amtab

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by amtab 12y ago
One really interesting idea related to the passing of the Turing test and formation of relationships between humans and AIs: Our relationships with other humans have become increasingly digital, progressing from face to face communication t
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by amtab 12y ago
Apple has started to embrace tabs within the system, most notably by integrating them into Finder windows in Mavericks. I agree that they should make it a standard type of application and have a standard tab UI that is used in as many apps
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by amtab 12y ago
I think this post makes a valid point, and I also think it's important to remember that Objective-C has also been changing incredibly fast during the Apple's meteoric rise and the accompanying developer interest. Swift did not com
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by amtab 12y ago
This is a great idea, just got mine! It worked for Paypal back in the day to boost signups. Hopefully between this and the MIT program we'll see more interesting transactions in BTC as opposed to people holding it as a lottery ticket.
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by amtab 12y ago
I don't think that the Hacker School rules have a goal of lowering standards, but rather of preventing the one-upmanship which is so common among (usually male) programmers. To someone who may be feeling overwhelmed by the learning cur
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by amtab 13y ago
Having tried out various of the recent speed reading sites and apps, I honestly don't think they are useful for any dense or difficult material requiring thought to comprehend. I almost always find that challenging text requires nonlin
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by amtab 13y ago
It's easy to say that the American college admissions game relies on strange and difficult to quantify criteria, especially at top schools. The more interesting aspect is the comparison to the UK and other high quality European univers
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by amtab 13y ago
Where are you getting the idea that Blub refers to Lisp? If you read the actual essay, it seems to refer to Java or something similar. The whole metaphor is about why developers don't all use the most powerful languages, and he is clea
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by amtab 13y ago
In the United States, student loans are almost impossible to get discharged, even in the case of bankruptcy. That is a large part of why people taking on massive student debt is so oppressive. But the original point I agree with even more d
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by amtab 13y ago
True, but the risk profile for a late-state venture investor and an investor in public markets are very different. Let's say a company's valuation starts at 2 billion and drops to 200 million at some later date. If someone investe