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by aswanson 10y ago
On "being wrong often and admitting it," based on my experience, it's not that you become modest as a result of studying math. By studying math, you realize how prone your mind is to arriving at a faulty, unproven conclusion
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by aswanson 10y ago
One of the many promising looking books on my shelf when I get the ever elusive time.
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by aswanson 10y ago
The tonal pitches in the Chinese language really help with mathematics. In Chinese, numbers are much easier to remember because the language has an extra layer of communication - Read: Which numbers correspond to which Chinese tones?. This
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by aswanson 10y ago
Apologies. That was an asshole comment on my part.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Read more of history. It could go a way towards non-cartoonifying your philosophical opposition and making flawless (in your mind) your position. And for the record, I lean libertarian.
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by aswanson 10y ago
'the left'. Come on man, I've had enough with this bs reductionist rhetoric on fb. If you're dumb enough to think there are only two political categories, you're too dumb to post here. Stop, do a 'right' o
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by aswanson 10y ago
Wouldn't Founders Fund $ signal better than Accel money?
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by aswanson 10y ago
Sounds like a trump presidency.
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by aswanson 10y ago
+1. Priceless advice. Spoken like a true Jedi.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Wow. Please conserve and write down what you have. Pivotal piece of computing history.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Politics, religion, and their close correlate, global warming, are subject to opinion sans facts. Hence, the average discourse re: those three tend to the degenerate case.
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by aswanson 10y ago
If you read "Lessons of a Street Addict", Jim Cramer pretty much says directly he used to call his contacts at goldman to get info on trades. Reading that convinced me that day trading is for suckers without inside information.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Yeah, but networks are keen to air bullshit debugging sessions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtzaSzO2cE
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by aswanson 10y ago
How about, I dunno creating a product that makes it worthwhile rather than strong-arm tactics?
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by aswanson 10y ago
I thought Nadella would bring an ending to such hamfisted, Ballmeresque/Gatesian approaches what with him supporting such open projects lately. This is sad.
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by aswanson 10y ago
I've been meaning to play around with scala for a while now. Can anyone recommend a starter project for a seasoned dev to target with it, as a learning exercise?
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by aswanson 10y ago
Gravity is such a simple but strange aspect of the physical universe.
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by aswanson 10y ago
No, asking which has less external dependencies to get up and going fast.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Ok. Imagine me a developer just trying to put up an MVP to see if the idea gets traction. Pitch me on why I should rely on a toolchain that has multiple versions, bundles, and a plethora of (possibly) compatible packages vs one ide with aut
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by aswanson 10y ago
I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but the ASP.NET MVC/IDE is a better ecosystem than Rails now. No more missing bundle x, install devkit x,....just install visual studio 15 and get to work.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Looks great, but $75? Really? Why are these books so expensive? And no (cheaper) kindle edition?
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by aswanson 10y ago
Yup, same as it ever was. I remember back in 2001 saying to myself, "Good, all the bullshit is flushed out. Anything that survives this is real and should be invested in." Too bad I didnt put a few thousand into YHOO and AMZN bac
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by aswanson 10y ago
Agreed. From the template library on down, it seems like the C++ community is hellbent on making the syntax for what should be clean, common operations seem like arcane Sanskrit. I dont know what their problem is.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Patent lawsuits per capita today probably exceed that.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Right. As soon as I hear mission statement bullshit from a company, I plot the mental exit strategy. Amazing how those Jedi mind tricks work on the supposedly "best and brightest". I could see it working for a cancer research or
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by aswanson 11y ago
Ive noticed this across the board with google with regard to developers. They half-ass everything programmers need to interface and use what they produce. Very frustrating.
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by aswanson 11y ago
I recognized what a scam IEEE was my first year of grad school. So many fees, sub-society fees, transaction fees...something themselves indeed. Many times over.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Best breakdown from a conceptual as well as mathematically precise description I have ever read.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Funny thing is the cable UI for preview is pretty much identical to this today.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Those lessons are golden. I've picked them all up along the way, but its worthwhile to verbalize them consciously every few weeks.

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