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   Here are some suggestions of preparatory material: http://www.aiqus.com/questions/4/hey-guys-what-are-some-prer...
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   by msluyter 15y ago

   I think it's time for the HN Automation Thread Template: P: Robots are taking our jobs! ~P: No, because of: {{ lump_sum_of_labor_fallacy }} or {{ luddite_fallacy }} or {{ they've been saying this fore
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   This exercise has had some clinical support for treating Tennis Elbow. I've also found it helpful for general wrist/hand strengthening: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/phys-ed-an-easy-fix...
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   Heh. My company provides cars.com with most of its data, so I have direct access to their db. ;) However, because our business model is predicated on aggregating and then reselling automotive data, it's unlikely you could get access for f
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   Nozick seems to have had a lot of influence amongst libertarians, though it's unclear to me how much influence libertarians actually wield.
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   I used to get terribly sleepy in the afternoons; sometimes I'd go out to my car and take a 15 minute nap, even in the brutal Texas summer. Then I started taking vitamin D and went on a paleo diet, and now I almost never get tired in the aft
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   Personally, I hate Aeron chairs with a passion. Obviously, the overall point here is to keep developers happy, so I'd presume FogCreek allows developers to opt for different/better chairs. I just don't understand why these are considered th
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   by msluyter 15y ago

   My girlfriend and I went AppleTV + Netflix about a year ago, and we haven't missed cable at all (I don't watch sports). The Netflix catalog is sub-optimal and lacking some important content (HBO shows like The Wire, for example) but it's al
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   by msluyter 15y ago

   I really like Sublime Text 2. My only complaint thus far is that in order to change colors in themes -- in my case, I only change the comment color in Monokai Bright from grey to green -- you have to find and manually edit the config files.
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Having social danced and taught dance classes in various styles for over 10 years now, I think the reason you tend to see so many dancing computer geeks has nothing to do with "mental acuity," and everything to do with: 1. We tend to be int
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Lone Star Ruby Conf. Hopefully PyConf 2012. The only conference I've previously attended is No Fluff Just Stuff (Java focus) and it'll be interesting to see how these compare.
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    One answer, and I don't know if this is the right answer, is that unlike in previous revolutions, a new class of jobs has not been created to (fully) replace the jobs that are being displaced. In the industrial revolution, farmers could mov
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Also a ruby newb, so I'm not sure, but I think it's an error in the book. I got that error on all versions of ruby I tried. Either var.to_s, or "blah #{var} blah" works for me. This seems to explain it: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I wouldn't recommend HP. I got one and had hardware problems within the first week (wouldn't boot). They fixed it via mail without much fuss, but it was annoying. The mouse keys were also highly un-ergonomic.
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    Any idea when registration will be open?
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    "What we need, in other words, is a Facebook for collaborative decision-making: an app built to compensate for the most egregious cognitive biases and behaviours that derail us when we get together to think in groups." I think what he's ref
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I work with PL/SQL daily and I believe several points in the article are... debatable, if not misleading. 1. Yes, you can store your packages in SVN or whatnot, but two developers cannot work on the same package on the same database at the
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I believe Tyler Cohen's "The Great Stagnation" arrives at a similar conclusion, but I'd like to see hard numbers. In regard to entertainment, it'd be interesting to see a nomalized total $/hr comparison of various activities. For example, c
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I guess I'm weirdly cynical, but I never though airbnb had a viable model. Perhaps for rental properties, but I would never rent my own home. I see a certain analogy between this and hitchhiking. Hitchhiking used to be safe in America, but
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    I recommend graduating, but if you were unable to work on your startup due to your poor work habits, why do you think you'll be able to handle 20 hrs a semester? That's also lots and lots of work (on things you may find boring). Why not ram
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    Yes, correct. She said that it wouldn't constitute an admission of liability, just a bad precedent that could easily be abused.
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I will ask my lawyer girlfriend this question (IANAL), but based on previous conversations I've had with her, my bet would be that any reimbursement could be construed as an admission of guilt/liability, and could be used as evidence in a c
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Also a good way to teach philosophy. I did a couple of "Pathways to Philosphy"[1] courses, which mostly consist of reading assignments and lots of back and forth e-mail exchanges with a tutor. The e-mail discussions were fantastic. For phil
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    People often recommend Douglas Crockford's "Javascript, the Good Parts" and "Eloquent Javascript," by Marijn Haverbeke. The source code of interesting libraries like jQuery can be very illuminating as well.
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    Reinforcing my point. If those are "anti" patterns, they must be bad, right? Hence, patterns as described in GoF are good.
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I've heard people say that, but if that's true, why didn't they include many of the (much more commonly used, IME) patterns like Big Ball of Mud, Stovepipe System, Spaghetti Code, etc...? There's lots of nightmarish patterns/techniques that
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Incidentally, you can read the intro to Martin Ford's book here: http://www.thelightsinthetunnel.com/excerpt.htm I think the writing could be a little better, but the underlying ideas are thought provoking.
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    I agree with you, but I'm pretty sure the death penalty is a shining example of sort of topic to avoid on HN. (I wish there were a way of flagging entire branches of an otherwise topical discussion.)
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    For a long time I debated which framework to pursue in my off time (work is Java/struts blub programming). Python is the first and only programming language that I truly fell in love with, so I've investigated Django and rather like it. But
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    by msluyter 15y ago

    Rats. I was hoping a new "Bring Your Own Dog" trend was on the rise.