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by brain5ide 14y ago
That's exactly the part that bothers me the most. It's just like fortune tellers saying what can happen. If it's a statement, then it's unfalcifiable and hence is useless. If it's something else(a lesson?) then it should have a better conte
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by brain5ide 14y ago
1) Just thought that in the context in lulzsec and wikileaks it was self evident that I'm not talking about the adjective. 2) Wikileaks without a face would not have been possible. When there's somebody prosecuted as viciously as Assange wa
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by brain5ide 14y ago
So we basically have Anonymous or lulz-sec working on your proposed model. You think wikileaks made less noise and effect than Anonymous? Jacob's talk was a pretty good one for an attention whore and that's what keynote speeches are suppose
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Is replicability the same as scalability?
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Working in an established market and not being the first(timewise) there is actually about a series of small battles.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
I wonder whether this post views as stereotypical to you guys, like it's said in the comments @geek.com? I personally don't think so, as I haven't seen a job ad stating that kind of performance threshold.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
LEGO used to be a brand. Now it's more of a platform.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
A (virtual)photon race with a photo finish. It would be totally amazing to see two different visible light waves (red vs. blue) crossing a glass prism and how their velocity difference looks. Also, wondering if it would be possible to capt
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Somewhere in here lies a differential equation that includes the probability of destination being the right one and distance to it to evaluate that.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Two years ago at our student conference we had a guest lecturer from a dutch company called "Kyoto cooling" they install these kinds of things in data centers. The guy said this kind of cooling works when the temperature outside is <22
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by brain5ide 15y ago
And that always reminds me of the final scene of "Fight Club" with crumbling financial buildings.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
At first I thought this was another boring article about how Quantum is better, the "two places at the same time" thing and so on. Read them, didn't learn anything new. Then I reached the explanation of Shore's algorithm and things got way
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by brain5ide 15y ago
As Gerald Jay Sussman would say - computing is alchemy.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
It's not low/high hanging apples. It's apples and oranges. 1X programmer does job that is immeadiately visible and has value. 10X programmer writes code that has potential value, which is to be seen in the future, probably when some other 1
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by brain5ide 15y ago
As long as I'm concerned - UNIX is the only platform worth to build on for the long term. Anything else is just a temporary ripple in the ocean of technology on which everyone cashes up and leaves.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
I totally agree with you on this one. I dont't think that Feynman was truly regarded as normal. I mean, the guy liked to crack safes of high rank military officers in a wartime nuclear base to just screw with them. Disrespect to authority s
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by brain5ide 15y ago
There's a metaphor, I believe by Stallman, about programs being much like recipes that just came back to mind. Probably that's what makes this comparison so vivid.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
I believe the largest thing that Steve did in Apple was maintain an exceptionally high standard for himself and I think they should keep doing that.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Understandable, but not acceptable ;)
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Well yeah, it's a smart decision to have a product before applying. However, the question now is "Why don't you have a product yet?". You had several months to do that after the primal rejection, and yet you still don't have it. You just sh
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Kudos for a beautiful rant, I really liked it an resonated. But after it and all of the comments in here I remembered Jobs' saying: "Computers are bicycles for mind". Which means you need to pedal it to get somewhere. As much as programmers
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Hardware improved. I believe the guy's talking about software.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Could have happened at any other big company. No biggie. "Facebook" here is just headline making. I don't deny it being u-g-l-y and bad, just that it's not a Facebook issue.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Nah, the meaning would remain the same. A bunch of weirdos hanging out in an island vote someone out. Probably because he gained too much power in their eyes. Kinda like Socrates being voted out of Athens.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
From what I've read it seems like your mantra should be like Coca cola zero branding: Real CGI, zero cost. Well, 20% to be precise, but still. Mantra is a slogan that everybody should understand. You give it to a preschooler and he knows wh
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by brain5ide 15y ago
I'm ashamed. Came to work after lunch and just then got told it's today. Why didn't I read HN in the morning? Now have to figure out a way to make a hack in the office to awww everybody.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
I think of it as the same particle(electron) arriving at the same point of space at the same time but going in a different direction (in time). Pretty mangled up. And where does all the energy come from then?
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Surely, you're joking, Mr. Wheeler :) However, it would be interesting to see the process of annihilation explained in terms of this one.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Funny you should mention that. I'm kinda doing both.
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by brain5ide 15y ago
Cool, really cool. I'm now trying to get into shape(loose weight, improve breathing and stamina) with simple jump rope and hope to start training something specifical in near future so looking into different stuff. I didn't want to offend y

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