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by roundsquare 16y ago
I remember on flight sims when I used a joystick, I never thought of "down" and "up." I thought of "pulling towards me" and "pushing away form me." Since the nose of the plane is a bit lower than my head, it works. For FPSs, I'd use "normal
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by roundsquare 16y ago
very low, sorry.
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by roundsquare 16y ago
correct me if i'm wrong... but in order for this to catch hold, we'd need to know why this distinction doesn't have a significant effect in the classical world? e.g. for relativity, we know that time dilation doesn't have a measurable effec
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by roundsquare 16y ago
19 is too close to one end (20) so probably people feel its less random when the range is 1 to 20. Also, 9 is divisible by 3, so maybe it feels less random.
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by roundsquare 16y ago
If we have to make a choice between attacking their ideology and attacking their absurdity then I agree with you. But whats wrong with doing both? Even if someone is ideologically driven, they might think twice about joining an organization
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by roundsquare 16y ago
Sorry, I think I wasn't being clear. If his actions are coming up short, thats very important. In fact, thats what we should be discussing. Thats where we should be pressuring him to do better. So we are, in fact, in agreement that the Pres
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by roundsquare 16y ago
That is besides the point. The main point of the article is that people want to see him get emotional and thats just not who he is. Its silly for people to want that... its a waste of time. But, since people will always want it, lets get so
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by roundsquare 16y ago
Now I just need a time machine...
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Ask HN: How do you learn to speak the other person's language?
2 points by roundsquare 16y ago|2 comments
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by roundsquare 16y ago
Sure, I suppose visualizing a point is not very interesting. I'm talking about visualizing 4 dimensional space. Can you close your eyes and imagine 4 mutually orthogonal lines?
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by roundsquare 16y ago
Okay... no. This is the problem. The 4th dimension is not time. We can represent time as the 4th dimension in a system if we want to, but you can have systems where the 4th dimension is not time. A good example is when people create a matri
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by roundsquare 16y ago
Find people who are engaged in things you like. Get into discussions/debates/arguments with them. Afterwards, you'll feel the need to read about the topic. Its great for everyone involved because you all improve from this. If you can find a
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by roundsquare 16y ago
Something I've always wondered... If you learn a new keyboard layout, does that make it hard to use a regular layout? And what about if someone else uses your computer?
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by roundsquare 16y ago
Entertaining writing, maybe, but certainly not good/education writing. And certainly not good research. Side note: He may have solid research, but it doesn't come out in the writing.
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by roundsquare 16y ago
Its a fair point... sadly I don't know the answer in any great details. What little I know says there are 26 dimensions and they are not all equal. 3 of space, 1 of time, and 22... others... Actually, I wonder, when people usually ask this
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by roundsquare 16y ago
I really hate this video. It makes things more complicated than needed. You can't "visualize" the fourth dimension (or I haven't met anyone who could... and the kind of math/physics where this comes up was a common topic for me for a while)
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by roundsquare 16y ago
"The circle is the only figure which has the same width in all directions." Can someone explain? What exactly do they mean by width and what else has this property?
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by roundsquare 16y ago
Or the bid goes through with $1.
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by roundsquare 16y ago
I suspect everyone noticed it, but decided to focus on the what the author was trying to get across instead. Not saying thats the right thing to do, but thats my guess.
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by roundsquare 16y ago
I remember reading an example of "easy to check but hard to come up with" which is probably good for non-technical audiences. Its something like: You walk into a party and you want to know if you know anyone. To find out, you need to look a
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by roundsquare 16y ago
3. The ability to come up with an even better solution for a business problem. In my experience, a lot of business people don't really know what is possible so their solutions aren't always that good. Example: "I need to know if I own more
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by roundsquare 16y ago
On the other hand, I could easily imagine a situation, however, where this is not the desired outcome, such as in a company where software is only a minor component. In that case, your firmer hand on scheduling seems far more beneficial.
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by roundsquare 16y ago
I'm curious, how useful to people think these kinds of puzzles are in hiring?
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by roundsquare 16y ago
Can we please stop having posts on this topic? Its old news and seems to come up very often. I don't even know why people keep blogging about it... surely they realize that this neat thing they learned in math class or on wikipedia or on so
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by roundsquare 16y ago
In college, we had an assignment where we had to update an interpreter to always output 42 when it say 6 * 9.
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by roundsquare 16y ago
It maybe becoming time to require at least one programming course in college/high school, the same way schools require some math/history/science/etc.... I suspect if we could find a way to teach kids a little programming in grade school we
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by roundsquare 16y ago
Unfortunately, fun usually involves the possibility of failure and trying to overcome it (at least with video games). Having a high chance of failure would probably ruin the games popularity.
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by roundsquare 16y ago
she suggested it was because programming was 'a male way of thinking' (!). I suspect people thought that about math at some point as well...
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by roundsquare 16y ago
You either accept that method or you don't, you can't pick and choose. To choose science for one specialty but pseudo science or dogma for another is inconsistent. Yes you can (edit for clarity: Yes you can use dogma for one domain and
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by roundsquare 16y ago
But when they go to hospital and need treatment suddenly science is a-ok I find this statement to be disingenuous. I would be hard pressed to believe that (most) creationists are against science in general or think that science itself is

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