who abstains from drinking and is very health-conscious, I've been conflicted about all the research supposedly showing health benefits of moderate drinking. The evidence just seemed too
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Maybe it was the tone of your comment that got you downvoted, but there's an important point here. Fish farming is a crucial tool in preserving our oceans. We can't keep taking fish from the open seas; we need to set up dedicated
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Thank you for this comment. I remember being a procrastinator and distracted without the internet in college. I share your ability to focus on planes. I find coffee shops help my focus as well.
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by ideonexus 9y ago
It's hard not to see this from all sides: the saddening loss of biodiversity, the world's desperate need for these metals, and the needs of poor countries to exploit their natural resources to rise up in the world. At first I was
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by ideonexus 9y ago
You are normal. Over the years I have learned that the internet makes us all distracted and that it's a problem many of my peers are wrestling with today. I was in a meeting just this week where our new product line manager started jok
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Others on HN have recommended this before and I finally went ahead and froze my credit reports with the credit agencies. I haven't missed it in the last six-months. If I ever need a car load or credit card, I can temporarily unfreeze w
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Overall, I think this is great article, but I have two quibbles: 1. Start a business if you want to get rich: you can also start a business if you want to lose a lot of money. I lost nearly $100k that would have otherwise gone into my retir
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Reminds me of something I overheard an older artist say when dealing with a difficult customer who didn't want to pay the asking price for one of her paintings. When the customer demanded, "Well how long did it take you to paint i
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I agree that it depends on the games... and on the kids. I was dismayed early on when I bought my boys a used Wii and they just couldn't get it. We all got frustrated and lost interest. Then I hit success with a used Xbox 360 and playi
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I volunteered for my town Planning Commission last year and have to deal with this all the time now. Residents are constantly ranting on social media accusing us of moving town borders, down-zoning our enemies, holding secret votes, and cut
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by ideonexus 9y ago
This technique is extremely powerful in parenting. These are exactly the steps you take to reason with a toddler. Before anything else you have to get them out of their temper ta tantrum and articulating why they are angry. Then you segwey
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Seconding this. My boys love their tablets and their Xbox, which I play with them and don't discourage (video games have their positives), but our real quality time is playing board games. It's wonderful to watch my four and six-y
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by ideonexus 9y ago
This is a great article from a young person who is clearly learning by writing. Having good communication skills along with technical skills will make you invaluable in the workforce. We need this kind of popular science writing for compute
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I keep a growing library of little one-page javascript apps for illustrating concepts and educating my two boys. Reviewing my commit history for the year, I was pleased to find I've added nearly 20 apps to it in 2017. I wouldn't h
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I am very confused by "Current Tax System You'd save $0" part. This makes no sense and reeks of snakeoil. Then I looked up who created this calculator, and it's Maximm Lott, a writer for Fox News who's twitter retwe
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by ideonexus 9y ago
This reminds me of Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps from 1933 to 1942, which at one time comprised 300,000 people and planted over 3 billion trees in America to combat the extensive deforestation brought by industry[1]. The town
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by ideonexus 9y ago
> Search the newspapers for stories Just want to point out that, while there are plenty of such stories, we can't use newspaper stories to quantify how many men versus how many women are found guilty of pedophilia. When a woman is
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by ideonexus 9y ago
It looks like your post got downvoted, and I don't think that was fair. I completely agree with you that there is some very insightful science in this post that didn't convince me to go back to facebook, but did give me insights i
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I have to say, I'm surprised by this post and appreciate it. I think the research presented explains a lot of the issues I've had with Facebook over the last few months--when I hit a point where I didn't have anything to say,
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Isn't this the problem with everything connected to the internet now? Facebook is recording your ex-stalking, your phone is recording every place you're traveling, email servers have your private messages, Google now has your ph

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