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Re:It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity
on Saturday May 20, 2023 @05:03AM (#36010402)
Another saying "work smart not hard", i.e. you can save a lot of time by thinking things through before jumping into executing.
Re:Ask HN: I am overflowing with ideas but never finish anything
on Sunday May 14, 2023 @05:35AM (#35936667)
If this behavior is due to ADHD, then the best way to deal with it is to get diagnosed and then medicated, as medication is a really effective treatment.
Re:Opinion: Another species of hominin may still be alive
on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @03:17AM (#31080422)
Where's the evidence of that?
Re:The Spoon Theory (2003)
on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:26AM (#25789590)
It breaks my heart, especially for those who become severely chronically ill with diseases like ME/CFS in their teenage years, with little to no indication things will ever get better. Imagine that, maybe spending your next 50-60 years housebound, or even worse: bed bound. Add to that the sheer scale of how ignorant or severely misguided many people are about chronic illness (even doctors, ESPECIALLY doctors!), which imposes such stigma, guilt, and shame on these sufferers.
Re:Technical debt as a lack of understanding
on Friday November 06, 2020 @06:25PM (#25012095)
Software development looks a lot like evolution. The market and business requirements are the environment that weeds out the unfit software. Adapt or die. Codebases that are slow to adapt to outside changes are like species that are slow to adapt to selection pressures. So like the vestigial organs bursting from infection, so are companies that are unable to ship because devs are slowed down by messy code.
Re:Why I Prefer Functional Programming
on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:26PM (#24956086)
I like that in some fp it is: if it compiles, it runs well (aside from pure logic bugs).
Re:Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19
on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @07:42AM (#24846819)
It's amazing how people think a virus that lives latently in B cells and epithelial cells, and is strongly associated with various forms of cancer among a big helping of autoimmune disorders, is incapable of causing post-viral syndromes. No, it must be anxiety, of course!
EDIT: Just because a disease makes you frustrated because you can't really do anything about it except empathize and listen, doesn't mean you can just slap the anxiety band-aid on it and call it a day.
Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to have scourge...
on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:02PM (#24642382)
It's amazing how quickly people forget about Dunning-Kruger effect and how often people widely acclaimed for their academic prowess will reveal themselves ignorant when trying to act as an authority outside their field.d
Re:As Their Numbers Grow, Covid-19 “Long Haulers” Stump Experts
on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:22PM (#24591445)
Stump experts? This happens after nearly every epidemic or pandemic. Avoid over-exerting yourself if you suffer from pvfs, as that can either turn your illness chronic, or worse if it's already chronic.
Re:Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC email...
on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:59AM (#24516837)
It was the Russians.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...
Re:Coronavirus doctor's diary: Why are people remaining ill for so long?
on Sunday July 19, 2020 @06:15AM (#23888323)
Yeah, in its initial study, the nanoneedle had a 100% specificity and selectivity, and according to Ron Davis - main author - the results have held up as they've increased the number of tested people. That said it might also give a positive result for other illnesses. Hopefully a follow-up will be published soon.
Re:Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media
on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:57AM (#23301725)
Why would screening off entire categories of ideas lead to a systematically incorrect view of the world? Or why would entertaining those ideas lead to a less incorrect view of the world?
Re:Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media
on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:54AM (#23301687)
I'm not talking about censorship. I'm talking about all ideas getting equal exposure. If you follow that "equal exposure" idea to its conclusion, then what should be taught in "biology" class for example is evolution, protestant creationism, catholic creationism, sunni creationism, shia creationism, scientologic creationism, last thursdayism etc ad nauseam. Now, there isn't much to talk about regarding last thursdayism. But if everything should get equal exposure, then logically you must teach as much about evolution as last thursdayism, which is to say not a lot. So eventually you'd reduce ideas to the minimum viable size of an idea . And then there might be so many ideas that you'll die of old age before you're done being taught all the ideas.
Re:Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media
on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:47AM (#23301043)
Just because you think the state should allow any discussion and any opinion, doesn't mean you need to think its content is worthy or valuable. Do you think nazism should get as much exposure as something you like? Creationism? Flat-earthism? Any fringe idea with five believers?
Re:I miss Inbox, so I hacked Gmail with a little CSS magic (2019)
on Friday January 24, 2020 @07:41AM (#22137576)
Yes, it requires me to create an account to be able to read the article. And this, kids, is why you shouldn't use Medium if you want people to read your stuff!
Re:Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified
on Monday May 06, 2019 @08:18AM (#19838702)
From the paper:
Of the 20 ME/CFS patients studied, 5 were severely ill and 15 were moderately affected by their condition
Re:Online activists are silencing us, scientists say
on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @09:38AM (#19378461)
I think that ME/CFS will go the same way as MS.
Once upon a time, not long ago, MS sufferers were deemed "hysteric", "crazy" etc, until there was technology that could show physical evidence of the damage caused by MS.
Re:Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:32AM (#18128065)
This guide is great. Thank you!
Re:What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are th...
on Monday February 26, 2018 @04:51AM (#16464227)
Who else do you suggest should inform us if not scientists?
Introducing zetcd
Re:Facts about migration and crime in Sweden
on Friday February 24, 2017 @08:04AM (#13723235)
Amount of reported rapes =/= amount of rape convictions.
Re:President of Finland writes code with 4-9 year old children
on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @06:24AM (#10937339)
You could reverse that and say that you can learn how to think by learning how to code.
Re:New human-like species discovered
on Thursday September 10, 2015 @08:53AM (#10197712)
Extinct might not work since that human-like species might be an ancestor of ours.
Re:Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery
on Monday June 15, 2015 @08:27AM (#9718872)
What about this?
function v(x) {
return
x;
}
v("yeah");
returns undefined
Re:Facebook Newsfeed experiencing issues in various regions
on Sunday April 27, 2014 @06:07AM (#7654551)
Had similar problems in Sweden this morning. Seems to be working properly now though.
Re:Snowden's Dead Man's Switch
on Thursday July 18, 2013 @03:42PM (#6065975)
As someone commented on Schneier's site, US would have an incentive to keep Snowden protected because if any enemy of US would kill Snowden, then the information would become public, and I guess US wouldn't want that. Personally, I haven't invested a lot of thought into this, just wanted to point out an interesting angle. :)
Re:Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex
on Thursday September 06, 2012 @05:07PM (#4486240)
A better way is to check that the email the user entered matches a typical email format, and if the email doesn't match, then warn the user that he/she might've entered the wrong email address (for example writing foobar@gmail, or [email protected].).
Re:Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia
on Saturday September 01, 2012 @02:43PM (#4464664)
Since he only got 12 months of jail time, he can't get released early, and thus has to serve his full sentence.
Re:Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @04:08PM (#3763363)
Always go to the left, even if it's the entries to the top or the bottom.