madhadron

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by madhadron 15y ago
Ah, you left before it became apparent that Google is a company going into decline. Personally, I stopped even considering working there when I heard about Search-Plus-Your-World, and when I saw a Google+ video advertisement, I knew the com
1202.
by madhadron 15y ago
sigh Yet more poor biology on hacker news. First, there is no causal connection known between cholesterol deposition in arteries and heart disease. There is an absolutely clear correlation between the two, but no evidence of cause and eff
1203.
by madhadron 15y ago
Actually, it's more subtle and more pernicious in biology. First, you make sure that your wage slaves have no marketable skills (a PhD in molecular biology is comparable to a community college graduate). Then you carefully isolate them from
1204.
by madhadron 15y ago
Looking at the original article, I'd be surprised if this wasn't already known in the 1960s, just expressed in a somewhat different mathematical language. As for the linked article, I think I had better start posting some biology to Hacker
1205.
by madhadron 15y ago
As someone who's passed as a native in physics, biology, compsci, and math, this is peculiar to biology, or rather to the culture of academic biology today, where the laurels go to those who can make the biggest mountain out of their molehi
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by madhadron 15y ago
Yup, and he was absolutely right. I've adopted multicharacter names (though usually abbreviations or short ones) for my day to day calculations, and a visible multiplication. Mind you, if I get deep into integration and the only reflexes fr
1207.
by madhadron 15y ago
Really? I just took off over half the points for probles that I couldn't easily read until handwriting improved. Students with illegible chicken scratch suddenly developed perfectly readable handwriting overnight. End of problem. For my par
1208.
by madhadron 15y ago
The boxes seem to be an unstable medium between the stable points of S-expressions and indentation as nesting. If there are lots of nested expressions, you either push them to multiple lines and it becomes indentation, or you keep them on o
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How do you manage programming burnout?
11 points by madhadron 15y ago|9 comments
1210.
by madhadron 15y ago
This is the first compelling reason I've ever seen to have a digital picture frame. Imagine just having that swirling continuously on your wall.