jfarmer

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   by jfarmer 12y ago

   > juggali I lost it at this. Can't contain myself. Maybe it's because I'm from Michigan. sprays Faygo everywhere
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   by jfarmer 12y ago

   The paper only says the evidence available doesn't support the conclusion, i.e., we wouldn't be justified in claiming that deliberate practice is the key. This doesn't mean it's NOT the key, only that we haven't be
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   by jfarmer 12y ago

   If you're interested in the linguistic term, it's "prosody."
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   by jfarmer 12y ago

   What is Flynn? I read the link and the homepage on my phone, and couldn't figure out for the life of me what the product was.
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   Learning Another Language(founderdating.com)

   5 points by jfarmer 12y ago|0 comments
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   by jfarmer 12y ago

   "simple" isn't the opposite of "hard," it's the opposite of "complex."
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   by jfarmer 12y ago

   Have you ever taught African-American kids about database replication? I'm guessing "no", because the master/slave terminology actively interferes with the learning environment — more so than adopting this less common t
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   by jfarmer 12y ago

   See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
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   by jfarmer 12y ago

   I've always understood it the same way.
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    by jfarmer 12y ago

    Kids deal with abstraction every day. The very idea of "color" and "number" are abstractions of concrete experience. Teaching kids basic group theory is very possible. You can play games with shapes in the plane to lear
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    by jfarmer 12y ago

    Having taught ~200 adults to program, a teacher should avoid the "difficult/easy" dichotomy entirely, which is closely related to the "stupid/smart" dichotomy. SQL is "easy" if you come from a job wh
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    by jfarmer 12y ago

    Except: https://twitter.com/SaraJChipps/status/459775964831293440
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    by jfarmer 12y ago

    This is a bad response — tactically, not morally. It's incongruent with the tone if the original post, which feels objective and even-keeled. It may be inaccurate or even dishonest (I don't know), but replying like this can only
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    by jfarmer 12y ago

    Much of computer graphics operates in projective space ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_space ), so it's a little bit more than cookie-cutter linear algebra. This is done so that translations in 3D space —
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    Thanks for the incredibly helpful and pedantic reply.
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    I'm sorry, those two phrases aren't meaningfully different to me. Regardless, this is trivial, gossipy drama and you're making HN worse by submitting it. Please stop.
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    In any protest movement there will be a group who wants to turn the disagreement into a zero-sum conflict. The first thing to do is convince the people who disagree with you that those on your side who are amenable to compromise are just a
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    I don't even know what Lift is, let alone any of the people involved in this specific issue, but I have a hard time believing someone was banned "merely" for contributing a pull request. This is a silly submission designed t
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    I'm generally quite careful with my belongings when I'm out in public. I'd never leave my stuff out unattended and never with a stranger. But when I was in London, I was being constantly nudged by people to move my belonging
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    No, but when they say they're feeling something I'll do my level best believe it and try to understand it before minimizing it.
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    > But the unspoken claim is that all events with a lot of men are unbearable for women (and decent people). How sensitive would you say you are to what women find bearable? How do you know?
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    It is. I'm curious because I'm interested in someone who has managed a large P&L but nevertheless thinks Tarsnap is the way to go for their org. I am also curious because I believe most of the comments here on HN amount to no
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    100%. Tarsnap is like GitHub if it were priced by picodollars per byte in the repository blob.
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    Yes! Everyone should have the opportunity to learn in an environment where they feel empowered and understood. How does this project do anything except further the goal? The GP's comment was not saying that an all-girls camp would be
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    Out of curiosity, what's the biggest P&L you've had responsibility for in your career?
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    We were talking about "racism" and "racist jokes." If you don't think the fact that Louis CK is Mexican but everyone thinks he's American plays into why and how his comedy works, we can agree to disagree. :)
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    > And while you're at it: why is okay for Louis CK to make a racist joke, but not okay for you? Why it is ok for the jester to mock the king, but not for the king to mock the jester? On a related note, Louis CK is Mexican, as in a M
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    Yes, I know what it means. Thanks for your help.
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    Deliberately pedantic. Got it.
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    by jfarmer 13y ago

    You're either being deliberately pedantic or missing my point, which was to illustrate how silly "run rate" can be as financial metric unless it's backed up by fundamentals. The $1000/month candy business is a bad