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by yomly 9y ago
Brahms destroyed a whole bunch of his works out of his own insecurity that they were not good enough. Brahms is now long dead but his (that were not destroyed) works live on.
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by yomly 9y ago
How would you release something anonymously? Tor?
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by yomly 9y ago
This is more like if an annotated original script of A New Hope were to find its way into the hands of a fan and s/he gave it back to Disney instead of copying it.
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by yomly 10y ago
I'm pretty sure everything you could ever want to learn to be a good engineer is out there on the internet for you to be read for free. Ranging from entire degree courses, to giant open source projects and even blog posts on how to get
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by yomly 10y ago
With someone like Sheryl Sandberg heading up Facebook's operations, it would be hard to believe that there weren't mandates to achieve gender parity starting from the top. That Facebook hasn't achieved gender parity yet would
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by yomly 10y ago
If you've ever read a STEM textbook that gives references, you'll often find an entire paper or PhD thesis condensed into a sentence...
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by yomly 10y ago
Typed/racket supports hot swapping to a similar degree as clojure
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by yomly 10y ago
Not an EE, but I wonder if it is possible to bake into the hardware an LED that activates when the camera is active. That would at least protect users from unintentional recording
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by yomly 10y ago
I imagine you are speaking from the interpersonal experience, which I know to be a terrible one. Once you're in "management" teams and entire divisions become numbers in your P&L, not humans. What's more, once you&#x
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by yomly 10y ago
I am familiar with the concept of the glass cliff, but when things are going smoothly, why would a company (which we already know are statistically mostly run by men) change leadership? If leadership mostly changes during times of turmoil,
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by yomly 10y ago
I can't really disagree with anything you're saying. Wrt to only males going through NS, I can imagine someone in the Sg govt making the assumption "if all men go through NS and bond, then when they start families, their wive
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by yomly 10y ago
From what I've seen, genius for me can be reduced to "what one is able to achieve in some dimension with a limited amount of instruction". I subscribe to the idea that someone can be taught to do anything, given enough time a
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by yomly 10y ago
Thought I'd post this as a skim reveals no one has discussed testing. While I am sure it is very possible to achieve this in other ways, the React-Redux structure (dumb components handling presentation and redux handling state) enforce
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by yomly 10y ago
Actually, I'd argue that something like NS, its merits not being discussed here, does do good for social cohesion and cultural integration. When everyone is (relatively) equal and put through something comparatively arduous, it does go
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by yomly 10y ago
Is anyone here working out in Sg? How is the tech scene there? Are salaries still low wrt the rest of the world for engineers?
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by yomly 10y ago
Maybe the engineering community as a whole be better for it if so much duplication of work wasn't going on behind closed doors. Sure, you don't want to publicize things which could be a competitive advantage to your company, but I
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by yomly 10y ago
I arrived at the same conclusion when I realised that YouTube no longer buffers the video all the way through to the end on mobile anymore. I miss being able to buffer a (long) video for offline playback when riding public transport.
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by yomly 10y ago
Beat me to it. I am sure a large part Netflix's success is how seamless its products are: there's minimal to no loading time and the video stream is virtually always smooth - including during times of action/high frame rate.
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by yomly 10y ago
Bit like how Bezos said if something is going to canniblize your business, you may as well be the one doing it
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by yomly 10y ago
Is valium/codeine induced sleep equivalent to the real thing?
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by yomly 10y ago
This is obviously a problem that will be difficult to solve for social and medical sciences, but surely for the life and engineering sciences a general stance towards openness would be beneficial to the disciplines?
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by yomly 10y ago
So here's an orthogonal question. In a field like space navigation, where your findings come back after an expedition planned 5-10+ years ago how do you be "agile"? What is the go to project management style? Can we learn fro
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by yomly 10y ago
Here is a review of some of the studies going into the isotopic chemistry of living organisms: https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/biogenic-chemical-el...
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by yomly 10y ago
Right, so I agree - it's all about incurred risk vs. benefits. GM crops and radio frequency exposure probably incur a risk to our health, but the imminent benefit of having radio transmission and greater crop yields in a world which st
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by yomly 10y ago
Thanks, I absolutely did!
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by yomly 10y ago
Given how the criminalization of drugs has spawned a host of terrible criminal trades, I don't think outlawing tobacco is the solution. If people want to hurt themselves, they should ultimately be allowed to, but the problem with food
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by yomly 10y ago
Yep, the anecdote of methyl iodide leaching through nitrex gloves and skin to interrupt DNA sequencing by methylating your DNA was a chilling image that has stayed with me and reminded me how we are simply giant walking reaction beakers and
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by yomly 10y ago
If you work in an organic synthetic lab for an extended period of time, you can develop sensitisation towards bench-top solvents. Granted, the exposure rate is much much higher than the average person's exposure to "chemicals&quot
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by yomly 10y ago
That is what regulation (which has sadly become a dirty word) exists for - to keep businesses in check. That there is a growing market for "clean" produce is an indication that there is a growing awareness and appetite for change
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by yomly 10y ago
This headline explains my general aversion to "chemicals". This, despite the fact that everything is a chemical and that we are all little chemical machines. The human physiology is unfathomably complex and the advent of synthetic

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