stdbrouw

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by stdbrouw 13y ago
He mentions 10,000 hours once or twice, and uses the word "mastery." If you hadn't ever heard of Gladwell, you wouldn't even know he's making a reference to anything at all.
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Re: 4, don't you think it's a bit of a stretch to go from a study that notes that temporary carbohydrate overfeeding can increase leptin, to saying that a little bit of sugar will keep you on your diet? (It's an intriguing re
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Um, what you're doing might be super-duper valuable, but "bite-sized personalized social innovative learning", frankly, sounds more like a game of buzzword bingo than like a product description.
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Isn't the brain itself a good mix of general-purpose and special-purpose intelligence?
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Thanks!
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
OTOH, they're talking about monthly actives, meaning that you'd really only be counted 14 times if you played all fourteen games during that period. Secondly, from a reach perspective it matters whether these are really unique, bu
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
What would also be neat: a "generate a shell on demand" command. So `use git` would give you something that's about 90% of gitsh, but equally `use apt-get` would do the same thing for apt and so on. But perhaps we're get
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
I think it's possible to agree with both this post and with the other programmer he's railing against. Yep, I know that if I don't take care of my own training, it's just not going to happen, most companies are not so al
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Well, to be fair, this is why even with semver 0.x means "anything goes". It's only from 1.x onwards that major version increments should be used for backwards-incompatible changes.
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
You seem to be very upset about all of this... The nice thing about semantic HTML is that any metadata and structured data is a part of the document itself instead of hidden away somewhere else through an API. This has its disadvantages (I&
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
I say this as someone who does head to the gym regularly, and I get why going to the gym is probably a better idea than watching television for an hour, but... why would an hour at the gym be in any way superior to any number of inspiring
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Because peer pressure only exists in high school? And maybe it's not hard to say no to a single drink, but a lot of these events go past midnight, and the reason they "work" is because the next day when you pass each other in
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
That's part of the problem though: socializing is a really big part of a lot of conferences, and if the people you want to meet are all in a bar, getting a drink, then it can be really hard to say "y'know, I'm just going
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Or more broadly, civilians vs. people in power, whether they're a part of the government or not. (E.g. the French revolution which targeted the aristocracy.)
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
It's really only confusing in this particular context, or to be precise, this particular sentence. Similarly, "Metropolitan Transportation Authority Invests Heavily in Rails" doesn't really make "Ruby on Rails"
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
As with most thought experiments, it's a little far-fetched though. How often, in the run-up to a crash, is it really possible to make oneself safer (or less safe) at the expense (or benefit) of another car? A more common scenario migh
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Your point being that fertile people are happy people?
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Well, Greece kind of shot themselves in the foot didn't they? http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/greek-debt-crisis... http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/07
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
So you're saying let's not protest because of the smoke?
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
I think most cops and prosecutors are good people. "Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
But obviously you do have enough time to complain about it.
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
> I would imagine whatever social safety net is in place would be taken out of your wages in taxes, right? It depends, e.g. in Belgium part of it is paid by your employer on top of your pre-tax wage, and a (larger) part is deducted from
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
The catch is that the initial upload can take a while if your internet connection has limited upstream – not something Backblaze can help but I'm sure it has made some people think twice before having their external drives mirrored in
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
This simply does not apply to music, where each producer has the monopoly on their music. Only once you take piracy into account does that change. But then your thesis also changes from "you can't get people to pay for recorded mu
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
> you can augment the service (large margins) or automate the service (thin margins), but you can't turn it into a product. Why not?
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
I agree with your conclusion but not your argument. What does it matter if making a living as a musician through record sales is a historical anomaly? And can you really call it an anomaly if previous generations didn't have the option
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Ehm, you're being pretty vague here. As far as I can tell, none of what you're saying applies to Belgium, a Western European country if any is, and our tax collection agency is not even close to the IRS when it comes to bullying p
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
There's some good points in the piece, but I can't help but think it's funny how everyone used to love TED... until "everyone" became a really big group and overnight TED became uncool and passé and insight porn. T
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
> Outliers are who advance the world. But everyone has to live in it. You're not asking for compassion, you're asking schools to do something that might be advantageous for a minority at the expense of everyone else. How does t
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
> School is not, and should not be, the epicenter of all social interaction during a person's youth. How can it not be the epicenter of social interaction for young people when it's where they spend the majority of their waking

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