TelmoMenezes

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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
Although I'm not from the punch card era, I overall agree with the sentiment of this article. I learned to code has a hobby when I was a kid and then took a CS degree. During the CS degree I was indoctrinated out of "bad habits" that I deve
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
Heavier. The article is about an hybrid vessel that uses helium to decrease its weight but is still heavier than air. I'm not a physicist, but I assume that lighter than air objects tend to have more wind resistance than heavier than air ob
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
I always wonder why helium-based airships never took off. Are there any technological limitations I'm not aware of? Seems to be such a simple and powerful idea (even more now that oil prices are soaring).
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Solar powered airships(green.autoblog.com)
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Does A/B testing hurt creativity?(telmomenezes.com)
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Alton Brown Google(josecamoessilva.tumblr.com)
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
"By the time afternoon rolls around, you’re in caffeine withdrawal. This is often why people are sapped by mid-afternoon." In my experience this has a lot more to do with carbs-heavy lunches than caffeine.
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
This article is indeed cringe-worthy. Not because he's defending Java, but because of all the strong opinions clearly based on a weak understanding of what he's talking about.
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
It's not you. I happen to be reading "Zero History" at the moment and it felt almost surreal to read this article. Gave me a weird feeling I was falling inside the story, if that makes any sense.
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
So now we need blurring algorithms that cause actual information loss (I'm sure they already exist, but now there's suddenly a bigger market for them).
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The One Bit Turing Test(telmomenezes.com)
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Mercury not like other planets(eurekalert.org)
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
I've been noticing this everywhere in the past few weeks, and am finally relieved to know what it is. I have a soft spot for pixel art...
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Post-it pixel art in Paris(business.blogs.cnn.com)
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Some thoughts on the Book of Ruby(jorgetavares.com)
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Linus Torvalds's Lessons on Software Development Management(h30565.www3.hp.com)
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
I always had a bit of a problem with this sort of study because you can never know for sure that you uncovered all the bugs in a program (short of doing a formal proof of correctness). This in turn introduces biases. Case in point, it could
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
You can do whatever you want in your mind while you're commuting or taking a shower of falling asleep. Nobody is preventing you. There's no funding or responsibilities involved in that.
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
Very cool indeed. It seems to extract information relative to images being directly perceived at the moment. I bet that accessing memories will be much harder though, due to more complex encoding (as opposed to just reading the visual "inpu
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
I actually agree with you. I never bought into the idea that C programs are intrinsically less reliable. They might even be more reliable, because they don't depend on black boxes that you can't figure out or fix when something goes wrong.
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by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
There could be some filtering going on, both on the type of programs one tends to write in C and the type of people that write C. It could be that problems for which C is chosen tend to be intrinsically more well defined (command line appli