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Advice from Steve Jobs - "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."(blog.bitmakerlabs.com)
3 points by mvleming 13y ago|0 comments
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by mvleming 14y ago
I know there's a part in the ear called the cochlea but I thought the company just added the letter r to the word and made that their name; I didn't know the word existed before the company. Thanks!
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by mvleming 14y ago
Is it called a Cochlear Implant when Advanced Bionics makes it? Do you know if Cochlear is going to release a processor that's bluetooth-enabled?
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by mvleming 14y ago
I haven't read about SCT, but in the wikipedia article about social constructionism I read: "When we say that something is socially constructed, we are focusing on its dependence on contingent variables of our social selves rather than any
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by mvleming 14y ago
I agree with you. I've read about how a curvy figure (a high hip-to-waist ratio) is more attractive to males because it means offspring are more likely to survive when they pop out of the woman (small hips and big brains don't go well toget
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by mvleming 14y ago
You think the duckface is an aesthetic quality we've evolved to have a taste for?
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by mvleming 14y ago
I never thought about it in that way, and that is interesting. It's like the more we have the opportunity to not look human, we take that opportunity to look more human. But, thinking about it, it makes sense. It's personifying what society
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by mvleming 14y ago
If you look to history, you can see overtime we acquire new ways of changing ourselves. There was a time when there wasn't makeup, but nowadays people can use makeup and change their appearance. Same thing with dying your hair, getting a pl
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by mvleming 14y ago
How we could make it so that there could be the free movement of people? What would we need to do? In my own personal experience I've crossed the US-Canada border many times, and I remember several times when the wait at the border was hour
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by mvleming 14y ago
What's easier to do? Change the world or change yourself?
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by mvleming 14y ago
I just looked in clarity.fm. It doesn't look to me the mentors in Technical Advice are programmers but center more around business. Is this true? I'm looking for an 'engineer' not a 'salesguy'.
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by mvleming 14y ago
I'm looking for a tutor not to develop my skills just for the sake of it, but to develop my skills in certain areas of web development so I can build this website I want to build. So not so much as reviewing code or giving directed tasks bu
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by mvleming 14y ago
I used teamtreehouse.com and codeacademy.com. I was saying in another comment I'm not a beginner anymore. But I will look to meetups, I don't know why I hadn't thought of this.
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by mvleming 14y ago
I'm looking to have a lot of flexibility. I'm not interested in following a curriculum. I want to learn specific areas in web development (server-side programming, webcam chatting are two).
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by mvleming 14y ago
I use Stackoverflow very often. I've done tutorials at Codeacademy, Udacity, as well as others (Club Treehouse comes to mind). I'm not a beginner with web development anymore; I'm looking to go the next level. I will look into clarity.fm, t
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Ask HN: Where can I find a tutor for web development?
3 points by mvleming 14y ago|11 comments
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by mvleming 14y ago
I read the Count of Monte Cristo but I haven't met anyone who has. I'd like to talk about it with someone though. Do you want to read it and talk about it?
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by mvleming 14y ago
I've thought a lot about how we can seperate bicyclists and pedestrians from vehicles on the road. I think it would be amazing to have all roads completely underground and replace the roads outside with parks, for example. I can just see ki
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by mvleming 14y ago
Could it be the big sort? "Armed with startling new demographic data, [Bill Bishop] made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities -- not by region or by
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by mvleming 14y ago
I think these two commentators (TillE and hodder) have put into words what I have been grappling for many weeks now. And I give can you a specific example. I've been trying to learn about GUIs and cloud computing. For GUIs, for weeks now I'
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by mvleming 14y ago
I think we have to be careful when things like this happen. It's god-awful. I can't imagine if I was in third grade and a guy barged in and started shooting up the place. But this makes me think of "You can always find evidence for your bel
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by mvleming 14y ago
You argued that "who we have sex with is a choice we make by thinking about it, not something pre-encoded by our genes." I was trying to suggest maybe the opposite is true to some extent by sharing that study regarding the rats with you. Fe
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by mvleming 14y ago
There was actually a study that showed female rats are more attracted to (read: had sex with) male rats with very different immune systems. The way she senses this is by the pheromone (smell) he gives off and as a consequence, her offspring
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by mvleming 14y ago
I see what you're trying to get at. You're saying that "x% of children are not genetically related to their fathers because women have affairs to increase the competition for her egg" is a theory, not to be taken as something true. I didn't
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by mvleming 14y ago
I completely agree with you. I don't believe that every action is correctly designed to optimize gene transmissions and I think you put it into very eloquent words with: "it is trying to say that we are at a global maximum in a space that
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by mvleming 14y ago
It does imply that. I know a lot of guys who have gone through a period in their life not being able to sympathize with women after learning about this. They would question why even bothering marrying a woman if she is just going to be a ch
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by mvleming 14y ago
If I asked you "Why do you take your hand off a hot stove?" you might say because it hurts. But the fact that it hurts for us when we put our hand on the stove is our genes trying to keep themselves alive, because otherwise they risk being
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by mvleming 14y ago
The percentages I've heard are all over the place, but a decent number of children are actually not genetically related to their fathers. (I've heard anywhere between 3% and 30%.) One theory that's been postulated is that women have affairs
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by mvleming 14y ago
You're a good writer. And I can relate to what you say: if we raise our children to be so practically-minded, where's the space for them to be imaginative and dream? If they don't believe magical things can happen, they're certainly not goi
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by mvleming 14y ago
I think this is a nice gesture by a public figure. I don't think this is something to take seriously as an approach to a long-term goal, but instead as something to be inspired by. Thanks Larry Page. :)

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