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by mbubb 11y ago
Heh, I found out about this recently. I have a coworker who is simultaneously quite good at chess and Brasilian JiuJitsu. I suggested a combination of the two and he told me about Chess boxing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by mbubb 11y ago
Another comparison would be how would the Formula 1 car do in terms of sourcing its own energy to keep going. Humans - in our primitive state were adapted for 'persistence hunting' - we ran in packs and drove animals into hyperthe
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by mbubb 11y ago
Agreed - I didn't, the article did. It is a fatuous distinction. In fact - that categorizing is an example of the complete lack of imagination that I am talking about.
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by mbubb 11y ago
The story is incredible - the film is not very good.
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by mbubb 11y ago
It shows a lack of imagination. You see this and want to be surprised. Learn about some fantastic unknown Malaysian film that blows doors... I overuse a half learned Nietzsche quote from the beginnings of "The use and abuse of history.
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by mbubb 11y ago
And the inclusion of films like Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" is bizarre. That film is like a 2hr episode of "Hogan's Heros" set in a Japanese POW camp.
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by mbubb 11y ago
Wow - this is lacking. Very much a Hollywood/ NYC focus. I could think of 5 (each) Russian, Chinese, French, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Australian films would be before "Bad Lieutenant" (a film I like a lot - esp with the orig
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by mbubb 11y ago
"The Phoenix Project" http://itrevolution.com/books/phoenix-project-devops-book/ is good for understanding Devops and constant refocus on business objectives.
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by mbubb 11y ago
https://hbr.org/2016/02/how-powerful-low-status-jobs-lead-to...
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For the BOFH in all of us – Powerful, low status jobs can lead to conflict(powerful-low-status-jobs-lead-to-conflict)
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by mbubb 11y ago
from the Hagakure
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by mbubb 11y ago
great points. I see this program and wonder why we (in the US) go into such contortions away from teaching - math. Just teach kids how to think in math and they will take to most CS topics like fish in water.
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by mbubb 11y ago
Thank you for the link - the study is very interesting to read. I have been bumbling around for a while trying to see what fits for me and there have been counter-intuitive things that seem to work. This study makes me think of that. Part o
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by mbubb 11y ago
Exactly - I was thinking about cars. If you have a problem with the brake system you don't call Delco (who used to make those indash radios years ago) because that logo is visible and staring you in the face. ... Although there probabl
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by mbubb 11y ago
Good advice. I had a non-tactical, non-aggressive knife in my pocket and ended up getting arrested. No previous trouble with the law... I was minding my own business on the subway. Handful of court dates, a few grand and community service.
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by mbubb 11y ago
Debian was the first thing I got to work - I tried to install other distros before that but Debian is the one that worked. Learned about software licenses (early days of trying ot get wifi to work). I really wish I could do something. I fee
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by mbubb 11y ago
Nice. Thanks for this.
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by mbubb 11y ago
Excellent points. Hard not to rage at this though. It is beyond distressing.
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by mbubb 11y ago
Heard about this on "Brain Pickings" and it is on its way. A good read for boys at bedtime? 9 and 11yrs.
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Yeah - i looked at DYN and they are expensive. The "Internet Intelligence" stuff looks interesting but that is an add on.
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by mbubb 11y ago
More money and more queries-per-month then that at nsone.net. They are very good. The api is especially nice for setting up failover and geo pools.
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No - I understand that part - I meant the transformation of the syllable as it is assembled. It changes shape in a similar way.
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by mbubb 11y ago
Fascinating - wonder if this is similar to how a Korean phoneme or an ideogram is assembled while typing.
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by mbubb 11y ago
I recently migrated jira/ Confluence / Stash / Hipchat from the cloud versions to self hosted for a company going through the IPO process. So we went from the Crowd based setup to LDAP / postgresql backed versions of the
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by mbubb 11y ago
It is interesting that Pascal gets cited in this. With Pascal's Wager there is no leap really. It is very internal idea - an individual's relationship with God. "I might as well believe, there is no risk if I do so. If I am r
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by mbubb 11y ago
Great read and interesting discussion. Reminder of how good HN has been over the years. The idea of "institutional learned helplessness" is a useful one. There is a French term which I will mangle instead of google: 'Deformat
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by mbubb 11y ago
True and sometimes the value of a piece is the fact that you can get something of value and learn from it even if you vehemently disagree with points made or conclusions. Nietsche's point in the beginning of the "use and Abuse of
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by mbubb 11y ago
Yes - I get your point. Actually targeting adverts based upon search came out of a similar crusade against spam in the late 90's. If you went to a website about exotic locations and asked for information - you would then get an avalanc
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by mbubb 11y ago
Sorry for the delayed response... I like the idea you present - just don't see how it would be implemented. Jotted some ideas. Need ot read and think more. I am sure this has been on HN - no tsure where I first saw it. But this is a ve
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by mbubb 11y ago
Coincidentially I heard about this at a recent talk - is it this: http://www.imore.com/jekyll-apps-how-they-attack-ios-securit... Jekyll apps in App store

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