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by sten 10y ago
I do this. Almost exactly. Asleep at 11 pm, up at 5:30. Lazy on weekends.
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by sten 10y ago
I feel that I've missed something nice here. I'll have to read more.
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by sten 10y ago
> It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless. No worse than any other profession. Sure, most days I do more of the same, build reports for finance/corporate problems. It's rolling stones up a hill every morning, but th
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by sten 10y ago
Is that also a pun?
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by sten 10y ago
I can appreciate the sentiment. Though in this context I'd consider it to almost be a satire. ie. Real men don't think about the kinds of things that other people who say "real men __" because they're busy building
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by sten 10y ago
That’s apples to oranges. Would you hire a programmer who hadn’t gone to University?
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by sten 10y ago
People are also having less children which lessens the pressure to exit the city.
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by sten 10y ago
Meat is a luxury.
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by sten 10y ago
I’m in the industry, everyone here uses spreadsheets for everything. They only have us working on other stuff now because we’re reaching memory limits and row limits for calculations. But primarily we have a few factors working in excels fa
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by sten 10y ago
Bees need some diversity in their diets. They consume nectar and pollen true, but that doesn't go far enough. If I offered you a diet of only Sugar cubes, Soya protein extract and Olive Oil you'd quickly die. Why? That diet has Ca
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by sten 10y ago
I took it as a lampoon on the "Full stack dev in x" bullshit that gets tossed around. It does sound insane to expect the devs to also be marketing gurus and finance experts and legal wizards... but no one bats a eye at the idea of
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by sten 10y ago
Tactically yes, but it's often considered a greater honor to achieve an objective without loss of life.
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by sten 10y ago
Thank you for this. In my city we're fighting a slow battle against bylaws that make bee keeping illegal for very stupid reasons. People need to calm down. You're more likely to die of lightning strike than bee sting in the US.
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by sten 10y ago
I believe the GP was refering to the production of films and movies. For example, much of the Lord of the Rings films were shot with forced perspective. How would that translate into a VR medium?
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by sten 10y ago
Hello from Halifax! Second time I've seen some of us here. Did we really spend that much on a that logo?
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by sten 10y ago
Does anyone else ever wonder if this is part of a long term strategy to reduce costs by inflating the pool of developers? Corporations can think long term.
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by sten 10y ago
If you view education as teaching people to learn, then you might have an argument that education rates enable and empower people. If you're training robots who don't think for themselves then you'll encounter the situation y
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by sten 10y ago
> latter case if the person who added another database/programming language/web toolkit/etc managed to achieve something with in in a short period of time. This one bothers me. It's brought up all the time. And I comp
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by sten 11y ago
Interesting. I had no idea you guys were here in Nova Scotia. Does your company work only with social graphs or can the platform be extended to other applications? Either way, looking forward to meeting you at Volta next week.
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by sten 11y ago
Gonna chime in here with a similar story. I was working at a call center a few years ago. Mostly sales stuff, but it was for a web company. I was taking moocs on the side, Udacity first, then coursera. I was always studying and that was not
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by sten 11y ago
I went from sociology major to developer mostly on moocs. Minored math though.
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by sten 11y ago
You're either underestimating social complexity or over estimating computer power. That's the same level of problem as simulating weather.
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by sten 11y ago
"Would it have been so bad to store those in a basement of the British Museum" Well that made me think. The looting of the Iraq Museum always made me sad. Much of it is the common heritage of all people on earth.
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by sten 11y ago
No, not collectively, but acting as individuals they can attempt to take a first mover advantage. Make their money, and then they can retire; fuck you, got mine. We already see it with off shoring.
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by sten 11y ago
Well it does, if all else is head steady. But the issue seems to be that nothing is held constant in reality and the missing sugars are made up for with snacks elsewhere.
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by sten 12y ago
The diet coke is also associated with diet issues. Mainly that the pseudo sugars trick the brain into expecting a rise in bloodsugar level that never comes, leading to a crash.
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by sten 12y ago
It's easy if it's a lifestyle change and not just a diet until you're thin. If you give up cake so that you can lose weight so that you can eat cake again... well, you're gonna have a bad time.
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by sten 12y ago
You could also be avoiding potentially harmful substances which a diverse diet might have exposed you to. That they lived into their 90s on the same diet they had in their 20's implies they skipped TV dinners, Aerosol Cheese and McDona
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by sten 12y ago
6'4" 200 lbs here, marathon training and vegan... I eat very little refined sugars any more but I do consume a large amount of my calorie needs in grains and rices. Interestingly I was 230 or so in weight right up until I started
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by sten 12y ago
Except that humans are incapable of making objective observations in practice with anything resembling consistency.

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