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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Ha, brilliant programmers can sometimes be hard to appreciate. They make problems look easy . But the simplicity comes from the complete understanding of the problem. I think it's a trait of brilliant minds. They simplify things. I do
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Schizotypal / Schizoid and avoidant are currently much less studied than Asperger's Syndrome (which is becoming glamorous), depression, psychopathy, schizofrenia or bipolar. How do you know ? There are reasons to believe avoidant&
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I'm going through a 4-book science fiction anthology which starts with Gilgamesh, Utopia, City of the Sun and so on. You really don't need to tell me that. My point was that SF surges in times when science achieves major wins. One
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I get it that Peter Norvig is a very smart programmer. But can someone explain to me - like a farmer to his cow - how do these resources differ from typical programming challenges found on the web ? How will these make me a better programme
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Why ? Because you're going to bully me ?
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Dancing, singing and similar ways of expressing emotions are terrifying for schizotypal people. It can be an early warning. I'm using the opportunity to promote awareness. I've been diagnosed with a very similar disorder. For 30 y
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I have a twisted idea to appeal to people's sense of charity: Each person that subscribes, sponsors "no ads" visit for a random stranger. The cookie could last for a day.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
As far as Polish media go, I really like: oko.press - the best investigative journalism in Poland. They proclaim to focus 2/3 of their coverage on ruling party and 1/3 on the rest. Time will tell if they are honest with that. The
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
If it wasn't for pollution, it would be an exciting time to live in. Expect a new influx of Science Fiction books. The genre was born in XIX, the age of crazy progress. I think our time is a similar breakthrough, thanks to personal com
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
If you absolutely refuse to dance, it may be a sign of schizotypical personality disorder, or avoidant personality. These things can wreck your life if you let them. At least read about them and be aware.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I'm afraid it won't work well without extra regulation laws. Even if Facebook is broken, it has shown the way. Before, it was MySpace (although it was never so popular). If someone breaks FB, the strongest competitor living in its
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
The study group consisted exclusively of males. Maybe it's a male thing ? I heard (but can't remember the sources) that women work better when collaborating, while men work better alone. I wonder if I get downvoted for saying this
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
This old blog post argues that wisdom of crowds works well for estimating facts, but poorly for creative thinking, even so far as to say: "Votes become vetoes". Because people don't choose what they like the most, they choose
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
What about brainstorming, the phenomenon where people inspire each other by building upon each others' ideas ? For me it tends to result in solutions neither of us would come up with alone. Sometimes it even comes out of misunderstand
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Surely you know about Rosalind ? It's an online collection of programming problems related to bioscience. Each problem has a pamphlet with biological/genetic background. There is no online IDE you must use, and no time limit. Howe
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Not to mention it suggests these problem exist in isolation. These are neat problems with neat-looking solutions, mostly curated for elegance. Some are useful for embedded programming (doing X or Y in place or under certain time complexity)
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't be sure if programmers used a static analysis tool ? Maybe they used it just enough to make sure it compiles ? And if all you get is a binary, you can't even run those tools yourself. Th
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
If it's a single component, why don't they just rewrite it ? A company like Microsoft should have the resources. It might be a lot of work, but can they be sure there are no more bugs ? Is keeping a rotting, black box binary respo
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Wine makes a point to reproduce all unfixed Windows bugs, because notable software was written assuming they exist. I don't envy Wine maintainers!
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
While we're talking games, kyrub has made a splendid patch called "insecticide" for Master of Magic. The game famous for its vision, imagination and creativity but notorious for piles of bugs. The first few patches had severa
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Of course you can't trust anyone to judge himself fairly. That's the definition of conflict of interest. I suppose USA has a soft spot for Facebook because the company it's one of their champions. It's a farce. It remind
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
This whole article is a huge "appeal to authority" fallacy, and with a sample of 2. I'm not a fan of smartphones or FB myself, but this barely proves anything. Does America only have 2 tech gurus ? The argumentation borders o
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I agree. It was largely the same in Africa. The worst slavery happened because, taken out of context, Africans were instantly identifiable as slaves. I think there were some positive aspects to slavery. Currently widespread prison system ha
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
But the Founding Fathers were more inspired by Sparta than Athens (source: documentary by History Channel). Sparta had not just a constitution and voting, but also a couple of institutions: * two kings (equivalent of president) * ape
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
We agree on women and blacks. But good arguments have been made (weasel words because I don't remember the source) that a democracy where EVERYONE can vote is very susceptible to populism and demagogy. Under this system, two idiots are
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Vagrants are a real problem, and I think democratic/liberal states have no real solution for them. In the past, in authoritarian, totalitarian states or under tyranny, vagrancy was punishable by law.
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Maybe it works like that in Singapore. Personally, I think it's a pity. Ancient Greece was far from an utopia - even "enlighted" Athens used slave labor in nearby silver mines and regularly voted to declare wars on other peop
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Ancient Greeks famously started new cities with a... city square, and built around it. This is because public matters were most important to them and focusing on private matters was the definition of egoism and a bad citizen. Whenever I hea
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
> Rust is a language that, because it has no runtime, can be used to integrate with any runtime; you can write a native extension in Rust that is called by a program node.js, or by a python program, or by a program in ruby, lua etc. and,
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Separate screen for touching on the back of the mobile device. I forgot how the device was called, but there was a Blackberry or similar device that didn't have your oily fingers smearing the very screen you're trying to interact

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