patorjk

15 ms·

61.
by patorjk 6y ago
My mom asked me the same thing back in 2014 and I essentially felt the same way as you so I said the same thing. She bought some anyway though, and later sold when it hit $200. Glad she didn't listen to me.
62.
by patorjk 6y ago
I'm not so sure about this. I routinely see comments that start like that with a lot of upvotes. It could be survival bias, but I have a feeling reverse psychology could be coming into play.
63.
by patorjk 6y ago
That's a myth. See #4: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths...
64.
by patorjk 6y ago
Carl LeBel (Chief Development Officer of Frequency) revealed on the Tinnitus Talk Podcast that several patients in the Phase I/II study reported "improved" tinnitus to their ENTs. How much improvement wasn't measured, bu
65.
by patorjk 6y ago
> Are unions in the US really like that, or is it a one-off being used to spread fud? I worked at Northrop Grumman a decade ago as a developer and a lot of the non-tech people were unionized. There were certain things I was not allowed t
66.
by patorjk 6y ago
Running this in the console removed that for me: document.querySelectorAll('.freewall--disable').forEach(item => item.classList.remove('freewall--disable'));
67.
by patorjk 6y ago
I wonder if part of the problem of integrating coding classes into schools is that anyone who has the ability to teach coding could probably get a much higher paying job outside of the school. So the quality of instruction in middle/hi
68.
by patorjk 6y ago
This is similar to how Frequency's FX-322 drug works. It stimulates progenitor cells [1] within the cochlea to divide and form new hair cells. From what I've read, progenitor cells are basically one step away from a stem cell. [1]
69.
by patorjk 6y ago
As an aside, there's a lot of exciting regenerative work going on related to hearing at the moment. Sometime soon we may no longer need hearing aids. There are some neat drugs either in clinical trials or about to begin clinical trials
70.
by patorjk 6y ago
> Given the evidence, Burgess instead suspects the answer may be hiding in the thicket of tiny neural connections we call “synapses”. Once we have experienced an event, the memories are slowly cemented in the long term by altering these
71.
by patorjk 6y ago
Thank you for this insight! > was it racist for an employee to say they supported Trump during a meeting This is sort of what I was thinking about in my original comment. I would hate to have to discuss political affiliation, or make pub
72.
by patorjk 6y ago
At 3 paragraphs (131 words), that was a really short article. However, I agree with the subheading: "Mark Zuckerberg says employees shouldn’t have to confront social issues in their day-to-day work unless they want to" That sounds
73.
by patorjk 6y ago
I do contracting work and mostly focus on Node/React, yet I still encounter Java all of the time. Especially Java with the Spring framework. With how entrenched Java seems to be, it's probably something you will come across from
74.
by patorjk 7y ago
I got mine as a gift and my 6 year old thought it was the coolest thing in the world. He begged me to let him use it. I immediately felt a since of dread, as the last thing I wanted was him using it to shoot his little sister and maybe get
75.
by patorjk 7y ago
Not exactly the same thing, but maybe JavaScript's fat arrow function? It originally appeared in CoffeeScript, which is a language that adds some syntactic sugar to JavaScript, and then eventually it found it's way into the JavaSc
76.
by patorjk 7y ago
My first instinct is that this is some kind of puzzle. It'd be pretty disappointing if this was just a misconfiguration or oversight.
77.
by patorjk 7y ago
I wasn't one of the 2000+ people, but yes, there were people doing that (working long days 7 days a week). One guy would actually sometimes sleep in his car. People weren't doing the same number of hours every day though. Also, th
78.
by patorjk 7y ago
I worked at Northrop Grumman a decade ago on a contract that was missing it's deadlines. It was pretty choatic, and management was not very good (every new thing became a #1 priority). To try to get things done we were allowed to work
79.
by patorjk 7y ago
> honestly makes me worried about the future of the field in terms of whether it'll still be a good career in the future. I had the same thoughts back in the late 90's and early 00's. Everytime I told someone I was interes
80.
by patorjk 7y ago
This comment reminded me of a thread I read on r/baltimore a few months back that compared 1M houses in Baltimore and DC, it was pretty striking: https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/aw9476/wh
81.
by patorjk 7y ago
I tried to write my comment such that I wasn't making a judgement call on it, just listing it as a recent event that is most likely on the minds of people thinking about this topic. > It always surprises me to see fairly smart peopl
82.
by patorjk 7y ago
I think this is a reference to PewDiePie recently focusing a lot of his content on Minecraft and how the media has gone after him on a number of occations. The concern would be in trying to attack PewDiePie, the media would attack what he i
83.
by patorjk 7y ago
When asking what language you think in, they're probably referring to your Internal Monologue [1]. Not everyone has one. It's kind of strange that some of us have it and others don't, it kind of makes me wonder how and why it
84.
by patorjk 7y ago
> The main thing I lack is access to government jobs I guess my question would be which government? I do government contracting (US), and degrees are not required. The labor categories are typically written so that if you don't have
85.
by patorjk 7y ago
> It's strange then that most of these games aren't that interesting. Who are the players of these that make up the new class of gamers? It's just one data point, but my mother-in-law, who's in her late 60's, pla
86.
by patorjk 7y ago
A few months ago I had to decide between Vue and React/Redux for porting over a very large Angular 1.x app at work (I decided against Angular2+ - mostly because I feel pretty burned by Angular). Seeing this headline made me very glad t
87.
by patorjk 7y ago
Say I watch a video on a topic like "nes video game speed running". Right now I'd see other nes video game speed running videos, it's very useful. In a curated world, what would be recommended? It's probably too muc
88.
by patorjk 7y ago
I was a big fan at the time and paid $0, I read later that most people did the same but that a good amount of people did pay money, and the album was more profitable than their previous album. I felt a little bad and later bought the physic
89.
by patorjk 7y ago
This got me to update Edward Norton's wikipedia entry. He's most likely the most famous person from Columbia, Maryland, he just wasn't categorized as from the town. Though it was interesting seeing Randy Pausch (computer scie
90.
by patorjk 7y ago
When Tim Cook came out against the story, I did the same thing. It just didn't seem plausible that he would be lying. Then add to that Joe Fitzpatrick's (one of the named sources) discomfort about the story, and something seemed w

More ›