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by aufreak3 16y ago
Nay-saying is easy. Making progress is hard work. Kudos to Google for pushing on this front. The author speculates about the state after a decade. By that time, this article will be forgotten, but google's work might still be remembered. a)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
That knowing things with the mind is as limiting as it is empowering. In other words, your mind can be blown and you'd still be alright.
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Explain xkcd : It's cause you're dumb(explainxkcd.com)
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Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity (Drew McDermott) [pdf](neurosecurity.com)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
fair enough :D
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by aufreak3 16y ago
It's somewhat unfair to equate co-founders with web services and software. Co-founders can say "you can't do this dude" or "don't you think this'll work better?" or "hey I had this idea which I think is great" or go out and have a beer with
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Were you actually satisfied after doing that? You probably just wasted your time.
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Developing iPhone applications with Java (2008 talk)(youtube.com)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
.. and that upside down flight needs flaps on the wings.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
If you want to satisfactorily explain this to a school kid, it seems like the two most significant factors are a) the angle of attack during take-off - like packing the air under the wing while creating a vacuum above it and b) the curvatur
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by aufreak3 16y ago
.. while correct, the question is "what is that reason?"
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Won't use. My reason might sound silly though - I like that Hacker News looks different from a facebook feed page. Its sickening to have everything look the same. I think that prevents you from wearing different hats at different times,
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Spot on! I posted the same thing without reading yours (now stands deleted 'cos it was more or less a duplicate). I'll just add this - Even MIT's famous formerly-known-as-SICP course is now around programming real world asynchronous machine
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Processing for Android(wiki.processing.org)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I agree with what you meant to say, but I don't approve of how you said it.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Nevertheless, I'd advice reading the release notes before installing. My mom's laptop happened to have the precise laptop configuration that Lucid Lynx release notes warned I'd have trouble with ... and I hadn't read it :) My mom's been usi
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An old documentary on the life of Gandhi (born Oct 2nd, 1869)(video.google.com)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Btw couldn't 19790509 also be 5th Sep 1979 instead of 9th May?
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by aufreak3 16y ago
call/cc, for one, certainly needs more work. Maybe at least a mention that this implements escape continuations and not the full continuations that, say, DrRacket implements. I really enjoy Norvig's writing. Will wait for it to be finishe
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by aufreak3 16y ago
If you take jpegs from old cameras and recompress them into jpeg, you can get a remarkable reduction in storage. ... But I can't tell whether they even used such a "recompression to jpeg" control case in coming up with the 39% figure.
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The Ultimate Apple ][ Fonts(frostyjpn.blogspot.com)
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Generate random numbers from atmospheric data(random.org)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
One of the absolute best techie koans I've come across is this "closures vs objects" one by Anton Van Straaten - http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m... Reproduced below - The venerable master Qc Na was walking w
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by aufreak3 16y ago
This is kind of a useful sign actually. When things look bleak like this, it usually means you're on the verge of something radically new ... and that's exciting to think about. Its like the guy who said "lets close the patent office 'cos e
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by aufreak3 16y ago
To put it another way, when I hear "google is a search company", I take it to mean "google's business depends on searching the internet" instead of "people use google to search the internet" - the former being much wider in scope than the l
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Isn't it likely that FB is making google more ad money without google having to lift a finger? On FB, a good chunk of links to "outside world" stuff pass around. Websites do fbconnect 'cos FB&twitter drive traffic to them. Google plac
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I'm ignorant enough to have the same question in my mind.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
The "what you've learned" at the end of this chapter made me chuckle :) It says you learnt about `loop`, `intersection`, `set-difference` and `remove-duplicates`. (PS: It'll be nice if HN formats back-ticks as code.)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
That's a school exercise, but I can't resist adding a haskell version - perfects = [n | n <- [1..], n == sum (divisors n)] where divisors n = [k | k <- [1..(n `div` 2)], n `mod` k == 0]
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Just watched it. Excellent system that'll be bloodyawesome to have on an iPad. In fact, I think I might build one :) I particularly loved the part where he creates "markers", sets them up to obey physics laws and starts a canvas moving unde

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