Jimmy

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by Jimmy 9y ago
>>Gifted children who have a noticeable head start and whose skill development begins remarkably early _do not_ usually end up being game changing professionals in their respective fields. >Really now? Um, yes? Are you challenging
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>The generational declining male labor participation rate. The economy is being geared towards knowledge work and has been going that way for some time, yet men are participating less, and women are participating more. That doesn't
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>Women are actually pretty good at that. But are they just flat out better at it than men? What data do you have to support that assertion? Remember that the majority of programmers are men, and the majority of STEM faculty at research
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>Honestly, I think a lot of them will become more involved in child care than their wives over the coming decades While the wives do... what? Work white-collar jobs? We've just been talking about how hard it is for a certain subse
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by Jimmy 10y ago
Meh. If your code works, then it's good. Of course I don't literally mean that; you can write code in a way that makes it easier to debug, extend, etc. But too many developers get wrapped up in engineering the perfect system and f
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>Deep down, psychologists suggest, impostors appeal to us because we suspect that we are all, to some degree, faking it. No, I've never had this fear.
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by Jimmy 10y ago
Lisp has always been like that. Seriously, always.
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by Jimmy 10y ago
This was to go-to answer when I started learning Lisp a decade ago. Glad to see nothing's changed.
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>One approach to development in CL is to evaluate a form you would like to have. You end up in the debugger. You write the implementation until the error goes away. This doesn't sound very sustainable or effective to me... almost al
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>I'll find out rapidly, and bluntly with citations, when I'm wrong (and, yes I'm often wrong on the Internet!), usually learn something new on the topic If you stay off the default subreddits and only go on the intellectua
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by Jimmy 10y ago
Don't worry, Hououin Kyouma will show up to save the day. ;)
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>Thiel understands that should Clinton win, there will be war Why is this?
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by Jimmy 10y ago
Cioran is certainly the most boring and derivative philosopher I'm familiar with. I don't know why any of his works are remembered at all.
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>"Can art change the world?" People, even those who should have an ostensibly "humanistic" outlook, have largely forgotten the possibility of any activity that is not subordinated to utilitarian concerns. The fact tha
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I've known that I've had an internet addiction for years. I've tried to break it multiple times but always relapse. Something that makes it hard is that there are real, tangible benefits to spending time online, even just aim
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I was implying that we'll one day have the technology to selectively erase memories with high precision and reliability.
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I don't know what Goldman Sachs did and I don't know who should pay for it. I'm not very informed about economics.
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>>How would one repossess an education? >You can't. Yet. ;)
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>Am I the only one who hates the notion of being forced to pay for other people's bad financial decisions? Not at all! These people are called "conservatives".
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>handsets without headphone jacks long before Apple did This is not an innovation. Not every change is an innovation. In fact, this is the straw that broke the camel's back for me, and I intend on never buying an Apple product again
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I'm not sure if I want to go into details, since I haven't decided if I want to link any of my internet accounts to my professional identity yet... perhaps when it's released I will come back and make an announcement. :)
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by Jimmy 10y ago
On the face of it, this is nonsensical, and highly offensive to people who are actually suffering. My first intuition is that no safe, warm, and dry college student could be "attuned to the sheer horror of the world" on the basis
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I hope to release my first project in 4-5 months.
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by Jimmy 10y ago
You have a very limited conception of what video games are capable of. This is like going up to an aspiring writer in ancient Greece and saying "The Odyssey has already been written, there is nothing more to be done." Not realizi
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by Jimmy 10y ago
One of my further goals is to disabuse people of notions such as this. As it happens, though, I'm already too late to be the initiator of this sort of cultural shift. Universities like NYU and CMU already offer MFAs in game design. The
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>Shouldn't your goal to be to make great games? That was an implied sub-goal. The verification criteria I gave was merely to illustrate what the concrete results of my endeavors might look like. If I said flatly "I want to make
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I'm 24. My goal is to be one of the most influential video game designers of this century. I may not be considered the absolute greatest (rankings like that are very fickle anyway, and never universally agreed upon, even in the science
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I have an extremely specific set of projects I want to implement.
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by Jimmy 10y ago
Sure. It depends on what definition we're using for "gifted". Practice may not make you into von Neumann, but it may very well make you into a professional mathematician with stable employment. My intuition is that if someone
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I'm a strong believer in the idea that some people are born better, you don't have to convince me. The extent of my abilities is still unknown to me. I know what I want to achieve and I will continue trying to achieve it until I s

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