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by api 12y ago
TL;DR: Java as a language is not bad. The problem with Java is its bloatware ecosystem. Endemic to the Java world are uninstallability, Rube Goldberg machine code, and such heights of over-engineering that they're easily parodied: htt
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by api 12y ago
I also like that he picks on Tyson... not because I don't like Tyson, but because it's important to point out that these are universal human cognitive failings that can befall anyone regardless of their belief system. Nobody who h
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by api 12y ago
Your point is valid, but my understanding is this: if FTL in any form is possible, then the universe is VERY weird-- it would allow "closed time-like curves" and causality paradoxes and all kinds of other wackadoodle.
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by api 12y ago
The biggest concrete is binary log files. Other than that, it's change. The neckbeards want to stay with their shell script spaghetti because they know it.
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by api 12y ago
We could likely skip some of that via genetic engineering and other medical methods. But I'm also referring to cultural and technological evolution. BTW... if we don't transition off fossil fuels in the next 50-ish years we are go
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by api 12y ago
While this argument isn't untrue, I personally prefer forward-thinking positive arguments like: - Expanding into a new environment drives evolution. - The technological innovations that will be needed to sustain a settlement on Mars
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by api 12y ago
I doubt he'd take the job.
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by api 12y ago
"Mars will never be settled any more than Antarctica is settled." This is a broken analogy in two ways. One is that there's a huge qualitative difference between going elsewhere on Earth and settling another planet, and I don
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by api 12y ago
How big is the difference really? Another month or two travel time? Humans have spent over a year (Mir) and routinely do six month stints on the ISS. If you've got the tech to get to Mars and land there, then an extra month or two flig
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by api 12y ago
I'm not sure NASA has the budget to accelerate things the way they did during the Apollo era.
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by api 12y ago
Perhaps, but I feel like NASA is at a point where if they don't "ship" something big they're going to fade into the night. Robotic space exploration is awesome, but it doesn't capture the human imagination the way a
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by api 12y ago
I've thought for a long time that in the future only the most boring people who have ever lived will be able to get elected to any high office. We're talking boy or girl scouts with perfect attendance, a 4.0 GPA, never tried any s
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by api 12y ago
AeroFS is inside ValleyBubble, so they see it from that perspective. But yeah the rest of the industry just wants cheap code grinders to pump out CRUD.
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What Every Scientist Needs to Know(beacon-center.org)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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Ztadmin: scriptable interface to ZeroTier One's hosted network API(github.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
Not at all, but typically languages that support reflection are slower for very difficult to escape reasons. Chief among these is that such languages are dynamic, making every function call an indirection (load/call). This forces a CPU
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by api 12y ago
Think a few steps ahead. These aren't really containers. They're giant statically linked binaries, more or less. The actual operating system is now just a VM host for running containerized giant WIMPs (weakly interacting massive p
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by api 12y ago
This is how Linux fragments, and ultimately dies as the Linux we know. I'm not really making a value judgement, just an observation.
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by api 12y ago
Meh. Describe an alternative to a growth-oriented society that isn't either feudalism, some kind of white agrarian fantasy, or an even more imaginary "sci-fi utopia where everyone wears togas." (Google The Venus Project and t
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by api 12y ago
"One thing that's tricky about V6 is the fact that without NAT all your boxes are internet-reachable unless you have a firewall." Maybe OSes will need to stop assuming their underbellies can be soft and implement some real ho
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by api 12y ago
What's your (chuckle) burn rate?
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by api 12y ago
But who are those other people? Customers or people in the "startup scene?" Personally I think VCs ought to have a form with a couple fields: (1) Identify yourself and your company, link to web site, etc. (2) Describe product (3)
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by api 12y ago
Most people just don't care about privacy or security at all. They'll say they do and get all angry when stuff like this comes up, but they don't alter their buying habits therefore they don't care.
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by api 12y ago
While he's right, I imagine VCs get such an unbelievable volume of cold e-mail that sorting through it is really time consuming to the point of impossibility.
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The Grey Thumb Archives (Talks on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation)(greythumb.org)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
I've wondered this for many years: could the idea that life originated here on Earth be the final geocentrism? This is really quite interesting too: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-t
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by api 12y ago
Radio Shack was my toy store as a kid, as far back as I can remember. My favorite toys were volt meters, little electric motors, power adapters, LEDs, bread boards, and those little electronics kits with the spring terminals. Radio Shack de
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by api 12y ago
Yeah, pretty far into bong hits territory there. But on the meta level I think the article makes a case that Bitcoin might not exist without the mathematical innovations of Nash.
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Space Mountaineering: The Lean Startup vs. Zero to One(adamierymenko.com)
2 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
This is one of the best engineering write-ups I've ever read. It's also a principle I'll remember, since I work a lot with distributed systems and p2p networks: when debugging, imagine systems as adversaries and frame it as a

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