anatoly

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by anatoly 14y ago
Your comment would've been so much better without its last paragraph.
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by anatoly 14y ago
Thanks for the chuckle. Towards the end of the function, I think I've developed sympathy for "LINEBREAK" and didn't want it to go away.
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by anatoly 14y ago
I like your recap of the issue in a different comment, but I think you're not giving enough weight to the fact that it wasn't known before that YC funded the team starting on a different projects, not IM. In fact, even now this information
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by anatoly 14y ago
You're more obnoxious than all the critics in this thread put together. Get off your high horse. The reason all the "random nobodies" are questioning IM's business model is that they have deep-seated feelings about the scammy business and t
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by anatoly 14y ago
Not in the slightest. It's a perfectly cromulent practice.
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by anatoly 14y ago
Not limited to Google, not by a long shot. "Speaking personally, on every day that I'm blocked, I add college traditions that never existed, transpose digits of population figures or world records, and create articles on bullshit "folklore"
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by anatoly 14y ago
I don't know - are you?
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by anatoly 14y ago
Yes. Next question?
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by anatoly 14y ago
It's bizarre that you start your list of recommended books on mathematics for "people who never got far with it at school" with Penrose's _The Road to Reality_. No one should follow that recommendation. The book is not really readable witho
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by anatoly 14y ago
Because it isn't true. Because it's a hackneyed creation of a shallow imagination peopled with cardboard characters, made to press the emotional buttons especially popular today. Because real people don't say "You gave an old woman a little
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by anatoly 15y ago
This is also convenient for when you want to pay back technical debt and fix some of the old TODOs: you can search the codebase for those with your name on them.
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by anatoly 15y ago
Say, have you ever deliberately deprived yourself of net access temporarily to be able to focus on something important? Or blocked a site you frequented too much? Maybe deleted a game to stop yourself from playing it? No, never? If you have
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by anatoly 15y ago
>>The common argument is that we need grades in order to differentiate the "good" from the "bad" students. >No, no its not. Its to show that you've learned the material. I disagree with both of you. It's to motivate the student
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by anatoly 15y ago
You were able to change my mind on the issue with your well-written and detailed comment (I also had no knowledge to go on besides the chessbase.com article). So please don't think it was a waste.
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by anatoly 15y ago
It isn't that he wrote a scary story. It's that his story looked much less plausible in 1997 than it does now. I remember reading the story at that time. I thought it had something going for it, but was very far-fetched and unrealistic. 1
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by anatoly 15y ago
The method offered at the post urges you to install the desktop Kindle software, and de-DRMs files from its storage. That hasn't always worked in the last year, as Amazon tried to obfuscate the key storage in the desktop versions, and there
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by anatoly 15y ago
I own a Kindle and buy books through Amazon, but strip DRM off them immediately after buying.
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by anatoly 15y ago
* Anne Tyler, Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant * Gene Wolfe, Peace * Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
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by anatoly 15y ago
What you describe works fine in theory; the problem is that in practice it's ridiculously easy to overestimate how likely the average user is to train themselves to expect this behavior. In general, we (power users, developers, etc.) tend t
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by anatoly 15y ago
>Dictatorship is a much better word. No, it isn't; it's a much worse word, because it hides the economic reality of living in a country. And that's what socialism vs capitalism is all about: the way the economic activity is conducted in
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by anatoly 15y ago
So what you're saying is that Chomsky means that USSR's regime wasn't anarcho-socialism. I agree that it wasn't. But Chomsky isn't saying that; he's saying that it wasn't socialism, and not only that, that it was "about as remote from socia
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by anatoly 15y ago
This video is appallingly deceitful. E.g. where he argues that the USSR was not only not socialism, but in fact as far from it as possible. He deftly redefines the core idea of socialism to make it look superficially plausible. If socialism
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by anatoly 15y ago
I was 13, I think, when I went to compete in the all-Ukrainian math olympiad, back a bunch of years ago when it was called a "republican" olympiad because Ukraine was a republic in the USSR and not a separate country. It was a long event: d
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by anatoly 15y ago
A nit: the start date field, in an amusingly non-intuitive way it took me a few seconds to figure out, sorts alphabetically by the month's name rather than by the date. Nice list, thanks for putting that together!
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by anatoly 15y ago
So are Dickens and Tolstoy.
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by anatoly 15y ago
Do you feel similarly unenlightened about using the term "the f-word", or is that easier to understand than using f*ck?
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by anatoly 15y ago
I wrote about your message on my blog, and a commenter there, a linguist who knows Mongolian, confirmed it's Mongolian and translated it. His translation is in Russian (as is my blog), so I can only offer it to you re-translated yet again i
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by anatoly 15y ago
These letters aren't there either. Perhaps you see as Ә what's simply э written haphazardly. I'm not sure where you're seeing Ғ, or Қ.
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by anatoly 15y ago
It's definitely Cyrillic, and definitely Mongolian. The beginning of the third line on the second page reads хуссэн бухнээ, and googling finds this phrase on Mongolian pages. No idea what any of that means, though.
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by anatoly 15y ago
Is it the same class though, as the one in 2008? And if you watched the lectures available so far, did you think they're a good choice for supplementing the ml-class.org's lectures? I was thinking about starting on the 2008 lectures for tha

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