aharrison

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Code Bubbles Now Open Source - Edit Your Code on a Canvas(cs.brown.edu)
1 points by aharrison 14y ago|0 comments
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by aharrison 14y ago
The reason we Americans are so strongly tied to our Constitution is multifaceted, but one of the key tenets is that it is a so called "living document" and allows itself to be modified via an amendment. The criticism that it should not be m
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by aharrison 14y ago
Could you please elaborate, so that more people do not fall into this intellectual trap?
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by aharrison 15y ago
I believe that it is erroneous to believe that this has anything to do with software. Estimates in most or all fields are off because humans are bad at predicting timelines. This is referred to as the planning fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.
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ROSA - Post-Apocalyptic CGI Short Film Made Entirely by Jesús Orellana(vimeo.com)
1 points by aharrison 15y ago|0 comments
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by aharrison 16y ago
I'm reminded of this story I heard not too long ago: http://lesswrong.com/lw/37k/rationality_quotes_december_2010... Note that in this case of circumcision the possible negative effects are well known, but a vaccine might have complicatio
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by aharrison 16y ago
Soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use your boxes, and please please please use them in that order.
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by aharrison 16y ago
After I read most of it, I took some problems I was having and tried to come up with mappings and methods of approach for fixing them. Then I showed them to my mentor, and he shot them all down. But practice makes perfect, fail fast and ite
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by aharrison 16y ago
I know this is kind of a dead horse, but it is amusing to me that the difference in verbage there is literally a factor of 8 (almost a proverbial order of magnitude). Geeks often know, but laymen very rarely do. Kind of a big thing to gloss
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by aharrison 16y ago
One thing that is important to keep in mind is that if you think there might actually, truly, be one piece of advice in this book, the cost plus time investment is trivial compared to the potential gains. None of his information is so bogus
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by aharrison 16y ago
I have heard this before many times, and I tried to find a study that would defend that assertion one weekend and failed miserably. If you have a citation for one of those studies I would be in your debt.
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by aharrison 16y ago
Note that Mike Rowe did pretty well on that deal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
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by aharrison 16y ago
I don't understand your comment. You agree with yummyfajitas assertion, you appear to make a separate and mostly orthogonal assertion which borders on a refutation (I think the subtext being "the rich should help others pull themselves up")
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by aharrison 16y ago
Is anyone aware of an AI game that has a homeostatic goal? I am thinking along the lines of a SimCity style game where random negative events happen and our AI would have to account and route around these types of issues. It would be intere
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by aharrison 16y ago
I actually had this problem when I was reading through Steve Yegge's blogs. Here was this guy who had done so much, had so many great insights, and was routinely pushing himself to do better. It was very inspiring, but also kind of scary: h
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by aharrison 16y ago
I have always envisioned Hamming's third question as less of a leading question and more of an honest one. Having read that lecture, I think if I said "well, because they don't pay and I have a mortgage" Hamming would have just as easily ag
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by aharrison 16y ago
Check out this awesome site ( http://www.voiceofthehive.com/ ). The background is painful, but the information is awesome. I don't know if it will actually help you become a beekeeper, but I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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by aharrison 16y ago
As much as I hate to plug this movie, "Cruel Intentions" had some amazing scenes where the main characters did just about every action correctly from this perspective.
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by aharrison 16y ago
Psychologists have pretty much debunked catharsis as being a good thing. [1] I think that having a environment of competitive creation is a good thing only when it causes people to excel, and only then when it is not done to excess and thus
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by aharrison 16y ago
I think we are going in circles.
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by aharrison 16y ago
I am truly in awe. It routinely amazes me the lengths to which many people go to in their chosen domain. Some people choose physics, or medicine. Some people choose Rubiks cubes, train sets, or Sim City. I find it hard in my day to day life
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by aharrison 16y ago
I'm surprised there aren't more parkour practitioners here. I find it is one of the most physically demanding things a person can do, it is almost entirely free, and it requires both extreme focus and tons of creativity. Of course, the down
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by aharrison 16y ago
Answer: Namely, because he is a fictitious character. The article writers contention that programmers should also have solid HCI knowledge is not necessarily unreasonable, but the comparison to "2 meetings a week, and in a year..." is just
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by aharrison 16y ago
This is drifting offtopic, but CBG was a member of MENSA[1] and therefore falls under the "quantifiably 'smart'" category. [1] http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_Comic_Book_Guy_a_member_of_MENS...
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by aharrison 16y ago
This story has been the source of many discussions between my girlfriend and I, and I heartily recommend it. While it can be a bit disturbing, I think that helps drive home the point (it is kuro5hin, after all.) It also led to a number of v
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by aharrison 17y ago
I have tried FreeMind on several occasions and my biggest frustration point with it is that it is a tree instead of a graph. Is there an easy way to get around this? Many (most?) of my ideas interconnect and it would be nice to be able to o
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by aharrison 17y ago
Cialdini's Influence: Science and Practice is amazing. It is almost a perfect mix (at least, in my opinion) between rigorous (citing studies) and accessible (using anecdotes, etc). http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Practice-Robert-B-Cialdini
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by aharrison 17y ago
I am going to defend myself. Then, I am going blow my argument out of the water. Backstory: I am a fifth year comp sci student. I have worked part-time as an SDE for most of my college career. The python crash I referenced earlier was in cl
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by aharrison 17y ago
I wish I could. I was in the middle of a lab when I did it, and as I fixed it I thought "I should really save this and figure out why it is segfaulting." Alas, the lazy part of me prevailed and I just fixed it so I could demo the assignment
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by aharrison 17y ago
People keep saying that, and I can understand where they are coming from, but this isn't the case. Just yesterday, I managed to segfault python 2.6.something. I have no idea why (I really should have figured it out) but my hypothesis is tha

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