tjmaxal

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by tjmaxal 16y ago
for every success in life there are always a long list of glorious failures that precede it.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
Great advice as usual.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
this reminds me of the old interview tip "turn weaknesses into strengths" Being able to flip a hiccup into a fluid teaching point is good for any kind of teaching not just power point presentations.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
So in summary: 30th birthday + regret + hangover = pompous treatise on the state of the American psyche from a self righteous Canadian? How on earth did this get on the front page.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
Absolutely
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
Sounds like Farouk found the perfect job for him. What an amazing and empowering thing to do. Being successful is often the reward for finding the perfect match like this.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
cool we had someone try to shop us something like that but they had to build every query by hand.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
Do they have a website?
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
I don't know but I'd love to hear any ideas the main problem is it such a niche market that few people have tried to tackle the problem on a micro level. Instead most companies come in and say let's change everything and lock you into our p
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
We have a very complex SQL database that we use to keep track of patient data (we are a healthcare company) but to access most of the data for reporting purposes we still have to use Excel and pivot tables. I'd love to find a better solutio
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
A guy called into NPR this morning and said he had a worlds almanac from 1967 with an article about Afghanistan's mineral riches.
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Theres a Business in my trash(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Full Speed Ahead to the 100 MPG Car(wired.com)
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
I'm a little confused is he saying too much government intervention was the problem or not enough?
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
but you have to remember the vast majority of trades are made by humans and the vast majority of humans are emotional not always logical creatures. So the technicals which don't account for human emotions are bound to be wrong a certain (u
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
The idea that Apple is worried about what it exposes kids to is apparent in the "over 17" pop up. The idea that Apple is worried about exposing kids to gay sex is just laughable.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
Two NAKED men kissing The point here is that it is nudity.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
That sounds a lot like basic Fear of Failure to me.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
I know I've fallen into this fallacy a few times myself. It's easy to say to yourself if only I had enough data this decision/direction/risk would be obvious and I wouldn't be so worried about it. But the truth is even with perfect data you
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
Epidemiology regularly encounters this problem because you can't experiment on humans(you can't hurt them) Epidemiology relies on mountains of data to test a hypothesis. The problem is when you are asking the data to tell you about somethin
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
A better idea might be more education on how radiation works and what kind of radiation is coming from the leak/crack/banana etc. At least in the US people are extremely ignorant of how radiation works and how it can make you sick.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
say it costs a dollar per person each year to keep their bodies in perfect condition. without aging there is no death, no death means that the population will always grow or stagnate. $1/person/year Time becomes infinite, population is alw
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
If hunter gather society was so perfect why did we ever change?
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
Why? I'd rather have an employee who was the best at the job I need them for than an employee who is good at tweeting.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
Most companies don't do this because it is too expensive to out source everything especially when you are just starting.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
"curing aging" would actually INCREASE the cost of healthcare to nearly infinite.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
it all comes down to cost benefit analysis most of the time.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
This just makes me smile. It's nice to see good things being done by good people.
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
Basically it's legal speak for anything hidden. you have to remember the literal definition of "occult"
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by tjmaxal 16y ago
OK Cupid is free btw

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