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by aufreak3 15y ago
It would be very surprising if quantum mechanics didn't add up to the normal classical world we experience or to classical theories we use because they work. The story and explanations at the small level can have a totally different nature
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Wave function collapse is not tenable as part of quantum theory. The "decoherence" process holds ground currently as a quantum mechanical description of the measurement process and it doesn't make absurd distinctions like "observer versus o
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Spot on, but CL's error generation/capture/recovery mechanism only helps in single-threaded code composition. Erlang's model of linking up processes so that a "supervisor" process get notified if a servant dies is the counterpart in a concu
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by aufreak3 15y ago
well, if people are naturally lumping those items into a category, then it can be counterproductive to deny that category. I'm going to attend the google devfest talk titled "bleeding edge html5" today and the talk features the "web audio a
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by aufreak3 15y ago
With due credit to Gates' intent behind the philanthropy he's undertaken, the relationship between good intent and good outcomes is by no means straightforward. In the book "the logic of failure" by Dietrich Dorner, he presents simulation
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by aufreak3 15y ago
It doesn't need to be "either move in the direction of total dynamism or move in the direction of static guarantees". At the very extreme end of total dynamism, you get facility to implement whatever kinds of guarantees you want as librari
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by aufreak3 15y ago
... and it may interest some that Cleartrip has lispers in it.
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Designing for non-power versus power users is a false dichotomy. If it were a true one, developers won't be swarming to macbook pros.
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by aufreak3 15y ago
I don't know whether you used "users like my mom" just as a manner of speech, but in my case that is literally true - my mom does use Ubuntu and I quite appreciate the simplification of Ubuntu's interface that's happened over time which h
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by aufreak3 15y ago
That knowledge is pretty hard to come by even if you know how to code, so not having thought computationally .. ever .. makes for a really bad PM. Computational thinking and prototyping skills are the key, even if you use another human to
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Actually it will be interesting and useful if an automaton displayed "common sense" _merely_ in the programming world! "Hey, make me a web app with twitbug authentication and google payment integration." Wouldn't you like it if it finds you
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by aufreak3 15y ago
The most recent claim in this that I've heard about and on which people are willing to bet money is Numenta's "Hierarchical Temporal Memory" = "HTM". Jeff Hawkins (of Palm's Graffiti fame) is behind this and he also wrote a book called "On
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Saw this film in singapore recently. I don't think it'll tell you anything you don't already know. If it had come out like even 10 years ago, then you might've called it prescient or atleast credit it with identifying a trend. Not today tho
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by aufreak3 15y ago
The most striking thing that came across to me in the report is that the time difference is 60ns thereabouts! Thats a whole lot of time delay, not a "tiny fraction" as the reports say. Light travels about 18m (~60 feet) in that time. A mod
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by aufreak3 15y ago
I think what niels_olson is asking for is to weigh your time saved versus the collective spent time of the students in some measure when considering the use of an LMS tool. (Disclaimer: I don't use Blackboard, but am curious about the state
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Tired of this kind of speculation. Let the doers do. Microsoft seems to be, for once, trying to make something nice and different from the rest of me-too pads out there. Even if it were to launch two years from now, what if they have someth
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by aufreak3 15y ago
For reference - Eliezer's Dec 2008 post on this - http://lesswrong.com/lw/wj/is_that_your_true_rejection/
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Nicely done!
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by aufreak3 15y ago
I use fossil (fossil-scm.org) for the same purpose. It is super nice that the wiki is integrated with the source code I'm working on and the bug tracker.
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Good to remember Alan Kay's guideline here - "OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things."
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by aufreak3 15y ago
That is a good abstraction for thinking about code. In the meanwhile, machines still have "one memory, many cores" architecture, in which inter-proc communication is about references is a practical optimization (like ref counting of binar
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by aufreak3 15y ago
It's shared mutable memory that's the problem. Shared constants are alright.
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Biased techcrunch reporting apart, I felt a bit saddened by the announcement because I actually thought HP had a chance at being "one of the three" in the devices space. I liked their webos demos and their devices seemed pleasing to use. Oh
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by aufreak3 15y ago
You don't _have_ to use NaCl just because it is available. If you find performance like an order of magnitude away from where you need it to be, NaCl could be one technology to consider. Demanding games come to mind, harvesting spare comput
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Although dropping IE6 support is a valid enough plea, "favour progress to backward compatibility" would be the wrong professional lesson to learn for him. The real question ought to be "do your customers require IE6 support and will they be
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Code Hero: Make games with a code gun that shoots code.(primerlabs.com)
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Yoga?
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by aufreak3 15y ago
Looks like it is available in the US store only? Can't get in Singapore.
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by aufreak3 15y ago
In this case, it looks like Apple is looking to fire the cheapest missiles that have a chance of hurting. The patent does indeed seem to cover the packaging of (what used to be called in OS9 days) "apple data detectors" with a computer. IIR
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by aufreak3 15y ago
g+ api is coming .. and you can still post youtube videos on fb.

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