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by apl 14y ago
It is of course a much more refined approach; critically, there never is a stage at which you retain explicit knowledge of the password. With pseudo-implicit passwords (knowing how to type but not quite remembering what ), recall is still
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> This looks suspiciously like logarithmic scaling which, > as XKCD readers will attest, is a pretty typical > technique for representing statistics which have > differences measured in orders-of-magnitude. It
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> We should eat well balanced diets that are tailored to > each of us as individuals. vs. > What I found is that low carb diets are a big sham. ?
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> [...] accidental, inessential, complexity [...] Sure, but when that complexity is so utterly minuscule, what's the point in shielding users from it? Especially when you could argue that it benefits the user who will, at the ve
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> As you said, the setup process was not well documented at > that time and it was quite frustrating. I'm sure it's > better now. As a matter of fact, it was much better than that 8 months ago, but the improvements t
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by apl 14y ago
> getting Clojure, Leiningen, etc working on my Linux > system was quite a chore Can you elaborate on that? Tooling and set-up used to be one of Clojure's big weaknesses; they are less so now. On Ubuntu, for instance, it
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by apl 14y ago
Judging from previous 7" devices, no. The constant zooming disrupts my reading flow to the point of it not being worth the hassle. Third iPad iteration is great, though, unlike its two predecessors.
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> No. All contributions aren't equal. It takes someone > special to write HipHop to compile PHP into C++. > Engineers can (and do) do customer service in a pinch, > customer service reps can't do engineering. T
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> (...) are we able to simulate that neural network and see the same > behaviours as in the living nematode worm? No. With biological networks, wiring diagrams are only part of the bigger picture; (electro-)physiological d
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> keep in mind that not all HN posters are native > English speakers. In that case, feedback is even more valuable.
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by apl 14y ago
I re-read the article and have to admit that you and everyone else here is in the right. Crucially, I misread this paragraph as the kind of self-glorification that happens to be way too common among so-called "makers": > You see mos
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by apl 14y ago
This type of saccharine feel-good prose irritates to no end. No, chances are you're not the exception to the rule of mediocrity; that's just a matter of statistics. Believing so in absence of hard evidence to the contrary is delusional and
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by apl 14y ago
> This is the problem, and as you implicate, > the exact sort of thing we need to stop doing. You do see the absurdity here, right? Banking on substantially above-average developers doesn't work at scale, by definition.
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Don't do it. It's tacky and misleading.
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by apl 14y ago
That's outrageous self-glorification and utterly misleading. Software development qualifies as much as an art as other forms of engineering and most crafts do -- somewhat, at the highest levels, but generally not. Don't justify the shortcom
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by apl 14y ago
The blurb that sparked the article: > We are not our brains. We are "conscious agents"... It's > very good news that you are not your brain, because when > your mind finds its true power, the result is healing, > i
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by apl 14y ago
I genuinely have no clue what your question means and entails (as a neuroscientist with a reasonable undergraduate career in anglo-american philosophy). Can you elaborate?
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Somewhat appropriate catchphrase from Martin's "Game of Thrones": > What is dead may never die. RSS carries on, but so do mailing lists, newsgroups, bookmarks etc. People claiming that Twitter will replace or has replaced RSS gen
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by apl 14y ago
> As a Desktop Linux user myself I am not too concerned > with "market share" , to an extent I couldn't care less > if I am the only the person that uses it. That's rather shortsighted. After all, you being able to "
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by apl 14y ago
Why?
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Amusing off-hand remark in a merely 12 year old presentation: > Rule 1: Almost all organizations try to do too many things > Examples: SGI, NeXT, Apple > Lesson: Make sure the company management can make the hard calls
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by apl 14y ago
> [...] "feel" off [...] > [...] I don't think that was particularly exceptional. > (at least for Eng and bus) Have you considered the possibility of you drawing conclusions from a biased sample (i.e., you; your engi
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by apl 15y ago
> Furthermore, in Julia the varargs tuple x will have to be > processed without the convenience of Matlab's nargin > function. I genuinely don't get that. nargin is equivalent to length(x) in this scenario, and J
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> Today, anyone who studies anything to do with social > sciences – for example – needs to have some coding skills > if they want to do effective statistical analysis. Only if by "coding skills" you mean "Click somew
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by apl 15y ago
> It would strongly violate my expectations for Scala to be > more popular than LabVIEW (which is NOT just "the Lego > Mindstorms language") I'm not talking about LabView; it's literally the Lego Mindstorms language
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by apl 15y ago
So Scala ranks behind the Lego Mindstorms language and Visual FoxPro in terms of community popularity? Sure thing. I know that valid results don't always conform to expectations, anecdotal evidence and intuition; there's a believability lim
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by apl 15y ago
Now you're putting a spin on that passage that's simply not in the text. Quit the contrary: it's the opposite of what your essay seems to be suggesting. > "I don't want to be a good speaker." Why would you think that if rhetoric
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by apl 15y ago
You don't claim that, of course, but something of similar intent is implied in this paragraph: > A few years later I heard a talk by someone who > was not merely a better speaker than me, but > a famous speaker. Boy was
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by apl 15y ago
Two key passages: > Having good ideas is most of writing well. Disagreed. Written style matters, and whenever it doesn't matter, neither would it matter in spoken form. Your writing style happens to be lean, concise, reduced. But

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