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by sramsay 8y ago
I'm seeing lots of posts full of frustration about cost, clients, support, protocols, direction of the company, whatever . . . I don't care about any of that. Okay, I do. But mainly, I need the thing to be secure (zero knowledg
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by sramsay 8y ago
I have given many, many talks -- from dense technical presentations to generalized keynote addresses -- and have been doing it for over twenty years. Here, in my opinion, is the deal: 1. Don't start your talk by apologizing. "We
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by sramsay 10y ago
I had the same thought. Follow the author's conclusions, and you'll end up rejecting college as such on the basis of its apparent lack of "utility." But why should everything be tied to the demands of the workforce? At
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by sramsay 10y ago
The "idea of study," as you put it, is exactly what's left out of the equation. Bias is, of course, inevitable. But it makes it sound as if a sociologist studying poverty consults their "worldview" and then writes
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by sramsay 11y ago
It doesn't seem to say so anywhere on the page, but "Rhei" is presumably a reference to the ancient Greek phrase, "panta rhei" (πάντα ῥεῖ), which means "everything flows." It's associated with the pr
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by sramsay 11y ago
Lapham's Quarterly , incidentally, is fantastic. Each issue is devoted to some theme (War, Religion, Intoxication, Money, The Sea), and will contain excerpts from all kinds of philosophical, literary, and historical primary document
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by sramsay 11y ago
When I was younger (I'm 45), lithium itself was synonymous with "really crazy." It no longer seems to be regarded quite so negatively. I had a bad reaction to it ("zombification," as we call it), but it has clearly
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by sramsay 11y ago
Right. I think that's why we get into the "let's try this" mode with doctors, which has been mentioned in this thread. That can be frustrating for patients, but "sertonergic drug" (or effect) is a hugely broad
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by sramsay 11y ago
An actual panic attack is completely and totally devastating. The entire fight/flight system goes haywire, and people think they're about to die. It's even possible to start hallucinating. Lots of sufferers wind up in the E
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by sramsay 11y ago
I have often wondered if the adaptive nature of the brain is what's confusing things. In other words, if someone is suffering the systems of major depression or bipolar disorder, and you "shock" that system with a change in
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by sramsay 11y ago
I really think we're dealing with some very complicated biochemistry here. I have never seen a single psych drug, the PI sheet for which did not begin, "The exact mechanism of action is unknown" (or words to that effect). A
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by sramsay 11y ago
(Disclosure: big fan of Ramda here) That's exactly where I got caught too. I just don't see why I really want to do it that way at all. My favorite thing about Underscore/Lodash/Ramda is function composition. This seem
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by sramsay 11y ago
Some of those would be absolutely staggering. Epicureanism and Stoicism, for example, were among the most popular philosophies of the ancient world, but our written record of them is extremely fragmentary relative to what we know was writt
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by sramsay 11y ago
Pretty impressive app. But mainly, this is demonstrating to me how hard it is to sound like Vladimir Horowitz while using a mouse.
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by sramsay 12y ago
The confusion is somewhat reasonable given that many synthesizers (including straightforwardly subtractive ones) have an FM knob somewhere. It can produce some really great metallic and/or bell-like sounds. A synthesizer in which FM i
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by sramsay 12y ago
I think my question probably seems overly naive or provocative (it's being down voted, after all). I'm really just trying to divine the source of your cynicism. Possibilities include: 1. There are too many games; it's as ha
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by sramsay 12y ago
Your observation is sort of predicated on the idea of a shipped game. Do you think there are mountains of shipped games in that market that made little or no money at all? I'm just not seeing that. What I see is some incredibly succe
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by sramsay 12y ago
Making $3000 in a quarter is a pipe dream? Why do you say that? The indie game market is not all that crowded, if we're thinking about games like Dear Esther, Gone Home, The Stanley Parable, Sword and Sworcery (all of which did way
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by sramsay 12y ago
The page says May 2014, but this is quite old. ESR proposed it in 2003 and it . . . failed to catch on.
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by sramsay 12y ago
I understand the trouble, but in this case it seems like the trouble might well be worth it. If the ABC conjecture is proven, the consequences are quite substantial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture#Some_con
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by sramsay 12y ago
For submission . The designer is not using Word. Ever.
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by sramsay 12y ago
At no point in the paper is exactly what is meant by a "formatting error" or a "typesetting error" defined. No, and they clearly don't mean it in any way that a designer would find intelligible. Let's compar
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by sramsay 12y ago
Someone who is really into the whole thing made me a cup, so I assume it was done right. Maybe not?
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by sramsay 12y ago
I'm a confirmed, life-long coffee fanatic, and pretty adventurous when it comes to food. I just couldn't stand the stuff. To me it tastes like coffee, with butter. I take your point about half and half, but the butter just made
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by sramsay 12y ago
This sounds great. I've starting looking at the CIS 194 lectures, though, and so far not a single example works in ghci. Googling around indicates that you need to use 'let' or define things in a module and load them . . .
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by sramsay 12y ago
I'm big into FP, but I've studied Haskell only lightly. Of all the posts I've read about Haskell, this is without doubt the most intimidating. Clearly, the OP is a quite experienced, skilled programmer, and yet he's bee
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by sramsay 12y ago
Okay, so just to bottom line this for someone with only rudimentary knowledge of audio and for whom all of this is a revelation: I am an idiot for paying for Pandora, yes?
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by sramsay 12y ago
I find it very hard to convince my students to pull out a pencil and a notebook before they start coding. "Draw some pictures. Make some notes. Write a function that you suspect will be tricky. Make a flowchart. List the methods t
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by sramsay 12y ago
Check out http://dailyjs.com/ some time. Granted, it's devoted to all things JS (not just frameworks), but the number of libraries and microframeworks and plugins for frameworks is absolutely astounding. I don't
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by sramsay 12y ago
Which summarizes the reasons for my hesitance toward anything that looks like a "framework." And here, we're talking about an old problem . . .

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