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by 50CNT 10y ago
This article strokes me the wrong way. If any of the things described in there were possible, why the hell would I be writing any code? I'm a lazy programmer for gods sake, and code I don't have to write is a win in my book. Matte
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Concentrating on the "our language" part, we could probably create something that changes setting based on natural language. You'd say Turn the color of button3 in pane4 red Which would be equivalent to pane4.b
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by 50CNT 10y ago
I had a strict no "high-anything" rule for my basement bedroom. No high temperatures, no high voltages, no high amperages, no high velocity, no high pressure, no high vacuum, no high anything :(. At least I made my desktop sound l
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by 50CNT 10y ago
On the other hand he mentions that he might apply to other colleges in his junior year, with various recommendations from MIT, UC Berkley and UC Santa Cruz. So not all is lost.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
One thing I found with psycho-motor skills like the guitar or piano is that slowing it down significantly at the start is really helpful. I downloaded a metronome app onto my phone and I'd start out at a rate of 10 BPM (which is agoniz
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by 50CNT 10y ago
The problem with working on the "perfect" product is that unless you're making the right product, it can become a colossal waste of time. You see this sometimes with craftsmen in the tech space, who come up with a half-baked
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by 50CNT 10y ago
I like the 10,000 hour rule as an order of magnitude estimation. Somewhere between hour 5001 and 49999, you become very good, given the right kind of practice. It's an acceptable heuristic for that, and research throws up similar numbe
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by 50CNT 10y ago
It takes a bit of time to go through, the chapters take me about a day if I take notes, and it's 40 chapters, so I'm personally only up to chapter 15 right now.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
First, congratulations on learning the guitar, I'm really happy that it brings joy to your life. However, research in the area of expert performance shows that when it comes to this practice, not just the amount, but the type of practi
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by 50CNT 10y ago
I mean I doubt he killed Tyrell, but Tyrell did put on the threatening gloves in his apartment, so I'm guessing Elliot wanted to make sure that he walked out of the fsociety building alive. Makes sense he'd go for the gun. Maybe h
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by 50CNT 10y ago
I just binge watched the show a couple of days ago. Remember how Elliot stashes the gun given to him by Darlene in the popcorn machine instead of taking it to the meeting with white lotus? When Elliot shows Tyrell the Fsociety space, that s
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by 50CNT 10y ago
That does make sense. Investor & Founder time is limited, technical due diligence on the investor side takes too much time. I'm coming more from a founder perspective though, and I think there's some dangers with the mindset a
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by 50CNT 10y ago
I think that the fact that these are post-mortems (e.g., dead startups) skews things a little. Could be that the founders weren't technical enough to deliver something interesting, which then caused the issues of wrong product (e.g., t
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by 50CNT 10y ago
I've heard Germany brought up as an example for free tertiary education, so this might be applicable. For Germany, secondary education splits into three tracks, with the upper third choosing between a traditional University track, a mo
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by 50CNT 10y ago
I have not read the entire thing, but skimming I found references to math and an "amazing system", so, are you Stephen Wolfram?
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by 50CNT 10y ago
An interesting thing to note there is that research shows that untrained individuals have significant variance in task performance which decreases as they get better at the task. Mechanical Turk might be an extreme case, since all tasks are
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Wouldn't the first apply to moving to the UK too? Language I can see, but then the German Abitur has a requirement of 2 foreign languages, with potentially 3 (English/French, French/Latin, last one depending on what the schoo
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by 50CNT 10y ago
AFAIK all the treaties Switzerland has with the European Union include a guillotine clause that cancels all treaties when one is broken. This is due to the difficulty getting the required number of member countries into agreement on treatie
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by 50CNT 10y ago
If it doesn't, we could use it to send messages back in time. Isn't that exiting?
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Whilst the incentives are all wrong in this situation, that's a good thing, right?
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by 50CNT 10y ago
I've always found that these "Quick, don't think of 'x'" things are a silly example. You end up thinking of X the moment you read X, just before it gets put in context of "not" and "think".
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by 50CNT 10y ago
The emergency line should almost never be used. It sounds like you have too many emergencies.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
It's a general thing about data. Just because it is easy to measure doesn't mean its a useful metric. My hunch is that as expertise increases for developers, LOC/day initially goes up, as they have to think less about langua
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by 50CNT 10y ago
In which case you need to delineate your channels of access more clearly. Move your main communication to something more asynchronous (email, text, wechat/whatsapp, slack), set a time where things will be checked, and perhaps offer an
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by 50CNT 10y ago
My hunch is that "what gives black people a 'back accent'" is continued segregation into the "black part of town". Not legal segregation (at least not anymore), but unbroken feedback loops that keep them there.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Complaint to the universe mostly. I do have very little domain knowledge. The thing that vexes me is that the "errors" made are consistent across the papers I've been reading. Most of them are in the Cambridge Handbook of Exp
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by 50CNT 10y ago
> Where's the real pressure to also include the writing quality as a way to judge a paper. I think it's really a thing between necessary complexity and unnecessary complexity. Unnecessary complexity makes papers harder to read
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Ask HN: Why is academic language so redundant?
2 points by 50CNT 10y ago|4 comments
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by 50CNT 10y ago
If that is part of the threat model for your SaaS app, you may be over-engineering.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Someone righting a thing doesn't mean you can't be wary of them.

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