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by ksenzee 11y ago
For women reading this post and thinking "I should negotiate more," please make sure you've also read the research on how salary negotiation works differently for women. There was a New Yorker article on the phenomenon last y
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I taught Ian's Fast Shoelace Knot to my 91-year-old grandmother a while back, when I first ran into this site. She liked it well enough that she still ties her shoes that way. It's a nifty knot.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I'll guess theme() was inspired by s-expressions, whether consciously or not. The theme() function dates from when Dries was a CS student writing a lot of the code himself. (It's also worth noting that theme() hasn't worked t
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I do not "trial and error" my way to correct answers, but I complain bitterly about whiteboard interviews. It's the wrong medium. I wouldn't mind at all being asked to use a pack of cards as a prop to talk through a sort
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by ksenzee 11y ago
She certainly has the free-speech right to write whatever she wants to. It's just not the way most families treat each other - certainly my brother wouldn't write this about me, and vice versa - so it's uncomfortable to read.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
This is idlewords's concept of investor storytime[0]. The only difference is that here, the author thinks it's a good thing. [0] http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm#ad...
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by ksenzee 11y ago
No. I'm not convinced unusually high IQ leads to greater happiness, and what I care about for my children is happiness. In a literal sense, they're probably already too smart for their own good.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Plenty of two-year-olds do still breastfeed, actually. The story doesn't mention if Adam was breastfeeding but it's quite possible. Toddlers that age don't need breast milk nutritionally (at least in developed countries) but
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I think we can trust a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Rochester not to be spouting woo in her study in _Science_.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
"The team discovered that this increased flow was possible in part because when mice went to sleep, their brain cells actually shrank, making it easier for fluid to circulate. When an animal woke up, the brain cells enlarged again and
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by ksenzee 11y ago
It sounds like you were trying to correct for an assumed subconscious bias of "deep down, we really want to hire men." In my experience, though, decent people like you don't have that bias. What they do have is a subconscious
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by ksenzee 11y ago
This very common assumption -- which I used to hold -- has it exactly backwards. Let's assume tall people and short people are equally good at cracking eggs. Mathematically, if 90% of your egg-crackers are short, you've already
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Wouldn't you know if you'd received a sketchy MMS from a number you didn't recognize?
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by ksenzee 11y ago
No, definitely not pedantic. In fact, I have only just now realized that "numpy" means "NumPy," instead of being a nonsense word that rhymes with "lumpy." Sigh.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Reddit would do well to hire someone with experience in the association management field. Those folks specialize in managing fractious communities such that the volunteers not only stick around, they're happy to pay for the privilege.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
My favorite quote: "I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are _obviously_ no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no _obvi
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by ksenzee 11y ago
No, water really isn't fuel storage. If you're at the destination where you want to use hydrogen for fuel, and you also have at your destination the electricity needed to split it, you can just use the electricity. No need to turn
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by ksenzee 11y ago
That's very interesting, especially combined with data showing that SSRIs in fact decrease brain serotonin over the long term [1]. We truly do not understand the mechanism of action for these drugs. [1] https://www.psycholog
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I wanted to make a joke to the effect that if you've already looked at fractals once, you don't need a closer look, har har. But in fact that's the point of the article: "The kind of 'infinite self similarity'
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by ksenzee 11y ago
This assumption, like just about everything on that site, is about 15 years out of date. A whole lot of "clueful" people have given up on running their own mail servers for their personal email accounts. They either use Google App
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The important point here is that he's changing his curriculum to avoid provocative works, so he doesn't get in trouble. If that becomes a widespread practice, we'll have a serious problem in higher education.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
It would be a cool story if it were true, but in fact AWS existed before Amazon was using it internally. They were selling their ability to run large datacenters, not their existing spare capacity.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
tldr: They studied two drugs in people with advanced melanoma, and the combination works better than you would expect: median survival for people taking both drugs was almost a year, compared with ~3 months for one of the drugs and ~7 month
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by ksenzee 11y ago
An excellent example of how not to react when your theory has been proven wrong: "The end is still nigh, [Ehrlich] asserted, and he stood unflinchingly by his 1960s insistence that population control was required, preferably through
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by ksenzee 11y ago
It's probably worth updating the headline. I clicked on it expecting a story on how they're keeping people from settling in southern Argentina.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
This linked article is also well worth reading: http://sundaymagazine.org/2010/08/from-1890-the-first-text-m...
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Yes, and Donald Knuth is a Lutheran. Hold my handbag so I can clutch my pearls.
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by ksenzee 12y ago
I was hoping for an actual skit, parodying the Yet Another JavaScript Framework phenomenon.
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by ksenzee 12y ago
If we knew how, we could stimulate the brain in such a way that you would think you were eating a banana. That is not evidence either for or against the actual existence of bananas.
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by ksenzee 12y ago
Contribute to an open source project. Drupal has had serious, valued contributors as young as nine and ten. One of them, Dmitri Gaskin, keynoted a Drupal conference where he talked about his experiences as a contributor. https://

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