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by jtheory 14y ago
My wife grew up in Malaysia, eating mostly with her hands. Hand, rather, normally the right, but the practicality of this is not (no longer?) related to toilet hygiene -- more just that it's really useful to keep one hand clean to pick up
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by jtheory 14y ago
Fair enough, and I shouldn't just knock it without even reading carefully. It's frustrating sometimes to see discussions like these that seem to completely ignore the very wide variety of sounds that people find pleasant. I've perhaps rea
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by jtheory 14y ago
Hmph. Read through to the end, and even the paper's co-author agrees nothing was really proven, and learning is quite likely still a major factor in what we prefer to hear. There's also no discussion of cultures whose traditional music fo
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by jtheory 14y ago
Hmm; the one line that doesn't have 10 syllables (constipation..) shows as having 10, and it likely doesn't have a way to show the ones where the stresses don't line up right. Though to be fair, this is a tricky problem, especially if peopl
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by jtheory 14y ago
I started a reply here simply to comment that Stripe doesn't do currency conversion, they just charge in USD. But I double-checked their FAQ and couldn't verify that, actually... I can't find details on how they manage the actual charge to
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by jtheory 14y ago
> I don't believe in catering to the possible 5% [1] market share that will not upgrade their browsers Please remember there are large numbers of users who cannot upgrade the browser they use at work, and there are valid reasons why t
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by jtheory 14y ago
To procrastinate, to put it a bit uncharitably. Though to dig slightly deeper -- urges to procrastinate what I "should" be working on appear when I face a hard problem with no hook on it (some hard problems drag me in; others push me away -
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No.
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by jtheory 14y ago
I could (but don't) call myself an audiophile -- I love the world of sound around me. I notice the aural qualities of every room I enter; when I'm in a small space with hard walls, I hum a bit to identify the pitch that will make the room r
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by jtheory 14y ago
I haven't watched the video, but aren't sure I even need to. Which cancer? The diseases that fall under the title "cancer" are just the havoc caused by mutated cells of any time, of any type of harmful mutation... there is no "cure for can
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by jtheory 14y ago
> It's just that these very small refactorings pile up and in effect I have a nice script, which is documented and properly structured, and which took twice as long to write than it should. Ah ha... one solution, then, may be to force y
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by jtheory 14y ago
I was going to suggest the magical spell to summon a person on the internet -- say their name three times in a high pagerank location with your eyes closed, of course -- but it only works for people who haven't yet tired of googling themsel
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by jtheory 14y ago
A few suggestions based on my experience (I have the same problem sometimes...): - "get it working and keep it working": get the minimal possible functionality working (outputting some result, even if there's utterly no error handling, inpu
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by jtheory 14y ago
I suspect you're thinking of a product that would support a business -- the post you're responding to mentions a "subsystem". This is only a few steps beyond what anyone who completes a CS degree does at least two or three times during th
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by jtheory 14y ago
Right, preventative care, and not just starting businesses -- it stops people from doing all kinds of good things. Creating art or writing novels, going back to school, moving across the country, working for startups (not just starting th
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by jtheory 14y ago
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/xkcd/ "Actually the domain name came after the instant messaging screen name, which I picked late one night. Five, six, maybe seven years ago, I was tired of having names that meant somethi
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by jtheory 14y ago
With these images in my head, this xkcd What-If is suddenly more frightening: http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
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by jtheory 14y ago
Quite right on the anecdote comment; but I'm suddenly wondering what kinds of end-of-life plans you worry you could make that would require deep resolve. The kind of thinking I'm talking about isn't about choosing one option, regardless --
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by jtheory 14y ago
I've had two personal experiences of making stressful life/death decisions after several physically taxing days with no sleep. Not end of life decisions -- and my own life wasn't on the line -- so it's not the same thing, but my personal
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by jtheory 14y ago
> Uh, yeah, I know that it's not biologically true. You're skipping over my actual point; "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy by itself. >How many people don't launch startups because they don't have the disposable income needed t
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The name was chosen explicitly to be difficult to pronounce and remember.
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by jtheory 14y ago
Skipping over the difficulties of implementing universal health care for the moment -- the thing I like best about it is that it drastically simplifies an entire category of "stuff I hate that keeps me up at night". If "but what happens i
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by jtheory 14y ago
> then you choose to use your money to pay for expensive treatments for you or your children? That's fine in any country with universal healthcare. > What if spending a bunch more money buys you a great deal more than a couple of ye
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Heh... "basic" like "head only", or "6 months only"?
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by jtheory 14y ago
It's certainly true that "I intend to" (in the GP comment) can't be the same as "I will". I strongly disagree that it's useless talk, though. If you haven't put any thought into the possible ways to respond to life and death decisions, when
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by jtheory 14y ago
Yes, as psychological phenomena -- that is, I believe that people actually do see ghosts, sometimes. The shortcuts our brains take to make sense out of the flood of input from our senses mean that it's quite common to legitimately see thing
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by jtheory 14y ago
I studied music undergrad; I remember learning about Shepard tones in one of the early theory classes, and finding the idea fascinating, but it was a disappointment when we actually heard examples. I'm not quite sure what I imagined the exp
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by jtheory 14y ago
I use the daemonology top 10 list, but most days I end up reading that, then also scanning the front page directly, because occasionally there are posts I'd like to discuss -- and if I only see the top 10 from yesterday, the discussion is
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by jtheory 14y ago
Yup, just on the question of putting secrets into get request params vs. headers. OAuth2 does require SSL, and you're right that both params and headers are equally protected there. My main concern with putting "secrets" in query strings is
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by jtheory 14y ago
I haven't worked with the Facebook version -- can you (or anyone) comment further on the headers vs query strings question? I'm working on an OAuth 2 implementation currently. It seems easier to me to keep a bearer token secret (out of ser

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