lazyant

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841.
by lazyant 12y ago
Not answering the question but I think homework should be, at least in part about creating good study habits so that you prepare high-schoolers for university. They shouldn't last too long as to not overwhelm them as also avoid involvi
842.
by lazyant 12y ago
From my European perspective this article is almost stating the obvious, nothing controversial here. The only point is that conditions for victory ("winning the war") need to be clearly defined and they haven't.
843.
by lazyant 12y ago
I read Thinking Fast and Slow and also I also read a better summary of the initial study, by the author I think. The 10,000 hour was taking from a study from top music performers (so, no random population), also there was a lot of variance;
844.
by lazyant 12y ago
It wasn't his claim originally; he took a paper and summarized it in the 10,000 hour rule, even the original paper author has denied the claim stated as such.
845.
by lazyant 12y ago
Comments and picture of the girl as a grownup http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/girl-famous-1981-lego-ad-has-f...
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by lazyant 12y ago
From other tech book authors it seems it's the former; they work many hours for a year and then they make 20k or that kind of minimum wage money
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by lazyant 12y ago
indeed
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by lazyant 12y ago
It's semantics but just in case "Viewed from London, buccaneering was a low-budget way to wage war on England's rival, Spain. So, the English crown licensed buccaneers with letters of marque, legalizing their operations in re
849.
by lazyant 12y ago
Yes, that line sounds more fit for "The Simpsons" than real life.
850.
by lazyant 12y ago
Attributing to Deep Blue a "surprising strategic insight" is just anthropomorphism, since the 'insight' was basically another result of brute force, it's just probably the humans didn't see it coming.
851.
by lazyant 12y ago
Can't imagine why it would be a bad thing, although I don't know the , I don't see anything negative in the blog entry.
852.
by lazyant 12y ago
You can't even take a nap in some places like on a couch in a mall; maybe polices change but I saw a mall guard waking up some tired soul.
853.
by lazyant 12y ago
that's comparing an orange with the produce section of a supermarket; AWS is much more than virtual machines; for just a box with a set cpu, memory, disk and bandwidth you're right that it's cheaper to rent a dedicated server
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by lazyant 12y ago
FARC hostages had no room to act when there was fighting nearby; I read Betancourt's book about her captivity and the first thing the FARC would do is to put a gun to their heads (literally or figuratively, can't remember) with or
855.
by lazyant 12y ago
I'm no historian or geographer but I never thought of considering the north African cultures of the time as not European, since Mediterranean at a time seemed a uniting force and not a dividing one like now. Perhaps my European-centric
856.
by lazyant 12y ago
"Getting Started. Command Line" -> OK I have java. "Hello World" -> "Start repl." lost already.
857.
by lazyant 12y ago
those are good points too
858.
by lazyant 12y ago
Besides availability like you mention, what parent is saying (I think) is that you may go an pirate a movie because it's just 1.5 hrs of entertainment and then you won't see it again, and maybe it wasn't even that good, so it
859.
by lazyant 12y ago
ownership != sovereign soil
860.
by lazyant 12y ago
It's even worse (at least with emotional political opinions); when confronted with adversarial data we tend to become more entrenched in our positions.
861.
by lazyant 12y ago
> In "europe" a two week vacation (10 work days) is common/standard In some countries (at least France and Spain) there's a minimum 30 day vacation by law, it's pretty normal to take a whole month off.
862.
by lazyant 12y ago
I think the idea applies to cars as well, fwii the worst year for car accidents is the 2nd year after getting a licence (1st year being the worst), at least in some countries (can't remember where this is from)
863.
by lazyant 12y ago
that's what the biggest welfare system in the US is for (the military)
864.
by lazyant 12y ago
Summary is in the middle: "Smartphones have exacerbated the monkeys and typewriters problem," says says Paul Kedrosky, a veteran investor. "Given enough people with smartphones, a teen from New Jersey will turn his bar mitzva
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by lazyant 12y ago
If I remember correctly, revealing if an email address is already in the system is considered information disclosure vulnerability in OWASP tests, presumably because then you can do spear phishing against that email using the information th
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by lazyant 12y ago
Semco. You may want to read Ricardo Semler's book http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Workpl... it's 20 years old but for some reason it's not a classic in startups or US business environmen
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by lazyant 12y ago
fwii you couldn't take them from Canada into the US until very recently, I read something or the other about now being allowed, don't quote me at the border.
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by lazyant 12y ago
I can very much understand people for the 2nd amendment and people for government surveillance but for the love of me I cannot understand people for both things, they seem direct contradictions of what your idea of government involvement in
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by lazyant 12y ago
"Company, Location, Salary range?" is my low-pass filter quick reply to random recruiter approaches.
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by lazyant 12y ago
"Swappiness is set to zero to disable swapping..." for many (most, older?) distros setting swappiness to zero won't disable swapping completely.

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