Joof

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by Joof 11y ago
Supposedly octopuses have a my h more distributed neural system. Most of their neurons are in their tentacles (we also have neurons in our body, but mostly the brain). I'd love to see an fMRI.
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by Joof 11y ago
> It was speculated that the light was disrupting its nocturnal routine. That seems to support the previous posters theory.
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by Joof 11y ago
Not sure, I should probably clear up this mess and find out...
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by Joof 11y ago
I don't think it would be as intense for a long period of time. He effectively got a new sensory capability and it was all new to him, but he didn't understand how to processes it for a while. It appears to be useful to understand
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by Joof 11y ago
Maybe many of the problems they work with are also CPU bound? C++ programmers also tend to be somewhat more familiar with how memory is transferred to graphics cards, but anyone could potentially learn in any language. AoS or SoA?
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by Joof 11y ago
I would love to do game development / programming. The horror stories about long hours, low pay, lots of crunch all have driven me away from it so far. Gamasutra[0] did a nice article about how crunch makes games less likely to succeed
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by Joof 11y ago
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ It's probably not as mind-bending as you think. The actor model is fairly intuitive. The difficulty is that it's fairly easy to have unexpected behavior from simple actor rules. And
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by Joof 11y ago
This highlights a weird quirk of the academic model. It shouldn't matter who solved the problem; as long as the problem is solved. Since everything is individual reputation based, you can effectively 'steal' someone's re
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by Joof 11y ago
Just don't have an engineering mindset when talking to them. Certain responses validate this reaction when you probably mean otherwise. Aka, lie because there are legal obligations. Feynman was deemed mentally unfit for military servic
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by Joof 11y ago
While more complicated, CLIs tend to be more expressive, easier to program as a platform and simpler to communicate between than GUIs. Expressive, because they are built on top of (and as a part of) languages. You can do this in a GUI, but
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by Joof 11y ago
I don't think he means free as in freedom.
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by Joof 11y ago
Thanks, I like this response. Is this worth more than the contributions made towards war, the erosion of privacy and general corruption? Could you (in theory) instead give your money directly to these causes. Some jobs may also enable other
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by Joof 11y ago
That's an interesting view and most probably correct. I was surprised that the first posts I saw appeared to downplay the issue and also use reddit quite frequently, which carries over sometimes. Should I rephrase it or simply post an
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by Joof 11y ago
Sorry, I should make it more clear that it is different from the norm in most environments. Defining discrimination is somewhat difficult. As an example: in America, crack cocaine is considered to be more potent than regular cocaine and pun
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by Joof 11y ago
Largely the magnitude. That guy that got her a shirt with his name on it for example. It probably wouldnt be a problem if there was a more even split. When there is a 10:1 ratio (at my school this was true), literally every guy will be hitt
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by Joof 11y ago
ITT: Hacker news believing that sexism isn't a big deal or otherwise downplaying it's role. It's like watching people who have never had a mental illness wonder why it's a big deal. For any normal feeling, assume it&#x27
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by Joof 11y ago
About the stress of academia... I did some work with a cognitive science / computer science researcher while in undergrad and know plenty of PhDs in various fields. Academia is seeping with stress. Grad students have a very high rate o
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by Joof 11y ago
As a counter-counter point, I tried it as something of a last-ditch effort after having daily panic attacks for a year. I haven't had one since and I'm depressed much less often. I took a hell of a lot less and made extra care to
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Ask HN: How does your job benefit society?
12 points by Joof 11y ago|10 comments
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by Joof 11y ago
"Oh, I don't understand computers." To be fair, I rarely understand what they do even if it's rather mundane. I do like to hear passionate people talk and see them work, but I admit that my curiosity is higher than most.
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by Joof 11y ago
How many of those cultures evolved in isolation?
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by Joof 11y ago
One way to influence politics is to spread the culture of being habitually green. The big gains may all be political or require extensive city design, but changing the mindset to 'people want green; and superficial won't cut it&#x
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by Joof 11y ago
Stores in our college had them being sent out in plain text. They wouldn't change to secure equipment and would occasionally plug the internet into the college servers where we watched them...
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by Joof 11y ago
I'm starting to wonder if WSJ has a team of people upvoting it. I can't read any of it and it's not particularly noteworthy information.
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by Joof 11y ago
I think that society is excellent at finding new ways to find things that we can classify as work. All our needs and wants may be possible to meet, but people will still believe that everyone must work. If you want that as a goal, social ch
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by Joof 11y ago
In math, I pretty much always need a reference. Professors don't seem to like explaining every property of things, particularly when it should have been explained previously. I used my phone continuously to look things up. That profess
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by Joof 11y ago
We're largely there already; it's just not obvious because it's incredibly ingrained in our culture. We've been there. One aspect of brands selling people an 'identity' (think apple or more profoundly, rolls ro
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by Joof 11y ago
I'm of the opinion that a very large amount of the work we do now produces minimal value products in terms of general welfare and happiness (Facebook, finance, advertising, companies that support other companies doing useless things. B
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by Joof 11y ago
They also tend to be very out of the way; no city will let you put a tiny house in it.
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by Joof 11y ago
I'm not in love with Brave and admittedly it takes some control from the companies, but the way they are attacking ad blockers they should be championing brave.

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