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   by msluyter 13y ago

   Just curious -- what's the usage profile for Office in the HN world? Where I work, we use Outlook (on macs), excel on occasion, powerpoint, and that's about it. Around 10 years ago or so, we'd draw up big honkin' require
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   by msluyter 13y ago

   I'm not sure -- it was just a free meter off the apple app store. That level isn't constant; it's just what happens when everyone around you is having animated conversations simultaneously. I probably shouldn't have said
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   by msluyter 13y ago

   I'm extremely sensitive to sound, and I've been hoping that the the powers that be will eventually come to the realization that open seating plans are highly suboptimal ( http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08&
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   by msluyter 13y ago

   Yes to point 1. I did Toastmasters for about a year and it had a huge impact. They have a systematic way of developing your skills (a set of 10 speeches designed to focus on various aspects, like structure, vocal presentation, gestures, e
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   by msluyter 13y ago

   If you haven't read the previous 5 articles in the series, I highly recommend them. Fascinating and eye opening stuff.
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   by msluyter 13y ago

   ObReference: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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   by msluyter 13y ago

   Nice comment. Question: can you recommend any libraries/frameworks for interacting with the database. E.g., something like the ActiveRecord in rails, or perhaps hibernate?
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   by msluyter 13y ago

   There will come a point in life where you have enough money, hopefully. At that point, you probably should start ventures that aren't about making money (though money-making businesses are a very robust way to change the world). My t
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   by msluyter 13y ago

   I'd love to pay teachers more -- if I were appointed Dictator of the United States, I would also (at least) double their salaries. But how would we actually go about achieving that goal in the actual world we live in? Well, we'd h
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    The parent probably shouldn't have included C and Python in the same list but if you apply the principle of charity[1] and choose Python as the point of comparison rather than C, then his argument is somewhat stronger. [1] http:/
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    Tangential: Back when I was studying music, I took a class by the brilliant David Noon called "Stravinsky," on... Stravinsky. Dr. Noon presented a very early work of Stravinsky's (when he was in his early 20's, I believe
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    I agree with you, but FWIW, if you're already used to C, then the cognitive overhead of && and || is probably negligible. Given Go's pedigree, that doesn't seem too surprising.
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    An alternative explanation: a group of people were selected to participate in meditation training. This heightened their awareness of the supposed benefits/effects of meditation as well as its historical traditions. Perhaps some of the
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    I found the article confusing because it begins by noting the deficiencies of studies on pair programming and then presenting data from... where exactly? I couldn't tell. And then: It is obvious from table 3 that the best economic res
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    I just got one of these (i7, 8GB ram), along with a new Time Capsule. FWIW, subjectively, performance seems noticeably improved over my previous Air, presumably mostly due to the graphics & wifi.
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    I think what you've just described is Larry Niven's "wirehead." In Larry Niven's Known Space stories, a wirehead is someone who has been fitted with an electronic brain implant (called a "droud" in the st
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    So, any time an article like this comes along, I think something like "interesting, I guess I should go out and short the Yen... but wait, if everyone is already shorting the Yen, won't that already be baked into the price?&quot
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    Cool, I wasn't aware of a -R flag in grep for some reason. I need to go back and re-read the man pages...
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    Similarly, I have a little shell function loaded by .zshrc that covers 90% of my use cases: findit() { find . -name \* -exec grep -iH $1 {} \; }
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    Interesting question. I think the first obstacle would be HR. I'm not an HR person, but my guess is that a lot of them would pre-screen resumes without a degree. So that may limit you to really small companies and/or places where
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    I think all these are interesting and relevant questions, but these aren't (typically) what are being discussed. Instead we're going down well worn paths about libertarianism and whatnot... I understand that basically all I can re
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    % colout -r x usage: colout.py [-h] [-g] [-c] [-l SCALE] [-a] [-t] [-s] REGEX [COLOR] [STYLE] colout.py: error: unrecognized arguments: -r :(
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    Personally, I don't get it. Just because something outrages you doesn't make it HN material. IMHO, the story is 90% politics. Sure, there may be some interesting HN bits, like the tech aspects of how the data was collected, but th
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    Hmm... when I run colout -r, I get: % colout -r usage: colout.py [-h] [-g] [-c] [-l SCALE] [-a] [-t] [-s] REGEX [COLOR] [STYLE] colout.py: error: too few arguments
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    Just installed it via pip and gave it a try. I like it! I think I can already find some interesting uses for it. A couple of suggestions: The website says: colout -r will give you the lists of available colors, colormaps, themes
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    Interesting calendar trivia. The Gregorian calendar was adopted in Sept. 1752: Britain and the British Empire (including the eastern part of what is now the United States) adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, by which time it was necess
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    A nice list. I use things like the simple web server all the time, and I was unaware of the SMTP server, but some of these seem superflous, like: python -m calendar When you could just do cal 2013 (with fewer keystrokes). Is
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    I'm interested in this, but I don't see your email on your profile (I don't see any emails, actually). Is HN actually publishing the emails? I have vague recollections of that being turned off at some point.
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    I don't necessarily disagree with the article so much as view it as tangential to the movie's real problems. What I missed most was that grandly optimistic vision of humanity; the idea that we could transcend its baser, violent instincts an
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    by msluyter 13y ago

    They want the car buying process to be so excruciatingly painful so people will leave money on the table to "Just take my money and make the pain go away". Well, this is why I bought my last car used from Carmax. Sure, you probably spend