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by cgore 13y ago
They really don't get altruism at all, do they? The 'myth' of altruism? What is mythical about it? If they really want to understand it, they should try practicing it. Perhaps if they would write a few less papers and hel
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by cgore 13y ago
A lot of people involved with politics are unsavory characters. How is turning down their money going to help the dying in India? All it does is puff up someone's self-righteousness.
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by cgore 13y ago
I'm optimistic. Economies go up and down, sometimes in long cycles, but I think this is bound to turn for the better eventually. I'm doing fine financially and have a good job even in this economy, software development still see
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by cgore 13y ago
They were given medicine, not just a place to convelesce, but even just providing a place to convalesce is a great mercy to people who were (and often still are) dying on the sides of the street, thrown away by their society as if they were
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by cgore 13y ago
Hitchens is not an unbiased citation, not even close. He routinely engaged in character denigration of several religious individuals, most notably Mother Teresa. The main argument he seems to have had with her is that he didn't think
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by cgore 13y ago
Yeah, no kidding. Feeding and providing medical care for the Untouchables in India? She should have made an iPhone app to help find friends in restaurants nearby, that would have made he a real selfless altriust.
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by cgore 13y ago
The Great Recession will hopefully stop eventually, and then you can expect to see the unemployed 18-35 year-olds get jobs, buy cars (among other things), and drive again.
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by cgore 13y ago
That's actually a nice trick. I just hope the compiler doesn't complain about it. I'll have to try that sometime. EDIT: just tried it. The following works: #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { in
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by cgore 13y ago
People aren't eschewing cars, outside of a few specific urban areas. SOME people in NYC, SanFran, and a few other cities are eschewing cars. This has always been the case. Renting cars is now just getting a bit easier. But most peo
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by cgore 13y ago
Actually, array indices do make sense as negative. For example, you might want an array going from a[-500] to a[700], without having to adjust the index all the time. It is much nicer if the array does it for you. Fortran lets you change
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by cgore 13y ago
I don't read nonfiction the same way most people do. I do multi-pass. I first read the table of contents, then skim the intro pages for each chapter, then skim the whole book, and then finally actually "read" the book. It
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by cgore 13y ago
I rarely talk to priests, in the US or outside (I'm Lutheran, not Catholic), so I wouldn't know. I always got the impression that most Catholics took the Gospel account pretty literally though.
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by cgore 13y ago
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. He is some weird combination of crazy person, scummy used-car salesman, and genius. The best idea from the book is his "dreamline" idea, and I have been doing it since around 2009. It rea
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by cgore 13y ago
I keep on meaning to try out evernote. It seems like it would work well for me from what I have read about it.
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by cgore 13y ago
If I find something interesting enough that I think I would want to reference it later, I have taken to printing it to a PDF file, and saving that file. If you don't have a local copy, you never know how long it will last.
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by cgore 13y ago
I have been keeping journals for years, and have most of it all the way back to around the age of 10 (I'm 34 now.) Generally what happens is that my really old stuff is just sitting in big plastic storage boxes, and I don't ever
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by cgore 13y ago
They have probably seen just as many proofs for God, but from people they trust more than you.
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by cgore 13y ago
Yeah, no kidding. My idea of an adult playground: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_the_Gods_Wilderness
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by cgore 13y ago
The traditional view is that the miracles weren't just symbolic, but actual historic events (that had intentional symbolic meaning), and most priests would subscribe to the traditional view; so they aren't lying, just being consis
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by cgore 13y ago
To paraphrase Nietzsche, "A man can withstand any how, if he has a sufficient why." People have a hard-wired need for purpose in their life. And people want to think about and consider questions that are beyond the ability of sc
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by cgore 13y ago
Somehow, despite not understanding why exactly we exist, what our purpose is, and that at any given moment we could die and cease to exist, we don't go insane. Do you have any idea how crazy that is? If you have ever run into a Chris
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by cgore 13y ago
I think that it is on a spectrum from sysadmin work to software development work. The closer something is to engineering doctrine, the closer it is to systems administration. If company A wants a Linux VM with Apache and some static pages
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by cgore 13y ago
Another interesting one I would see a lot is <mother's father's name> <father's father's name> <last name>. For example, My dad was Charles Marvin Gore. His mother's father was Charles Maltbie. His
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by cgore 13y ago
That is basically the point of Ecclesiastes. King Solomon had access to everything, being king of one of the most powerful kingdoms of the time, worked his way through that whole list, and then at the end decided it was all pointless. He
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by cgore 13y ago
Just read over it. That was pretty interesting, thanks. Take a look at the work of John Koza. His systems were used to automatically generate electrical circuits: http://www.genetic-programming.com/johnkoza.html I looked
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by cgore 13y ago
Something similar used to be common with the english too. My great-great-great-great grandfather was "Thomas Tindall Gore", and Tindall was his mother's maiden name. This sort of thing was quite common all throughout the 17
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by cgore 13y ago
This doesn't work for people with suffixes very well, or with the "last name" not being at the end. Back when I was into genealogy a lot, about ten years ago, the "family name" was typically indicated by slashes.
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by cgore 13y ago
A beginning programmer will think that's an infinite loop, but anyone familiar with tequila will know better.
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by cgore 13y ago
Just chiming in with the standard Lisp response: HDL's can be done in Lisp, and have been done in Lisp. You just define a DSL for it.
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by cgore 13y ago
Actually, one of my related pet peeves are all cars where the fuel fill cap is NOT on the driver side of the vehicle. It is always just a little bit easier to not scratch the side of your car on the giant concrete barriers that way.

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