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by judk 12y ago
Trader Joe's has hand drawn signs and Hawaiian t-shirts. They are drawn to spec to create an impression of "fun" in the customer's mind, but they are very much assembly-line product.
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by judk 12y ago
Wow that's a quintessential college essay, padded to 3x size to reach a target word count.
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by judk 12y ago
In the absence of quality evidence, randomness is better than prejudicial bias.
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by judk 12y ago
Yes, everything enjoyable is bad your health. Choose your poison, or live as a eunuch monk.
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by judk 12y ago
Sigh, even retro Starb Trek pixel art is infected by casual sexual objectification of (exclusively) women, with short skirts and huge chests.
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by judk 12y ago
Kingston was always the dodgy cheap brand.
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by judk 12y ago
But for electronics you can't test the item in store.
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by judk 12y ago
Not dull. Fascinating, but small and quickly used up. For a novice it is a wonderfully accessible and inspiring intro on the field. It shows the magic of math, who tiny patterns underlying whole classes of seemingly disparate individual cas
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by judk 12y ago
It's not just about following up, it is about separating fact from fraud and building a culture of honesty and accuracy, especially in the modern era where fake information is so easy to create and spread.
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by judk 12y ago
From an adaptivity point of view, makes sense that oxytocin would strengthen social bonds that exist for other reasons ("kin" or simacrula thereof), not create bonds with everyone.
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by judk 12y ago
Whenever I have tried spinning up a GUI on Haskell, I have always met with disaster. I think only a native (not Virtual Machine) Linux installation is the only hope, and that still is tricky. Frustrating.
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by judk 12y ago
Sadly, correct answers are too complicated to be fluff blog posts.
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by judk 12y ago
But how is that different from the original problem? Unknown distributions are unknown. Assuming a uniform shuffle of ranked options isn't actually appropriate in most real world situations. IOW, strategy is bad, but the stick market
764.
by judk 12y ago
That's how long my parents lasted.
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by judk 12y ago
It's flat out wrong. You'd end up with the last candidate, not the second best, as you say.
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by judk 12y ago
Yay, sexist and inaccurate metaphorical framings for math problems.
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by judk 12y ago
That tells you what the problem is, but solving it with current tools is still very hard.
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by judk 12y ago
Indeed: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_design
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by judk 12y ago
It is an admission of the problem and a plea for help.
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by judk 12y ago
Chrome however is deprecating this feature. Stylish will be required.
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by judk 12y ago
HN doesn't reflow/wrap text to window size on Android Chrome or Firefox. Only the pre-KitKat "Browser" works on HN.
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by judk 12y ago
"6-months" isn't a statute of limitations in this idea. The govt could still investigate later.
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by judk 12y ago
s/JavaScript/any programming language/
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by judk 12y ago
As braindead as the language was, the real problem with AppleScript was the bizarre object model, so the Object help doc was full of nonsense methods that did nothing useful. Finding the one method doExactlyOneSpecificThing that matched wha
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by judk 12y ago
This comparison is to the wrong cohort. She was among the top of her high school cohort. That's the point -- among a pool of people in the community he was raised in, she rose above the pack, didn't come through a culture the test
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by judk 12y ago
The buried lede here is the confirmation that the Pro mouse was a mistake: Jobs' "form over function" aesthetic gone to absurd extreme.
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by judk 12y ago
Unless you have an argument that Steve Jobs promoted materialism and slavery more than the average human and whoever replaced him in the commercial world, your gravedancing is illogical, beyond its crassness. Who is not on your list of peop
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by judk 12y ago
More than one person can rediscover an exploit. Paying all of them gets expensive
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by judk 12y ago
That means you should apply for scholarships first yes, then go to CC if the financials don't come through.
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by judk 12y ago
Your incorrect notion of public vs private is a major factor in the college-debt problem in the USA

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