mdakin

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by mdakin 17y ago
I became aware of MBTI about fifteen years ago and it's been an ongoing fascination. I see it mainly as a useful conceptual framework upon which one may build a set of intuitive tools that enable effective interpersonal understanding. I'v
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by mdakin 17y ago
Well, PageRank closes the loop too. But I've always seen it presented as a static analysis. I don't know how they actually implement it. This would need to be inherently dynamic. I think it's the dynamic aspect of the thing that makes i
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by mdakin 17y ago
I think using karma as a proxy for good judgement has its own inherent problems. High karma can easily be attained by karma-whoring behavior or by obsessively and excessively contributing to the site. Both of which imply poor judgement of
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by mdakin 17y ago
http://watrcoolr.us/ -- one of epi0Bauqu's projects. I think the UI is very appealing to those of us who prefer to focus on exactly one thing at a time. And hate clutter. And like to use the keyboard.
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by mdakin 17y ago
Paul Klee. I believe his name is pronounced "clay." Check out "Twittering Machine" and "Ancient Sound" in particular. Without thinking too much about it I'd say I like his work because it tends to feel childlike and joyful to me. And obv
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by mdakin 17y ago
I faced this and after being denied I offered to write a check for the entire year right then. At that point it was insinuated that I must deal drugs. Fools are absolutely infuriating. I had luck finding an owner who's an actual human in
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by mdakin 17y ago
No, but I live in Berkeley and if you want to experience mdakin face-to-face over-a-beer drop an email to the obvious username at alum dot mit dot edu. I attended the first Startup School in Cambridge and had fun but I'm not really totally
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by mdakin 17y ago
That of a metacircular evaluator such as the one described in SICP.
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by mdakin 17y ago
I think most people value education and generally seek it without compulsion (then and now). The idea of codifying the education requirements as law (then and now) directly serves that small fraction of people who would not have found educ
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by mdakin 17y ago
My point is that education/literacy in America is not something that magically emerged on its own but is something that was mandated by the earliest settlers. These particular settlers, regardless of number/geographic footprint, exert grea
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by mdakin 17y ago
I'd argue that individual freedom led to American prosperity, and individuals' choice to partake in education was merely a consequence of a free society. You could argue that but it is wrong (well, at least the education-specific bit). M
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by mdakin 17y ago
Your choice of the word "cog" to represent a programmer and "gear" to represent a team indicates you might be internally (to your mind) objectifying the people involved with your potential projects. I could see such an internal objectifica
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by mdakin 17y ago
Allston is a neighborhood of the City of Boston.
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by mdakin 17y ago
Is there a non-bigoted interpretation of this slur-laced question?
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by mdakin 17y ago
It also gives OSX RS-232 terminal emulation capability. As far as I know OSX ships with no other such program. Once you get your USB dongle's driver situation under control you just: screen device baud ex: screen /dev/tty.usbserial-FT
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by mdakin 17y ago
It's true that "many people" may indeed like to start off slower but those data show clearly that for male initiated communication longer messages have increased probability of reply. The recommendation for short messages is intended to ma
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by mdakin 17y ago
Take this not as a criticism at all but as practical advice for the future. The appropriate response to such a question is, "No. And it creeps me out that you would even ask." Arguments about having nothing to hide are countered with "You
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by mdakin 17y ago
Welcome; hope it helps!
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by mdakin 17y ago
And if you're in Boston the BPL in Copley Square has a similarly beautiful and useful room. And despite now living thousands of miles away I still see fit to always carry my BPL card. It's been on me for over twenty years at this point an
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by mdakin 17y ago
He has written over 600 papers and 40 books. Perhaps his data about the efficacy of standing up to bullies is somewhere buried in that writing. But it's not obvious at all that it is given your Google search. I'm not particularly interes
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by mdakin 17y ago
Agreed. It seems he believes the children have Dweckian fixed/entity mindset. And that would be a very bad thing for a psychologist to believe.
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by mdakin 17y ago
The time-honored assumption is that if your child cleans a bully's clock once...he'll leave your child alone. It would be nice if life worked this way...but it usually doesn't. This is inconsistent with my personal experience. I would li
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by mdakin 17y ago
Twitter is a platform upon which social connections can be built and maintained. It's a very flexible tool for working within that social domain. It somehow gets even more compelling when you and all your actual real-world friends use it
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by mdakin 17y ago
I wonder if the multivariate nature of this problem is throwing you off more than the differential equation aspect of it. If you know multivariable calculus you can think about this problem at a higher level of abstraction (vector fields a
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by mdakin 17y ago
This idea seems descriptive of someone with an entity (sometimes "fixed") theory of intelligence. I strongly encourage development of a incremental (sometimes "process", sometimes "growth") theory of intelligence instead. With the right g
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by mdakin 17y ago
I always start by looking at the code and trying to get an intuitive leap about the problem. But if it does not come the next step will often be to drop a breakpoint on the first line of the 7 or 8 functions involved run it and feel the fl
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by mdakin 17y ago
Interesting... tack that hash on. :) Probably does not need to be a hash actually. A few random base-36 digits would do it. You'd just need to store the random digits with the URL in whatever sort of persistent storage system you're uti
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by mdakin 17y ago
I would associate each URL with a sequential number. And express the number using base-36 (0...9 + a...z). I don't see the need to use obfuscation for this application but if desired I'd hash the URL + a secret and prepend that fixed-leng
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by mdakin 17y ago
I think you could describe the structure as being a directed graph with labelled edges and stuff inside each node. You build it up by inspection, debugging, documentation (when it's around), experimentation. You know who calls x. You kno
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by mdakin 17y ago
I think my approach could be described as a combination of intuitive and feeling (closely backed up by thinking). The visualization is more a tool used to serialize out thoughts for historical or communicative purposes. I rely more on feel

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