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by patrocles 16y ago
yeah, the article title should have been: Briss Trims PDFs so They Fit Better, Look More Impressive in Your Hand
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by patrocles 16y ago
I've been surprised at how seemingly minor changes in the relative cost of doing something can have major impacts on behavior. I'd like to exercise in the AM, however I keep failing at it because it costs much more to go to work early, than
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by patrocles 16y ago
why do questions about life seem pointless? or perhaps you mean best avoided? ;)
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Ask HN: Your Ideal Day?
3 points by patrocles 16y ago|5 comments
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by patrocles 16y ago
What good is Google? or OkCupid? or any matching service? For those who have nothing to seek, these services are indeed an environmental scourge. ;)
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by patrocles 16y ago
lol. Uncorrupted? What happens when their oil runs out in 10-20 years?
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by patrocles 16y ago
You don't need permission for anything.
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by patrocles 16y ago
I would put Popper under philosophy, and Kuhn and Feyerabend under sociology. Of course, Feynman would put them all in the trash bin. ;)
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by patrocles 16y ago
This thread should be: How do you find a better morning routine? My flatmate is shifting from working freelance to 9-5 and is worried about getting to work at 9am as that's been an issue in the past. Caffeine makes him feel like carp. I sug
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by patrocles 17y ago
"It’s true that you have little to no ability to predict the future on your own" -- the author misses Ferguson's point entirely. Ferguson would use history to understand the present and to illumine the future. However, a timeline's unpredic
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by patrocles 17y ago
Put your vimrc under revision control. Watch it grow from 5 lines to over 500 in the span of a year. It seems like switching the developer bit in the brain for config files does wonders for environment personalization.
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Ask HN: Increasing Karma Implies Decreasing Variance?(marginalrevolution.com)
23 points by patrocles 18y ago|22 comments
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by patrocles 18y ago
Hard Times by Studs Terkel. While it covers a lot of ground, it does cover what worked and what didn't during the Great Depression.
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by patrocles 18y ago
the enemy of my enemy is my friend. with damaging info in your hands, you will have new-found friends. you just need to plan ahead, instead of reacting. also, in the real world, your enemies will try to sever your connectivity; the last mil
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by patrocles 18y ago
How much of the $800/month = proximity premium? Or does $800/month only buy a room in Palo Alto?
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by patrocles 18y ago
Insight #0: We're not all in the same room; instead of broadcasting a post, use our previous voting preferences to route posts to us. #1: We read what other people like us read; spread the workload of evaluating new posts amongst the people
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by patrocles 18y ago
Companies and technologies come and go; this year's derivatives are yesteryear's junk bonds. It's not the technology, but rather a failed system of incentives that leaves mis-managed firms to die from exposure.
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by patrocles 18y ago
Work through Spivak's Calculus, then Springer Verlag's Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics SICP is as foundational as Spivak, however Comp Sci still doesn't have the equivalent of UTM, you have to target what you're interested in and go from
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by patrocles 18y ago
Well, he does make one good point in that each student should learn to "know thyself". However, the rest sounds like he's trying to rationalize his perceived inadequacy relative to his students' potential. Instead of becoming a luddite, he
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by patrocles 18y ago
John Walker from AutoCad chose Switzerland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_%28programmer%29 Any other famous ex-pats? I figure that if immigration doesn't go up, taxes will (or services go to hell)... and that will lead to more e
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by patrocles 18y ago
rss2email -- rocks for blogs where you don't want to miss a single post (friends and other high S/N feeds) In general thought, most news actually isn't news. It's just data and we need to model what we actually care about, and then monitor
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by patrocles 18y ago
when life gives you lemons, make lemonade ;) http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
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by patrocles 18y ago
Gimein's troll-baiting.... The 2000 census shows that the US has more unmarried females than males. However, the Census also divides unmarried people into three groups: never-married, divorced, and widowed. [ http://www.census.gov/populatio
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by patrocles 19y ago
They paid for hand-holding and a patina of authority. All in the name of centralizing control.... They could have created a Darwin cull facility for the evolutionary developments they observed. That would have provided a path for growth. Th
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by patrocles 19y ago
Tagging posts with a profile works like Branding in commerce. It's a signal that: A) you put some effort into the site B) you worry about negatively impacting your karma So, any rational reader should choose to follow a user with a profile
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by patrocles 19y ago
1) Write code. 2) Forget to eat. 3) Drink lots of water. 4) take an hour to eat someplace and think about what you're going to do next. Repeat every 24 hours....
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by patrocles 19y ago
When savings have zero value, not working makes sense. Enforceable property rights matter... and so does a stable economy....
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by patrocles 19y ago
Awesome; habe das vorher gelesen, aber habe ich doch den Titel vergessen.
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by patrocles 19y ago
No; Gladwell just doesn't think about what he writes....
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by patrocles 19y ago
"The next day, our flight profile was duplicated on the SR-71 flight simulator at Beale AFB, Calif. The outcome was identical. Steps were immediately taken to prevent a recurrence of our accident." Anyone else feel that testing before actua

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