Jimmy

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by Jimmy 12y ago
Why shouldn't it be hard? Most things that are worth doing in life are hard - particularly anything that affords you an opportunity for freedom or creativity.
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by Jimmy 12y ago
I seem to recall an interview with someone on the Pokemon team who said that he didn't want to make a Pokemon MMO because he honestly thought it would ruin too many lives, although that story could just be apocraphyl.
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by Jimmy 12y ago
8th of March? What's that in reference to?
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by Jimmy 12y ago
I'm confused. College is amazing. Why would you want a college replacement? >Your education will be focused on building apps and websites that improve the lives of those around you. Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never
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by Jimmy 12y ago
"Need to be" number 1? Sure, I suppose that would be a bad desire to have. It's impossible for anyone, individual or nation, to be the best at everything. But what about "want to be number 1"? I would love to be n
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by Jimmy 12y ago
I'm sure there's some defensiveness going on in this thread. But there's also some truth to the fact that people place undue emphasis on certain quantitative measures of academic performance. This is why I don't like it
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by Jimmy 12y ago
Anything you do is always open to any sort of criticism. I happen to believe that there are reasonable forms of moderation, as well as forms that are less reasonable.
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by Jimmy 12y ago
Why would this situation be disanalogous to when we prove anything else in mathematics? There's always a chance that anything we believe (well, almost anything) could be wrong. If you think that disqualifies any man-made proof from be
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by Jimmy 12y ago
>In the absence of strict moderation, we’d be much better off without them. I have little doubt as to the particular types of views that the author would want moderators to enforce.
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by Jimmy 12y ago
Even if new applications stopped being written in C++ today, the amount of legacy code written in C++ would ensure that there would be jobs for C++ programmers for many decades to come. But of course, people will almost certainly still be
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by Jimmy 12y ago
> The problem is that 25 years after Photoshop launched, we’d much prefer manipulations of reality to reality itself. I wouldn't. Not in this case, anyway. The picture on the right is utterly unappealing.
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by Jimmy 12y ago
Thank you very much for the compliment, although it's important to remember that just because someone has a contrarian opinion, doesn't necessarily mean that they have critical thinking skills. (Unless you were being sarcastic. Sa
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by Jimmy 12y ago
What makes you say that?
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by Jimmy 12y ago
More fun than I am on HN, at least. :)
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by Jimmy 12y ago
Oh, I'm aware of the idea's genesis and purpose. I just happen to not think much of it.
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by Jimmy 12y ago
Does the HN community not see how dangerous this line of thinking is? "We don't need your analysis to know that the NSA isn't misusing the data they collect on us. It's a fact and we know it." Is this really how we
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by Jimmy 12y ago
Stop feeling ashamed of yourself, for one. It's almost certainly because you're paying too much attention to external standards of behavior that have been imposed upon you.
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by Jimmy 12y ago
I generally agree with what you're saying, but what's the point of having a category called "reverse sexism"? Why not just stick with "sexism" and "not sexism"?
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by Jimmy 12y ago
Perhaps the people who have downvoted every comment so far would like to contribute to the conversation?
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by Jimmy 12y ago
Well, it doesn't really sound like you want to "do everything". It sounds like you just want to learn a bunch of CS-related topics, which is much more manageable. Be thankful you're not trying to split your attention be
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by Jimmy 12y ago
>I almost never hear about a scientific study where they discover that men are better than women at something. Maybe women are just better than men at everything?
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by Jimmy 12y ago
I suppose that will teach me to read articles before I comment, then. :)
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by Jimmy 12y ago
This really doesn't match my experience. Women at my workplace aren't afraid to speak up at all. It helps that about half of our middle management roles are occupied by women.
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by Jimmy 12y ago
If you're ambitious, climbing the corporate ladder is probably not one of your main goals...
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by Jimmy 13y ago
And Newton believed in alchemy. Doesn't mean we should disregard his entire body of work.
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by Jimmy 13y ago
DLC - downloadable content.
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by Jimmy 13y ago
>And here's a different, more controversial point. We used to have psychiatric disorders called hysteria and homosexuality. Now those have been reclassified out of existence. I don't think that homosexuality is a good example t
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by Jimmy 13y ago
>(for example just the other day I was thinking "hey, has anyone proved that mathematical induction is really intellectually honest? or was Hume actually right and it's all make-believe?") Mathematical induction is differe
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by Jimmy 13y ago
>Mastery is more important than passing grades. I hear this statement a lot, and I think it's very suspicious. Everyone wants to believe this, because if they fail a class, they can use "learning is more important than grades&
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by Jimmy 13y ago
>Decreasing rake angle is the primary way of making a motorcycle turn faster, with the known risk that it makes it more likely to head shake or even tank-slap. This must be what non-programmers feel like when they hear programmers talk a

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