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I don't understand why these questions are being down-voted; I think they are pretty legit:

Is meditation just a shortcut to the flow state?

I'm also suspicious of guided meditations; I listen to audio books, how is a guided meditation different? Is a movie provably different?

I'm not dissing meditation; I do a breathe focused meditation nearly daily and I occasionally do guided meditations (I'll try these tonight), but there's a large number of practices that loosely fall into the category of meditation and also a large number of possibly worthwhile activities that are booted out. Most people (including me) never seem to question the why of this separation.

It's already happened: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-c...

I don't know, getting that as a final joke from the right friend or younger family member might be my favorite way to be informed, and then I'd go walk their dog. I'd still be sad, of course, but there's really no good way to be informed of this. In all likely hood, I'd already be informed, and then I'd get this half-assed reminder and be all "oh my god, it's so like them!"

Actually when considering likelihood, they're probably on vacation and forgot to pause the program. A better message might be along the lines of: "Hi this is Sean's personal assistant script: I can't confirm that his puppy has been getting walked would you check into that for me? Spare key is..."

For what it's worth, even after some training none of the phones in my office seem to pick up their owner's voice rather than someone else telling their own phone to run a search (we're all mid 30s male).

My phone rarely listens to me until I hold down the home button but one guy I know, who has a slow, deep voice, triggers Google to start listening in normal conversation all the time.

Put the SD card in Read only mode. Save yourself $10.

Because a common occurrence when your poor is: You need $500 to pay for some debt now or a chain reaction will destroy your life. You've taken as much as your family has been willing to lend you and you've taken as much as the system (as much as you can understand it) is willing to loan you. You don't have that money.

Luckily, someone is offering $1,000 for a kidney and you're compatible! You can fix your car / post your bail / pay the loan shark, with $500 left over!

You're pretty much forced to sell your organ at this point. And this point is reached all the time by the economically disadvantaged.

Of course, without the last resort of selling body parts they'd be even more screwed, so I don't know the right thing to implement in this case. Just wanted to answer your question.

I know you're just sarcastic trolling, but since your post seems to be generating some discussion without anyone pointing out the technical implications on a technical forum...

We already do this, but it's called the MAC address. And it can be used to trace back the piece of hardware to the purchaser.

Unfortunately it can't solve the problem for innumerable reasons. For one, it turns out to be pointless to route internet packets or police raids to the location of my computer, knowing it has a unique number (currently the MAC) that can identify it as made in China and sold in Virginia...Better to use the dynamically assigned address (currently IP) of my home router which, with a call to Comcast, can give you my physical address in Hawaii.

Of course that physical address might serve any of my neighbors, but then again my computer's MAC also serves any guest in my house that asks nicely to use my computer or anyone tech savy enough to clone it.

Going completely off topic, but when I heard the title, the initial picture I saw, was a body, with a failing head, being saved by the addition of functional head from the recently deceased.

After a few seconds, I remembered "the seat of identity is in the head" and I corrected the image. Anyway, for all of us reading the news before our morning coffee kicks in, I have to say that "body transplant" would more quickly convey what's actually happening.

Well, I'm a day late, so no one will ever see this, but I have to disagree with your disagreement.

After reading lots of hacker news and Slashdot, following my friends in the Valley, and getting rejected by Google 3 times, I too thought that I was worthless if not a Ninja or Rockstar who does all those things you mentioned.

But recently I had a recruiter friend pass my resume around and my current office has begun hiring. I've since learned that there is a huge section of established corporations with projects that just need enough 1xers to get the job done. They'll pay competitive rates without even seeing a Github portfolio of outstanding breakthroughs in machine learning.

Anyway, I think you've been focusing on the same small circle of hiring that needs the best of the best to turn their crap idea into the next Google through spectacular algorithm design, or Google themselves, who has so many applicants they have to reject all but the very best just to whittle down the pile of applicants to manageable size, but like everyone else has been discussing, mediocrity is still the norm out there; there's a whole world of mediocre developers making mediocre progress on non-earth-shattering stuff that still needs getting done.

