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by klenwell 4y ago
Reminds me of this story from This American Life that they replayed recently about a retired physicist diagnosed with Alzheimer's who loses the ability to read a clock: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/583/itll-mak
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by klenwell 4y ago
I used to bring this question with me to interviews in my back pocket, so to speak: Two people, Alice and Bob, are each flipping a coin repeatedly. Alice will stop when she flips two heads in a row (HH). Bob will stop when he flips a head
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by klenwell 4y ago
I use the API to send myself a daily email with a combination of random and anniversary bookmarks: https://github.com/klenwell/pinprick I find it a good way to keep in touch with past bookmarks and do some light mainte
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by klenwell 4y ago
My "speedrun": var simulateClick = function (elem) { // Create our event (with options) var evt = new MouseEvent('click', { bubbles: true, cancelable: true, view: window }); /&
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by klenwell 4y ago
I was introduced to Harris's theory in Pinker's books (I'm guessing How the Mind Works was the main one though I've read a couple of his books and wouldn't be surprised if he returns to the topic in a number of them
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by klenwell 4y ago
Just like Homer, haha. I guess when you think about it, it's all just another form of the prehistoric craft of oral poetry or storytelling.
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by klenwell 4y ago
It's the "What's your greatest weakness?" type of questions that always throw me. Some variations include: - What's something your not good at? - What's the biggest mistake you've ever made on the job? - D
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by klenwell 4y ago
On this point, there was some good practical advice in this HN comment that I've adopted and applied successfully: What I did is I prepared 10 different stories about my career experience and then tagged them with a bunch of prompts.
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by klenwell 4y ago
That's interesting. But my favorite Knuth fact remains the fact that he published his first technical paper in Mad Magazine.[1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20351772
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by klenwell 4y ago
Netflix actually cancelled my subscription last year. Their support insisted that I did it myself. A couple months later I started getting the-please-come-back emails. I guess I wasn't a keeper. (More seriously, I originally wondered i
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by klenwell 4y ago
> It was more of a challenge than expected. The ducting had ramps, multiple corners, debris/rubbish, and a mouse skeleton to navigate around. My uncle worked for a company that designed and installed commercial ductwork. The joke he
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by klenwell 4y ago
This is a good argument for continuous release and agile over waterfall. When making estimates, I also like to differentiate between what I call happy-path projections and lazy-bayesian estimates. The former take a sort of get-there-from-he
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by klenwell 4y ago
Thanks for pointing to that. I thought this part in particular really helped clarify how this is supposed to work: As we were building Radiopaper, we developed a concept we call "social skeuomorphism." ... Social skeuomorphism is
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by klenwell 4y ago
Even Montgomery Burns -- Montgomery Burns! -- recognized this 30 years ago: "Let the fools have their tartar sauce." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X25rP4rTw3A
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by klenwell 4y ago
Great example of a commitment device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_device I like the idea of losing a deposit.
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by klenwell 4y ago
On topic of architecture of open source applications, Wikimedia shares this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers
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by klenwell 5y ago
> What's the next breakthrough idea that extracts the good signal from all the noise of a trillion web pages? Here's another recent Show HN that demoed a new search engine: Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simul
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by klenwell 5y ago
A favorite crow story from r/legaladvice: [oregon] I accidentally created an army of crow body guards. Am I liable if my murder attempts murder? UPDATE: The crows saved a life https://old.reddit.com/r/legaladvice
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by klenwell 5y ago
As an American, I consider Wallin's conviction baffling and outrageous. But I find the explanation of the rationale behind Sweden's defamation law interesting: To be an outcast in such a society has different and potentially more
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The Case That Killed MeToo in Sweden(nytimes.com)
6 points by klenwell 5y ago|1 comments
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by klenwell 5y ago
I found myself talking randomly to an Enron engineer years ago right around the time they were imploding. He described working on a similar project. Pump the water up in the dead of night. Let it flow down the next day. Then, well, certain
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by klenwell 5y ago
As I started to try to track down government sources of Covid data a couple years ago, I soon discovered this approach was generally much more efficient than consulting any official documentation.
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by klenwell 5y ago
A couple people have mentioned Sapolsky and he came to my mind also. Here's a comment I made a while back along the same lines on an article about why swearing (as a form of venting) does work ( https://news.ycombinator.com
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by klenwell 5y ago
Also known as backcasting: Backcasting is a planning method that starts with defining a desirable future and then works backwards to identify policies and programs that will connect that specified future to the present. https:/&#x2F
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The Marxist Who Antagonizes Liberals and the Left(newyorker.com)
2 points by klenwell 5y ago|2 comments
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by klenwell 5y ago
We had had an earthquake in low 5's here a couple years earlier. That was nerve-wracking but didn't do any damage. So I think I was gauging my reaction (mostly instinctively) off that. Actually, I just looked up the previous earth
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by klenwell 5y ago
I received my first and, as yet, only earthquake warning on my smart phone this past September for a 4.3 earthquake here in Southern California. It was an interesting fleeting experience. I was sitting on the couch, phone in hand, when it e
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by klenwell 5y ago
One of my favorite This American Life episodes where Penn and Teller talk about the genesis of this trick: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/619/the-magic-show Explains the significance of Penn's ball kick at the e
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by klenwell 5y ago
I heard an interesting interview this weekend with a clinical psychologist and ultra runner who gets into some of the physiological effects of running: Thompson says that running has worked as a powerful medicine for the mind, and that, mu
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by klenwell 5y ago
My local NPR station, KCRW, actually did a great series on this years ago covering Long Beach / LA port: https://www.kcrw.com/news/articles/cargoland-a-brief-history... Here's a site they created dedicat

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