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by agentgt 11y ago
Its not the size but rather intelligent entity density. You could have an infinite universe but still have high ratio of contact if the universe has a high density of life forms (think of it as collisions with particles in a large volume).
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by agentgt 11y ago
Yes I generally agree that this is one of the strongest explanations. Especially if you consider the small spectrum of communication we are examining (and thats just electromagnetic for all we know dark energy may provide a superior mode of
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by agentgt 11y ago
One of my favorite topics is the Fermi Paradox and consequently the Great Filter (which someone already discussed). One of my favorite explanations is that there are other ET out there but they are two engrossed with their own entertainment
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Ask HN: How to become an effective Citizen scientist
7 points by agentgt 11y ago|0 comments
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by agentgt 11y ago
I really wish people would explain why they downvoted me on hackernews. Its not that I really care about the points its that I want to know what I did wrong. Like if I accidentally offended someone or it just wasn't an interesting comm
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by agentgt 11y ago
I read the SA article the blog refers to and I couldn't decide if that particular colossal theory on symmetry was just an isolated incident or that "deterioration" is really happening to many disciplines/theories of math
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by agentgt 11y ago
I can't help but notice that this looks more like an enterprise integration tool (think mulesoft) than API management (think apogee.. or I think that is what they do). Speaking somewhat from experience (webmethods, caml, spring-integra
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by agentgt 11y ago
> The problem with Java(lang) is the culture. Maybe 8 years ago. Other than Oracle itself the language, the libraries and the culture has changed rather substantially over the last few years. > Instead of writing programs in a pragmat
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by agentgt 11y ago
I am surprised the tool doesn't do any color blind checking (ie putting red and green next to each other is generally not a good idea).
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by agentgt 11y ago
I am by no means a strong feminist but I find it pretty stupid to decide whether or not to hire based on gender (unless of course the gender is absolutely required like female lead in a movie). I have seen many women far more physically cap
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by agentgt 11y ago
Its sort of funny how the original SA article sounds like a beautifully crafted work of satire. I had to constantly remind myself that the original article is genuinely sober.
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by agentgt 11y ago
A while back I worked with team that had just brought on some new developers. Some of the developers were eager and would learn with out human intervention. Others would require and ask for some mentoring. Neither way of learning is right o
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by agentgt 11y ago
Digging in the backyard like that makes me think of septic tank repair.... Hopefully she doesn't hit the drain field.
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by agentgt 11y ago
There is a significant number of answers that may interest you on Stackoverflow. Specifically: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/215076/whats-the-best-way... Two things I do to familiarize with a code base is to
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by agentgt 11y ago
I was wondering that myself. Maybe they will release code examples on how that works. I'm only slightly familiar with the Haskell ecosystem but I have also wondered if it has a plugin like system (e.g. OSGI for Java).
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by agentgt 13y ago
I have some internal knowledge of what happened to HealthCare.gov as I was employed as a major developer of the original proprietary content management system they we were using circa 2009-2010. The original Content Management System was Pe
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by agentgt 14y ago
Its so much easier to do this in something like Python, Scala, Ruby... or just about any language other than Java. I built my own ORM (but uses Immutable objects) in Java that uses a fluent DSL. Is it good... no it sucks compared to what Sc
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by agentgt 14y ago
I wish they would make their stuff look better on mobile. I guess I'm the only sick person who looks at code while in my bed on my iPhone. I really should read a book instead.
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by agentgt 14y ago
Oh man I have had many horrible experience with missing IKEA parts bags (you know the plastic bag with the bolts). Make sure the bag is always taped on before leaving the store :)
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by agentgt 14y ago
I too am on the Message Oriented bandwagon. I even wrote my own ORM ( https://github.com/agentgt/jirm ) because the current Java ORMs (Hibernate) kind of suck for messages where you generally want immutable objects. The biggest problem I ha
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by agentgt 14y ago
Useful link. I didn't see any that folded up. I guess its rather difficult to make something that will fold up and not tip over. The goal would be to keep it in my car (think fold-up chair).
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Ask HN: Recommendation for Portable Stand-up height desk?
1 points by agentgt 14y ago|4 comments
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by agentgt 14y ago
I can tell you they will definitely try to prosecute you. I own rental property and I let one of my tenets use the shared temporary Internet access (yes some would say that was stupid) but to me Internet is like water so I felt it was alrig
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by agentgt 14y ago
The beloved GitHub uses GoDaddy as their registrar :) I don't know why people are upset about talking about GoDaddy. Its interesting news.
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by agentgt 14y ago
I couldn't help but notice the Creationism flame-bait thread on that article (bottom). Thank god :) hacker news is at a higher level of thought.
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by agentgt 14y ago
Does anybody else hate videos w/o an abstract or short description? I can read/skim faster than videos play so I hate video news where I have to waste a couple of minutes when I could have read it in 30 seconds.
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by agentgt 14y ago
I'm curious how "free" the news organizations are in Russia. I recently was accused of something here in USA along with a ton of other people (copyright troll... I share my internet connection w/ my tenets). The local news found out about i
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by agentgt 14y ago
Go is interesting in that doesn't yet support Generics... but might some day. The reason that interest me is that I like Generics aka parametric polymorphism but I feel like Scala, Haskell and OCaml take it almost to the extreme particularl
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by agentgt 14y ago
Haha I thought the exact same thing. I thought it was going to be a parody. What a disappointing article.
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by agentgt 14y ago
What a PITA

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