msluyter

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   by msluyter 17y ago

   Yep. It's "The Bible Code" all over again.
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   by msluyter 17y ago

   I’m also on flax seed oil, nature’s highest source of Omega 3’s which are vital for brain function. My understanding is that flax seed oil contains omega-3s in a form that's not immediately usable by the body (linolenic acid), and the con
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   by msluyter 17y ago

   I agree, and the problem isn't the necessarily the number of questions or even the types of questions per se, it's that the choice of questions and the ordering demonstrate a lack of coherent thought. To exaggerate: "What web frameworks do
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   by msluyter 17y ago

   So, you're saying given queries like: select * from t where t.col = 'foo' select * from t where t.col = 'bar' select * from t where t.col = 'baz' Oracle should infer that foo|bar|baz should be parameterized? Interesting idea, though this se
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   by msluyter 17y ago

   One pertinent example of this: Tom Kyte (Oracle guru) argues against treating Oracle as a black box. If you try to ignore Oracle's internals, you'll tend to end up doing things in extremely suboptimal ways. Say, for example, by not using bi
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   by msluyter 17y ago

   Isn't the XBox a successful Microsoft hardware product? I think it actually turned a profit in '08ish.
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   by msluyter 17y ago

   Perhaps researchers are finding the placebo effect more successfully due to a sort of meta-placebo effect. They're expecting to observe it, so they do... ;)
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   by msluyter 17y ago

   I used to joke that in the future they'd simply take all of your clothes and personal possessions at security, stamp your hand with an ID number, and make everybody wear hospital gowns.
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   by msluyter 17y ago

   I went through this transition once. Initially, sodas were to be .50$, but that caused an uproar and price was quickly reduced to .25$, where it remains today. It's one thing for sodas to not be free; it's another for them to be a profit ce
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    I think it's dependent on the situation. I enjoy the charm of machines named "frodo" and whatnot, but when I first arrived at my current company, the totally arbitrary naming conventions was highly confusing because we had three environment
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    As someone who recently started taking fish oil (prescribed my my doctor) due to low HDL levels, I find this highly frustrating. And it's not like I could just eat fish ; it seems most of our fish sources are contaminated. The more I learn
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    "It is well known that programmers generally abhor organization and discipline. Their desks are often littered with stacks of paper and other debris." He got that much right (referring to myself).
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    Marginal Revolution (my favorite economics blog) has an entry on this: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/12...
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    I admit to an honest weakness that should be irrelevant. I usually say something like "I'm not super outgoing. I get along well with people and communicate well with coworkers, but I'm not that great at schmoozing at parties and whatnot, an
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    I'd like to play devil's advocate[1] for a second: why is the lack of women in CS a problem? Whatever the merit of all these explanations -- it's perceived as dorky, low status, overly masculine, etc... -- the one thing I don't see is a s
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    Yes, she's still relying on "money" in the form of bartering, but what I found most interesting is how little she relies on while still claiming to be happy. Compared to most employed/educated americans, her situation is rather insecure, an
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    I found the writing here far too inflammatory to be taken seriously.
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    Meditation / Yoga (mindfulness).
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    There was one near my school. I went there a few times, it was fairly grungy, with cheap decor, beer signs, etc... Laundry room was divided from bar (with plexiglass windows so you could monitor your clothes) and they also had like cheap na
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    I really liked this article. The other thing that could be added to his reconceptualized bookstore is alcohol. There was a time (briefly) in the early 90's when bookstores were considered a good place for singles to meet. That was probably
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    My first impression is that the author is on treacherous philosophical ground. He seems distrustful of "group morality" (incidentally, I would argue that morality is inherently a function of groups) yet claims more sociopaths is a "good" th
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    Yep. I've been using dvorak for years and when the rsi hit, I tried 4 different ergonomic keyboards and experimented with tons of different approaches. The biggest contributor to my particular case seems to be independent finger movement. S
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    sigh I had to switch from being a really fast dvorak typist to a hunt and peck querty typist due to RSI issues. Luckily my particular job doesn't involve churning out huge swaths of code, but I definitely feel handicapped.
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    Fascinating. I don't know much about wine, but I've noticed that my own appreciation of the same type of wine will vary greatly. Sometimes it seems highly dependent on what I was doing earlier in the day and what I've recently eaten. If I w
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    This really depends on the group in question. Talking about a lot of extraneous stuff in the middle of a game would probably be frowned upon in my particular group. In particular, in Settlers, people are often yelling out general trade offe
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    For more games like the above, see games ranked according to BGG: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    Searching "go programming language" (without the quotes in the search) seems to work for me.
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    Marshall Brain discusses this in Robotic Nation: American society has no way to deal with a situation where half of the workers are unemployed. During the Great Depression at its very worst, 25% of the population was unemployed. In the rob
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    Obligatory link to Robotic Nation: http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
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    by msluyter 17y ago

    Woah! Just checked it and discovered that my personal calendar was public. This has been helpful already.