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by meuk 9y ago
> However, to be somewhat of a hypocrite, I don't mind abbreviations for broadly known terms, such as SaaS, DevOps or db. I guess it boils down to the context. Well, at least SaaS and DevOps are easily googleable. Still, in any type
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I was also stating that cannabis improves focus for me. That is, directly after use. I have never been a regular cannabis user so I can't comment on my experience on the long term (I was just stating that I wouldn't be surprised i
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> It actually impairs attention and affects short-term memory. And it kills your sperm as well. I think that these are long-term effects though, I was talking about the direct effects (the dose probably matters as well). It actually make
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by meuk 9y ago
Theanine is also a fairly common substance in the smartdrugs community. People often stack it with caffeine to improve concentration and supress the jumpiness that caffeine often causes in higher doses.
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by meuk 9y ago
I am convinced that cannabis improves concentration and eliminates feelings of boredom. I always was average at best at football. I smoked cannabis before a match once. It was by far the best match I ever played and I scored thrice. Of cour
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by meuk 9y ago
> I have no idea why you keep bringing up <table>. It is totally unlike CSS Grid and completely unrelated in every way. I disagree. Conceptually, it is exactly how you would do layout in the old days. This still works, btw, it&#x
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by meuk 9y ago
Nitpicking: Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't know what SAS is. I have learned to always introduce abbreviations before using them. I think more people should do this.
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by meuk 9y ago
Thank you for the explanation, I never understood this. I wonder how many people do though (is everyone on the same page about this, usually?).
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by meuk 9y ago
Dunno, but it wouldn't surprise me. The resemblence between tables and flexboxes is also quite funny. We took 20 years from declaring the structure of table-like markup in a table to declaring it in CSS with a flexbox. Cool, but things
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by meuk 9y ago
Arch Linux - it does so much just right . The package manager is delightful, just like the wiki. Installing it is straightforward, and you learn a lot about the process. I should mention that it is not an 'install and be ready to work
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by meuk 9y ago
For me it was associating (sin(r), cos(r)) with a direction (on the unit circle), instead of with a triangle. After that, the relation with a triangle where the longest side has unit length is obvious.
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12 Steps to Better Code(joelonsoftware.com)
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Sin and cos were the first mathematical concepts I truly understood through programming rather than through high-school mathematics. The traditional method of teaching them through triangles feels very unintuitive.
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by meuk 9y ago
From David Goodsells The Machinery of Life : "In 1944, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger presented a very simple definition of life that has withstood the test of time. He identified one property that all life shares: living things avoi
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by meuk 9y ago
Thank you sir. Also, where did you find it? I'm getting downvoted, but I tried the first 20 results from the 'web link', I can't read the article on any of them. Why not just post a readable link?
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by meuk 9y ago
Paywalled...
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by meuk 9y ago
I also live in the Netherlands and feel the same. I make less than 2k a month and already don't know what to do with my money. That being said, it probably helps if you have a reasonable healthcare system. If you get ill in the US, you
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by meuk 9y ago
As far as I can see the 'ribbon' style is a tabbed layout which uses big buttons with pictures. So with the prior art of tabbed layout and of buttons with pictures, the ribbon style brings nothing new to the table.
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by meuk 9y ago
Of patenting obvious things and aggresively defending them. Although I think you could make a strong case against the whole concept of a patent as well.
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by meuk 9y ago
It's fairly obvious to me (after careful elaboration, that is): if you don't switch, you'll win iff you got the right door the first time (1/3). If you do switch you'll win iff you picked one of the wrong doors (2&
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by meuk 9y ago
I notice this in a lot of people. I am involved with an organization that teaches Python. A lot of people dealing with this organization mention Python and immediately follow up with "but I don't understand anything about that&q
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by meuk 9y ago
You're right, 'patent troll' is not accurate here, but I couldn't find a better word.
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So Microsoft is a patent troll, just like Apple (who decided to sue Samsung for the 'slide to unlock'). On the bright side, I think most people don't like the 'ribbon' (I don't understand the difference with a
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by meuk 9y ago
I have been thinking about this as well, in another context. When I am at the tennis court, I always seem to be surrounded by players which are far above average. This seems paradoxical, but you're more likely to meet the players which
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by meuk 9y ago
In the days of burning CD's I was always told that you should be quiet and not touch the PC when you were burning. In my experience there was indeed a correlation between noise and the success of burning. I'm not sure if this is a
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by meuk 9y ago
I think it is more commonly referred to as hardware design (or simply 'digital design'). I think it's also reasonable to call it software - but I think that even the 'real' hardware development (of ASICs) is starts
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Virtually anything of couse just means 'not everything'. As a sideproject, I'm building a keyboard, try that in software. Besides, software is sometimes just too slow. There's a reason you have a GPU (yes, it can be prog
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Maybe a large part of why hardware buttons work so much better than software buttons is that they just are there. They do not pop up whenever you enter a new screen, and usually, you can't miss them (as in 'oh, I didn't rea
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True, but it is also the price to pay when you use technology. You can't test everything. The TV, for example, is a new model from a big, quality brand (and in general it works well). Likewise, Call of Duty (the game that requires inte
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I would say that usually the dumb stuff is better. People are sometimes surprised (since I work in IT) that I am against putting too many functionality in stuff. First example: in my experience, there is nothing better than a blackboard f

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