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ryankey721

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ryankey721··on No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems
I definitely wouldn't say it's common (and was a huge 'don't go there' in my family). However, I have seen some families where the parents aren't around as much or aren't responsible for discipline or structure, and this definitely does happen. It really depends on the parent child relationship, since that word would get grounding/timeout/huge reaction in my family, whereas the parents I've seen this happen to either get sullen or are aghast at their child.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that laying hands on them would fix things. But there's usually a lack of someone being there who can send them to their room or give them any kind of punishment for their poor decisions/actions.

ryankey721··on Music for Programming
Wish I could help with the studies, but if you're interested in more anecdotes, I can help there.

Your #1 and #3 definitely work, especially in harmony, but I have found that I do well with songs in langauages that I don't know at all but I like the general style. For example, when I need enegry and work, I listen to Rammstein or The Pillows (Japanese). If I need to relax a bit and work, Seeed (german reggae) or something french are my go to. There's a lot more and sometimes I just put on a Spotify international playlist. The randomness and lack of understandable lyrics helps me, as long as I don't try to learn what they are saying.

ryankey721··on Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News
From my understanding and my own desires, I think the previous comment is looking for a site that will offer a list of book links on HN with parameters to filter/sort the books. That way you can find "most mentioned books in the last year" or "highest karma book links for the last month".
ryankey721··on We’re in a Low-Growth World. How Did We Get Here?
I think the comment your replying to is saying that, if you have the passion/desire/drive to become a doctor, having a basic income can help that person get there. Especially so that they don't have to work as much while also going through rigorous schooling.

In addition, those jobs would still be good jobs on top of the UBI. Depending on how the implementation of robots plays out, they may be the only jobs if you wanted to make more than the living wage.

ryankey721··on Knuth reenacts his first Stanford lecture: The Analysis of Algorithms [video]
As a practicing Catholic and computer science major, TAOCP and his other book, "3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated", stand side-by-side on my bookshelf.

The former needs no introduction here, but the latter is a 268 page analysis of chapter 3 verse 16 of each book in the Bible. Definitely recommend it for anyone interested in the Bible and a fan of his other works.

ryankey721··on Credibility and trust: Microsoft blows it by forcing Windows 10 on users
I appreciate knowing how to do this, but I don't think booting into safe mode and deleting an exe counts as being "allowed" to disable scanning. It's a workaround, but definitely not a solution from MS.
ryankey721··on Emacs v. Vi Is Rooted in the Love of Lisp
Out of curiosity, what do you think is outdated about the languages? What does Python fix about the languages, especially in the cast of text editors?
ryankey721··on How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google
I believe he's trying to say that he doesn't want results tailored to him at all. For example, if I were republican, I'd tend to get anti-abortion material when searching.

He seems to be saying that he'd be okay with typing in his city name to get local results in exchange for not having any personalization. In other words, it's beyond local vs non-local.

ryankey721··on How to find Even or Odd number without Modulus Operator
Are problems like these actually asked during job interviews?

I don't mean that this isn't a good topic, just that I always imagined that interview questions would be harder to solve and that they wouldn't ask for contrived solutions (solutions that aren't obvious and could lead to bugs for new coders, while not being better in many other ways).

ryankey721··on The Positive Programmer
I kind of like the mixed bag that Hacker News seems to be.

I'm pretty new here, but I enjoy reading about the future of programming languages alongside posts about Marcus Aurelius' writings. It just seems that it's mostly content about being the best you that you can be and having a broad range of knowledge.

ryankey721··on A lot of free ebooks
I agree that the DRM issue definitely needs to be addressed, but I wouldn't say it's a flaw with electronic books so much as a flaw with the marketplace they are in.

Especially in this case, that limitation doesn't apply.

I definitely wish I could draw in my ebooks though, since some things can't be put into words.

ryankey721··on California Should Be The Economic Model For America
I think you're looking at it from a volume vs percentage aspect, in which you are correct, whereas what the commenter really meant is that startups are far more volatile and likely to fail.
ryankey721··on The gun control that works: no guns
I don't know about this, why would the number of incidents go up if teachers have weapons? Especially if they are trained to handle situations.

Another post on HN talks about a school district in Texas allowing teachers to carry firearms, but it takes a lot of training in both using the gun and hostile situations. This is a recent thing, so it's still undecided if it will help, but I feel like it helps to have the teachers trained.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404721,00.html

ryankey721··on Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut
I'd say for the insanity plea there would have to be a certain amount of spontaneity about it. Serial killers are mostly methodical people who do plan their actions ahead of time, which is why the insanity plea won't work.

From what I've heard, it doesn't seem like the shooter in this instance had things planned.

I don't know though, lots of questions.

ryankey721··on Raspberry Pi runs XBMC; reliably decodes 1080p (January)
The article is from January. Even if you're amazed by it, you could have at least found an article about results (this is from before the Raspberry Pi was released).