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by qrybam 8y ago
Gave it a stab, anything with ? were (for me) illegible characters: I was aided in this action by (1) my personal estimates for very weak economic statistics for January to be reported in February which others had to varying degree
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by qrybam 8y ago
FWIW, here’s a success/failure/success sandwich... My dad is extremely successful in his field of expertise, one of the top experts in the world, but he hasn’t been able to turn that into financial success for his family. At the s
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by qrybam 8y ago
I installed Ubuntu on our spare laptop for general web browsing and day to day use. My wife used it for about a year. Not a week went by when I didn't hear about something not working. Granted, it's probably because I didn&#x27
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Watch how air pollution moves across Europe(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by qrybam 8y ago|0 comments
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by qrybam 8y ago
Great effort. > The bad news is, I don't know of the equivalents of these for Windows, so all I can simply say for this article is you'll need a macOS device to follow along. Does anyone have suggestions for Windows-supporting
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by qrybam 8y ago
I bought his master class when MC released it; if you’re into this kind of thing I would highly recommend — Chris is a great resource of experience and knowledge
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by qrybam 8y ago
An acquaintance travels around Africa relatively frequently and his observations seem to be in line with the OP article sentiment. From China’s perspective it makes a lot of sense to buy up Africa, it’s a resource rich continent and was es
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by qrybam 8y ago
Yes - in Feb-18. Had pangs of regret some months later .. the network I'd built over many years was an unused asset, I just never looked it like that. Luckily those feelings didn't last long ... I just go on with life.
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by qrybam 8y ago
Erlang is great - we ended up settling on it as the basis of our platform. It was between Erlang and C++ for our real time highly available system and in hindsight Erlang was a no brainier. So far it hasn’t disappointed.
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by qrybam 8y ago
Perception is everything. At least in the beginning. Eventually, people get to know you, your skills, and your boundaries, but in the beginning it's all first impressions. Be good and fair to the people around you.
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Politics: Violent Games Shape Minds(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by qrybam 9y ago|0 comments
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by qrybam 9y ago
Can relate (minus meeting Wim): when going to the spa, I alternate between sauna and submerging in ice water for 60-90 seconds. My BPM goes from 150 to ~35 in that time. Climbing out of the cold water and laying down on the chair induces su
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by qrybam 9y ago
I've been through the rigmarole of writing my own crawlers and and find Scrapy very powerful. I've run into roadblocks with dynamic/Javascript heavy sites; for those parts selenium+chromedriver works really well. As parent an
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by qrybam 9y ago
After some bloopers early on in my career I developed a systematic "back it up" reflex if there's even the remotest chance of something being lost/broken. This has saved my bacon on countless of occasions... normally fr
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by qrybam 9y ago
5-7 hours on weekedays 7-8 hours on weekends Prolonged (3+ days) sleep at <6 hours eventually leads to me crashing at the weekend. crash = a good 10 hour sleep
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by qrybam 9y ago
> teach elementary thinking skills I couldn't agree more. The curriculum for our kids should be based around building the mental machinary that will enable intuitive, creative and analytic problem solving. Learning a specific langua
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by qrybam 10y ago
Busy day = only when I go to the toilet Quiet day = maybe half my time Most of my days are busy; if I'm not busy with my main work then I'll be busy making the more mundane aspects of my job disappear into the background. edit: f
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by qrybam 10y ago
s/strawman/red herring/
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by qrybam 10y ago
Anecdotal: Growing up, our parents never added salt to our food, avoided as much as possible any processed foods and made everything from fresh ingredients. After moving out and living with various people, shifting my diet multiple times, I
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Energy Meters' Readings Almost Six Times Higher Than Actual Consumption(utwente.nl)
2 points by qrybam 10y ago|0 comments
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by qrybam 10y ago
Will try to retain some of the original colour: "Most women insist there is nothing more painful than childbirth... but what about being kicked in the nuts?! So a wife asks her husband: what do you say, why not have another child? (ed:
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by qrybam 10y ago
Tangential self experimentation anecdote: I was intrigued by reports that nicotine can improve cognition in otherwise healthy people so I read through as many studies/articles I could find online. After deciding that I'd done enou
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by qrybam 10y ago
Some thoughts from someone who's been prescribed anti depressants in adolescence but never took them because I believed the doctor misdiagnosed: * Do these drugs genuinely help or is it just a strong placebo response? * If the anecdota
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CMA requires ICE to sell Trayport, merger will hurt EU wholesale energy market(gov.uk)
1 points by qrybam 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Business/initial-idea guy seeks technical founder; what's the process?
1 points by qrybam 10y ago|2 comments
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by qrybam 10y ago
Go back far enough and we'll find a common ancestor, and they probably came from Africa, and while confirming this is in itself interesting I think that people travelling and cross settling in our history is excepotion ally interesting
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by qrybam 10y ago
It's also a leap to say the world would be a better place. One person's version of rationality can be quite different to another's. Imagine of someone feels that the only rational thing for them to do is to do something &quot
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by qrybam 10y ago
It took me a while to really _get_ the difference in mentality between different types of gamers and this difference would go a long way to explain what one person finds enjoyable vs another - of course everyone wants to win but if you didn
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by qrybam 10y ago
Hadn't made that leap at that point. I was still using A/Z for looking up/down in Descent - also a great game btw.
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by qrybam 10y ago
Everything from Wolf3d to Quake3 has a special place in our household's hearts. My dad brought the original iD games to mine and my sister's attention when we were still kids. The first time we played co-op Doom as a family on LAN

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