anatoly

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by anatoly 17y ago
I thought it was rare too until I started interviewing a lot. Yes, these candidates would typically be able to explain their involvement with previous projects, to give a technical overview of what they'd done. They would totally pass my bu
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by anatoly 17y ago
I think this is a terrible way to interview. I've encountered, again and again, candidates who appear to be very intelligent, you can have a great discussion with them, terrific rapport, they understand everything, they give interesting sug
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by anatoly 17y ago
I hope you like the book :)
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by anatoly 17y ago
Interesting. You're overshooting your target a bit when you rant about Joyce being utterly readable. He is and he isn't. There're passages in Ulysses that will make thirteen-year-olds stitch up, but it's a very rare thirteen-year-old who wi
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by anatoly 17y ago
I don't consume HN at all. I read HN through the website. The things you mention are a little annoying, but not something that worries me a lot.
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by anatoly 17y ago
"These days mathematicians are divided into little cliques of perhaps a dozen people who work on the same stuff. All of the papers you write get peer reviewed by your clique. You then make a point of reading what your clique produces and wr
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by anatoly 17y ago
I agree with your description of Penrose's Goedelian claims (the logician was Solomon Feferman), but I'm not sure why you say he'd be even more out of his depth in physics. Penrose is primarily a mathematical physicist, not a mathematican.
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by anatoly 17y ago
Yes, Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, Joyce, Kafka, seriously! Why the hell not? They're all incomparably more fascinating, stimulating, fun and mind-blowing than watching House, after all! (and I'm a fan of House). I'm not trying to invalidate
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by anatoly 17y ago
Many thanks for that last link.
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by anatoly 17y ago
I agree that it's very beautiful code. I wouldn't go as far as "the most beautiful I've seen", personally, but it's really, really good. Also, when you come to it, you're typically shell-shocked from reading lots of crappy Win32 code, and i
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by anatoly 17y ago
It's hard to name only two. I'll choose two that deserve to be more famous than they are, in my opinion. Helen DeWitt's _The Last Samurai_ (no relation to the Tom Cruise movie) is the best novel I've read in years, a brilliant tale of an ab
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by anatoly 17y ago
I'm slogging through Ulysses now - it sure ain't easy, but I love it. I loved Midnight's Children the first half of the book or so, then it became more and more forced and strained to my taste.
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by anatoly 17y ago
I read it last year and absolutely loved it. It was tough going for a while though, and I might have sated myself with its style, because I couldn't get through _The Urth of the New Sun_, the sequel, immediately afterwards. Maybe I'll give
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by anatoly 17y ago
Haven't read that one yet, but his _All the Pretty Horses_ was one of the highlights of the year.
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by anatoly 17y ago
It occurred to me that a better way to approach explaining the B-T paradox to a layman might be through the story of the infinite hotel. If you aren't familiar with how an infinite hotel that is full can still make room for an infinite numb
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by anatoly 17y ago
I'm forever intrigued by the mind's ability to discern patterns. Today I realized that just from the few examples that appeared on HN, my mind has - quite unconsciously - locked on the combination of google.com in the site slot and a title
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by anatoly 17y ago
>Science agrees. It has been scientifically proven that the brain and the hypothalamus is gendered within the first trimester of a pregnancy and that the gendered brain may not match the body's gender due to androstendione, a stress hor
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by anatoly 17y ago
There's a lot of filler in there, but one advice that I found interesting was to write right back what you're reading (I take it to refer to technical material and not exposition - e.g. proofs and definitions). Anyone has any experience wit
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by anatoly 17y ago
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Parsec
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by anatoly 17y ago
Fantastic, thanks!
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by anatoly 17y ago
Is there a greasemonkey script to automatically hide every HN headline with a number in it?
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by anatoly 17y ago
All good points, thanks. I guess I don't have a good handle on how much it's kidnappers vs cars in a typical parent's mind. I have some intuitions, and they seem to differ from yours, but I can't back that up with anything. And I probably d
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by anatoly 17y ago
Where I grew up it was common to have the school organize a rotation of somewhat senior kids to act as (unpaid) crossing guards (standing in small groups) on the major crossings within a few blocks of the school. They'd stand there in the m
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by anatoly 17y ago
Thank you!
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by anatoly 17y ago
Hey tokenadult, are you homeschoolers for primarily religious reasons, or primarily non-religious reasons? If the latter, please consider writing up a blogpost or a comment here about your experiences, what works/what doesn't, what's your v
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by anatoly 17y ago
... yeah, I can't see that name catching on in the US.
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by anatoly 17y ago
How do you figure?
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by anatoly 17y ago
"About 115 children are kidnapped by strangers each year, according to federal statistics; 250,000 are injured in auto accidents." The single most effective sentence in the entire story; in fact, it could probably stand for the entire sto
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by anatoly 17y ago
I think the weakness in your analysis is that it's framed as a conflict between you and Joe. Joe isn't really trying to force you to do anything. Given that Jim is already making substance S without Joe's permission and selling it to you an
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String Theory Skeptic(forbes.com)
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