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by apl 16y ago
> but how credible is he as a source if he can't even pass his quals? Where did he say that?
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by apl 16y ago
I got one, but unfortunately it's still working on the milk-or-tea-first conundrum.
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by apl 16y ago
I understand that this raises eyebrows, but it's hardly fraud . Do people actually think that retail price is a function of production/R&D cost? It's not, never has been. Dropbox charges 20$ for something that consumes marginally more
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by apl 16y ago
Beautiful idea, and well executed.
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by apl 16y ago
> Nothing specific to Academia there. I disagree. Many highly skilled professions (software development, engineering, medicine) offer a sustainable career path for people who don't have the drive, ambition, focus, whatever to pl
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by apl 16y ago
Ah, that's a classic approach: no clue, but strong opinions. "goto" hardly qualifies as a sign of bad code; otherwise the Linux kernel would be in a terrible position. If used well, it's a valid solution to many flow-problems.
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Hazard - Journey of Life(demruth.com)
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by apl 16y ago
Hypothesis testing isn't the fundamental problem, it's how a given p -value is perceived. Getting a so-called significant result simply shouldn't be confused with conclusive evidence for the hypothesis.
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by apl 16y ago
Generally not, no. Khan's fairly good at explaining stuff, but I have to view all of his material at double speed -- otherwise the repetitions and "uhm"s would be too bothersome. Same content could be delivered in half the time if written a
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by apl 16y ago
http://www.edge.org/documents/kahneman_master/pages/Session.... The guest list is ri-di-cu-lous . Tens of billions of dollars and 2500 IQ points sitting around a table.
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by apl 16y ago
I'm gonna bite. So the observation that different drugs show different addictive potential (e.g., heroine versus cocaine) is in fact irrelevant because "addiction doesn't really have anything to do with the molecule in question"?
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by apl 16y ago
I doubt that. For instance, I started dreaming in English way before becoming fluent.
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by apl 16y ago
This article is a significantly less bad than most, but still suffers from the ol' "depressed people should simply try to be happy, then the whole depression-thing isn't actually that bad" fallacy of mental illness. If you're hard-wired to
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by apl 16y ago
> But I digress, and besides I did promise to be all gross > and irresponsible, so I’ll stick with that. > So there are R, G, and B cones. Cute and all, but so very wrong. There are acceptable simplifications; this i
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by apl 16y ago
> The thing that will really blow your mind is [...] Only if "you" refers to a stoned college kid. The realization that qualia -- such as the redness of red -- are fundamentally subjective is, quite frankly, an old hat.
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by apl 16y ago
[Your JavaScript breaks this page for me on iPhone and Safari; maybe post a link to a GitHub Gist instead?]
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by apl 16y ago
Additionally, ninjas never self-promote without adding a disclaimer. Moreover, ninjas despise calling developers "ninjas."
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by apl 16y ago
That's a fairly naive notion of freedom, man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Liberty
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by apl 16y ago
> In the spirit of full disclosure, I’m a newb to Redis. My > knowledge is basically the contents of this post (at the > time of writing). I don’t use it in production (yet). > Likewise I’m no expert in AK-47s (I’
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by apl 16y ago
Sure. But for the power user, for the full-time developer, there's no point in going for something like Kod. Learning vim or emacs is actually not that hard. As Rasmus points out in this blog post, he's aiming for a different crowd: people
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by apl 16y ago
No. They have much more advanced technology at their disposal.
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by apl 16y ago
Cambridge has one on Regent Street. Good burger; you won't find a decent milkshake, though.
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by apl 16y ago
It's not about what you (or I) need. Sure, using both Google and Facebook is fine. But Facebook might gain ground if they added (social?) search functions to their offerings. I don't necessarily agree with the author's assessment -- buildin
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by apl 16y ago
Read on. As tl correctly points out, EA doesn't employ 1,000 Minecraft developers. Their staff consists of maybe 3-5 Notch-like people, quite a few idiots, and 900 thoroughly average developers. This specific group of people maximizes profi
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by apl 16y ago
Then you need to stay as quiet as you possibly can until you do.
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by apl 16y ago
Childish. Also, proving my point that not all programmers are logicians.
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by apl 16y ago
He's absolutely correct on this issue. People in the programming professions surprisingly often go overboard with the whole coder myth -- it's a fairly interesting form of self-aggrandizement. 1) 80% of all programmers are Java people hacki
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by apl 16y ago
> • acrobat scroll speed Glad to see he's not just Knuth but also a human being.
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by apl 16y ago
> 3: A great illustration for this is the infamous Stanford prison experiment: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment It is infamous largely for having no controls and rapidly deteriorating scientific co
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by apl 16y ago
That's grossly negligent behavior on her behalf. Family pictures, unpublished novel and a gigabyte of emails? Fine. But research data that only exists on one consumer-level machine? Work that was financed by her employer and various other

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