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by arithma 11y ago
Inequality of opportunity is a much bigger problem than inequality of, say, income. An ideal community is a place where every individual's contributions are enabled to the maximum. Capitalistic economies start out that way for a while,
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Yes! Everything else that goes into a product is usually a clear decision, so "everything" that could ever be studied and discussed has a lot of facets into it. When one of those debatable issues undergoes a breakthrough in resear
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For all we know, our current version of science could be as off the mark to some possible formulation as neanderthal's version of the world is to us. Engineering works on top of what 'model' is available. Engineering even wor
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by arithma 11y ago
Robots, if they get free will, will work for their own goals, by virtue of evolution. If they never reach that threshold, we could find ourselves in either one of two broad scenarios: Personal Jets or Personal Computers. Personal Robots are
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by arithma 11y ago
It's about how much the language intrinsically prevents the compiler from optimising the output. Think Javascript versus asm.js, same language, one is just a subset of the other, completely different performance outcomes for the JIT co
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by arithma 11y ago
I guess: Backend, Frontend, Markup, Layout/Presentation, DB Querying
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by arithma 11y ago
Mentally Disabled People, Hitler.
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by arithma 11y ago
On a little less serious note, I hope Haskell and C++ merge into something beautiful. Peak performance (par aliasing) and peak expressivity/safety.
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by arithma 11y ago
> Nash, and the many economists who have followed in his footsteps over the past sixty-five years, can’t necessarily provide an answer. > This is just one of the drawbacks of Nash’s approach. Another problem is that game theory is men
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Placing JSON store at equal footing with RDBMS is a little bit loaded.
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This is the way I "understood" linear algebra. I even encoded it here in a small c++ header file when I used to think it wise to implement these things yourself: https://github.com/arithma/mat44/blob&#x2F
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by arithma 12y ago
"6" Was this number written by a human or a computer? If you sift through a stream of mumbo jumbo written by a thousand chimps and selectively extract meaningful words, is it written by chimps or selected by humans. That is just t
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by arithma 12y ago
Looking down on a right-handed spiral stair case you have to go counter-clockwise to go down, or clockwise to go up. Rotating the spiral along it's axis changes nothing. Rotating the spiral 180 deg around any axis perpendicular to its
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Implementing a Meta System in C++(gamedev.net)
4 points by arithma 12y ago|0 comments
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Funnily, as a non-American, I kind of always "divide" by US people's limited view of the world as the US.
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by arithma 12y ago
In a parametric curve, a derivative of zero may indicate a cusp, which I feel is where the comparison is coming from. I only read your comment and article but didn't see the video, so this comment may be off.
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by arithma 12y ago
OpenGL has been a huge wall for me. I always learn only to forget it. Remembering its quirks is almost impossible, and the recent articles about how inconsistently implemented it is (drivers, vendors, specs..) and how useless the extensions
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by arithma 12y ago
There are two ways to interpret the lecture. - Whatever you work on, should be really great, otherwise why are you doing it? - Do things fearlessly, since fear is the most limiting constraint researchers (or anyone) impose on themselves. I
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by arithma 13y ago
You can encode it in the Bitcoin blockchain. Lots of people will not like what you've done. You can also try to get it in some popular torrent, and have it live off with as many people as possible.
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by arithma 13y ago
There's more analysis here than reverse engineering. Nice work still.
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by arithma 13y ago
There are many alternative places you can check out for pure technical discussions. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming for example.
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by arithma 13y ago
The two version solution (free/premium) doesn't allow sharing ratings. Developers don't like that, because they want their free uptake to give higher rating to their premium option. Splitting the options up would make perfect
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by arithma 13y ago
Requiring lots of effort != Hard (Engineering). Anything that requires a lot of money instead of ingenuity is particularly unattractive to engineers, I believe.
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by arithma 13y ago
It was quite surreal reading this article right after reading Betrand Russel's "In Praise of Idleness." But I agree with the author, the worst idlers are the ones who think are working. http://www.zpub.com/not
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by arithma 13y ago
I first read the few quotes and they made sense. I thought this is good. Then I went to HN and saw the cynicism. It is one of the moments when am thankful for the cynicism. I should waste my time on something more specialised. It's wor
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Panel on Entrepreneurship by AltCity, Zoomaal, The Dream Matcher(youtube.com)
1 points by arithma 13y ago|0 comments
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by arithma 13y ago
I find a mix between Object-Orientation to model the problem, and a lot of functional thinking in the 'solving' department to be the most comfortable. The modernisation (as in taking features from the old languages into the newer
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by arithma 13y ago
By the author's logic, once you're done with building your website, you should remove the browser from below your website.
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by arithma 13y ago
Why would you want to remove the framework? This would just be a huge waste of effort for no gain, as the grandparent shared. A decent un-bloated framework would account most of the time to a half-assed image. Not worth the trouble.
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by arithma 13y ago
You plug your code into a framework. You plug a library into your code. I think this definition is a good starting point for thinking about the difference between a framework and a library.

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