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by jwdunne 9y ago
There exists cannabis psychosis. Naturally, more psychosis will exacerbate a psychotic illness. It usually brings it on earlier and heavier in severity i.e typically schizophrenia presents later but cannabis usage in adolescents seems to tr
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by jwdunne 9y ago
That wasn't my experience, though we didn't cover the empire specifically. In fact, each term or so was based on a theme that covered a period e.g Tudors, Victorians, ancient Egypt, ancient Rome. I also went to a Catholic faith sc
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I couldn't remember the specifics but I was going to say something a bit more charged i.e directly made it worse. I wasn't sure if it was a similar deal to the Indian famine but clearly was.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
This isn't a stretch to believe. I'm British too. We did something similar with India. We also allowed the Irish famine to happen too. History does say we were not a very kind empire - causing famine was not beyond us.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I'm surprised. This is the type of thing that should fall within the Panda update cross hairs. Thin content, heavy ads - Google should by design be favouring pages that aren't shooting for cheap long tail hits.
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Ask HN: Any recommendations on good conferences / meetups in the UK?
8 points by jwdunne 9y ago|1 comments
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by jwdunne 9y ago
That's awesome. Pharaoh and Caesar III were some of my favourite games as a kid. Never thought I'd bump into someone who worked at Impression.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I think it's a useful discussion to be had. I think where you have put forward your feelings, there will be 10 or 20 more that don't feel they can for the same reason. Acquisitions are a genuine thing to fear when it's a serv
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I think firing without giving warnings and opportunity to improve is sick. These people don't even know they were doing badly. I can't tell if they've been told where they screwed up. These people could be spending a lot of t
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I think his comment was fine and by the looks of things a few others feel it was fine too. The purpose of the comment section is discussion. Interesting meta discussion is discussion and still in some way relevant. Some of the best threads
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Actually, the toolkit as an IAP really pissed me off. That's the best way to design coasters.
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Write an excellent programming blog (2014)(emptysqua.re)
2 points by jwdunne 9y ago|0 comments
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by jwdunne 9y ago
My problem with Martin's article is that his solution isn't a catch all. In fact, testing is aided by the examples he gives. The things he moans about actually reduce the runtime state set of a piece of code by moving it to compil
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by jwdunne 9y ago
That was a lot of fun. I remember seeing the visualisations from lowest to highest on a bar chart but this gives a different perspective on how the algorithms work.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Funnily enough I noticed this playing FPSs online like rogue spear. Teamspeak wasn't really viable on a 56k so text was the only method of comms for me and my friends at the time. I remember my dad being proud that I could type without
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by jwdunne 9y ago
No it's not. It's the same argument we've had about any kind of progress in programming languages since we started using higher level languages (I.e Fortran and up).
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I can see how that would be popular but it's wrong. You can take that same reasoning and say we should build web projects in C or assembly because any defects are our own fault. Let's be honest. That's bollocks. It's jus
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I read a fair whack. It feels like I've forgotten more than I learned but then there's a situation every now and then that reminds me about something from one of those many books that turns out to work well. It's almost like
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Reminds me of a funny story. I'd give up smoking and was on day 3. It took me several hours and I had a desk but almost looked inside out by the time I'd finished. Otherwise, it's quite relaxing. I find it enjoyable. The time
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by jwdunne 9y ago
German tricolour flags are prominent here (current and German Empire). I think that's an interesting result. There may be more national flags, I was looking for something similar to the Spanish flag, but my knowledge isn't that gr
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Hrm. I find a lot of stuff on linear algebra not so intuitive or motivating. It's a bit harder to get through. A big motivator is the sheer scale of application, along with calculus. Yeah it's a must for AI but really linear algeb
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by jwdunne 9y ago
It's still early stages. I'd recommend a multivariate test on the best pie chart colours, following Google's astounding results from their search link colour test.
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Mathematics of Machine Learning (2016)(datascience.ibm.com)
191 points by jwdunne 9y ago|25 comments
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Example of Eric Raymond's “smart data structures” principle(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by jwdunne 9y ago|0 comments
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I agree. Given the author, it makes more sense with some sense of DbC but it's a slog.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
This isn't really a theory but a set of tools that help you do your job. A theory would gives a means to make predictions about software engineering projects. It would naturally give us a way of working such that projects don't fa
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by jwdunne 9y ago
Ooh a free book. Thank you, this looks promising :) have you read it?
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I think Laravel's popularity, which is greater than Symfony, mandates Symfony's continued experience. Laravel uses a tonne of Symfony packages under the hood. The other thing is that I think they serve different purposes. Laravel
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by jwdunne 9y ago
There's quite a few papers on Reconciling Perspectives but behind Elsevier paywalls.
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by jwdunne 9y ago
I'm not entirely sold on Vue, I've never used it before, and I'm happy to use JSX but the Vue template code is far, far clearer to me.

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