I didn't actually down vote, but yes, I expect to see money from social security and Medicaid. I also see my parents retiring and using the money I'm contributing right now. I really don't feel like my money is being lit on fire in this case and he didn't make any argument to convince me I should.

If I understand your process, you multiplied US GDP by average tax burden, which makes sense, but here's another source that added other sources up: http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/total_revenue_2015USrn and got ~6,500 billon USD for USA Revenue. Using the same military budget, that makes = 7.69% of tax on military budget.

I think I see why everyone uses GDP: tax revenue is difficult to calculate, especially when it involves 50 states and a few territories.

<quote>I might just take 2 minutes off working to watch it</quote>

People say mob programming is great for keeping programmers on task, but just as frequently the reverse is true.

I've done a lot of accidental mob programing recently, and frequently, someone wants to take a break and show you this awesome video, they get enough support that lead typist goes to check it out, and suddenly you don't have just one off task programmer, mindlessly browsing YouTube, you have 5!

Until someone works up the courage to party-poop and demands that the team get back on task.

Ha, same area here, but exploring the pushing 35 range.

From what I've seen, I don't think they actually expect to meet George Clooney. After living with their independence and high paying job, 100% of which they can spend on them-self, usually enabling tons of international travel. They don't actually want to settle down and put work into a relationship, but their friends and family constantly pester them to do so.

So they settle for appearing desperate to keep their friends and family happy, but keeping standards high so that either the sacrifices to have a relationship would be worth it to them or they don't get a relationship they didn't want anyway.

It's not so much that people think they'll be mocked, but entering that big facility with dozens of verities of machines and weights and you're the only person who doesn't know what they are doing, is incredibly intimidating.

It's not an unfounded feeling either, when I first started going, I got ejected or talked to for rules I didn't know about yet: no jeans, no open toed shoes, don't touch those machines, you don't do that with dumbbells. And that's just the formal rules, then there's the informal: how long can I occupy a machine? Can I take the dumbbells into the other room? what's "switching in"? how much is talking allowed? Can this injure me? Is that guy really advanced, or should I tell him that he's going to hurt himself?

I got started in the collage's free gym, with lots of other beginners and rule breakers. But I'd never have shelled out $150 in initiation and membership fees to try out this weird new sport I wasn't comfortable with and might not like.

I work at at a big co: I'm given about 2 months off per year, flexible hours and a work from home option.

Of course, I'm selling this year's PTO back to the company because I was under pressure not to use it, and since every week is crunch time, required working hours are 8:30-6 Mon-Sat in the office.

Point being, offerings are meaningless unless corporate culture allows you to use them.

Yes indeed. And that's only the current percent in prison (something like 0.9%) over 3% have been to prison. If you start counting the number of people accused of crimes, but later exonerated, like this guy, it's probably pretty large.

Nope, but in my last project, project management omitted integration and testing from the proposal. They didn't "write" our bugs, but we still give them credit.

"Write me a web-site that allows users to login using Facebook and sign up for my mailing list."

It's a program that I think can be written in an autonomous fashion, but I just wanted to point out that as soon as you start coding non-trivial programs, testing and debugging you're non-specific language is going to be hell. So bad that I think you are going to have to write thousands of sentences, and eventually decide you want a more specific language than English when you can't determine which of the thousands of words or grammatical elements you and the computer disagree on.

Good question; I think you were going for funny, but you highlighted what they can and can't do there.

They build apps. So I'm sure sell you 90% of their code, but they can't re-code their brand name, repeat costumers and the staff that they seem to take some pride in.

I'm certain the "You're fired!" is an exaggeration. You would rarely get fired over something so minor here.

Firing is difficult here and is only done for the most severe offenses. You could be "laid off," but you'll never know exactly why, (as you could then sue for improper termination), but even then, that involves a lot of paperwork and he won't sign up for that instantly after hearing a noise.

