Karrot_Kream

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by Karrot_Kream 10y ago
I'm always annoyed when people think the Decentralized Web needs to replace the Centralized Web, like some glorious revolution. The decentralized web doesn't need to be as big as the centralized web, nor does it have to have as ma
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by Karrot_Kream 10y ago
Source? (I'm not being argumentative, just genuinely curious if this is anything but anecdote.)
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by Karrot_Kream 10y ago
Seems like the "watch" feature is what makes this idea interesting. You receive batched updates for a channel when you're not paying attention to it, and if both participants in the channel are paying attention, then you rece
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by Karrot_Kream 10y ago
Pomax, I met you in an IRC channel years ago (2005 I believe), used a very early rendition of your book to teach myself Japanese (it was just a Japanese grammar dictionary at the time, written in DocBook), and promptly ended up become one o
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by Karrot_Kream 10y ago
While there are definitely students pursuing the prestige, I think you're painting this with too wide a brush. The career progression for me and a lot of my friends who were high achieving students was to start out at one of those comp
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by Karrot_Kream 10y ago
Who decides where "funding for research into history" goes? In our STEM graduate program (a fairly prestigious one), it was pretty widely argued that you basically had to attach yourself to one of the big name grants to try and ge
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by Karrot_Kream 10y ago
Thanks for bringing these tools to my attention! Awesome stuff!
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by Karrot_Kream 10y ago
In a purely personal, sense, I miss the wild west days of the internet. I was an odd kid, never fitting into any of the big groups at school. The classic son of an immigrant with one foot in his parents' world and one foot in his count
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by Karrot_Kream 18y ago
Everything you had wanted to be :)
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by Karrot_Kream 18y ago
“I didn’t start coding when I was 6, but 21, and Jason (Fried) started business school later too” On the other hand, I did. And now I'm in college having the time of my life analyzing frequency responses of signal filters, and doing only pe