Agathos

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by Agathos 14y ago
A month at the bench can save you an hour in the library.
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by Agathos 14y ago
"The problem has been resolved. There was never any problem. Oceana has always been at war with Eastasia."
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by Agathos 14y ago
God damn it now I'm going to remember the name of some guy's throwaway account until the day I die.
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by Agathos 14y ago
Running? Really? In my experience, my mind is quite calm when doing hard physical work such as running. So if I wanted to practice resisting distracting thoughts, I would have to begin with almost anything besides physical exercise.
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by Agathos 14y ago
What's your attitude to starting a company in the USA? The Greek bailout is puny next to the projected Medicare deficit. Then add Social Security, state and local pensions...
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by Agathos 14y ago
Kansas City, KS is.
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by Agathos 14y ago
> If what you're working on is important enough and you love it enough, you would never need this. Incorrect. The more important it is, and the more I love it, the more anxious I become. The more anxious I become, the more distractible
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by Agathos 14y ago
I'm trying to picture the RAM chip designed by a literal-minded electrical engineer (even more so than most engineers!). It stops responding if it detects any predictable pattern in the memory addresses you're accessing.
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by Agathos 14y ago
Kind of funny that the Chicago Tribune turns to Reuters to report the opinions of a man who lives in Chicago.
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by Agathos 14y ago
I read the article didn't see any claim that these patterns of usage caused depression. The emphasis seemed to be on using them as a signal for diagnosis of a pre-existing depression.
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by Agathos 14y ago
Windows doesn't come with support. The manufacturer has to handle it.
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by Agathos 14y ago
That claim didn't ring true for me at all. How do you accurately estimate someone's intelligence at a glance, as in the case of physical attraction? Maybe the writer lost some verbal quickness and assumed that was caused by his loss of inte
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by Agathos 14y ago
A good cartoon is better propaganda than a pure-text rant. It's been true for centuries.
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by Agathos 14y ago
That particular comic clearly isn't intended to be humorous. In fact it's quite humorless. Or are you saying the factual inaccuracies are some kind of ironic joke that Alex Knapp and I both missed?
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by Agathos 14y ago
Heh. I've never used Delphi and I got that one. Thank goodness for learning Pascal in high school, I guess. (And reading somewhere that Delphi is related.) I missed Erlang, even though I have a copy of Programming Erlang somewhere. Guess it
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by Agathos 14y ago
It's kind of a love-hate relationship. They can be trouble when they're feeling mischievous, but if they're happy they'll help you out. The Japanese will leave gifts at Kappa shrines, just in case. The best gift is cucumber, which the Kappa
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by Agathos 14y ago
They do exactly what people outside of academia do: look at those who came before. They see their advisors doing fine. Academia is weirdly deceptive in that way.
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by Agathos 15y ago
Even Nashua to Cambridge has been same-day for me a couple of times.
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by Agathos 15y ago
If you're also shrinking all the tennis balls on Earth, make sure you save their initial size and compare the Earth against that. Otherwise you end up with an infinite loop as size(Earth) > size(tennisBall) is always true.
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by Agathos 15y ago
I wouldn't answer in his position either. If there's any internal record that he wasn't sure (and how could he be before the trial's over), and if he mentioned it to anyone who isn't a lawyer (no attorney-client privilege), then a definite
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by Agathos 15y ago
As a Pythonista, I beg you to leave me out of this. I love Python's syntax but I can see Javascript's semicolon insertion is awful.
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by Agathos 15y ago
> you feel like you owe it to them for taking such incredibly good care of you. As a recovering academic, I felt a twinge of horror when I read this. When I didn't love the work I pushed on mainly out of guilt, and it was more than I co
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by Agathos 15y ago
The increasing emphasis on the short term prospects of a publicly traded company is a problem. But is there anything here that's specific to software and web-focused companies? Others have been writing about this for years. John Bogle for e
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by Agathos 15y ago
Monopsony might be the better word here.
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by Agathos 15y ago
I thought of 2009, when Google Wave was announced.
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by Agathos 15y ago
Reading academic literature takes a certain amount of effort. In a sense you are producing an analysis of that journal article (perhaps for other people's consumption if you're presenting at a journal club; for your own otherwise).
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by Agathos 15y ago
In the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell and all computer systems are Facebook.
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by Agathos 15y ago
I think that's glassdoor.com.
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by Agathos 15y ago
Your taxes are going to be a lot higher in the future because his are too low today.
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by Agathos 15y ago
A couple of years ago, the only ads I would ever see on gmail in my haskell-cafe folder were for Jane Street Capital. But they don't use Haskell. The ad basically asked if they could talk me down to OCaml. It came up for discussion on the l

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