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by bsaunder 17y ago
I've been pondering information architecture a lot lately. I've found that much of Gödel, Escher, Bach resonates well with my thoughts. Particularly I've been contemplating the relationship between transformation and efficiency, as well
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Have you installed the recently posted greasemonkey script: http://github.com/brainkarma/hnreputation/tree/master This may have triggered an automated block... It seems like a rather abusive script.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Yup, I think the world of visual programming is approaching... I know we've tried and failed before, but all the new people trying again don't know that. sssh Pretty cool stuff.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Complexity can sometimes be a perspective thing. I recall a discussion at one point with a co-worker were we were each arguing that the other persons approach to a particular problem was more complex. After much contemplation I was able t
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Any definition of polymorphism should at least mention something about the method that is invoked depends on runtime data, and is not resolved (or known) at compile time. I'm not sure that's always true. Or at the very least seems langua
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by bsaunder 17y ago
How so? I like their intersections (e.g. Abraham Lincoln, Robert Lee) and simple page layout.
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Recursive Abstract State Machines(research.microsoft.com)
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Analysis of Recursive State Machines(homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk)
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by bsaunder 17y ago
He hasn't commented on HN in 48 days.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I had a hard time paying attention to this article. I found myself skimming a lot towards the bottom. Me too, but for me it was more of an excitement to see the next point. Rather than being poorly written I'd say it was too interesting
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Almost surprised there was no mention of the "less is more" Unix joke regarding the programs 'less' and 'more'. UPDATE: (in the original Economist article).
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by bsaunder 17y ago
You gotta like an economist article including Lisp, Occam's razor and quotes from Einstein and Colin Chapman.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I think you are correct, but I'm disappointed about that. I think the crux of my disappointment is your statement: They're acting wholly rational under the rules of capitalism. Yup, they are. Unfortunately companies have many more resour
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Not so sure... I use twitter on my smart phone (IPhone) all the time.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
The intent seems to be to portray the data as art. At that I think it succeeds. They are rather visually appealing. I think the goal is to draw the casual observer into the data and contemplate what they are seeing. Perhaps with the goal
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I think the author is essentially arguing that the recent bubbles have eroded the entrepreneurial community's sense of creating value. He seems to suggest that in the recent bubbles it was apparent value rather than actual value that was b
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Okay, a good rant. How about some solutions? Unfortunately it's not just about creating jobs. Those jobs need to create value. The hard part is creating the types of jobs that can make use of the large underutilized work force. Perhaps b
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by bsaunder 17y ago
We are lucky today that New Zealand is less than 24hours away from almost anywhere in the wold by plane... Oh, how convenient! Only 24 hours by plane? ;)
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Automating our point to point transportation system would be a huge value. Seems like this would compete in some ways with self-driving vehicles (though a controlled rail system seems more energy efficient).
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by bsaunder 17y ago
You mean like ubiquitous fiber communications? This is entirely plausible. The building of the infrastructure could be highly automated and done in parallel.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Or just barter it away to someone else (with or without telling the truth). ;)
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I think the property tax example is just an inverse pirate scenario. (the landowner is the pirate needing the cooperation of the captain (the head of the land acquisition authority)). Granted a much weaker position to negotiate from.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I think the trick is to automate the production/maintenance of our basic needs (food, housing, transportation(?), energy(?)). Seems like we will have a lot of free time in our future (making it less scarce, perhaps but still finite).
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Ironically, how much of the scarcity of time is caused by the need to work?
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Use shorter code/compile/run cycles. Use print statements instead of a debugger (much faster to scan input than step through a debugger). If something doesn't work, it's likely related to the change you just made. If you coded for a long
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Reston, VA
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Here's the original press release from the company: http://www.codenomicon.com/news/press-releases/2009-08-05.sh... And a CERT-FI advisory: http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html Also the expat-bug and expat-discus
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Sure I can see the single rigid schema view. But I'd rather see the K/V as just a persistence mechanism. I view the schema as being more related to the application. meta-programming relationship: Since you can store anything in the valu
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by bsaunder 17y ago
That was the funniest thing I've read in a long time.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
If you're too ignorant to understand That's not fair. Everyone starts out as ignorant. I think the "versus" mentality helps less informed people separate two fundamentally different approaches to persistence. There's a lot of informatio

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