I have had my supervisor give me talks about proper workplace conduct for these kinds of things though.

I can see how you'd like to hold the order of operations correct for readability purposes (especially if the states were labeled with digits), but I don't see where psyklic's method could produce an error for the divisibility test.

Your initial white doesn't change anything, since it brings you back to the starting node. Any whites after the the final digit either keep you on the starting node or keep you in the graph where.

Hurting enemies while they're fighting, presumably to make them stop being able to hurt you or whomever you're protecting, has always been granted a special moral free pass.

But if there is no fight occurring, and the enemy is subdued and unable to cause harm, then the situation has changed a bit, into a greyer area.

I've also met a guy who has used water-boarding in the field, and he didn't seem like a sadist. He felt pretty bad about using it, though he thought it effective and necessary.

I don't actually see the scenario where this becomes a problem.

If foo.com is compromised and their passwords decrypted, I find it unlikely that the attackers are going figure out your password scheme, go over to bar.com, and start trying out usernames that are similar to yours with the password scheme they think you have, while they are in possession of all the other foo.com passwords and usernames, some of whom probably have the exact same username and password on bar.com.

I've been using basically hunter2_foo for all unimportant passwords for some time and never had a problem.

The only thing I can think of is that if one person was on a mission to destroy my life and they managed to compromise a couple passwords to figure out the scheme, but I don't see that happening in a way that would not allow them to vacuum up a good number of passwords anyway.

IANASpy either, but I've worked on some cleared projects. Clearance (and need to know) _is_ what we use to determine what someone can look at. If a co-worker needs a document, I verify that he's cleared for it, then I give it to him. There is no alternate system where I can look up: "Bob has a Top Secret Clearance, but also a spy so don't share anything with him."

I normally stay out of these debates, but as a teacher, you may be in a unique situation to appreciate this view point: How about "learn to code"=="learn to play the piano" == "learn to paint"?

I don't think that you learn to code "just in case." I learned because it let me automate some things and later, let me make my own games. It turned out I've been good enough to get paid for my level of "talent," but I'd still be happy I learned, besides the joy of the mental excercises, I've also been able to automate alot of (ussually self imposed) challenges in my life.

I also learned to play the piano in my teens. I'm a sucky digital-artist as well. It was obvious I'd never be a concert pianist or master painter or even get paid for either. It baffles me that people can go through life without being able to play an instroment or paint, but I didn't learn "just in case"; I've been making use of both for my own enjoyment and unpaid sharing with others.

I think a great many of your students who lack talent will get great use out of the ability to automate processes on a computer and maybe gain life long enjoyment, even if they don't have the presupposed talent.

Nothing's controversial about your particular claim, what's controversial is whether the overall product produced in an open enviroment better. I suspect it depends on what your putting together and who your working with, hence contradictory studies.

Children's grades are on an individual basis, collaboration is discouraged. It makes sense to seperate them. If kids were instead being graded on the whole school's output on these tests and SATs (customers never seem to care how productive I am, only the team's output), then I think allowing, maybe even forcing them to collaborate by using open eviroment would be best. They might even be encouraged to show up alot more if they got to play basketball or have free lunch. I think this is what management has in mind.

I can see both sides of the argument: when working on my own projects or mostly solo-work projects, I need long stretches of quiet time alone; open enviroments suck for this. When working on a group project, especially one that I am new to, I gain more by being able to overhear people talking about it and being able to quickly unstick myself by asking people questions than I lose in slocc.

I've never tried to work in an office with arcades and foosball so I'll let someone else comment there.

We have plenty here in the US. I live in a town of population 70K and we have at least a dozen charity shops and probably as many consignment stores. Any place in the US I've spent significant time I've found at least one nearby charity shop for the rare occasions I needed a suit or peice of furniture.

I don't know who told you we haven't adopted that system. Tell them to look for a Salvation Army, they're like the Star Buck's of charity shops around here, there's one on every corner.