jmcgough

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by jmcgough 8y ago
I'm for universal healthcare, but the article specifically says that these are people who are in precarious financial situations already - any sudden expense could be enough to throw them into insolvency. Unsurprisingly, many of them a
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by jmcgough 8y ago
His progression videos are awesome! There's not great documentation of this stuff, so it's cool to see if you get into a speedrun that has a lot of history behind it.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
There are also those to do tool-assisted speedruns, where they play a game and complete it frame-by-frame, doing precise inputs that a human might not be capable of in order to show the theoretically best time that a game can be completed i
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Trans engineers (myself included) are basically my entire social circle at this point :) there's lots of us in the bay and most of us are awesome
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Amazed it hasn't come up yet considering the overlap with engineering communities. Video game speedrunning - playing a video game over and over, trying to beat it in the fastest time possible. It scratches an engineering itch to know m
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by jmcgough 8y ago
My furry friends throw awesome parties and are some of the most creative people I know. I've gotten a lot better at DJing thanks to them :)
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by jmcgough 8y ago
I don't think it's harder, there's just less incentive to do so. I was shocked when I realized that dropbox was the first and only yc company to go public. Now it's only the giant tech companies that want big liquidity e
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by jmcgough 8y ago
How much power have companies like vanguard exercised in this situation? I thought the problem with vanguard was that they didn't care about the outcome of individual companies and so would vote for maintaining the status quo.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_alcohol
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Duo taught me japanese characters, but I had a hard time really improving my french grammar from it. There's no substitution for in-person conversation.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Ah yes, the "Steve Jobs" cure. Just take better care of yourself and you can cure cancer/hiv/Alzheimers without any drugs.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Yep. I get almost no one finding me when I play hearthstone, but I always have ~10 viewers when I stream speedrun attempts of popular snes games. It really is a matter of finding your niche when you start out.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
No, they just have crazy neuroplasticity
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Be careful about that kind of wording. I and friends who're on the spectrum don't consider it a "mental disorder". It's simply a physiological difference, one that theoretically can be tested for.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
My eye doctor basically told me that I should never do lasik and should do PRK instead. The risk of complications is WAY lower, even if the recovery is a pain.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
The article states that steam has never allowed pornography, but has allowed games with pornographic content (what the article describes as games that blur the line, like Witcher III or some graphic novels). I don't see how this quote
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by jmcgough 8y ago
HN requires that the actual article title be used, so complaining here isn't really going to do anything but add noise.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Contributing? Within a week, though slowly at first with a lot of comments on my PRs. It'll take ~3 months to hit my full stride and mostly understand the correct "way" to write that program (its common patterns, how best to
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I haven't kept up with the research since graduating, but there have been studies that showed damage to serotonin receptors from repeated mdma usage.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I was vacationing in Thailand a year ago, and was snorkeling in this beautiful, emerald green lagoon in koh phi phi. I suddenly felt something brush up against me from behind... and it was a small pile of floating plastic trash. Really upse
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Also to keep in mind is that she'd be on the hook for his medical bills if they wed.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Used to watch them as well, really bright guy, entirely self taught. I TA'd organic chem and he might have had a deeper understanding than I do. He really needed to learn when to stop talking, and where to draw the line with his action
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by jmcgough 9y ago
This article has some good insights from other researchers and their different opinions on the study: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/do-adult... Adult neurogenesis in rats was my the
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Adult neurogenesis has been seen in other species in the olfactory bulb, I don't think this has ever been observed in humans though.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I experienced this a few months ago and it was the last straw for me - it really feels like they're willing to do anything to drive engagement and ramp up addiction. This was after I'd removed messenger and facebook from my phone
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I have a hard time taking this seriously when the author's only experience working for a tech company is a single summer internship, and the article ends with a literative bullhorn, calling for tech workers to unite and fight against o
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Oddly enough, I benefitted from interviews early in my career - engineers probing for my knowledge boundaries would usually find some technical questions where my knowledge was weak, so I'd make a mental note to learn about that thing
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Been looking forward to this since your keynote at ElixirConf. Love the direction the language is evolving towards, and the emphasis on improving ease of use and better tooling.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Can't ad-block an instagram app, and she uses Instagram to stay in touch with friends/family. Not that easy of a problem to solve.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
This is why I participate in the Stupid Shit That No One Needs And Terrible Ideas Hackathon every year. It's super fun to build goofy things that you can laugh about with friends.

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