I've now refactored the description around stress addiction, with the policing of arbitrary stereotypicalities maintaining the stress level. It falls into...
Alan Carter
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Dec 8, 2007 3:46 am
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Just a quick random thought .. a common experience I have when helping people out with technical issues is this: Me: "Just click on XYZ.." Luser: "XYZ?" Me:...
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html Posted before, I think, but it's even more interesting if you slow it down or...
I've seen that a bunch of times before. Everytime I've seen it I've seen it spin counter clockwise (deductive). However this time I was linked to it something...
... I don't remember which way I saw her spinning the first time, but now I can make her spin either way at will. This theory about left-brained/right-brained...
... As I said, single-stepping in GIMP (or whatever) is interesting. My observations so far: 1) The direction her hangs is fixed, and so is "wrong" for one ...
Along similar lines, this slashdot article .. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/13/2122259 .. is possibly grounds for optimism, too, so long as...
While for me the "natural" way of seeing it is counter-clockwise (yeah yeah I'm very analytical), I managed to make it switch +- at will. The shadow is pretty...
Hi Steve, LIFE ON MARS SPOILER WARNING... At the end of Life on Mars the detective returns to 2007, and finds all the meeting room blah blah empty and...
Alan Carter
alangcarter@...
Dec 15, 2007 12:20 pm
12542
WRT handedness, there's a castle in Scotland (I think it's clan Campbell but I'm not sure) which has the stairs going the wrong way. Normal spiral stairs go CW...
Alan Carter
alangcarter@...
Dec 15, 2007 12:39 pm
12543
I only see it rotating clockwise. Apparantly that means I'm right brained. Although I seem to have strong characteristics from both their descriptions of right...
... Yeah, me too, though irritatingly, not all at the same time. A few years ago I seemed to switch from being reasonably detail-focussed and logic oriented...
... My view on it is mere practicality. If you worry so much about every cent you spend or every letter you write and every word you say... you quickly become...
... I think there's a subtler distinction to be made here. Who's telling us, "if A then B", or is it derived from experience? Could the person (or our...
Back in the days of dot matrix printers and fan-fold paper, when programs were generally more linear and debuggers less sophisticated, I found that sometimes...
... Programming is not about computers, but about logic. The computer is merely a medium for computations (logic and math) I think what's different today is...
... That possibly goes back to the thing Alan was talking about: programming "with your eyes shut", or without thinking. For all sorts of problems, once I've...
These two articles had a nice 'progstoney' feel to them.. Speculation on how Kerviel committed his deed. Based on my very limited experience, this sounds...
... Damned if I know. Some system of lies I guess? I know money is meant to help people do commerce. Because it's better to trade gold for goods, than...
``Indiana University researchers are studying a ground-breaking theory that young children are able to learn large groups of words rapidly by data-mining.'' ...
Well how does this compare to suggestology they demonstrated learning 300 words with their method, 500 for experienced users and their experts were going for...
There's an article <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/magazine/17play.html?pagewanted=1&ref\ =science> in the NYTimes (registration required) discussing the ...
Have you ever noticed, that people tend to gang up to do the wrong thing? The story usually goes like this: Inventor A, says a new cool idea. Random Crowd...
... [..] ... Ordinary folk F, G and H, who have fairly usual aspirations (earning a living, keeping their family happy), and no particular need to assert their...
... That's a whole lotta reply. Anyhow... I agree with you that running around trying to make people feel better... is not being caring... it's just... some...
