msluyter

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811.
by msluyter 17y ago
I think that for an inherently social animal, there is none. The vision of living blissfully alone in a cabin in the wilderness is largely a mirage. Yes, you can do that for a while, until you get a toothache, or an infection and need antib
812.
by msluyter 17y ago
Well, the author's credentials and the preface do suggest a focus on the humanities.
813.
by msluyter 17y ago
I visualize the situation like a search tree. As you travel down the tree away from the root, you become increasingly isolated from other branches of the tree, and you can't even talk to distant leaf nodes because you lack the same vocabula
814.
by msluyter 17y ago
I agree to some extent, though I interpret "haven't yet figured out a good way to teach problem solving" as "haven't yet figured out how to quantify the unquantifiable." In other words, problem solving -- in the sense of creatively overcomi
815.
by msluyter 17y ago
I recall Victor Frankl discussing this phenomenon in "Man's Search for Meaning." Your problems -- no matter how trivial in an objective sense -- tend to expand to fill your psychological space.
816.
by msluyter 17y ago
Yes. The book Stumbling on Happiness discusses this a lot, and I highly recommend it.
817.
by msluyter 17y ago
Lots of selective memory and faulty reasoning here. Take his first example: "Took art classes in high school instead of working out with the football team. I design for a living now." It's easy to retroactively give a positive interpretati
818.
by msluyter 17y ago
I suppose that you could type into another text editor and then cut & paste into wave once you've made your edits. Really kludgy, of course, but if you had to use wave for some reason and were worried about it, then that'd give you th
819.
by msluyter 17y ago
Yes, and technically this could also generate * Why I don't switched use to X * Why I don't don't don't to to to to X etc... I think we need: Why I (don't use|switched to){1} X
820.
by msluyter 17y ago
I was reading in bed just the other day wishing that I could turn off autorotation. This is a serious need.
821.
by msluyter 17y ago
I would if I could, but my hands, back, and eyes can't take it. I do a lot of technical reading instead.
822.
by msluyter 17y ago
Personally I think there's a fairly large cultural disconnect between shops running open-source stacks and shops running Oracle ... Quite possibly. Our company does use a lot of open source in the Java & Perl layers, but we're pretty t
823.
by msluyter 17y ago
Have you made, or you aware of, any comparisons between a KV store such as this and the same thing implemented as an IOT in Oracle?
824.
by msluyter 17y ago
I've been a Dvorak user for a while, and it often feels like swimming upstream. Good to see the issue getting a little attention.
825.
by msluyter 17y ago
Boardgames.
826.
by msluyter 17y ago
No, I just meant to point out that a lot of modern games make up for the first player advantage (in cases where there is one) in various ways.
827.
by msluyter 17y ago
Most modern eurogames make this sort of correction. Caylus, for example, gives the the second and subsequent players extra money.
828.
by msluyter 17y ago
Doesn't this suggest a need for a more convenient search feature so we can avoid dups? Sure, you could go to google and search: linus torvalds c++:news.ycombinator.com and you'd have found the previous threads, but that's just inconvenient
829.
by msluyter 17y ago
Seems related to this Wired article that recently was reposted on Reddit: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia... Bottom line is that to maximize retention, there's an optimal time for being re-exposed to informati
830.
by msluyter 17y ago
I've almost entirely moved to using Facebook status updates instead of Twitter anyway. Allowing photos and auto-previewed links and being able directly see responses seems much nicer to me.
831.
by msluyter 17y ago
What does the term "minority" mean in this context? Am I alone in assuming the article means african-americans and hispanics, and is excluding asian/indian americans?
832.
by msluyter 17y ago
Yes, this was my first thought. If I was seriously stressed for time, then I'd agree with idea of optimizing for overall percentages. But if you really want to optimize the chances that a specific person will reply to you, then it seems a
833.
by msluyter 17y ago
I think (smart) women can usually deduce that you've done that, and tend to react negatively.
834.
by msluyter 17y ago
I think your redefinition of illusion is problematic: "Hey, I see an oasis on the horizion... no, wait, it's not actually there. I guess my definition of 'oasis' was wrong." Typically, when we use the word illusion, we tend to make a couple
835.
by msluyter 17y ago
What you say here reminds me a bit of Hume. Hume attacked cause and effect by noting that all we ultimately have access to are our perceptions, and that we can never perceive "cause." We may see the hammer flying through the air, then the w
836.
by msluyter 17y ago
Indeed, I think the post exhibits the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
837.
by msluyter 17y ago
I've resisted the Kindle due to its DRM and whatnot, and up till now, the Sony device didn't have much appeal either. But I'm quite interested the ability to "check out" books from the New York public library and to read Google Books in epu
838.
by msluyter 17y ago
Although I'm generally progressive and agree with the environmental goals of this program, I worry that it's essentially encouraging people to take on new debt through car loans. Aren't we as a society already highly overleveraged?
839.
by msluyter 17y ago
Perhaps that's true in general, but all I can say is that wasn't true in my case. I had several relationships after becoming fanatical about it, and never stopped dancing.
840.
by msluyter 17y ago
Anecdotal support: I once dated a girl who really wanted to learn to partner dance. She dragged me to ballroom lessons, and then swing, and then lindy hop. I was mildly enthusiastic at best, but I got pretty good at it. At some point -- aft

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