aswanson

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by aswanson 11y ago
Touche, Prof. Carry on. ;)
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by aswanson 11y ago
I was one of those clueless engineering undergrads back in ancient times...I know the mentality of thinking since you know BASIC and can code up a brutally ugly solution in MATLAB that you know programming, as long as the right number is sp
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by aswanson 11y ago
I'm a gen X human that wishes I had bucked that script. It's socially isolating and an outdated economically given the dynamism of employment these days. Shout out to gen y on for calling bullshit on that schema.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Why? Because professors keep assigning students problems with it, immune to its high cost and suspect coding idioms because they aren't professional programmers.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Absolutely, you are as much of a business as your employer.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Guessing they didn't get a good exit?
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by aswanson 11y ago
Even if you aren't that authentic, if you fit a persona well enough, a cult ensues. Witness Samuel L. Jackson as badass, etc.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Seriously, a guy acting as humble and goofy as he does is pondering something as ridiculously ego-laden as legacy?
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by aswanson 11y ago
I had no idea this was a phenomenon, but I definitely plan on getting one of those shirts and coffee cups.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Thanks...just goes to show how brilliant some of our pre-digital forbears were. I still give more props to old school television engineers to present day ones. The laws of physics are far more unforgiving than the laws of a compiler.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Not enough developer uptake for Haskell early on; quite frankly because it requires a thoughtshift that many developers find too difficult to do.
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by aswanson 11y ago
I guess that's a slightly better outcome than Idiocracy.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Even artificial light is bad; I can't sleep with the TV on and prefer complete darkness.
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by aswanson 11y ago
I have had some problems with the way his company operates sometimes but I can't find a single thing he said I don't emphatically agree with here. Hat tip, Mark Z.
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by aswanson 11y ago
The plank meeting idea seems good.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Sad, it would be better if the emphasis was on pure logical rigor.
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by aswanson 11y ago
Not sure...never had any debate as a part of my education (through grad school). I think they should start in high school though because if you're going to be a participant in an informed electorate you need to be able to process and
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by aswanson 11y ago
Along those lines, I think formal debate should be required in secondary education, and students should be required to defend the position they disagree with.
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by aswanson 11y ago
If you continue to use descriptions like thug you expose your own biases. And you did not address the thrust of my argument: how can a dead citizen make his or her case against an officers testimony of their feelings?
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by aswanson 11y ago
Imminent and reasonable reduce to feeling rather easily. As an exercise, could you cite cases where reasonable and imminent were found to not be justified in case law?
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by aswanson 11y ago
No, the definition isn't bullshit Cop:I felt my life was threatened. Dead person: You didn't feel that way. Cop: yes I did. Judge: okay, dead guy stay dead. Case closed. actual heinous acts yeah, jaywalking thugs must certai
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by aswanson 11y ago
You are spreading some serious lies on this one Fine, specifically cite the mistruth, with factual, objective refutation. 1) "The evidence, when viewed as a whole, does not support the conclusion that Wilson’s uses of deadly force w
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by aswanson 11y ago
Wow. $500 for a 68000?!
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by aswanson 11y ago
Wow. Can you provide a link to that?
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by aswanson 11y ago
"Can a country's democratic institutions survive when the primary emotion underlying so much of its social policy, and determining the allocation of a sizable proportion of its annual revenues, is revenge?...We will in short becom
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by aswanson 11y ago
I thought I was the only one think along these lines. This field has incredible potential...I honestly think there is an Intel-level (or greater) company waiting to be built out of this line of research.
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by aswanson 11y ago
I have been wondering recently if analog computing would make more sense for certain search algorithms, like protein folding simulations. Basically, let a set of potentials be placed in the op amp setting representing position, and let them
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by aswanson 11y ago
Can anyone recommend a good introductory text for topology?
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by aswanson 11y ago
MATLAB is also rather expensive if you are not a student.
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by aswanson 11y ago
I fucking hate this company, but I'm drawn into it's gravitational pull like so many of us wanting to connect with long-distance family. There has to be technological way to stop these sons of bitches. What is it?

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