boryas

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by boryas 17y ago
I don't know what university you went to, but this is about as far from the truth as statements come. If you can't learn anything interesting/useful/mindblowing in a university course, you are either not paying attention, or are taking the
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by boryas 17y ago
definitely crazy. http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/nasty.htm This is his page where he claims all of physics is wrong.
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Try Haskell(tryhaskell.org)
111 points by boryas 17y ago|56 comments
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by boryas 17y ago
Are you really saying that the grades you get in college courses are even remotely equivalent to a measure of how much random anonymous people agree with you on the internet? Granted, my GPA is much better than my karma, but I still don't s
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by boryas 17y ago
Then couldn't Google offer some sort of non-personalized version where such data was discarded that privacy conscious users could choose to use? This would bring me back to believing that Google isn't "evil"
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by boryas 17y ago
Does it also pay to think Revelations contains secret truths about biology/physics and that almost all the great physicists of the 20th century were crackpots? http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/nasty.htm
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by boryas 17y ago
What if the "components" are closed under the method of composition? You could probably get quite a bit of abstraction that way, not that it would be more powerful than what we already have which at least has this tool for creating abstract
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by boryas 17y ago
This is a valid point, but I'm not convinced that it's OK for companies to act/co-operate in a way that is this detrimental to their customers just because they aren't supposed to be competitors. Based on the questions asked, the FCC seems
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by boryas 17y ago
This is really good advice. Also, remember that it means nothing beyond what it says, all you really have to work from are the definitions and the theorems. :)
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by boryas 17y ago
The UI is super slick. In that regard, I would say I like it better than something like Adobe's form Designer. I would suggest trying to add more objects, like tables and such to make it easier for people to make the form they want. Maybe s
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by boryas 17y ago
I agree with your sentiment, and I prefer the mathematical definition of Big-O to hand-wavey descriptions, but the plain English descriptions do have a place in presenting the material, in my opinion. Once you understand the idea of what Bi
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by boryas 17y ago
File sharers don't directly compete against musicians the way bing travel competes with Kayak. I would say the closer comparison is instead of remixing/sampling a popular band you just release their song on your own album. I don't understan
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PyGo Wave Server is here - play with the Waves now(wavety.com)
86 points by boryas 17y ago|15 comments
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by boryas 17y ago
Considering size and especially battery life limitations, some of those requests seem a little bit pie-in-the-sky, though I'd love to be proven wrong.
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by boryas 17y ago
I wasn't trying to say that we should have equally barbaric punishments for purse-snatching but rather that we should have equally fair and reasonable punishments for file-sharing. I can see how my point was made unclear by the unsuccessful
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by boryas 17y ago
Would you steal a purse? If getting caught cost me $80,000 then probably not... So much for reasonable punishments.
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by boryas 17y ago
I don't know about those studies, but as a student I hated having to lug textbooks around but was lucky enough that my high school rarely if ever made it a requirement. The school and its students are doing well regardless. Maybe they could
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by boryas 17y ago
The tone made it sound like How to Discriminate and Get Away With It.
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by boryas 17y ago
Judging by how many lectures people skip with the justification that "the notes are online" it seems like some parts of the current university set up could possibly change with things like online video lectures. On the other hand, a good pr
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by boryas 17y ago
The top results aren't just ads, they're still relevant results and sometimes it's just another good result in the list. It doesn't cost the user anything to click on it, so I don't exactly follow why this is evil trickery...
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by boryas 17y ago
apache fop is a reasonable way to use xml/xslt to make a decently pretty PDF http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
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by boryas 17y ago
Also, there's no one to trade with or conquer on mars
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by boryas 17y ago
Now we can have a fully automated garden which, once it is in full bloom, will also send a message to a machine that delivers a chemical to our brains that give us the feeling of fulfillment and satisfaction that comes from working on a gar
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by boryas 17y ago
widescreen is good for multitasking because you can have more than one window open at an acceptable width, I always notice this as a big advantage when I use a larger/wider screen.
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by boryas 17y ago
But don't these problems exist regardless of your approach? Git and it's way of handling trees of old commits is a decent place to start. It clearly isn't a final solution, but building on top of it seems like a worthwhile direction, at lea
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by boryas 17y ago
I hope that was sarcasm
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by boryas 17y ago
Yes, good point. I guess he was referring more to the scientific end of things, where you write a program that runs for days on massive data, and there really isn't a user
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by boryas 17y ago
I think it has to do with a trick they pull, which actually kind of cheapens the effect. I almost always buy shoes on Zappos, just because it has the convenience of buying online without the risk of not being able to return (it's free to sh
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by boryas 17y ago
Also, thought I would mention the fact that if you take a day to write a slow program that takes a week to run, that's cheaper than spending a week writing a fast program that finishes in a day. After all, your time is much more expensive t
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by boryas 17y ago
I guess I have a pretty skewed view of high school because I went to a fairly good one, where at least the math/science classes were worthwhile. When I was talking about how much time it takes up, I meant on a day-to-day basis. It's somethi

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