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by nikatwork 11y ago
This Mother Jones article sums up the argument cogently: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/media-inspires-m... It's not just murders. Australian media will often not report suicides to prevent
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by nikatwork 11y ago
There is a big push at the moment for "T shaped people", ie with a broad range of experience with one or two specialities. By exposing a wide range of activities to kids, they gain breadth. They can then choose what to explore in
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by nikatwork 11y ago
There's a clear ethical difference between a frothy startup and deliberately provoking negative public behavior.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
A large portion of modern dev jobs are either CRUD apps or data munging. Knowledge of algos are not necessary for those for those domains. It always amuses me when I'm interviewing for some vanilla web app job and they start pitching m
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by nikatwork 11y ago
Workers who were short of the quotas might have their hands severed. Leopold II is a forgotten monster. Arguably it birthed the international human rights movement.
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It's a morbid irony that HIV emerged from "Leopoldville" considering the other atrocities unleashed on Africa by Leopold II.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
TFA seems to be fingering carbs and sugar as the key issue, rather than total calories.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
That's how it works in Oz. The drug companies tend to use their product packaging colors heavily in the ad to link the brand.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
I've been doing this a long time and the only maths I've ever needed was trig, matrices like once and maybe a touch of probability. I took a unit each of symbolic logic and cog psych and those have been infinitely more useful. The
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Programming Is Not Math (2014)(sarahmei.com)
3 points by nikatwork 11y ago|2 comments
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by nikatwork 11y ago
Mate, this is bloody Oz. It hit nearly 46C (114F) last year in my city. Last thing I'm trying to do is minimize heat loss.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
7' is accurate for many new Housing Estate houses eg AV Jennings. The buildings all look similar except for roof color. It's very disorientating. My house is 1860s with a 12' ceiling. Those other places feel like claustrophob
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by nikatwork 11y ago
My outside impression of Japan and Taiwan is that they're horrific places for corporate work across the board. Is this a stereotype fuelled by the black companies, or is it largely accurate?
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Peak Booze in Britain(bbc.com)
1 points by nikatwork 11y ago|0 comments
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by nikatwork 11y ago
I saw three different photos from three different sources of the same scene from the Palestine-Israel conflict. They told wildly different stories.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
Some humans have 4 cones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Human_tetrachrom...
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by nikatwork 11y ago
> The icons tell you nothing; I'd rather have simple english words. Gmail is also guilty of this crime, although at least you can configure it to use text labels. No, I don't want to learn your particular abstract iconography
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by nikatwork 11y ago
This is fantastic. So many sites get the basics wrong. It drives me nuts to see eg food delivery aggregator sites that use a primarily blue color scheme. It's also worth noting that the color meanings described are Western and can be w
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by nikatwork 11y ago
I've noticed a number of yung'uns ditching FB completely for Instagram. Delegating auth to FB alone is an insanely self-defeating move.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
Have you played with a 303 or old Moog? I love the convenience and price of digital, but those old synths can really blow your hair back.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
Yeah, nah. Prove me wrong. I double dog dare you. Your answer must be cross and backwards compatible to count.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
> display:table The delicious irony is that CSS had to emulate the old table model to overcome its default layout deficiencies. And IIRC it still can't natively handle mixing relative and fixed widths, and consistent vertical cent
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by nikatwork 11y ago
> Using tables for layout was the original hack. A simple and practical hack that worked (and continues to work) identically across all browsers without the need for elaborate edge case code. I'm curious, with the new libraries, c
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by nikatwork 11y ago
My theory is that if you use the mobile app it factors in GPS location. Several times I've been at a particular venue, without "checking in" or even posting. The next day, people I met at the venue would show up in my suggest
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by nikatwork 11y ago
That's needlessly verbose if I am descoping $1 within a line or two. I agree one must be careful.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
> Who "adds two strings"? $timeText = $systemHours . ':' . $systemMinutes; vs $durationTimer = $userInputHours + 1; There ya go.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
It's not a smell if you are doing an asston of text munging. Rather than write one ginormo regex I prefer a sequence of short actions. It's easier to debug and reason with.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
It's beautifully layered. In one sense he's saying that war is not inevitable if we make the effort to get along. In another sense he's saying don't prod the panda.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
> literally hundreds of thousands of pagers of them, nobody really understands them BaselII[+] and friends are relatively clearcut and are designed to prevent credit meltdown. The rules and reporting requirements are baked into Bank so
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by nikatwork 11y ago
> are Apple doing this too? Surprisingly, they didn't seem to be last time I checked (2013). There were many apps available in the CN app store which you'd think the govt would remove, especially around comms and reading mate

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