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by sago 11y ago
On reflection, I want to say more about this. The problem with "the most agile, creative, and curious engineers", is it is like "above average intelligence" or "good sense of humour". Almost everyone thinks t
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by sago 11y ago
They are unicorns. Mostly it seems to be a people game. I'm fortunate that I've never needed to work so badly that I couldn't be picky about who I work with, so I treat it as a two way interview. All else fails, I can find so
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by sago 11y ago
If I remember rightly (many many years ago) that's what he was looking for, and to me I struggled because I thought of the two orthogonal effects it conflates: that of lifetime and visibility. From that I had to re-engineer his four, b
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by sago 11y ago
I got asked once "what are the four uses of static in C++". I couldn't recall one (can't remember which one), though I'd shipped a lot of code with all four in more than a decade of C++. He wasn't impressed wit
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by sago 11y ago
It is so good to see ES moving again, after a decade in the wilderness. EC5 wasn't an aberration, and there are lots of productivity improvements in this and coming in ES7. A big thankyou and congratulations to the people who worked so
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by sago 11y ago
At will employment screws over all workers. At least white collar knowledge workers are somewhat less fungible. The ability to fire an unskilled worker is unconstrained by law or business efficiency. The rhetoric around at will employment
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by sago 11y ago
If the issue was litigiousness, we could require people to carry insurance. Oh wait, we do that too. So, what was the licensing for again?
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by sago 11y ago
> Tuition would cost $16,000 dollars or more. That was my first thought. How many of these licenses have formal requirements for university or college tuition. Given the money bleeding tactics of tertiary education, it wouldn't surp
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by sago 11y ago
" Sweden currently spends half their health care budget on immigration costs." [citation needed] For example: http://economics.handels.gu.se/digitalAssets/1455/1455743_fr... directly contradicts your cla
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by sago 11y ago
I guess then I'm not the only one to think the interpretation of the data in these slides is consistently poor. e.g. The slide with the correlation scatter plots - who devised the model to draw those trend lines? That's just awful
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by sago 11y ago
a) Doesn't demonstrate that it enforces anything. The evidence is better explained by the fact that more women want to go the latter. Do you understand what enforcing segregation means? b) But for all your generality, you've not
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by sago 11y ago
Can you give any evidence for these claims? a) It enforces gender division. Can you say what evidence you have that such groups prevent women from accessing the mixed-gender groups. Or are you merely saying that it is unfair that men don&
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by sago 11y ago
How about standardising around second factor authentication with cell phones? Simple and easy. There are issues with losing the phone, but as long as there are ways to lock an account, or alternate second factors. The FIDO standards suggest
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by sago 11y ago
This is very impressive. And I particularly liked the closing credits to the movie, where he identifies himself as the 'coder' of the documentary. Some impressive custom coding in there.
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by sago 11y ago
I think there's an economic angle here. "Bad" code (like a monolithic system - allow me to beg the question a little) can be cheaper to write, in many cases, than good code. But it is more expensive to scale, maintain, extend
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by sago 11y ago
> a small inconvenience is worth trying even if the odds of success are very small Pascal's wager works the same way. And it would be a reasonable argument if you forget to multiply by the number of such claims.
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by sago 11y ago
MS responds very well to a whole range of therapies that have no proven disease modifying abilities. It is an almost perfect disease for a methodology to claim success on. The Relapsing Remitting course is variable, so people with the condi
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Ask HN: The Most Useful Format for API Documentation
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by sago 11y ago
Because the NSA uses US law to require companies to include compromised algorithms and backdoors in their products, and uses gagging orders to prevent the company from admitting their products have been compromised. I'm not suggesting
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by sago 11y ago
And an italian web address. I thought the juxtaposition was rather amusing.
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by sago 11y ago
I suspect you've not seen a copy of the Terms for Uber drivers. They provide a lot of instructions, on a lot of issues, most of them far less legally crucial than the ADA. Down to what to say to passengers. There will always be excuses
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by sago 11y ago
...for OSX only. The topic would be fascinating I think: to look at the changes in iconography for persistent storage generally, from the 70s onwards. Someone should curate that, if they haven't already. This, sadly, is not that post.
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by sago 12y ago
This is a staggering and damning indictment: "It only takes 2-3 hours of study per day to keep up with the regular school curriculum" The sheer waste of life that implies about children in 'regular school', let alone the
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by sago 12y ago
Thanks - vanderZwan provided a curated list of pubmed articles elsewhere that directly answered my original skeptical request.
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by sago 12y ago
You assume I've not meditated over many years. I'm generally a little touchy about western misappropriation of and imperialism towards eastern religion under the service of capitalism. As such the original article resounded with m
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by sago 12y ago
Excellent. The list of articles is interesting. More has been done than I thought had been done, and it is interesting stuff. The visualisation I find a problem, because it masks the nuances of thed studies and verges on the misrepresentati
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by sago 12y ago
Controls in science are relative to something. If you want to verify mindfulness meditation, you have to compare it against something else, something as similar as possible. I used the phrase 'placebo' informally for the process
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by sago 12y ago
I agree, in fact, my intuition is that meditation is probably beneficial. And I suspect that might be demonstrable scientifically, though it would be tough, and probably quite vague at best. I was only reacting to the over-hyped claims abou
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by sago 12y ago
Why would it be my god? It was a claim that the OP made that I was disputing. Did you ignore the bit where I said "That's your prerogative. I wouldn't have commented if the OP hadn't implied that mindfulness specifical
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by sago 12y ago
Quite a diferrent claim from "it works for me" to "it is verified by science". Google scholar shows over 2 million results for published articles on oral health. Pubmed has several thousand of them. You really want to pr

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