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by Pitarou 13y ago
There may be a problem. We can consider the Tesla as a car body bolted on top of a huge battery. Collisions with road debris seem to be sufficient to pierce the battery's armour and start a fire. This isn't disastrous. Problems li
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That, she is. And also stubborn, and short-tempered.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Yeah, but she said "no" when they were priced at $20-30. I fully understand the risks involved. Heck, my Economics degree makes me 1% more qualified than most people here to talk about how bubbles work. If I'd bought BTC, I&#
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by Pitarou 13y ago
0 - My wife said, "No way, it's a bubble." :(
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by Pitarou 13y ago
You say "formulaic" like it's a bad thing! Formulaic --> Follows well-understood conventions --> Easy to make sense of --> Gets the message across better --> More sign-ups --> Profit --> Food on the table --
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by Pitarou 13y ago
If you only show pictures of bars and nightclubs, you'll have to sell it in terms of sexual opportunities: - A guy and two sexy girls. The guy and one of the girls are clearly hot for each other. The other girl looks like she needs som
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by Pitarou 13y ago
While the court can, of course, order Apple to keep the warrant canary intact, there are plenty of deniable ways to subvert that order. E.g. Apple can subtly signal that the canary was added after the rest of the report was prepared, by sc
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Visually too noisy. The bouncy "learn more" button gets in the way, and gives a cluttered feel to the front page. I can see you want me to click on it, but I think it's too much. (Real user testing may prove me wrong on this
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Were you confused by the dead mouse scroll wheel, too? Or was that just me?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
So that's: 1. Zork 2. running in the Infocom Virtual Machine 3. running in an IBM PC emulator 4. running in Javascript 6. running in x86 machine code and x86 maintains backwards compatibility with that original IBM PC through 7. hardwa
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Me too. :^(
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by Pitarou 13y ago
How does this technique compare to a computer implementation of the kinds of techniques we learnt in High School? Is it easier to implement? More efficient? Are there some situations where it isn't appropriate?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I tend to agree with much of what is said, at least when I'm in a harshly utilitarian, Malthusian mood: if you want to know what locavorism really means, try buying fresh fruit and vegetables in Japan, where foreign farm produce is tax
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by Pitarou 13y ago
It happens all the time. I'm sure we can all think of a few "the doctors should have noticed it" anecdotes that happened in exactly that way.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
> Maybe there's a "The Emperors New Clothes" effect Possibly, but it would have to be at a subconscious level. They clearly didn't just pretend no to see the gorilla.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Whence the call to raise the minimum wage.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Logo is misused. It was never intended to be a tool to teach programming. It was designed as a tool that made the conceptions of Euclidean geometry available to direct experience and interaction -- and I think it succeeded passably well. Fo
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Of course there's prejudice, but the main reason is that the HN crowd doesn't believe that MS has what it takes to make a dent in the smartphone market. And I'm with the crowd on this one. Given the strength of the incumbents
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by Pitarou 13y ago
If I understand this correctly, this isn't like having untested code around. It's more like leaving highly toxic medicine in the bathroom cabinet when you no longer need it, or leaving an electrically powered band saw plugged in
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Actually, I think he might have a point. The phenomenon of the Computer Science graduate who can't write a FizzBuzz program, or even the post-graduate who can't write a simple recursive function, is well attested. But a Math stud
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Not really. Memorising the manual is the strategy of a surface learner. Surface learners can make pretty good PHP programmers, but they'll struggle with, say, passing Javascript closures. A deep learner will look for the underlying pri
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Glad you think so. ;-)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
> We are talking about some non-zero (lets just say integer) chance of global catastrophe if the oxgenation of the Pacific ocean is disrupted by mass radioactive spoiling of biomass. Well, the trees on-site are still green. I'm not
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Nothing to do with the Piraha, I fear. Get some sleep.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Everett argues in the other direction. He believes that the unusual aspects of their language stem from their unusual culture.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
It's clear that Everett has a lot more work to do before any of his claims will stand up to scrutiny. Like I said earlier, it all sounds a little too perfect. Unpolluted by outside contact (because they refuse to learn a language th
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I really don't know whether to believe this article. The whole setup sounds a little too ... perfect. We have: * a language where "speakers can dispense with their vowels and consonants altogether and sing, hum, or whistle convers
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I doubt it, but nethack might be worth a shot.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I disagree with the author's central claim (where's the REPL?), but he makes an interesting point. C++ has matured to the point where it has 95% of what a scripting language needs. It wouldn't be hard to write a thin wrapper
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Nobody's mentioned what's pushing firms like Softbank to look for bold overseas acquisitions. Japan has a major government debt crisis looming, and the only way out for the Japanese government is to print Yen plus financial repres

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