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by cgore 13y ago
I'm going completely off of the Wikipedia page you posted, I haven't read the book either, so it could be really misrepresenting the book. But the whole "theocratic -> technocratic society" step seems to be based on
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by cgore 13y ago
In 2003-ish, while I was getting my BS, the professor passed out some of those funny-smelling purple sheets. I hadn't seen them since probably second grade (mid-1980's). Apparently both the copiers were broken, but there was sti
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by cgore 13y ago
Except that is the whole primary thesis of his book, and it is based on trivially falsified premises. (At the time ordinary people had probably no real conception of the general order of the universe, being uneducated illiterate peasants.
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by cgore 13y ago
That is some amazingly sloppy research work on his part, and he just seems to have an axe to grind, so he is okay with the sloppiness. The geocentric model is due to Ptolemy and Aristotle, Greek philosopher/scientists pre-dating Chris
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by cgore 13y ago
My dad first had me shoot the shotgun around 7 or 8, instead of trying to hide it or lock it up, which is a horrible idea for kids that age, since they can and will get keys for anything and be even more motivated to do so because it isn&#x
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by cgore 13y ago
I have researched this a lot because my mom suffers from schizoaffective depression and has been medicated for my whole life. I would strongly recommend dealing with a good therapist. I am not anti-medicine in general, but the pill-pushin
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by cgore 13y ago
I think judging an author from their tweets is a horrible idea, but what about their blog? That seems reasonable. If anything, the average 'technical' interview is closer to the Twitter idea, with lots of code golf questions, bu
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by cgore 13y ago
The best example of this are spreadsheets. There are plenty of people who don't think they can program and don't think they have any need to program, but will write some really insane things in Excel. They just don't realiz
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by cgore 13y ago
(html (head (title "Hi there")) (body (h1 "Hi there") (p "S-expressions are " (b "a lot nicer") " than HTML/XML/etc."))
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by cgore 13y ago
I'll do it all the time in my local shell session, along the following: # I make a point to always have the trailing slash, # it makes life easier. # Also, tab-complete works with this in Zsh. a=/some/really/lo
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by cgore 13y ago
In Zsh, you can set it so that specifying a bare directory goes to the directory as well, for any directory. Just do setopt autocd
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by cgore 13y ago
I got rid of TV completely while at college for my BS, and I was a lot more productive and happy without it. I have a small TV now (19" LCD), but only watch Netflix or downloads on it. After going without broadcast or cable TV, I jus
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by cgore 13y ago
The USA is basically accepting Bitcoins and the like as legitimate currency, with the recent FINCEN guidance and with the various positive results in the courts. I would be more worried about the EU banning BTC than the USA, because of all
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by cgore 13y ago
I think you just made Facebook useful to me again.
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by cgore 13y ago
Or type slightly less: $ git init --bare project_name.git It will make the directory for you.
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by cgore 13y ago
It's supposed to be an em-space, not two normal spaces, but that is hard to to in ASCII.
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by cgore 13y ago
The Bitcoin protocol is designed to make it average 10 minutes between each block, so on average the wait is 5 minutes. And if I was Starbucks selling a coffee, I probably would be willing to accept zero-block transactions, especially if t
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by cgore 13y ago
If it is a coffee, just accept it at the first block, that should only be a few minutes. For the rare occurance of an orphaned block, it is still less of a loss than the normal credit card processing fees for a typical day at such a place.
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by cgore 13y ago
You don't get payed for how smart you are or how hard you worked. You get paid for how big of a problem you fixed for somebody, and how much they are capable of paying you. That's why good doctors and lawyers get paid so well.
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by cgore 13y ago
Although, they would probably prefer having computers capable of playing chess sign up than humans that can't.
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by cgore 13y ago
This is rather strange if it is accurate. Everywhere I've worked where they hired contractors as developers, the company always preferred contract-to-hire, assuming the person worked out well. I've had two jobs that way, 6-12 mo
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by cgore 13y ago
Stallman's definition of 'free software' isn't authoritative, lots of people have other definitions, and Stallman is quite explicit on trying to change definitions to suit him.
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by cgore 13y ago
Other than that I would agree with him though. Subtype polymorphism + runtime (single or multiple) dispatch. Multiple dispatch is one of the things I really miss about Common Lisp. I do like OOP, but often the most intuitive way to think a
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by cgore 13y ago
I think the best solution is to have the better ones mentor the lesser ones. It takes time away from coding in the short-term, but it is a good investment in your people in the long-term. Metaprogramming is something that any good program
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by cgore 13y ago
I think all the search engines do Mozilla too though. From my server logs: cgore.com:80 218.94.63.53 - - [02/Jul/2013:16:40:57 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 3708 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatibl
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by cgore 13y ago
People with compasses, in the woods, not getting lost and eaten by a bear.
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by cgore 13y ago
218 years, instead of 220. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+dilation+calculato...