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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." The concept
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Absolutely. In that same vein, I've gotten a lot out of so many similar videos which are ostensibly about one thing, but to effectively use what they're teaching, you have to start learning/mastering something else entirely.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
> and we got to teach some of the young guys at the office things they should've learned in their CS education (but somehow didn't) What specific things had they not learned in their CS education/which puzzles utilized the
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
I've been thinking about trying to find that method again. Thank you for sharing it so I don't have to search. :) Another article I just read on that site was on "hypnagogic naps" basically napping for less than a second
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
In the short term, yes it's a good thing that automatic bug fixes and enhancements happen. But in the long term it incentivizes shipping unfinished, buggy products. It may be a net positive, but it is not an unalloyed benefit.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
I believe that all social networks (which are technically services) should be separated out as not simply providing a service. In the same way that the Bell Telephone System was a service, it was also inherently a social network. Owning the
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
The resource that has spurred me into thinking differently about effective writing was shared on HN, from UChicago Social Sciences' Leadership Lab - The Craft of Writing Effectively. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIz
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Love the story. The company is spelled "Haier" by the way, if you are interested in reading more about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Checklists also save lives! > But a year after surgical teams at eight hospitals adopted a 19-item checklist, the average patient death rate fell more than 40 percent and the rate of complications fell by about a third, the researchers r
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Absolutely. It is always a really indicator of if I'm tired or not if I start to fail a lot of chess puzzles where I should have seen something, but just didn't notice it because I was tired. As someone who tends to stay up late,
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
I am on YouTube a lot more than Twitch, but if he's streaming live on Twitch, I'll watch him. I have just been watching all of his back catalog of YouTube videos.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
No idea. Daniel's channel is solely devoted to chess. My best guess is his editor made a mistake in making the playlist, maybe thinking he was logged into his own personal account? I didn't realize it was there in the playlist, as
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
You can also gauge how well you solve chess puzzles. A great place for this is Lichess[0], where you are presented with situations from real games played on the platform, and you are trying to find the best series of moves for one side, pla
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
I didn't know what GOS meant. It's galacto-oligosaccharide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactooligosaccharide https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1462/galact...
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
And since it is a game, someone can also just have fun playing it, too, and meet people along the way too as an added bonus.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
I've been watching a lot of GM Daniel Naroditsky's "Speedrun" series, where he plays games and teaches you why he's making the moves he's making vs alternatives, starting at a very low rating, to get back to a
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Could you elaborate on that? I couldn't find anything from a few Google searches.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
> a new Citadel service > yet another citadel What do you mean by citadel in these contexts? I've never encountered that terminology before.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Yeah, and I also wish there was a way to filter out content from select people who I follow for their subject matter expertise, and I'm not interested in reading about their takes on politics. I don't mind that they're wantin
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
What do the F11 and F12 keys do for you on a modern PC? I don't know of their uses offhand.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Thank you for your reply. It's about in line with my experience. I think my frustration so far isn't in the expectation of being cured, but in not have any treatment giving any kind of relief that's not measured in minutes, e
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
If I haven't had any luck with treatment options of fibromyalgia, what are good avenues to look down for treatment? What's the most renowned institution for treatment of fibromyalgia?
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
I've also been similarly able to cold turkey quit opiates taken for chronic pain. I know from listening to medical call-in shows that depending on the dose and frequency, that can be a very bad idea. I feel like there must also be some
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
- patio11 aka Patrick McKenzie ( https://twitter.com/patio11 , https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 , and https://www.kalzumeus.com )
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
What makes you say that they're different skills? Or, why do you view them differently? I'd love to read more about this distinction.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
And balancing for each person the mental costs of solving the problem through Zoom or Slack, and/or their preferences for either of those avenues.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
> reminds me a bit of Zoolander Thanks for the laugh. :) Taking that theme further, here's an an extension to that title I came up with: "YC Startup School for future founders who aren’t quite ready to start yet and who want to
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Ah, good call. Thank you! Here's a reference I found that explains the differences between those two concepts, as applied to Scala: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42833270/what-is-the-dif...
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
I wasn't readily familiar with the acronym ADT. It's "Algebraic Data Types" for anyone else in the same boat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
> I don't think there's a ton of value someone could get out of obtaining a fake subpoena (other than perhaps issuing your own self a subpoena as an excuse to get out of work, or maybe just to screw with someone) That would mak

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