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by apl 15y ago
Inaccurate headline and interpretation, if you ask me. One cannot simply equate "desired" and "targeted for next purchase." Simple reductio: The car I desire most is rarely the one I plan on purchasing, unfortunately. There may be other fac
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by apl 15y ago
Never been great at keeping correlation and causation separate, but maybe you should muscle up instead? http://physbam.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/photos/bodybuilding_arms...
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by apl 15y ago
One observation: I think that comment ordering is an inadequate substitute for numerical scores. A lot of interesting information goes missing when reducing a scale from interval to ordinal.
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by apl 15y ago
Possible, but irrelevant given that I'm not arguing against Graham's stance. I'm sure he's right about "blub" and so on: Lisp is a tremendously useful tool in the right hands. What I find increasingly annoying are the countless acolytes tha
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by apl 15y ago
> One has to wonder if there's a reason. This particular type of argument keeps coming up in Lisp-related discussions, but I seriously doubt its validity. Lisp is overrepresented in classic texts on computer science, yes. But th
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by apl 15y ago
> Other languages force you into specific toolsets > (objects, functions, etc.) and thwart pure expression of > the problem. Pure expression and complete malleability are decidedly non-intrinsic goods. Sure, you're f
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by apl 15y ago
Looking at Python, Ruby, Pascal or BASIC, I'm wondering how much closer one can get to (what you call) pseudocode without sacrificing formal consistency and, well, usefulness. AppleScript is lurking just around the corner, and you do not w
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by apl 15y ago
I suspect he meant Open G L. 3DS has a PICA200, supporting OpenGL ES 1.1 (which is a bit old-fashioned but workable).
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by apl 15y ago
> I got 1 job interview in 1 year. Things have > improved and I now have a position in academia > (the first academic position that I applied for). > I worked as a programmer for 10+ years before > doing a
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by apl 15y ago
> Last year the journal of cosmology had an issue devoted > to problems related to Mars. Rarely a good source.
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by apl 15y ago
> On the other hand, you might wonder why HN is running > on a BSD (FreeBSD). Maybe PG and RTM know something? I suspect they know BSD quite well, which doesn't say much about BSD's aptness for anything. PG and RTM are als
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by apl 15y ago
Well, I'm sure that from your perspective the subtleties can't possibly be boiled down without missing the essence of OpenBSD. But there's got to be a way of summarizing its appeal. We are talking about an operating system, and not Kafka
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by apl 16y ago
> your nitch Pet peeve: It's "niche." In spite of how it's commonly pronounced.
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by apl 16y ago
> However, it isn't unreasonable to see a situation in > which follower counts on sites like Github, Dribbble, > Quora, etc. do become scalable ways of signaling. They > aren't perfect indicators of ability or kno
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by apl 16y ago
You may not want to believe it, but this is not an engineering challenge.
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by apl 16y ago
> Perhaps I'm preaching to the choir, but learning about > entrepreneurship or practicing selling things would have > been much more useful to me than many of the things I > learned in high school or undergrad.
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by apl 16y ago
> or their damn "data science" books. Are they that bad?
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by apl 16y ago
I assume the rationale is that it's the student's fault if he chooses a major (e.g., sociology) that doesn't cover interest afterwards. Well, if you say so? Of course, it grossly oversimplifies reality. Job markets are complex; lack of succ
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by apl 16y ago
In case someone's interested in why this doesn't tell us much about what's so ridiculously mysterious about consciousness and subjectivity: http://consc.net/chalmers/ [David Chalmer's website] http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/nage
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by apl 16y ago
A postdoc without job prospects, for instance. If there's one thing less desirable than churning out Java for an insurance company, then it's being a lab monkey with no realistic chance of getting a tenure track position. So, yes, quite a
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by apl 16y ago
This simply shows that the US university system is horribly broken with regard to finances and debt. Wouldn't happen in the EU, for instance.
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by apl 16y ago
> after all, Europe manages to train doctors straight out > of highschool in 3 years + internships/fellowships/etc. > compared to North America's 4+ years + a bachelor's > degree). It's at least six years of m
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by apl 16y ago
So they're redirecting the money towards universities? That's great -- in principle, at least. Research is their core business. However, in the current financial/academic climate, I suspect that universities will simply withdraw internal fu
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by apl 16y ago
No need for condescension. He's making at least one very important point: Looking at smartphone market share ignores iPod and iPad. The numbers would be different if it was Google App Store target devices (mainly handsets) versus Apple Ap
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by apl 16y ago
Sure, and they have that problem across the board. The Courier concept art is a fairly recent example. But a comment praising Haskell as an experience that Microsoft can't rival while 85% of the Haskell team are on Microsoft's payroll? Too
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by apl 16y ago
> I switched to Haskell + Emacs and never looked back. > If you're stuck on Windows, that's a damn good > development environment. Miles ahead of anything > Microsoft could offer. http://research.microsoft.
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by apl 16y ago
> I got an internship with The New York Times > the following week. Did the internship involve 41m$ in compensations and the instruction to build a pay wall secure enough to fend off toddlers? In any case, well done. Techn
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by apl 16y ago
Choice of resources should depend on what you're interested in. Monolithic "neuroscience" remains a myth -- it's a vast field, ranging from cognitive psychology to biophysics. A scientist researching synaptic transmission mechanisms doesn't
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by apl 16y ago
Take a look at the passage I quoted. He equates "thoughts" and "neural activity." That's either a vacuous statement (because, assuming materialism, all mental activity is neural activity) or embarrassingly oversimplified. Similar situation
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by apl 16y ago
> Thoughts are the neural activity in your brain, and they > get stored as physical objects -- the neural connections. > They get stronger as you think more about them and they > can go away too – so we have a sc

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