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by randomdrake 9y ago
I was able to develop the habit of taking supplements by attaching them to a craving and replacing an existing behavior. When I feel hungry or eager for a snack in the early afternoon or late morning, I know that means it’s time for a small
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Noninvasive Brainwave Technology Improved PTSD Symptoms in Military Personnel(wakehealth.edu)
1 points by randomdrake 9y ago|0 comments
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Social network profile (WeChat) to become official ID in China(rt.com)
2 points by randomdrake 9y ago|0 comments
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by randomdrake 9y ago
Maybes mods could add (2015). Seems little more than a regurgitation of the TED talk it links to multiple times entitled “Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?” which can be found here: https://www.ted.
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$20M Startup on Road to Riches. Then Its Leader Started Talking to God(inc.com)
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by randomdrake 9y ago
> "any "AI" is better than none no matter how poor it is" You don't have to disagree. The OP said: > "it doesn't really matter all that much how good the AI is" I think you're both corr
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by randomdrake 9y ago
"What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL" Could be retitled: "I should have learned SQL before dealing with ORMs." Every single point the author brings up comes seems to come down to simple database design, lazy develop
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Black Box, Red Disk: How Top Secret NSA and Army Data Leaked Online(upguard.com)
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by randomdrake 9y ago
Fun article and a good reminder that the desires of human beings may not have changed as much as we think. The dishwasher, as we know it, was not invented by someone who was tired of doing dishes. It was invented 130 years ago by a wealthy
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Uber ordered to treat drivers as workers with full rights after losing appeal(independent.co.uk)
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The Results – Mobile Pwn2Own Day One(zerodayinitiative.com)
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by randomdrake 9y ago
I don't buy it. The makers of the software that this appears to be a carefully written advertisement for, came to the same conclusion as the rest of the IT world (that some of us saw a mile away): NoSQL was, and still is, only good for
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by randomdrake 9y ago
There is plenty of precedence for this in the United States and elsewhere. There are even laws against it in a number of states and countries but it is very difficult to write legislation for and enforce. This category of abuse of our legal
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by randomdrake 9y ago
I enjoy expressively writing to cool off sometimes, so I was interested in checking out the study itself. The link to the actual study from 2017/09/08 can be found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/288
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by randomdrake 9y ago
> I'd agree with his argument if that's what it is, just not his example. I guess I wasn't very clear, then. The parent is correct, my argument did include: "ability to think about an abstract problem and come up with
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by randomdrake 9y ago
I'm glad they're going away. > While coding boot camps had many course listings on JavaScript, Ruby, and web development, they had none that covered product management, wireframing, cloud computing, DevOps, or Agile methodologi
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by randomdrake 9y ago
If plants having memories is something that interests you, then you should also check out this recently (2017/05) published study: Temperature variability is integrated by a spatially embedded decision-making center to break dormancy
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by randomdrake 9y ago
> Jennifer and the many other programmes like her are examples of a “voice-directed application” — just software and a simple, inexpensive earpiece. Such systems have become part of life for warehouse workers: a voice in their ear or in
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by randomdrake 9y ago
I noticed a bit of "fuzz" that seemed out of place as well. Turns out that the body tag has: -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; This greatly reduces the contrast on a dark background in my opinion. Here's a screensho
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by randomdrake 9y ago
Some fairly intelligent folks have had, or continue to have this viewpoint. As an example, I was extremely delighted to meet Chris Dixon, whom I still consider to be rather intelligent and diligent fellow. When we met, in 2013, he was all a
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by randomdrake 9y ago
This "news" is an advertisement for a report from Robert Half that was released last year entitled: "It’s time we all work happy™: The secrets of the happiest companies and employees.[1]" It was simply rehashed and pre
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by randomdrake 9y ago
Can we change the link to the actual blog post from Namecheap that contains considerably more content and less advertising? https://blog.namecheap.com/inciting-violence-vs-freedom-spee...
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by randomdrake 9y ago
More information about how you can avoid making apps that do this, or how you can control your own app usage, can be found here: http://www.timewellspent.io There's an interesting page where they show the results of 200,000
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Apple is about to do something their programmers definitely don’t want(medium.com)
14 points by randomdrake 9y ago|5 comments
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by randomdrake 9y ago
There's a lot out there, including products that are very similar to this one[1]. The category you may be looking to Google is "assistive technology."[2] For products for the blind, the most comprehensive list I could find wa
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by randomdrake 9y ago
antirez, this is easily one of my favorite comments I've seen on Hacker News in a number of years. In looking into what you've said here, I've learned that this is a bigger movement in software than I was aware of with projec
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by randomdrake 9y ago
Twitch has some very serious moderation challenges ahead of them, that they haven't proven they're able to solve, before I can be convinced this is a good thing. Online communities rely on good moderators and moderation tools to b
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by randomdrake 9y ago
Great example of how the headlines can drive a story more than the story itself. While Uber may have posted $708 million of losses, it is also up 18% in revenue from last quarter. That's 3.4 billion dollars in the first quarter of 20
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Expanded fastText library now fits on smaller-memory devices(code.facebook.com)
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by randomdrake 10y ago
Hello Patrick, thanks for answering questions. From the looks of these most recent updates, and reading over this blog post, it seems as though Atlas is positioning itself to be an accelerator in its own right. Offering connections, assista

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