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by yomly 10y ago
While this learning style certainly suits more people than others, it is definitely a skill that can be improved. For a lack of a better term, I'd call it researching. Expressed in another way, it is the ability to state (and constantl
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by yomly 10y ago
> Ugh, seriously? Is this fashion or engineering? > It seems incredibly odd to leave Rails over this. For what, Java? Unbelievable. Back when Java was introduced, it was partly taken up because the features it introduced made develope
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by yomly 10y ago
Even the brightest brain will have been stuck on something which, after the penny has dropped, will seem trivial. I agree with the author that there is a danger of "dumbing down" concepts which risks casting a lower ceiling on our
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A Tyranny Years in the Making(democracyjournal.org)
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by yomly 10y ago
I have a policy of keeping personal browsing on chrome and work based browsing on FF. Every now and then FF will inexplicably hang for over 5 seconds on a page that is probably already cached. I never notice this on chrome, and my connectio
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Failing elites are to blame for unleashing Donald Trump(ft.com)
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by yomly 10y ago
The metric is very convenient and a useful rule of thumb which is therefore perhaps useful for some proportion of the general population: especially for those with limited medical knowledge and/or equipment - but it's really not a
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by yomly 10y ago
BMI is a terrible metric - it's just a function of weight and height and a terrible indicator for health - most professional atheletes would have high BMIs due to a high muscle to fat ratio (muscle tissue being denser than fat tissue).
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by yomly 10y ago
Sussman cites a desire to mimic biology in his essay "Building Robust Systems" https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/readings/ro...
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by yomly 10y ago
After recently dealing with the various governments / nationalised businesses from a number of countries I can safely say that I am well and truly fed up with their inane bureaucracy. This article doesn't surprise me: where the re
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by yomly 10y ago
True, completely agree, but we currently live in a world where the majority of corporations will make profit up until the boundaries of legality.
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by yomly 10y ago
Funny that you should mention flat earthers - when Galileo published his works proposed a heliocentric system, he was tried for heresy. I'm sure at the time, the Church were confident they were right about the matter and therefore had
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by yomly 10y ago
Don't really understand the downvotes here can people explain why they are downvoting? The parent opinion is that Nestle is a large corporation and they are diversifying their revenue streams as every profit-seeking company is entitled
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by yomly 10y ago
Out of interest - if a cigarette company started selling lung cancer treatment, would you still hold this stance? I would hazard to say that the analogy I've chosen aligns more closely with the stance of the article and the posters tak
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by yomly 10y ago
Wholeheartedly agree on this, the college I went to harboured and nurtured a disdain for profit seeking and expected you to adopt a self-sacrificing altruistic approach to pursuing research. No thanks. I'm sorry that research wasn&#x27
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by yomly 11y ago
It's also not just a tech thing, in consulting you have your McKinseyites, BCGers and Bainies
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by yomly 11y ago
Audio fingerprinting is also pretty hit and miss for classical music where the work is the same and the artist differs.
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by yomly 11y ago
Considering Amazon is able to constantly expand into new retail fields (like groceries), launch a cloud services business, launch own its internal logistics business (that is the 2nd largest provider in the UK now) says to me the Retail bus
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by yomly 11y ago
It was written by a white person in a country which is still assumed to be predominantly Caucasian. Hence white people were the baseline.
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by yomly 11y ago
This. My appreciation for classical music hockey sticked after things like Spotify became available. As a result I am now spending several hundreds of dollars to see artists perform live. Hopefully this helps also ensure a greater share of
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by yomly 11y ago
Glad someone else took issue with this. We're in a constant race to improve battery life and processing power so we can waste energy on these pointless "innovations". I'm all for improving UX, but I constantly wonder how
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by yomly 11y ago
I think the downvotes on this post are unfair. While, the tone could be construed as lacking in empathy, and the article clearly states that users are exposed to videos, the question can definitely be rephrased as a valid one. When reading
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by yomly 11y ago
Completely agree with this. I used to marvel/sob quietly at how an entire PhD/lifetime's work could be summarized into a single sentence in a given textbook, but human's single greatest advantage is that we can absorb ot
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by yomly 11y ago
I asked a Uber driver in China why he thought DiDiKuaiChe (local competitor) was more popular, and he said "because you can order one through WeChat... And everyone has WeChat" Of those services, gaming is probably the most mature
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by yomly 11y ago
Disclaimer: I used to work at Amazon. Amazon and Apple have had a long patchy history when it comes to selling Apple products. Primarily it comes down to Apple's need to control the pricing of their products and Amazon's desire to
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by yomly 11y ago
It's a double edged sword: it generates wealth and regenerates an area. On the other hand people who may have lived there for 20+ years can get priced out of their own neighbourhood. Arguably, people have a right to continue living whe
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by yomly 11y ago
On the subject of keyboards, I have always found the iOS keyboard to be the most satisfying to use, possibly also the most accurate. What do other people like using? I liked the windows phone keyboard, thought the Fire phone was okay, but a
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by yomly 11y ago
Can you do things like download on the iPad nowadays? The iPad always felt like a poor (rich)man's laptop when you couldn't do things like download files from webpages.
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by yomly 11y ago
Do you think that level of independence and self awareness is restricted to special people or CS grads? Is it so unlikely that someone who has earned a decent degree (which involved self study) and gone through a bootcamp to foster that beh
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by yomly 11y ago
Fair enough, thanks for the input! Though you raise (inadvertently) a related issue in mentioning kernel programming: When asking a friend whether I should learn C, he posited: Do you want to be a programmer or do you want to be a coder? If

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