M8

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by M8 12y ago
> Pick a long-term goal (interstellar flight, artificial intelligence, peace on earth, whatever), break it into manageable projects, then start. Let's think strategically: if your first project is curing aging and achieving immort
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by M8 12y ago
Wanted to ask which one, but both seem appropriate :): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface
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by M8 12y ago
Tell me automated refactoring and code exploration via ReSharper or Roslyn or IntelliJ IDEA doesn't speed up development AND maintenance :).
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by M8 12y ago
What would happen if you need to add more properties/state to agents?
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by M8 12y ago
Wow, no need to overreact. I remember VK offered Soviet and Pre-revolutionary versions of their web-site as an easter egg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VK_%28social_networking_website... "Russian-speaking users c
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by M8 12y ago
"Upper class children usually wind up with more hip names" - not sure about that. Look at billionaires and royals. The more boring and safe - the better.
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by M8 12y ago
Can you really call them agents if they are calculated on GPU? I always assumed that using GPU would reduce them to particles (colour + position). They were probably stored in a huge array as values rather than a linked list of objects?
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by M8 12y ago
There isn't one.
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by M8 12y ago
Tired of these april fool's jokes: building an app using a document markup language? Who is going to believe that!
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by M8 12y ago
This is embarrassing: if they are too afraid to actually re-style it for a day (with all potential losses), then they shouldn't bother with a static image. Sometimes you get too big to be cool.
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by M8 12y ago
1. Akka, Erlang, Orleans are not using Actor Model. They are using something that resembles it, e.g. having primitive data types instead of using actors to represent them. Not everything in them is actor - just the very coarse code construc
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by M8 12y ago
Haskell, BitBucket - good taste!
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by M8 12y ago
That's not an argument, Bjarne Stroustrup understands C++, does it make it elegant or simple?
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by M8 12y ago
Let me jump into my time machine and join the discussion back then!
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by M8 12y ago
"The fact is, git is better than the other SCM's. And good taste (and C) is one of the reasons for that." If he likes simplicity and good taste then why did he pick Git over Mercurial? Because he did not implement the latte
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by M8 12y ago
They are just a bit confused with naming there at Google: Go, Gopher, Golang etc.
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by M8 12y ago
No. It's moving into everything because it's well established in browsers. Otherwise nobody would use it.
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by M8 12y ago
http://wtfjs.com
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by M8 12y ago
The worst thing is humans controlling planes. Everything else follows.
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by M8 12y ago
Isn't it an accurate representation of the USA start-up arena?
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by M8 12y ago
But then it will be confusing, people will assume that scripting is the same thing as programming.
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by M8 12y ago
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37599.htm "Victoria Nuland Admits: US Has Invested $5 Billion In The Development of Ukrainian, 'Democratic Institutions'".
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by M8 12y ago
Let me guess: Google?
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by M8 12y ago
"...Native ... based on JavaScript..." - facepalm.
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by M8 12y ago
So everyone without an AI background but with high net worth has a go - is this how it works? Like the Ice Bucket challenge but about AI scaremongering. In the grand scheme of things, the important bit is for some intelligence on Earth to s
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by M8 12y ago
Microsoft might be cooking some Midori into C# 7 as well.
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by M8 12y ago
Those are more like nano-automatons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton
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by M8 12y ago
> why would the Chinese government block it Viruses have some credibility, otherwise why would anti-viruses want to block them?
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by M8 12y ago
Sorry - bad mood.
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by M8 12y ago
Future is not here. We are nowhere near nanobots.

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