Leon

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by Leon 17y ago
Why? As a stop gap against irrelevant posting? Guess what, those people have money too. What would happen if this was implemented? It would make it harder for new members to join and establish long time members as incumbents, probably se
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by Leon 17y ago
Steve Yegge's post on this is apt and may help those who haven't read it. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things...
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by Leon 17y ago
I may just be a little absurd pointing this out, but is it really necessary to use twitter speak to preface a reply when the formatting of the conversation implies your target? I know I am being pedantic and this is not adding much to the c
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by Leon 17y ago
Have you read the guidelines for HN yet? http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by Leon 17y ago
How do your comments, profile, etc. make the book better? My remarks were for more discussion about the book and its contents, and how you portrayed the book poorly in your comment with respect to appearing legitimate by a) the whole 'secre
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by Leon 17y ago
This sounds terribly familiar. I had a friend who was taken in to those Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM) schemes (basically pyramid schemes by another name), and had me come along with him to one of their 'meetings' to introduce their method to
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by Leon 17y ago
To be fair, shouldn't it be ok to mention their names if showing a video of them giving a talk? Also the index is about potential contributions to physics, which this post is not about.
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by Leon 17y ago
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
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by Leon 17y ago
You might not need two fixed point objects. An equivalent approach may be to find the approximate average of movement with a high degree of measurement over all objects and map this out. If the total movement is greater than zero, then ev
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by Leon 17y ago
So where are immigrants concentrating themselves if not the US? I am not looking for the response, 'They are going home,' but surely the intelligentsia is concentrating in some area so where is it? Is it just that the distribution is more
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by Leon 17y ago
I agree that learning takes place at a faster rate during childhood and that the non-autodidact will be at a disadvantage, especially in programming. That said, my main disagreement was with your comment, College is probably too late to le
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by Leon 17y ago
You make it sounds as if children need to be indoctrinated into programming. Maybe you are suffering from bias and are clouding your judgment? Unless you really think it is too late for someone to learn programming starting at the colleg
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"The History and the Status of the P versus NP Question"(seas.harvard.edu)
2 points by Leon 17y ago|0 comments
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by Leon 17y ago
Have you ever tried applying to somewhere considered 'low' when you have some questionably spectacular mentions on your resume? Most anywhere will at best consider you a joke and at worst suspect. You really have to dumb down your skills
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by Leon 17y ago
I hacker is, by definition, lazy in the smart meaning. A good hacker knows when you don't have to repeat work, and what is going on here? More discussion of the same thing; empty vagaries on the life of a strange man. This conversion of
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by Leon 17y ago
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rigid_di... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfest_paradox Which is the best I could find for the question of shortening a quarter to the size of a dime using relativity.
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by Leon 17y ago
What would happen if the quarter was rotated on its disk at relativistic speeds?
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by Leon 17y ago
He is also the author of the book, 'Better: a Surgeon's Notes on Performance' a very remarkable book on becoming better.
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Atul Gawande on Health Care Costs(newyorker.com)
11 points by Leon 17y ago|5 comments
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by Leon 17y ago
Is it necessary to use character attacks for what should be a technical discussion on the project management of the python base?
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by Leon 17y ago
This would be really great to drop into groovy to do quick ANN's to quickly make a prototype of some software.
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by Leon 18y ago
Unless they use the state secret approach. They only have to convince a judge behind closed doors for a warrant.
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by Leon 18y ago
This blog has quickly become one of my favorites - it's a good review of the topics in TCS.
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by Leon 18y ago
Don't underestimate the power of sin taxes in relation to other states. California would be the only state with legalization and would pull interested tourists from across the country. Their market would effectively be the entire US with
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by Leon 18y ago
I think it was a joke...
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by Leon 18y ago
Robot dogs will put you out of business.
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by Leon 18y ago
Why don't you choose for the best, regardless of the label they apply to themselves?
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by Leon 18y ago
Saying .com is the king of the internet sounds like a response from marketing/management. I suspect it isn't all that important and that this will probably be dropped in favor of a practical solution in the future.
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by Leon 18y ago
It's probably a side effect of being a more interesting game, whatever that means to be more interesting, at least.
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10th ICFP contest has begun(smlnj.org)
13 points by Leon 18y ago|5 comments

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