Chinjut

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by Chinjut 11y ago
Perhaps this should be understood as "You already know, or have been/will be convinced by the rest of this article, that in the current world, life for the bottom quintile of Americans is not great. To give some sense of perspecti
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Perhaps it's the legacy of colonialism which gives rise to the "low-trust" structure of modern India?
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by Chinjut 11y ago
The melting pot idea's been thrown out? That's news to me.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
If the demand is so high, why not simply lower the pay to winnow the candidate pool? Why bother with the insanely complicated funnel instead?
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by Chinjut 11y ago
What circumstances caused you to be writing closed source code without being paid for it?
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by Chinjut 11y ago
It also took someone until the mid-20th century to formalize the Y combinator, though... Earliness of discovery is no grounds on which to consider the Y combinator less "deep" than Russell's paradox (if anything, the reverse!
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by Chinjut 11y ago
What you say is correct, interpreting "primes" as meaning "the values 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc.". Every positive rational is essentially uniquely a product of finitely many of these values raised to integer powers. That havin
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by Chinjut 11y ago
From the article: "Cauchy and Lamé hung their proofs on the tacit assumption that complex numbers, like real numbers, can be factored into a unique set of primes. The real number 6, for example, always equals 2 x 3. Aside from reorderi
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by Chinjut 11y ago
gamma(x) + sin(x * pi) agrees with the factorial [shifted by one, because the gamma function has that stupid shift in its definition for no good reason] on integer arguments, but does not satisfy the recurrence relation on non-integer argum
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by Chinjut 11y ago
There are lots of analytic functions with this property (and agreeing with the ordinary gamma function on integer arguments). For example, gamma(x) * cos(2πx) [or, in complete generality, gamma(x) * f(x) for any analytic function f of perio
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Proving NOT P by showing a contradiction follows from P is perfectly fine in intuitionistic logic (the sort used in Coq), and not dependent upon the law of the excluded middle in that sense. What's not available to you is proving P by
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Wow, nothing but complaints about PayPal here. Interesting to keep in mind next time the Elon Musk hagiography starts up again...
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Almost any situation described as a labor shortage is actually just a complaint about the price of said labor. Offer a $10 million/year salary, and see how easy it is to get the engineers you're keen on. "That would be a ridi
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Click the "read more" link after those numbers and all is explained.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
It appears to be sincere: http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/14/technology/startup-castle/
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by Chinjut 11y ago
It appears to be legitimate: http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/14/technology/startup-castle/
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by Chinjut 11y ago
I agree that this is a more efficient way of generating primes in Haskell than the typical Haskell 101 approach. However, I disagree with the idea that the Haskell 101 approach does not deserve to be called an implementation of the "Si
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by Chinjut 11y ago
The telephone had already been invented at that point, yeah? So the prediction was simply that telephones would become small and wireless. An accurate prediction, of course, but not a shocking one to venture.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Answer to question 1: My program is simply Z2; I2; I2; I2 Answer to question 2: My program fails under the circumstances that the values in locations 0 and 1 do not sum to 3. (I mean, as long as we're expected to give answers with sign
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by Chinjut 11y ago
In your zero-handling program, you seem to suppose the first "J0,2" and "J1,3" commands take the arrow on equality, while the second "J0,2" and "J1,3" commands instead take the arrow on inequality.
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Oh yeah. Note that one can never do anything to a memory location but write 0 to it or add 1 to it, so one couldn't possibly write into an uninitialized location anything but a non-negative integer. Note that the "For example, her
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Instead of saying "these things [friends, loved ones] actually are work, in the sense of sustaining your business productivity, and are therefore valuable", I would prefer to say "these things aren't part of work (in the
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These men found an innovative approach to work/life balance – trick the boss(vox.com)
1 points by Chinjut 11y ago|0 comments
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by Chinjut 11y ago
Yup. Hacker News is full of silly "programming exceptionalism", but programming is not all that fundamentally different from any other vocation. Go to a site for, say, doctors, and find people singing many of the same paeans to me
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by Chinjut 11y ago
How would unionization interfere with any of that? (Why would collective bargaining not still present an ever stronger bargaining position?)
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by Chinjut 11y ago
This is the saddest thing. Not only have we set up this system of living, but we've also acclimated to it, in the manner of Stockholm Syndrome, to the point where many reflexively defend it and excoriate those who propose living differ
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by Chinjut 11y ago
You can also simply iterate through permutations in lexicographic order, again taking O(n) time for each iteration. Specifically, given a_1, ..., a_n as the current permutation, to generate the next one, find the largest i for which a_i &lt
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by Chinjut 11y ago
I agree with you. A claim that "there is a shortage of X" typically amounts to a claim that "X is too expensive", albeit with slightly different connotations. This is the point I was making.
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What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work(nytimes.com)
79 points by Chinjut 11y ago|44 comments
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by Chinjut 12y ago
Re: your last line, almost any situation described as a labor shortage is actually just a complaint about the price of said labor. Offer a $10 million/year salary, and see how easy it is to get the engineers you're keen on. "

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