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ckuehne··on Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup
Crossfit never takes longer than 30 minutes. Some workouts can be as short as 3 minutes.
ckuehne··on Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer
FYI: Docs are fully integrated and appear for example together when moving through the list of autocomplete suggestions. Very similar to XCode's inline docs. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl and every function call, class definition and so on becomes a link to the source code defintion of that function or class, respectively. Such are manifold possibilies for tool support in statically typed languages.
ckuehne··on Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer’s
An article that begins with "Researchers report that a spinal fluid test can be 100 percent accurate"

does not shine a light too bright on the its author's head.

ckuehne··on Are your beliefs consistent? Take the test...
Question 12 asks: "If God exists she could make it so that everything now considered sinful becomes morally acceptable and everything that is now considered morally good becomes sinful.".

Which I deem to be true. I earlier responded "God does not exists". So there really is not contradiction as claimed by the game

"You claimed earlier that any being which it is right to call God must want there to be as little suffering in the world as possible. But you say that God could make it so that everything now considered sinful becomes morally acceptable and everything that is now considered morally good becomes sinful. What this means is that God could make the reduction of suffering a sin... yet you've said that God must want to reduce suffering."

since I deem the premise of question 12 false (God does not exist). Again "If God exists than she can do such and such ..." is always true if God does not exist.

Furthermore I also think there might be a semantical problem in the analysis. The game did not establish that sin implies suffering.

ckuehne··on Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects
Exactly: Or Smalltalk or Ruby for that matter, which both facilitate information hiding via private access. It's great to feel superior, isn't it?
ckuehne··on Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell
Neil Postman made the same observation already in 1984: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

EDIT: Just read aardvark's comment. So never mind.

ckuehne··on Where does a tree get its mass?
Can't upvote you enough for this. By the way, Feynman also knows the difference "between knowing the name of something and knowing something": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05WS0WN7zMQ
ckuehne··on German Tank Problem
According to Wikipedia the estimator is (n+1)/ns-1 not (n+1)/n(s+1) as the author stated.
ckuehne··on Collection of .NET Framework and Visual Studio Posters
Jeez, Louise. Again: It was A JOKE. Why do you think I put it in inverted commas?
ckuehne··on Collection of .NET Framework and Visual Studio Posters
As a non-native speaker of English I thought "poster" could also be a persons who posts (for example links to a news site). Therefore, I misconceived the meaning of the headline as stated above since it appeared in the context of hacker news. Also: it was just a joke.
ckuehne··on Collection of .NET Framework and Visual Studio Posters
Funny. For a second I thought this was a public shaming campaign targeting hacker-news members that still work with "evil tools".
ckuehne··on Programming: Attitude Trumps Intelligence
Just to clarify: "why are manhole covers round?" is not a test of intelligence in the narrower sense. "Add the next number in the following sequence 1,4,9,16" is.
ckuehne··on Online tutorials for LaTeX
No, they did not. Take a look at http://www.tug.org.in/tutorial/src/fiscreen.sty.
ckuehne··on Online tutorials for LaTeX
Take a look at http://www.tug.org.in/tutorial/src/fiscreen.sty.

EDIT: It defines the navigation elements as well.

ckuehne··on Cyberwar Doomsayer Lands $34 Million in Cyberwar Contracts‎
Why, yes, of course it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse.
ckuehne··on Why No Jobs
See http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/7037.aspx for a rebuttal of the baby sitting co-op story.
ckuehne··on [dead]
This is painful.
ckuehne··on The New Cavemen Lifestyle
Well, you know: that is exactly the point.
ckuehne··on The shortest Phd thesis
The guy who wrote the thesis is the same who popularized a notation about the limiting behavior of functions which was introduced by the German mathematician Bachman. The notation is therefore called the Bachmann-Landau notation. Alternatively it is known as the Big-O notation.
ckuehne··on Googling for Sociopaths
The first paragraph says it all: capitalism is a good system for handling sociopaths.

After all we know, it is probably the best. In every other system known to mankind psychopath cause incredibly more damage. Think Soviet Russia, North Korea, the Roman Empire, Nazy Germany, Cold War Romania, ...

The irony: Aaron Swartz probably had some idealistic system in mind when he wrote it (correct me if I'm wrong or if I am erecting a straw man), that would handle everything better if only the "right" people were in charge. The available data speaks otherwise.

"Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." Georges Clemencea

ckuehne··on Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them
Funny. The German in the Bourne Identity UIs is full of errors and fake words. Then again, it is still a lot better than the "German" spoken by Nazis in Hollywood movies.
ckuehne··on Proving a Computer Program's Correctness
As a starting point have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_transformer_semantics.
ckuehne··on 50 Cent's 10 lessons for success in business - and in life
Ahem, straw men arguments?
ckuehne··on Plain English Explanation of Big O Notation
Oh my, another handwaving article about Big O Notation. Why does everyone and their mother feel the need to explain this thing in "plain English".

"Big O notation seeks to describe the relative complexity of an algorithm [...]" Relative to what? To the moon and the stars? Big O is a notation to describe the growth rate of functions.

Therefore, you can also use it to describe the memory usage of an algorithm. Even if the author of the article thinks otherwise.

And so on and so forth.

Seriously, I understand the wish to explain this thing clear and simple. But what is so hard about a clear and concise description using maths and some plots?

Or, in John McCarthy's words:"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.".

ckuehne··on A Beginners’ Guide to Big O Notation
The article is really badly flawed. It does not even touch the reason why we use Big-O notation in the first place. That is to avoid clutter like constant factors or the basis of logratihms.

If it would than such mistakes as in the example for binary search "a data set containing 10 items takes one second to complete, a data set containing 100 items takes two seconds, and a data set containing 1000 items will take three seconds."

would not occur.

Also a logarithm does NOT have a "curve that PEAKS [my emphasis] at the beginning and slowly flattens out as the size".

ckuehne··on Why Women Have Breasts
>He's wrong for a simple reason: Breasts are expensive. They are expensive to maintain, and no other animal maintains them.

Your argument is not valid. It's not the cost alone that count, but the benefits minus the costs. Imagine your argument against human intelligence instead: Human intelligence could not have evolved for a simple reason: brains that produce intelligent behaviour are expensive. They are expensive to maintain, and no other animal maintains them.

Also: please read up on the unit of selection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_selection. Selection on the level of groups (let alone "society") is very, very unlikely (to say the least) and has long been abonded as theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection.

ckuehne··on What Java web framework would you use?
Wicket. If database is involved wicket+databinder.
ckuehne··on Pothead Ph.D. - This is most definitely not a cautionary tale
"How is it possible for someone to get a Ph.D. without picking up even a trace of scientific literacy?"

One word: humanities.

ckuehne··on "There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state..."
Maybe a bit more enlightening (if you read further than the opening quote) http://www.techcentralstation.com/article.aspx?id=120302A
ckuehne··on Does Fatherhood Make You Happy?
It's funny how every response in this thread confirms the three reasons mentioned in the article - in particular reason one: cognitive dissonance.
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