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by saulrh 8y ago
Yep. A garbled duplicate of a reminder or note doesn't cost anything and even alarms aren't a major issue unless they're set for the middle of the night, so if anything hiccups I just retry. Your analogy touches on another im
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by saulrh 8y ago
Compare the workflows for leaving a reminder or note. Before: * Find phone/computer * Unlock * Locate self in interface and navigate to application selector * Invoke note-taking or reminder app * Type in note or r
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by saulrh 8y ago
Of course it's not sufficient. I don't even think it's necessary. But, generally speaking and in my experience, formal algorithms knowledge is incredibly useful, and you are at a significant disadvantage if you do not have it
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by saulrh 8y ago
I got pissed off at the "Google this, Google that" sentence because it's bad faith debate technique. The point could have been made just as well with a comment about company towns or cyberpunk megacorporations. The hysterical
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by saulrh 8y ago
> Having never needed to build my own sorting algorithm in 14 years of coding, Neither have I. What I have had to do is recognize when I could do what I needed to do without sorting the array, understand various requirements when I&#x2
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by saulrh 8y ago
Funny, I use this kind of thing all the time when I'm programming. I wrote a comment citing the pigeonhole principal to justify a test case not thirty minutes ago. And I'm not even doing anything wizardly or revolutionary, just im
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by saulrh 8y ago
I have a vague memory of getting the same advice at some point. It really is useful, and for more than simply returning a "do not do this" for effectively everything; in my experience it's also a forcing function for deeper r
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by saulrh 8y ago
There's no such thing as omniscience or perfect prescience and you will always screw up eventually. There's no physical law that says that people can only crucify you if you actually do something bad. Every one of your competitors
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by saulrh 8y ago
Moral of the story: never try to be a good guy, because you'll be held to a higher standard than anyone else and crucified while your competitors, who never claimed to be anything other than malignant stains on humanity, fly under the
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by saulrh 8y ago
It's too much to hope that Facebook takes a hint from Google and shuts down its social network to preserve user privacy, right?
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by saulrh 8y ago
risking their own health so that the human genome can keep battling with and evolving natural defenses against disease? Diseases evolve orders of magnitude faster than humans. Giving ourselves a chance to evolve also gives the dis
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by saulrh 8y ago
If you'd told me you had a library of 3d action-adventure games and fighting games and hated shooters because they were plotless, mindless gorefests, I would recommend Portal, Half-Life 2, and Halo. They are dissimilar enough from genr
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by saulrh 8y ago
...Right. Okay. Stereotypes and a failure to do basic research is not a reason to disregard an entire genre. Go play Umineko and Steins;Gate. Have fun.
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by saulrh 8y ago
Yeaaah, knowing you're into RPGs and random indies, I'd recommend JRPGs, and if you already have any JRPGs I'd add VNs. Certainly the options involving less high school relationship drama, which is why I say that the specifi
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by saulrh 8y ago
> Despite never having purchased an anime visual novel, played one, or even looked at a store page for one I'm going to be honest, given this information I'm wondering how you know you hate them. Any individual recommendation i
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by saulrh 8y ago
> They may have been labeled "lazy" or "space-cadet" without being offered any practical support Yep. For the longest time I just thought that I was lazy and disorganized and that all the "brains" everyone s
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by saulrh 8y ago
> Then they often can't focus on things they want to focus on for their own reasons. Ding ding ding, winner. You know what sucks ? Not being physically capable of paying enough attention to a piece of paperwork to be sure you&#x2
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by saulrh 8y ago
> For whatever it is worth: I am 32, and have undiagnosed ADHD, probably more extreme than yours. If you think that it's significantly affecting your quality of life and none of your existing coping strategies are helping - which is
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by saulrh 8y ago
"Requiring every building to have a ramp instead of stairs wastes everyone's time and money. Many of the people that need them could get along in crutches long enough to use the occasional building." People like you are why I
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by saulrh 8y ago
It doesn't help at all that the common medications are mild, situational nootropics with grossly inflated PR. Usually you say something like "I got a prescription for X and, instead of overdosing and dying, stopped having episodes
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by saulrh 8y ago
Not just the abstract; this entire paper is one of the most clearly-written and comprehensible scientific works I've ever laid eyes on. Figure 4b deserves an award.
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by saulrh 8y ago
That or the exercise means you're too tired to actually do anything with your anger and disappointment and instead just sit there hating yourself.
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by saulrh 8y ago
I wrote up a bit reply to clarify, but now I'm looking and thinking about it for the first time in a few years, with four years of job experience instead of four days, and realizing that I probably need to be showing this to a lawyer.
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by saulrh 8y ago
I've had enough medical problems and paperwork fuckups to be damned thankful that my medical records aren't on paper. And I worked for a couple years on one of the EMRs that "protects" my data. Yes, the situation could
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by saulrh 8y ago
Like I said, I suspect this is mostly a question of learning new paperwork. My experience at Google has been that the security and privacy tooling is granular enough that access can be proposed, vetted, authorized, controlled, and monitored
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by saulrh 8y ago
You know what the really stupid thing is? Looking at the attack surfaces and data values and compromise histories, and having been inside Google to see how it treats PII and been inside a cloud EMR provider to see how it treated P H I, I&
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by saulrh 8y ago
So I can tab-complete files inside a tarball without getting pwned by a malicious filename. So my prompt can show when I'm in a git directory without giving RCE to every script kiddie on the internet. So I can actually read scripts bef
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by saulrh 8y ago
Last I heard it was declared economically viable and spun out. Wikipedia says Loon is currently contracted to provide internet service to a few particularly inaccessible chunks of Kenya, and its performance during the hurricanes last year i
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by saulrh 8y ago
The projects they're attempting take decades. Period. Loon, for example: Two years for a handful of prototypes, two years for LTE functionality and a "real" trial run, two more years for a mesh network so they aren't bot
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by saulrh 8y ago
So, what, every research project and every startup should succeed? That's not how progress works.

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