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by jstelly 10y ago
I found an interesting talk called "Is there anything good about Men?" that includes potentially useful ways to frame questions about differences between men & women: http://www.denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm
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by jstelly 10y ago
This is a fairly deep topic so your question has a really long & detailed answer. The simple answer is "aliasing." The concept is that picking one sample for each pixel makes an aggregate image that could be confused with ot
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by jstelly 10y ago
That's an interesting question. Programming is definitely a skill so study and practice certainly matter. But it's possible the limiting value is the same as g or at least something that includes a set of abilities highly correl
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by jstelly 10y ago
I usually agree with other posts here that too much science makes for fiction that I enjoy less. Blindsight was an exception for me. I liked the science ideas and the fiction. If you like this kind of thing you may also like Darwin's
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by jstelly 10y ago
> I think that someone can have a lot of intellectual success (potentially just as much or maybe more) if they don't earn a PhD. I totally agree with this. Also as an anecdote, I really struggled with the decision to pursue a PhD.
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by jstelly 10y ago
The Pease limit already reduces the benefit of charitable contributions for high-income people by as much as 80%: http://www.scottkays.com/article/2015/04/09/pease-limitation...
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by jstelly 10y ago
We have 6 months of paid parental leave in my tiny / unusual / wonderful corner of the video games industry.
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by jstelly 10y ago
This can also be important for routines that treat structures as strings of bytes. e.g. void MD5( unsigned char *pStructure, size_t size ); struct foo { char a; int x; }; if I MD5( &foo, sizeof(foo) ); on two foo with the same
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by jstelly 10y ago
The headline makes a strong claim and the article actually makes this much weaker claim: Of course, there will be jobs where telecommuting isn’t practical, but in situations where all you need is a computer and an internet connection, then
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by jstelly 10y ago
I would agree with (1), but add "Most code is read at least an order of magnitude more times than it is written." Lots of decisions that save you time writing code (or save typing) at the expense of reading the code are bad decis
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by jstelly 10y ago
Aras Pranckevičius wrote a nice tool for profiling your DLL/EXE size on windows: https://github.com/aras-p/sizer
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by jstelly 10y ago
Assuming the remix uses the actual recording you need permission from the person who made that recording (the recording is covered by copyright).
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by jstelly 10y ago
I agree with this assessment in terms of how I feel as a customer. But I also think that tipping is used as a form of price discrimination. So what happens to an arbitrary price when tipping is removed might not be as simple and intuitive
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by jstelly 10y ago
This doesn't seem like a very valuable interview question anymore because it's well known and you can probably google the simple answer, but if not this is the basic idea (walk the list once pointing each next at the previous node
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by jstelly 10y ago
For what it's worth, I'm almost certain that every company in this survey provides health insurance at no additional cost (or maybe a small cost, but probably not) to all of the employees surveyed.
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by jstelly 11y ago
A voice command demostration during the launch event for the Xbox One caused problems for customers watching on their Xbox 360s (their kinect acted on the demo's commands): http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news&#x2
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by jstelly 11y ago
It also seems possible that getting rich slowly may make you happier than getting rich quickly. There is a lot of evidence that suggests that happiness around money is very relative to your expectations (which are constantly adjusting). S
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by jstelly 11y ago
This is a good change for people in offices that take turns buying coffee for a regular group of people.
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by jstelly 11y ago
I try to do this whenever I am the one talking through the results of the interview with a candidate but only if the candidate seems open to it. It seems like a valuable thing to do even from the company's perspective. If you are con
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by jstelly 11y ago
Yes, this looks like a simplified picture that is much more incremental than what is actually proposed on the Bernie Sanders site: https://berniesanders.com/issues/how-bernie-pays-for-his-pro... The "more accurate
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by jstelly 11y ago
Dungeon master was definitely one of my favorites back then. I play it all the way through and even played the sequel "Chaos strikes back". I enjoyed this article for the nostalgia. I wish it had mentioned two other games thoug
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by jstelly 11y ago
It's because the abstract idea of a child is very different from the concrete reality of your specific child. I went through the same kind of thinking in my 20s; it's very hard to realize the huge gap between the idea of children
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by jstelly 11y ago
In the first video you will notice that all of the augmented reality images are presented as added light over the background. That is much more plausible than the the second video where there are objects that can be darker than the backgro
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by jstelly 11y ago
I am not a tax expert, but my understanding is that it isn't as simple as you imply. Assuming it's income tax being avoided, for example, due to high income the Pease rule may mean that someone in this situation is actually only
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by jstelly 11y ago
There is a condition called Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth that fits this description. There is even an antibiotic that is marketed toward and prescribed for the condition called Xifaxan / rifaximin. Neomycin (another antiobio
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by jstelly 11y ago
Currently for game development optimizing compilers are useful but hardly free you from worrying about optimizations. At least when you are using C++: a) Optimizing compilers can't organize your data to be cache friendly. b) optimizing
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by jstelly 11y ago
There is a lot of user customization possible with the steam controller though. e.g. This guy is trying out layering inertial control on top of the touchpad for aiming. Generally I do prefer using a mouse to aim instead of a controller fo
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by jstelly 11y ago
If I type "weather" or "The Martian movie times" into google I get useful local results. But I see it being used for useless and creepy things also.
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by jstelly 11y ago
The same people/method the company is using to determine the strike price of any new options they are issuing?
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by jstelly 11y ago
The market leader in this space appears to be crestron and personally I find their technology to be terrible in so many ways. It seems like a big opportunity, but the problem is fairly difficult to solve and device manufacturers are workin

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