GarvielLoken

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by GarvielLoken 8y ago
“Occasionally, when I need a rest from my real job, I’ll think about math,” Signature material.
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
Is that a joke?
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
Another useless scientific article about obvious things. Yes, you have a higher chance of dying when you get older, is this really a "news" we need on HackerNews? Notice that the article doesn't even offer new facts, only sta
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
Which you can't use across multiple customers if you work at an IT-consultant company :(. I guess you could make it open source, but then you still would have to convince every team you join to adopt it.
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
Doesn't cycle imply that it went down in between?
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
Swede here, got 92% Brittish, i'm happy with the results. The English education back in school has apparently won over my media consumption :p.
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
Road Junctions don't kill people, people kill people.
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
I first read " Woman with Transparent Uterus Gives Birth, the First in the U.S "
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
"You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
No
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
You don't have to pay for health insurance in Sweden.
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
And then we have Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
"Smalltalk is a highly-influential programming language and environment that introduced the term "object-oriented programming" and was the ancestor of modern object-oriented languages." Funny way to spell Simula.
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
We are going to be back in the 70ies/80ies of running live image programming-systems in no time. History repeats itself. Mark my words.
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
SICP in Scheme is the only true answer. You are all heretics.
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
I agree that it is a good mindset. But i think the advice to spend a little time each day on something consistently is more important. That allows you to improve several things concurrently.
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/a-tree-walk-interpreter.... This link has been up a long time ago on hackernews, or reddit, can't remember which. But i am trying to work through it, it has good basic explanation. A
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by GarvielLoken 9y ago
tl;dr A couple of numbers-nerds are sad and offended that math is not as recognized as reading and literature, where there are great works that speaks of the human condition and illustrates life. Also they have the mandatory "everythin
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
But you don't need the gym, for losing weight or getting healthier. The only thing you need the gym for is getting big muscles, now you can reframe the question. Is my goal to be more healthy or getting ripped? If the goal is health t
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
Common Lisp is the rebel leader, but is hampered by constant infighting.
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
Except that is not true. We know from texts that if anything old "geniuses" were not autistic, but they were on the bipolar spectrum, or more generally on the affect spectrum ( mood disturbance ). Winston Churchill for example is
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
You could do orienteering, then you get the mental aspect also. It is really fun and you get the forest running.
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
Good thing I do Judo! Those higher belt guys got unbelievable grip strength, it is not something you simply strip off if they get a hold of you.
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
Funnily enough this is already done in Sweden, since a long time ago. A social-democrat country, would you believe it! It is also the same for health care and elderly homes. It is going to be one of the biggest election questions next year
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
Anyone else that think that this might be a bad idea?
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
See the Roman Empire economy for references. Massive farms powered by slaves, plebs living on minimum welfare in poverty. Rich aristocrats spending their time on propaganda and schemes.
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
It is the same in Italy and Spain. Part culture, part crowded housing market.
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
There exists other theories. http://johnsmilitaryhistory.com/cwarmy.html The main reason why the civil war was bloody was because it was fought by armies with no great military history or traditions. There were no hussars,
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
Worse is better
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by GarvielLoken 10y ago
I disagree with "This is not something you learn in a CS program". Anyone who has taken a SICP course will know "all is old is new again". But in large I agree with you.

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