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by mdakin 18y ago
If you want to do something about the problem I highly recommend: "Write Now" by Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay [1] It is a workbook-style introduction to "italic" handwriting. I worked through it a few years ago and to this day my handwriti
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by mdakin 18y ago
As of right now the promise of cryogenics is analogous to snake-oil and various forms of alternative medicine. Surgery is something that works, we know why it works, how it works, how to do it again and again, how to gage the probability o
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by mdakin 18y ago
I understand your point but bringing ∞ or א-numbers into a non-mathematical discussion in a such hand-wavy fashion is really a form of fallacious argument (albeit unnamed as far as I know) and will almost certainly lead to even lower-qualit
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by mdakin 18y ago
The sun looks like an 'O' and the mountain looks like an 'N.'
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by mdakin 18y ago
I think delivery is important. If you are showing enthusiasm while explaining the different concepts and possibilities it's often infectious. If you can do a demo-- awesome! When dealing with money-focused people it helps to reassure them
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by mdakin 18y ago
If you approach your management independently will they negotiate a custom agreement with you or will they laugh? If collective bargaining is your only option it makes sense to maximize the union's leverage and to help steer the union in t
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by mdakin 18y ago
It's trivially easy to take bad pictures of people. And doing so is neither notable nor valuable in any way whatsoever. Contrast with this photo taken by someone who knows what she's doing: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0712/y_wal
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by mdakin 18y ago
15% seems like a low fee. Perhaps the recruiters willing to work at that rate are not the best? The mid-sized company I used to work for would pay more like 33%. That company was able to build quite an impressive staff for a larger mid-s
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by mdakin 18y ago
There is a long running concept of honor and chivalry in Anglo-American culture which intertwines with and mutually reinforces Christianity but the two are not one and the same. It traces back to at least the Normans; the word "chivalry" it
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by mdakin 18y ago
This is why assert exists. tyger(~)% cat << EOF > main.c ? #include <assert.h> ? ? void main( void ) ? { ? assert( 0 == 1 ) ; ? } ? EOF tyger(~)% gcc main.c main.c: In function ‘main’: main.c:4: warning: return type o
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by mdakin 18y ago
How do you know you're good at something a priori without spending the 10,000 hours to find out empirically?
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by mdakin 18y ago
We are discussing prediction of success. Noticing one or two characteristics thought to be shared by the successful is really quite useless; most people with those characteristics do not succeed. Most tall people suck at basketball. Some
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by mdakin 18y ago
Anomalies aren't necessarily evidence but in this case, and in many important general cases anomalies can be critically important evidence. He and his career constitute evidence that "height" is not a requirement to be an elite basketball
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by mdakin 18y ago
Spud Webb is only 5'6" tall. He played in the NBA for 13 years and won the 1986 slam dunk contest with a "180-degree reverse two-handed strawberry jam." He was better than all the seven-feet-tall guys in that contest in 1986. Assessing pot
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by mdakin 18y ago
Arrange for your company to house you in San Diego during this critical period and enjoy the winter in California.
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by mdakin 18y ago
Regardless of the cause: whether behavioral choices are a result of a person's essence or a person's circumstance, it's prudent to take John Edward Emerich Dalberg, Lord Acton's advice to "judge talent at its best and character at its worst
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by mdakin 18y ago
Assuming you already know a bit of C and that you like learning by tutorial I'd recommend working through "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" 3rd Ed. by Aaron Hillegass. You will get a good tutorial-based introduction to Objective C, Xcode/In
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by mdakin 18y ago
It's not quite that simple. Often the richest consumers are not hit as hard by recessions and keep spending. And even if they are hit with a glancing blow perhaps instead of buying another house, car, boat they might seek comfort in more
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An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth(brucemaudesign.com)
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by mdakin 18y ago
My interval tends towards [3,9]. Mean is likely around 6 and it's a lumpy distribution with significant variance. I've not actually characterized it; this is gut-feel.
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by mdakin 18y ago
I have done something like this. I interfaced with Apache however rather than also writing the web server by hand. I also leveraged libraries when I could. You may want to investigate the following libraries: fcgi++: Interface with the we
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by mdakin 18y ago
The Boston meetup I attended over a year ago was held during the evening and many awesome people showed up. I encourage consideration of evening time slots! (However, unless I have a conflict I will show up to a SF meetup regardless of ti
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by mdakin 18y ago
Note there is an error in the transcription of that section. He said, "Haskell, to pick a functional language" and not "Pascal" as the transcript reads.
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by mdakin 18y ago
Semirecently got out of a long relationship. So long that I was basically a kid when it started and if there was such a thing as a dating site on the Internet at the time I knew nothing about it. I've not tried any dating sites. Why? 1.
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by mdakin 18y ago
With respect to the Indians/pox blankets/massacres you need to understand that a societal-level berserker rage ([1] [2] for definition) was happening for the better part of 250 years because back about 100 years before America existed India
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by mdakin 18y ago
America is not an entity; it is a process. Processes can go awry but they are malleable and fixable. Do you resent your program because it crashes? No, you fix the bug and move on. It's the same thing with America. American culture valu
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by mdakin 18y ago
Try to meet everyone. Remember, keep track of, and develop real relationships with all of the people you click with.
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by mdakin 18y ago
I know from experience that such shirts tend to come as gifts from hot girlfriends. So if there is any correlation between alpha-males and such shirts it is probably related to a correlation between alpha-males and hot girlfriends.
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by mdakin 18y ago
I think there is a generalization here worth mentioning-- you need to understand what your contractor actually wants and figure out the best incentive for him. For example I value being able to work multiple jobs at the same time and/or on
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by mdakin 18y ago
Both The Tasty and The Greenhouse have closed. Go to Pinocchio's Pizza and and Charlies Kitchen before they too are replaced with useless mallstores!! There are a lot of good ice cream places including Herrell's, Emack and Bolio's, JP Lick

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