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by jmagoon 9y ago
All the other ultrabooks are 16:9, right? It's so hard losing that extra screen real estate, you really get used to it after a while. I'd rather even go 3:2, but the options there are only the Surface Pro or Pixelbook.
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by jmagoon 9y ago
I really hope that you're joking. You don't know how to interact with the opposite sex without it being sexual harassment? Or are you saying that all the women making those claims are frauds who treat non harassment as harassment?
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by jmagoon 9y ago
> Retail is mostly about entertainment now, primarily for women. Women like to shop for clothes and try stuff on. They like to be taken out to restaurants and movies and go to these with their friends. They like to go see their personal
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by jmagoon 9y ago
> My frequently asked questions include: > What break-in are you most proud of? > What have you done for a test that you were the most ashamed of? > What follows is the answer to both of these questions.
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by jmagoon 9y ago
OKCupid ran this experiment: https://theblog.okcupid.com/we-experiment-on-human-beings-5d...
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by jmagoon 9y ago
You clearly have an axe to grind, since you've posted the same links and research at three times in this comment chain. Every single time you leave out this quote, also from the first article: >But it is not clear to me how such sex
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by jmagoon 9y ago
I understand the historical origin (though claiming it has a single original meaning is an extremely strong position), but the common understanding for Buddhists refers to the teachings of the Buddha and the eightfold path, which is very mu
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by jmagoon 9y ago
Different cultures have different definitions of the loanword. For East Asian Buddhists, Dharma generally means the teachings of the Buddha. As in the phrase, 'Turning the wheel of Dharma'. I guess if you pick that one section of
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by jmagoon 9y ago
I know this is off topic, but why the heck is it called Dharma? Just a cool sounding eastern word? It's like calling something 'The Gospel' or 'The New Testament' or the 'Quran Protocol'. I get that it&#x2
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by jmagoon 9y ago
And I've never seen a black hole. Therefore, they don't exist.
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by jmagoon 9y ago
I'm pretty surprised that no one has recommended the other articles on the same site. They are pretty excellent: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/compendium The screencasts are fantastic as well.
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by jmagoon 9y ago
Can you help me understand what is being offered here? Is it basically a wrapper for, in the Rails world, spin up EC2 instance -> install make / git -> clone repo -> bundle install -> install nginx -> configure nginx
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by jmagoon 9y ago
There's this cargo cult complaint where people talk about 'layers and layers of bad abstractions' while rarely offering a superior solution or describing exactly which abstractions are bad and why they are bad. Mostly just he
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by jmagoon 9y ago
Are you saying that building a web version and two (or five) native versions of an application is equivalent to building a single JS codebase and having it just run? It certainly sounds wonderful to learn new tools, but how does that stack
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by jmagoon 10y ago
But isn't there still the step of translating the business logic into a machine readable format, and isn't that what the majority of software engineers do at this point anyways?
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by jmagoon 10y ago
completely agreed, which is why it seems like years of experience has no correlation to technical interview performance, despite the likelihood that there would be some correlation between years of experience and actual job performance--bec
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by jmagoon 10y ago
Well, the thing is there is no such thing as 'machine intelligence', so it's all just an assumption on top of an assumption about a thing we don't have a very good grasp of yet. You're essentially saying that the au
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by jmagoon 10y ago
What about consciousness or intelligence implies that it would be 'pure' in the sense that you describe? Wouldn't a fully conscious being have a great deal of complexity that might render it equivalent to the roommate example
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by jmagoon 10y ago
So instead of engaging or debating with the ideas presented in the piece, you immediately dig into the author's personal life as a way of disagreeing with it? The article is specifically about the middle class having two careers, with
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by jmagoon 10y ago
Do you use dynamic dns or pay for a static IP? Seems like more trouble than it's worth the first and more expensive for the second.
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by jmagoon 10y ago
That's the question I asked before just starting and being consistent (which is absolutely key) about it. The answer was that I learned the mind could operate in a radically different way, and that malleability led to greater understan
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by jmagoon 10y ago
I actually clicked the link for whatever visionary platform bubble is--it's a workflow engine! Real groundbreaking stuff there.
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by jmagoon 10y ago
If you were a college professor, you would generally spend most of your time reading, researching, and _synthesizing_ learning into digestible information for others. Your ability to do new and groundbreaking things would be based partially
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by jmagoon 10y ago
There are many neuroscience departments that actively perform meditation research (UCSB, Yale, UW-Madison), but my personal experience is that eastern philosophers who were experts in meditation, logic, or observation are sorely understudie
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by jmagoon 10y ago
This statement is, to me, demonstrative of a lack of understanding of the source material and an unwillingness to engage with 'new' ideas purely out of bias. The scientific method is a way of approaching reality that has lead to e
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by jmagoon 10y ago
Both India and China have extremely rich philosophical logic traditions, along with extremely well developed philosophies of mind and epistemology. Attributing philosophy of mind as "western" is the problem the article is speaking
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by jmagoon 10y ago
Same--when you work for a large company you see that a ton of development is about large companies cutting cost through automation. Its unfortunate to be a hatchet man, but that work always exists in economical downtime.
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by jmagoon 10y ago
What about email implies materialism? You're also mixing different traditions here, that all have their own perspectives on what monks can and can't do. Materialism in the Buddhist sense is about mental attachment. Desire (attachm
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by jmagoon 10y ago
Couldn't FB leverage their platform to strike better deals with, in the pizza example, Papa John's competitors? And then shut down Papa John's FB platform (or sunset some critical API functionality)? Facebook could also build
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by jmagoon 11y ago
Seems like the part she's pissed at is "I think mothers have more important things to do...be mothers".

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