Cacti

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by Cacti 14y ago
OR he was investing his money in the area that he knew best and that would have the best profit he knew how to achieve so he could donate _more_ later. Exponential growth is king. If he had donated all he had in 1997 he wouldn't have even c
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by Cacti 14y ago
This is better: http://reason.org/files/a87d1550853898a9b306ef458f116079.pdf
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by Cacti 14y ago
80 columns exists for the same reason newspaper columns are about 2 inches and a novel is about 10-15 words wide---that is a width in which the human eye and brain can ready and fficiently absorb the information. Lines longer than 80 chars
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by Cacti 14y ago
"A language with next to no standard containers or algorithms, manual memory management, raw pointers, a barely functional string type and minimal standard library and concurrency primitives is just the wrong choice for any application that
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by Cacti 14y ago
I write in all kinds of languages professionally and have been doing this sort of thing for a long time (since I was 9 and I'm now 31), so, I'm mostly over the language war thing. Yes, I prefer some languages over others. Or certain languag
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by Cacti 14y ago
It's well known that for men the peak years are 40-50. Yes, 20s are awesome, but, unless you're producing Nobel-winning stuff in your early 20s, then you had best learn to age well.
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by Cacti 14y ago
I completely agree. The fact that math = language, and that it's built into our DNA, is astounding. And from there that the Halting Problem is basically tied into our DNA, that is, how we think, how our brains work, our ability to conceive
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by Cacti 14y ago
"His ideas about language being part of the genome are fanciful nonsense." Oh, so, linguistics is just magic then?
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by Cacti 14y ago
In which way is he vague? He basically reinvented a Turing Machine with human language and brought linguistics around to the idea that, yes, language isn't something that's vaguely "out there" tabula-rasa-style, it's built into our genetics
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by Cacti 14y ago
You would think by this point all languages would have standardized on a basic library. I mean, if you're not starting off with what Python (or even Mono for that matter) already has, then you're just making things needlessly complicated fo
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by Cacti 14y ago
I completely agree with you. I was public as a kid and then went on to an "elite" institution, so I don't have the _entire_ perspective, but: The value of simply being in an environment for 4+ years, mashed together in tight confines, with
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by Cacti 14y ago
Um. Then you need to hire people for that. Sorry, but, "i'm not paid to be on call 24/7 but I am anyway" is not a reasonable argument. Fix it or deal with it and move on. And what do you mean, "worse than regular jobs?" Have you looked arou
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by Cacti 14y ago
lol. it doesn't matter where the _library_ comes from. what matters is how you use it and that takes time, effort, and skill, independent of whether it's "open source" or not. yeah, you can double or triple your productivity by using code w
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by Cacti 14y ago
There is no such thing as "strong" AI.
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by Cacti 14y ago
You're missing the point. The point is that FU money is the point at which you have enough that you can walk away from situations that you don't agree with without that impacting the rest of your financial life in any manner. In other words
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by Cacti 14y ago
You can tell in the first line it's a joke.
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by Cacti 14y ago
You're too young to realize how insignificant 1 year is.
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by Cacti 14y ago
I find this is typically due to a difference between the level of abstraction people are modeling in their head. A great coder can flip back and forth between several different levels (the 50m lines of OS code, the 100,000 of app code, the
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by Cacti 14y ago
That's because you hear about the snafus, not the successes. There is much more incentive inkeeping the successes black, classified, and burried. Snafus are, almost by definition, just the things you hear about---otherwise, whos's to say?
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by Cacti 15y ago
By the time you're done porting your app to websockets, IE/Android will be ready, or at least close.
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by Cacti 15y ago
Learn how to code but hire a programmer. Keep in mind there are wide differences in skill level. Yes, 4-5 years and most people become OK programmers. What about someone who did 4-5 years but has been hacking on computers since age 10? Can
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by Cacti 15y ago
EaselJS is pretty good. It's not a winner yet, but, it's pretty solid and scales well.
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JavaScript, HTML5, and Binary Data(lambdadevp.blogspot.com)
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by Cacti 15y ago
Compiler used to compress the size before it's actually compressed in transmission. No reason to send "here-is-the-table-id-we-want-for-the-form" when you can just send "t-f-4"---the browser obviously doesn't care.
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by Cacti 15y ago
Don't be ridiculous, it's not a "gimmick". They're not referring to HARDWARE. They're referring to engineers, debugging, and load testing. Their supply of engineers isn't infinite, so, tell me, is it a gimmick to slowly roll out the service
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by Cacti 16y ago
And all this time, I thought the language hierarchy, and it's correspondence with math/logic categories, was the real theory. UG is kind of an irrelevant side point, sort of an argument between "strong" vs "weak". Type 0 - Recursivey enumer
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by Cacti 16y ago
It's a speculative "what if" piece, dude. Relax.
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by Cacti 16y ago
Actually, there are problems that are neither provably true/false, nor actually true/false. In fact I think a standard counting argument shows that 99.9999...% are in that category.
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by Cacti 16y ago
Uh... that's your first thought, really? You honestly think, out of the combined force of Japan, the US, the US military, and plenty of brilliant engineers across the globe, that that HASN'T crossed their mind? Try radiation hardening elect
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by Cacti 16y ago
Hrm. Thanks, I'll look into it and correct it. I could have sworn it was necessary at one point...

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