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by cLeEOGPw 10y ago
I think Python's, along with languages others mentioned here, popularity is what influenced and partly driven the rapid change of C++. Lisp was around for decades, yet only now, almost right after Python became popular, these old conce
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by cLeEOGPw 10y ago
So it's the same. Instead of spending money on shipping them thousands of miles, making sure their women are raped and hiring men to force their descendants into the system, you just give them some money and fill some blanks. Result is
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by cLeEOGPw 10y ago
> It's not clear why the Guardian article's author wants to argue for more. It's pretty clear why - sensationalism, as always.
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by cLeEOGPw 10y ago
In theory, analogous RNA based disease should also be possible, where misshaped RNA molecule interacts with another misshaped RNA molecule and causes the same type of chain reaction as the protein in this case.
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
+ charisma + looks.
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
Problem is that many people feel a desperate need to be special. A thought that an animal can have same feelings, thoughts and behaviors is terrifying to them. Especially if that person have been raised in western culture.
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
Positive feelings don't always maximize profits.
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This it how it always works with everything. You "copycat" your way to the state-of-the-art and only then start innovating. Otherwise you're just reinventing the wheel. Once China completely catches up it will start it's
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
Looks like MS made a decision to make Windows as attractive to developers as possible.
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
Can you tell an example problem that you solved by decompiling visual studio dll(s)?
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
> bandwidth waste. Bandwidth is cheaper than developer's time.
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
The things you listed is downsides, not something to be proud about. To play on terminal you still need large screen, and colored, since NetHack utilizes colors. This makes an obvious downside of not using any kind of images or cursor. This
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
I am always saying windows is better OS for desktop users than linux, and I would never trust MS. Why would open source people trust MS is beyond imagination.
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
People feel discomfort while listening to these videos because they feel like they are being persuaded by a weak young man to believe things he himself does not believe. This is caused by: 1. High pitch voice. Either it is modulated or not,
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
I think that we will develop machines that can destroy humans, but they will require continuous maintenance. In other words, I think war automation will be a thing. Self repair is a nice idea in theory but not real. In theory, we could make
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
Robots will never feel emotions, that's what separates us from animals and robots. /s
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
Having highlight off forces him to focus on the code really hard, which may make it seem like it is helping him to understand the code. And looking at his code examples, he really needs it, so good for him.
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
Excellent points. What I would add is that he talks about finite cognitive energy, but nowhere in the article mentions how highlighting helps to save the very same cognitive energy. For example, if there's a comment in the code, with
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
So this library isn't solving anything then.
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
That's an equivalent of saying that advancements in airplanes will come from biology rather than engineering fields. Biology at best can give hints to improve aerodynamics, and it still can be solved mathematically better. Same will be
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
At the time chess was "the" problem, humans could beat computer too from time to time. Now the chess is solved. Same will likely happen to go in the years to come. But the point of this was not the go itself. It was the demonstrat
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
I don't think so.
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
AlphaGo developers don't understand how it works in the same way you wouldn't understand how the program you've written to find prime numbers actually found a big prime number. The sequence of operations is known, but numbers
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
It should be established that tearing things down that looked solid and accepted before is novel and surprising. Because it is. Especially when so many people have worked on top of that. Once everything that was tearable is teared down, the
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
> "It’s easier to publish stuff that tears something down than it is to build something up,” he told me wearily. “It’s not an enjoyable time. It’s not much fun.” If your proposed effect is real then you should have no problem in pro
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
This belongs to the same drawer as binaural beats.
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
It is frustrating for those that pioneered reddit to grow to what they are now that the site has completely changed, but looking from business perspective, early adopters are not the crowd that brings profit. They generate content, but they
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
> challenges that being pro freedom of speech brings Well, the thing is, reddit is a private company and so the classic "freedom of speech" definition does not apply to it. And while their goal was unrestricted discussion a few
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
Well there's a reason it hasn't been replaced. Accountant's job is far from easily automated. Companies use different types of documents, make different kind of papers. Accountant not only needs to blindly write and rewrite n
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by cLeEOGPw 11y ago
How about separating data gathering from scientific analysis? Government would fund data gathering based on some things that scientists need and make that data publicly available, thus shifting the responsibility of data validity at least f

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