IsaacL

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by IsaacL 15y ago
What non-mainstream solution did you have in mind?
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by IsaacL 15y ago
Interesting article, introduced me to a whole bunch of lisps I had no idea existed. Slightly tangentially, can anyone explain to me what the supposed advantage of using Lisp is over languages such as Python and Ruby (which also provide func
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Chinese farmer builds robots in his spare time(bbc.co.uk)
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by IsaacL 15y ago
This is an issue with most (all?) PR systems. The author's argument was not that crazy minority's should get into power, but they should at least be represented in the political system (Parliament or whatever). They should at least have a c
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by IsaacL 16y ago
Hey, good to find you on here. I've been impressed by the way you've managed to promote Buffer - you've certainly worked hard on it. It seems like you've also gotten good at writing promotional copy, especially since English isn't your nati
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by IsaacL 16y ago
My first thought is "OK, now put down the bong". More constructively, while I too enjoy amateur philosophy, I think the further you stray into actual physics the greater your chances of saying something provably nonsensical.
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by IsaacL 16y ago
"And by the way, if after reading this you still wish to use a traditional password manager, I suggest that you put your passwords into a plain text file and encrypt it with GPG or use Password Safe." Having recently had some significant tr
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by IsaacL 16y ago
This seems mostly accurate from my knowledge of the Great Firewall, but some of the info seems out of date (maybe the video is old). For example: Wikipedia and BBC News have been unblocked for a while now.
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by IsaacL 16y ago
I believe there's a secret messaging system only available to founders accepted by YC.
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by IsaacL 16y ago
I've heard that phrase a few times before, but I don't think it fits the context here. The context is a "solution" that creates more problems than it solves. "Shuffling the deckchairs/polishing the silverware on the Titanic" refers to busyi
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by IsaacL 16y ago
I'm a big fan of Venkatesh Rao - http://www.ribbonfarm.com . I find PG's essays interesting, but I don't think they're that notable (which is just my opinion).
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by IsaacL 16y ago
I think you've misunderstood his post (or I've misunderstood yours (my friend))). He was saying that the linked website was illogical in using a method to distinguish humans from machines, that most humans would fail at. Grandparent wasn't
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by IsaacL 16y ago
That's certainly one factor. I remember how annoyed I was when developing a hostel website for a friend that I'd have to support IE6, due to the wide install base. Then my friend tried using it in this weird new browser which she said was p
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by IsaacL 16y ago
You sound like me in the final year of 6th form (last year of high school in the UK). I don't really have time to write a longer answer right now, but I'd say - don't worry, your behavior is pretty much a rational response to your environme
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by IsaacL 16y ago
I once heard a good definition of "passion" that fits this context - it's when something gets you up in the morning and keeps you up at night.
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by IsaacL 16y ago
I can vouch that I know Oo personally, and he didn't submit this for easy karma. Not sure why he did submit it, though...
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by IsaacL 16y ago
I live in a large city in Asia, and I've seen a ton of ipads (and some knockoff chinese tablets).
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by IsaacL 16y ago
From their policies page ( https://help.riseup.net/about-us/political-principles/ ), the Riseup Collective makes it clear that they are a radical left-wing organisation. "We ... [provide] ... communication and computer resources to allies e
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by IsaacL 16y ago
It's one of the few closed societies left on Earth. I think it's natural to be fascinated knowing that there's a country of millions of people, but it's almost impossible to know anything more. I find it fascinating wondering what everyday
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by IsaacL 16y ago
I find it interesting that the list of propaganda techniques linked is mostly a list of (informal) logical fallacies. In other words, your standard internet political rant is 'propaganda', but it seems strange to call it that; although the
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by IsaacL 16y ago
"Can you do a website in plain ruby as easily?" I've written websites in plain Ruby, as CGI scripts running on Apache. I actually find this easier that PHP, as Ruby doesn't have nearly as many weird inconsistencies. I think I'm pretty unusu
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by IsaacL 16y ago
I partially agree with you. You're definitely right about the industrial revolution, and I hope you're right about the information revolution. However, I think there's a real possibility that, in the near future, automation will lead to a p
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by IsaacL 16y ago
I only comment occasionally. I comment even less on other sites I frequent, like reddit (before I quit), lesswrong and ribbonfarm. I normally only comment when I have a point I really want to make, and no-one else has made that point alread
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by IsaacL 16y ago
I agree. It might sometimes be a status thing, as in, "I'm so important that I don't need to spellcheck my emails to you."
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by IsaacL 16y ago
"To build a business, you need to understand subjects like finance, marketing, intellectual property and corporate law. " And you can only learn these topics in university. "Most importantly, if students don’t learn the importance of finish
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by IsaacL 16y ago
" I'm sorry but the majority of what's called web development is writing WordPress themes or Drupal modules, and most of this work is leveraging some API in tedious and uninteresting ways. Create this content type, do this when you save it,
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Announcing the Tallinn-Evans $125,000 Singularity Challenge(singinst.org)
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by IsaacL 16y ago
It's a neat theory, but it implies that the Chinese government has a bizarre plot to pretend to have national English-teaching programmes, but they know that these aren't really effective, and by censoring a few words online they can prev
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by IsaacL 16y ago
You are right that PotY is supposed to be about impact, regardless of for good or bad (though since this has caused controversy in the past, they've shied away from awarding it to "baddies" like Bin Laden in recent years). However, I'd disa
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by IsaacL 16y ago
"However, she is not a techie so her innovations are in teaching styles, delivery, activities, content and management and not technology. I think sometimes as techies we can be quite arrogant in assuming that innovation must always involve

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