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by jrogers65 14y ago
Likewise. This is the rationale: > We have an unusual requirement when it comes to developing the BBC website – it carries advertising internationally but not in the UK, and we have to build and design for both these situations simultan
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Another aspect of depression is dependent on BDNF levels (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21749907
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by jrogers65 14y ago
If you haven't already tripped on DMT, do yourself a favor and seek it out. It's not quite like mescaline, psilocybin or LSD.
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Well yeah, that's what I'm arguing. Asian women are going to, on average, do better in field X than individuals from other genetic groupings - just as Jamaican men excel at sprinting. Another example: > Different studies have found diff
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by jrogers65 14y ago
> sometimes do > rarely do Are terrible for maintainability. Imagine that you are reading through the code of a programmer who used this library - What is 'sometimes'? What is 'rarely'? It would need to be documented on each usage t
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I believe that we're talking about Asian women being at the top of whatever field the conference referenced in the blog post was about.
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I don't really understand where you're going with this. If the best speakers happen to be Asian females then what is the problem, exactly? There is not one caucasian person in the top 10 fastest 100m sprinters ( http://www.toptens.com/sport
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by jrogers65 14y ago
Your sentiments on overreacting aside, why does it matter what gender or skin colour the speakers have? If they are qualified and best of class then they should be the ones speaking, no? Should we also invite granite rocks to presentations
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I beg to differ on your first argument. Learning Vim was one of the best decisions I've ever made in terms of how I write code. Other editors feel like toys in comparison. I'm siding with mrb on this one. Learning flexible tools gives you i
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That is devolution. Psychedelics are merely tools. Just as coffee is a means to an end when you need to stay awake and work, so psychedelics are a means to an end when you are trying to figure yourself and the world out on an emotional leve
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Perhaps he was using a wider net to see if there were any other problems which, given the level of (in)competence displayed by the techs working for the college, was a distinct possibility.
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> but his explanation doesn't jive with his actions. I think it's perfectly congruent. An entity has your data as well as information on many other people. You come across and report a vunerability. You check that something was done abo
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Thanks for the heads up. Too many hours of work and no sleep.
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This is essentially an argumentum ad hominem. It is an irrational position to take. Arguments should be judged on their merits, not who's mouth they came from. I'm quite disappointed to learn that HN is censored in this way. I had no idea.
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I try to refrain from making emotional political statements on this site but I cannot resist. > Go to North Korea if you can. It is very, very strange. This is essentially advocating a visit to a huge concentration camp which is still i
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I heartily agree that good code makes sense on it's own. One of the things which good code and inline documentation (comments) do not communicate very well is a high level overview of the architecture of the application. In my opinion, it i
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> It's so tempting to keep build quick and sloppy That's normal when you're starting out. The only reason more experienced developers do not give into this impulse is because they've learned of the consequences through painful experienc
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I appreciate that resources are always tight in these situations so I would recommend that you hire an experienced developer to review your code. It's cheaper than hiring someone full time and you should still be able to get a lot of value
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Yes and no. The problem is that most of the time the train of thought goes something like: * we already have a working product * we might aswell just add the features and visual polish we need and then launch as soon as possible * we have t
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6-12 months learning how to code? Good luck building a business on top of software written by a junior-level programmer. Even better luck expanding and scaling it if/when the time comes. It takes years to reach a reasonable level of compete
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I feel that it's important enough to reiterate that PLOS is a non-profit organisation and relies on donations to keep it going: http://www.plos.org/support-us/individual-membership/#make-a...
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by jrogers65 14y ago
I do not know much at all about plan9 so I cannot comment on it but in regards to GNU - GNU/Linux would never have gained mass adoption if certain compromises were not made. If proprietary code were completely outlawed in Linux and the GNU
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I've noticed that software developers (and people in general), at the highest level, are split into three camps. One of them takes the "nothing really matters at all" attitude (see: the majority of PHP developers). These people do not subsc
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I suspect a neurochemical basis for this - when one is rich and in the higher echelons of society, it goes to reason that their brains will have more serotonin swimming around due to a) better food and b) more socialising. Having higher lev
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> got tired of having to respond to things like building the Death Star. Their loss, really. I'm half joking - putting more money into space research might net us interesting things like cheaper energy (solar panels with no atmosphere o
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A more reasonable place to start appears to be making a lot of money and then using it to lobby relentlessly.
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I read a little through your comment history and it's good to see some fellow psychonauts/drug geeks in here. I can't edit my post above and have a slight correction - > Cocaine is not usually a synthesised drug - it's a plant extract
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Cocaine is not a synthesised drug - it's a plant extract. Amphetamine also occurs naturally in plants like Acacia Berlandieri, though it is synthesised when used for medical/recreational purposes.
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We need a public education campaign on the difference between copying and stealing. All the media lobbying has tainted the terms.
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Relevant: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel... > Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In

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