geoffreyhale | 6 years ago | on: The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
Source?
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geoffreyhale | 6 years ago | on: Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)
Aggression is violent and seeks to harm or at least disregards the recipient's well-being.
Assertiveness is considerate and has compassion for the recipient, considers how our assertion may affect the recipient, may offer understanding and empathy for their situation, then asserts our need by taking personal ownership and using "I" language, etc.
geoffreyhale | 6 years ago | on: Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)
Empathy
geoffreyhale | 6 years ago | on: Nine-year-old child to graduate university
The key takeaway to me here is that if you are gifted you should go to a top-tier school, not necessarily wait.
geoffreyhale | 6 years ago | on: Slimbook collaborates with the PowerPC laptop
I'd love it if someone would explain to me like I'm 5 years old. What is this? What's the point of value here / why care?
geoffreyhale | 6 years ago | on: FTC Brings First Case Against Developers of “Stalking” Apps
What's the problem here? I don't see it. I see family opt-in location sharing.
geoffreyhale | 6 years ago | on: A short soft skills course
Working should produce results. How it feels is incidental.
geoffreyhale | 7 years ago | on: Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)
@lewis500 is your code for the live visuals publicly available?
geoffreyhale | 7 years ago | on: Do Our Questions Create the World?
I use "reality" instead of "truth" for all of those positions, reserving "truth" for logic or the opposite of a lie.
geoffreyhale | 7 years ago | on: Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars
"significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge which offers a strong motivation for innovative work"
geoffreyhale | 7 years ago | on: The 'Over-Parenting Crisis' in School and at Home (2015)
"parents are more focused on keeping their children safe, content and happy in the moment than on parenting for competence"
geoffreyhale | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Glycemic load calculator
I love your idea, but what's simple about CHO digestion half-life? Certainly not finding more information. Can you link to any resources?
geoffreyhale | 8 years ago | on: Trouble at Coinbase
"it appears to affect specific banks including Scotiabank and USAA" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017374/coinbase-cryptoc...
geoffreyhale | 8 years ago | on: Solving Minesweeper and making it better (2015)
Red Blob Games is incredible! Thanks for share. I hadn't seen it before. I enjoyed Polygonal Map Generation (http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...) most so far.
geoffreyhale | 8 years ago | on: How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (2009)
That was my dinner of choice throughout childhood. Love it still.
geoffreyhale | 8 years ago | on: Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is
FOOT
geoffreyhale | 8 years ago | on: List of oldest companies: Before 1300
"...excluding associations and educational, government, or religious organizations."
And yet it lists "government owned institution" Monnaie de Paris, "government-owned" Royal Mint, et cetera...
Ignoring those rule-breakers, 7 of Europe's top 10 are alcohol-related, while Japan holds the top 5 with primarily Hotel and Construction companies.
geoffreyhale | 8 years ago | on: Designing Social Systems Without Causing Depression and War
"every geek I knew trying to re-invent moral philosophy ended up at utilitarianism, only to find out that the good counter-arguments had been made a long time ago"
And kudos for overall quality post.
geoffreyhale | 8 years ago | on: BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales
This was a known ponzi scheme. Can participants actually recoup losses here? Shouldn't they be held just as accountable/guilty as any other participant?
geoffreyhale | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Ad Revenue Prediction Tool for Side Projects
This makes me want to start yet another website.
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