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by klenwell 10y ago
In a similar vein, Jung built his own dwelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollingen_Tower I just discovered this yesterday as I was reading Murakami's 1Q84.
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by klenwell 10y ago
Don't forget the great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and his infamous phrase: "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell Holmes is an intel
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by klenwell 10y ago
First learned about this from This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/350/... And, yes, it was the first thing I thought of, too, when I saw this thread.
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by klenwell 10y ago
> executed with little to no foresight, warning, or serious consideration, with serious consequences I think it is easy to underestimate the ugliness and disorder such a reckless executive order can unleash unless you start to think abou
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by klenwell 10y ago
> Heather Wolfe found the needed documentation in an old court case, proving that Shakespeare is actually Shakespeare. This is what I sorta inferred from the article. The author says there was a smoking gun but I didn't see where it
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by klenwell 10y ago
There's a last paragraph from another story in that collection that's stuck with me ever since I first read it: Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right ha
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by klenwell 10y ago
This is the detail that the article seemed to miss. Or did I miss it?
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by klenwell 10y ago
I'm always -- well, occasionally -- pointing developers on my team to the Schelling Point Wikipedia article[0] because it's a concept that seems fundamental to developing maintainable code -- perhaps maintainable anything. The bas
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by klenwell 10y ago
Earlier this year, at my last boring corporate job, I was trading stock trading stories with our head accountant. (Like the time my brother and I were trading stock tips about 10 years ago, when he turned me on to some up-and-coming German
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The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think(newyorker.com)
2 points by klenwell 10y ago|0 comments
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by klenwell 10y ago
This Radiolab story (2013) covers the same theme: http://www.radiolab.org/story/262588-bitter-end/ It notes the discrepancy between doctors' preferences and the general public's and points to the role te
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by klenwell 10y ago
> Was he trying to create some kind of official narrative on paper that he had the knowledge and you didn't? Yes, this. We had actually worked together amicably for several years, he as senior, I as mid-level. Then we both got bumpe
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by klenwell 10y ago
Had something like this debate with manager at last job. Came to a head in my annual review. Manager: "As senior developer, you lack sufficient knowledge of our most important application." Me: "Wait. I am the one who wrote m
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by klenwell 10y ago
Not a counterpoint to your experience but rather a stinging endorsement: Pond Scum by Kathryn Schulz http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/pond-scum This vision cannot survive any serious reading
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by klenwell 10y ago
I could have mistaken it for a track off The Shaggs'[0] lost Christmas album. I like to believe Frank Zappa would have liked this, too. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shaggs
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by klenwell 10y ago
> In 1999, the Florida attorney general sued to shut down Credit Key Express, saying that it misled customers into thinking they would receive preapproved credit cards. (In fact, all they got for their money was a list of banks that migh
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by klenwell 10y ago
That was my conclusion looking at the article, too. So we have drops and spikes instead of a smooth curve. The word "alternatives" doesn't even come up in the article. I guess by these lights, the Rwandan Genocide was a model
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by klenwell 10y ago
I posed this question on Stack Overflow just yesterday: How can I visualize the javascript used by a given url? Someone at work just showed me our site on cssstats.com and I really like the way it illustrates the bloat and redundancy in ou
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by klenwell 10y ago
While I doubt that Alzheimer's is caused by infectious agents, there really is no harm in trying (except perhaps to the pockets of the trial's sponsors). Or to taxpayers when some pharmaceutical company finds a specious statisti
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by klenwell 10y ago
Agreed. From article: The complaint filed Monday in California federal court is packed with enough nuggets to instantly make this a must-watch "Hollywood Accounting" case... Despite the film's legacy and Spinal Tap's
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by klenwell 10y ago
I think both you and @anovikov are on to something. A decline in crime is not incompatible with increasing law enforcement expenditures and the general militarization of civilian police forces that been much lamented here and elsewhere. Nor
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How Fuhu went bankrupt(latimes.com)
86 points by klenwell 10y ago|37 comments
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by klenwell 10y ago
> I fail to see how it's the employer screwing anyone over. Should automation be outlawed? I would look to the automation in scheduling in the service sector over the last couple decades for a pretty clear example of employers screw
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by klenwell 10y ago
> The psychologists guessed it was because silver medal-winners compare themselves to the athletes who won gold and feel they came up short. By contrast, bronze medal-winners seem to unconsciously compare themselves to people who didn&#x
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by klenwell 10y ago
Indeed, swearing may literally be good for your health -- as an outlet for stress. In Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers , Robert Sapolsky writes: We humans also deal better with stressors when we have outlets for frustration--punch a wall,
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by klenwell 10y ago
The same thing crossed my mind. In his statement to the judge, he says: I very sincerely, on behalf of my country and Obama, my state and Arnold Schwarzenegger, myself and my family beseeched her to be lenient in her judgment. Schwarzeneg
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by klenwell 10y ago
This part made me chuckle: Twitter had published an application programming interface (API) for its service. Using the API, I wrote some software to automate the posting, such that everything would be timed correctly. I just had to push a
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by klenwell 10y ago
Or a conference call with a project manager (fully present) and 5 developers all using this. Perhaps a scene for Silicon Valley.
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by klenwell 10y ago
Implementation details are going to be an exercise for the organization. But if you start from the wrong guiding principles (or no principles at all), you're going to end up with a lot of avoidable mistakes and pointless middle-of-the-
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by klenwell 10y ago
I am reminded of campaign by Paul O'Neill to improve worker safety at Alcoa. O'Neill was the first Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush -- to his credit, he got fired early on. I came across this in Charles Duhigg's book,

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