Artoemius

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by Artoemius 10y ago
> This is kind of like robbing a bank and then saying you really needed the money. That's a radical idea, but it has started to gain some popularity: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stealing-food-not-a-crim.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Is there a reason to have a password other than 123456 on last.fm?
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by Artoemius 10y ago
I'm surprised that not a single comment here suggested that mediocrity is boring. Boredom is of course a subjective state of mind, but I have a feeling that the average and the boring cannot be entirely statistically unrelated in human
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by Artoemius 10y ago
This is pretty non-standard. However, if it wasn't a deliberate joke on her part (maybe she wasn't interested in a coffee, but saw this as a chance to do something someone would never forget), her behavior suggests that she may ha
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by Artoemius 10y ago
For people with social anxiety, this is true to the point of being not funny. This is almost exactly the kind of stuff I always worry about, although I'm usually a bit more negative about it. (If I slip up and they accidentally see thr
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by Artoemius 10y ago
At least it's better than to let a KGB-run dictatorship have any say in the matter, especially considering their aggressive foreign policy.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Meanwhile, this guy worked 120 real productive hours (albeit just for one week) and he has a video to prove it: http://blog.nickwinter.net/the-120-hour-workweek-epic-coding...
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by Artoemius 10y ago
> O(n^2) listening: cross-comparing all the things they've said for informational pairings If you manage to think of a good hash function for everything they say, you can use a hash table and cross-check every new thing they say in
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Use Workflowy to manage everything in your life that needs to be in a list ( https://workflowy.com/ ) If you are on Chrome, use Tabs Outliner to manage your tabs ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Every time I see an issue like this, I think of this Steve Jobs quote: "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you." (That is, you can count on some things having been made by idio
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by Artoemius 10y ago
There's a whole field you might want to study (altruism features there quite prominently): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology
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by Artoemius 10y ago
> How to write a novel that is actually a worthwhile read? There's no silver bullet for that, but one promising approach is to honestly try to write something you'd really like to read yourself. > Why should you invest your
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by Artoemius 10y ago
He was born on October 28, 1955. Therefore, in August 1981, when the game was released, he was 25.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
> The first version of DONKEY.BAS was released in 1981, followed by version 1.10 in 1982 This is the improved 1982 version.
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Islamic terrorism as a phenomenon(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Artoemius 10y ago|4 comments
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by Artoemius 10y ago
> the solution evolution came up with was to program us to take our cue on that from the people around us Exactly, I cannot agree more. One of the most striking examples of this is a classic experiment where people are no longer able to
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by Artoemius 10y ago
I second the iOS with Swift recommendation. It's by far the best course on Swift and iOS available online. An updated (iOS 9) version of the course is already out: https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing
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by Artoemius 10y ago
> I like to hang out with people who share my world view rather than seek out those with opposing views. That's an example of a well-known cognitive bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias Being b
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Most programmers already know how to win the coding interview. You simply have to solve problems, at the same time trying to evaluate your next boss (or at least the kind of people who work there) by the level of insanity they generate duri
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by Artoemius 10y ago
This is basically a pay-to-win game simplified down to the leaderboard. I hate pay-to-win games. They do have an uncomfortable similarity to the real life though.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
It won't accomplish anything for the victims' relatives, that's true. But other people will feel safer knowing that at least some percentage of children murderers are locked out for good. It's not about making the murder
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by Artoemius 10y ago
I don't think 8 years for murder is reasonable. Within a lifespan of 80 years, someone could kill about 10 people. That doesn't seem reasonable to me.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
On the other hand, there were the days when you had to be born into the right social caste to have any chance for an interesting life at all, otherwise being doomed to a lifetime of menial labor. I really do prefer our current situation to
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by Artoemius 10y ago
MS-DOS 6.x
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by Artoemius 10y ago
Pre-iOS 7 Notes and the old iOS UI look in general.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
The most interesting thing for me is how easily KGB survived the fall of the USSR. Not only did they seamlessly continue all their espionage programs started during the Cold War, but they also easily came back into full power in less than a
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by Artoemius 10y ago
I'm sad Aaron Swartz did not live to see this unfolding. He might have been in prison now, but he would still be a world-class hero.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
I wonder what is hidden behind the phrase "the college partnerships failed". I took some great courses on Udacity, Coursera, and edX back in the days when they regularly offered amazing comprehensive college courses for free. They
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by Artoemius 10y ago
People are infinitely fascinated by scarcity.
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by Artoemius 10y ago
The main problem is not the bug itself, but the fact that it's not fixed for so many years.

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