ideonexus

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by ideonexus 9y ago
The biggest recurring issue I have with my managers over the last twenty years is their need to add unnecessary complexity to projects. I think a good manager stays out of the way and just monitors employees for any obstructions that are pr
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This was Louise and Aylmer Maude. I'm afraid I don't know much about the different translations. I do think I would like to read this book again one day, knowing the character arcs. I just learned the Pevear and Volokhonsky versio
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I just finished Tolstoy's War and Peace. I think it deserves both the hype as a masterpiece and the jokes as a sprawling verbose epic. He's like Jane Goodall observing and deconstructing human beings at all social levels from the
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by ideonexus 9y ago
It's fascinating to me to watch different online cultures debate this and watch each culture cherry-pick the studies that best support their position. Do you believe in gender differences in personality and aptitude? You can find dozen
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Magical piece. I have a related question, what are my fellow HNers doing for the eclipse? My original accommodations fell through (over-booked), and now I'm driving the family 12 hours west to camp in a friend's backyard in Nashvi
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by ideonexus 9y ago
The fact that you are a parent makes your position even more incomprehensible. If you truly know "exactly what it's like" then you would have sympathy for the parents who experience these tragedies and would be offering preve
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I find the callousness in this post extremely distressing. You don't understand what having a child under the age of six months is like. You are incredibly sleep deprived, making errors at work and are a danger on the road. My wife and
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by ideonexus 9y ago
A great application for this is in randomizing playlists. My friends, who are also CS grads and should know better, have often complained that their MP3 players, CD carousels, etc play the same music too often claiming that the random is br
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Hasn't this already happened? Remember the Project Veritas videos of ACORN employees giving advice to a pimp on how to run his child prostitution ring that were all over the news in 2009? Multiple investigations found the videos where
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Yeah. The evidence is pretty overwhelming at this point: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/us/2016-presidential-campaign-... The fact that Reality Leigh Winner is being charged with leaking classified inform
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Does anyone know where I could find the Gygax article mentioned, "Four & Twenty and What Lies Between"? I loved his explanation of probabilities with dice and cards in the 1989 "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeon Ma
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If you see this kind of behavior in the workplace, I highly recommend the technique of "echoing" as a means of overcoming it. In meetings I've seen it happen many times where an introvert makes a brilliant point, which gets c
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Leaving Social Media Taught Me How Broken the News Cycle Is(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by ideonexus 9y ago
My wife is a 3D print-designer, who takes her prints to craft shows. We've quickly learned that the best way to increase sales is to have a large variety of designs rather than a smaller selection of high-quality designs. She can make
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by ideonexus 9y ago
> Therefore, it's possible to simultaneously hold the view that politics is super important and they don't want it on HN. I grudgingly fell into this category. For a long time, I was frustrated that certain technology-related
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by ideonexus 9y ago
A big part of the problem is public misunderstanding about what it means to be an atheist. When people find out I'm an atheist, they often take it as a personal attack on their belief in god. Coming out of the closet as an atheist open
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by ideonexus 9y ago
> The one emotion that outpaced anger in Berger’s study was awe, the feelings of wonder and excitement that come from encountering great beauty or knowledge, such as a news report of an important discovery in the fight against cancer.
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I see our names as unique addresses for our identities and I feel lucky that I share my name with only one other person in the United States. I want people to find me when they google my name and not that other person. I enjoy googling my n
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by ideonexus 9y ago
While the scope of the article is confined to manufacturing, which impacts less-specialized labor, I felt a sense of dread reading it for what it means for people losing their jobs to software. Fresh out of college in the late 1990s, one of
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The Office of Educational Technology produced a report on Educational Software, what the biggest problems are and where the greatest opportunities are for solving them. It's a great read with lots of suggestions if you want to learn ab
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by ideonexus 9y ago
The remains of the 1939 Worlds Fair are found in the Bronx. I took a subway there once on a visit to NY. I was both inspired by the science center there, and dismayed to find it surrounded by antiquated residences and roads. It was like a v
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I was in Chess Club in high school. It was our first year establishing the club, the teacher hosting it didn't have any great insights into chess, we had no books, and so we just sat for hours every afternoon staring quietly at chessbo
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I love the fact that you can do so many shapes and maze styles. Very impressive. There's a really nice responsive HTML5-JS random-maze generator, from Gosh Darn Games that's navigable with arrows. Nowhere near as advanced, but my
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by ideonexus 10y ago
The whitewashing didn't bother me, but the stupidwashing was offensive. Hollywood took one of the deepest, most brilliant cyberpunk classics and dumbed it down to the point of being insulting. I've been recommending to my friends
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I entered a Google-Blacklist screenwriting contest last year to promote non-stereotyped tech characters in media.* I wrote a pilot about a couple raising a family while running a makerspace. The reviewer didn't like it because it was t
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by ideonexus 10y ago
We already have a well-established method for challenging climate research. It's called the "Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis" report [1]. It comprises 1,500 pages, surveying the results from thousands of journ
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by ideonexus 10y ago
I share your experience of blogging for 10 years before letting my blog go into neglect. I was a science blogger, and in 2007 we were a very small community of educators, PhDs, and science enthusiasts (I was an enthusiast). It was really ex
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by ideonexus 10y ago
I really appreciate this idea, but is there a reason is has to be an app? I check all news through the browser (phone and desktop), and I'm leery of installing an app to read news. I think such a concept would make a great website thou
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by ideonexus 10y ago
In the DC area, we had two weeks of 70 degree weather in February. The cherry trees blossomed because of it, and then they wilted off the trees because temperatures dropped to normal. I saw Fox News manage to put a anti-global warming spin
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by ideonexus 10y ago
Agreed, I submitted the same link with the title "Semantic Analysis of Donald Trump Sub-Reddits," but even that leaves out the fascinating idea of "subbreddit algebra" that the article goes into. Articles like these are

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