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by jscn 17y ago
Check out Visualizing Data by Ben Fry http://benfry.com/ , one of the authors of the Processing language. The book is based on his doctoral dissertation, and has a technical (as opposed to artistic or design) focus, but is easy to understa
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Inaugural Kiwi PyCon, November 7 - 8, Christchurch, New Zealand(nz.pycon.org)
1 points by jscn 17y ago|0 comments
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by jscn 17y ago
Seconded. I spent a couple years training Muay Thai before getting bitten by the BJJ bug. I'm trying to fit in more standup again now, but I still try to spend at least an hour every weekday on the mats. Having a very physical hobby keeps m
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by jscn 17y ago
Yes, its not lectures which are the problem. You just don't need lectures for technical courses, you need books and practice and someone competent to discuss difficulties with. For non-technical courses, lectures aren't (or shouldn't be) si
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by jscn 17y ago
Actually, they were originally started as legal institutions designed to give autonomy to masters and students from state and church interference in the training process. They were more like guilds than places to do scientific research. The
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by jscn 17y ago
Did you read the article? According to the article, you are acting rationally if you are behaving in ways that maximise achievment of your goal(s). So rationality does (tend to) correlate with doing well in the fields you mentioned (excludi
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by jscn 18y ago
But they're not trying to justify themselves on ideological grounds, they're making a legal defense. A successful legal defense will not necessarily be the same as a mature and reasonable argument that you or I would find convincing.
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by jscn 18y ago
This essay by Henry Rollins sums up a number of the 'extra' benefits of strength training/weight lifting nicely. http://www.gittlen.com/rollins.htm
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by jscn 18y ago
Personally I find any activity which forces you to lose that constant mind chatter to be very relaxing. My favourites are sparring (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu), weight lifting and Life Drawing. I guess it's that old 'flow' thing. The nice thing ab
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by jscn 18y ago
In my experience, punches take your equilibrium due to physics, not your thoughts on the punch...
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by jscn 18y ago
Try reading http://thegrowinglife.com/2008/03/meditation-guide/ followed by http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
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by jscn 18y ago
Can you overuse a design pattern? You can use them incorrectly or when it's inappropriate, but that's not the same thing.
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Secure web uploads (getting around insecurities in IE)(tstarling.com)
3 points by jscn 18y ago|0 comments
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by jscn 18y ago
I realise this is an older article, but today was the first time I'd seen it and I found it very interesting. Is it bad form to post older articles? (I realise this is Hacker News , but I was assuming it's more important that it be interes
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Elon Musk Is Betting His Fortune on a Mission Beyond Earth's Orbit(wired.com)
19 points by jscn 18y ago|5 comments
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by jscn 18y ago
This reminds me of http://www.scq.ubc.ca/order-of-the-science-scouts-of-exempla...
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by jscn 18y ago
Let me try and make sense of this: freedom and opportunity to succeed is good, but entails possibility of failure, which is bad. You're saying you don't want the freedom and opportunity to do either when in your late 40s and beyond? Or are
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by jscn 18y ago
For a guy who is apparently so pro-business, it's instructive to see another post on his blog about how to pirate books (the post doesn't even involve an interesting technical aspect, it's just "google for a pdf"). Apparently he is of the o
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by jscn 18y ago
Sometimes these kinds of questions only become really interesting after you've studied them a bit. To a naive newcomer, they may seem silly or nonsensical, but hearing some of the arguments, details and positions can bring to light a lot of
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by jscn 18y ago
Yeah it's basically the same thing. Hypnosis, as far as I can tell, is a grab bag of techniques (much like NLP) and anchoring/triggers is/are definitely used. For instance, some trance inductions involve interrupting a trigger/pattern befor
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by jscn 18y ago
In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (and hypnosis, I'm pretty sure), this is known as a "trigger". You can create arbitrary ones yourself by, e.g., touching yourself in a certain place (say touching the tips of your forefinger and thumb togethe
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by jscn 18y ago
As my boss used to say, "the best people I've worked with have all been self taught." I've found this to be true myself. A college degree (especially (?) in CS) is not the cause of, nor (in my experience) even correlated with, great program
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by jscn 18y ago
Usually I have a quick scan of the article, read the comments, then return to the article if it sounds worth reading.
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by jscn 18y ago
"So is your local police force, in that it's an organisation with the capacity and authority to commit violent acts on behalf of the state." We agree so far. I don't think it's just semantics, but my "politics" probably differ radically fro
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by jscn 18y ago
Uh, what exactly is the military if not a "violent organisation"? If the military doesn't qualify as a violent organisation, what does? I found the article to be pretty good aside from that comment, which was a little too on the nose to b
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by jscn 18y ago
My only point of reference for how they work is, admittedly, this article. I'm far from knowledgeable about formal methods but, in my understanding, if they're writing provably correct programs the code should, by definition, contain no 'er
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by jscn 18y ago
I really enjoyed that essay; might I suggest you post it as its own item (if it's not already well known amongst the crowd here)?
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by jscn 18y ago
"This software is bug-free" You can't show a program to bug free. You can't prove a negative. "the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total o
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by jscn 18y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say not enough .
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by jscn 18y ago
there shouldn't be anything to hide, right? As ususal with privacy concerns, that is decidedly not the point.

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