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   by cruise02 17y ago

   That conclusion really doesn't follow from the stated proposition. The proposition is that doing sprints will make you smarter than you are now, not that it will make you smarter than someone else who doesn't do them. The only conclus
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   by cruise02 17y ago

   Thanks, I didn't know who originated that method. I added a note citing von Neumann.
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   by cruise02 17y ago

   I found a recently published list of 20 of them. This is by no means a complete list, and there is no indication of quality that I can find. http://acrisdesign.com/2009/08/hello-world/
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   Startup for sale on eBay (and it’s a great deal)(antoniocangiano.com)

   2 points by cruise02 17y ago|0 comments
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   by cruise02 17y ago

   Currently in my RSS reader: * Coding the Wheel - http://www.codingthewheel.com/ * Good Math, Bad Math - http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/ * Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP - http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/ * Polymath Programmer - http://
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   by cruise02 17y ago

   I've only used twitter for a few weeks, but I very quickly got to the point that I just delete the notification emails without reading them. They don't have any content at all beyond the notification that there's a new follower, about half
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   Twitter's Golden Ratio (That No One Likes To Talk About)(techcrunch.com)

   14 points by cruise02 17y ago|13 comments
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   by cruise02 17y ago

   Having a last name that is commonly used as both a noun and a verb makes this sort of thing pretty useless. I can't really effectively Google myself either.
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   by cruise02 17y ago

   Interesting side note: Alan Kay challenged the Stack Overflow community several months back asking for "Significant new inventions in computing since 1980" ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in... ).
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    How I grew to hate every computer language(lbrandy.com)

    44 points by cruise02 17y ago|42 comments
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    He's responding on the blog itself. The user that posted that on proggit is a brand new account, so I don't know if that's really him.
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    I think the prior agreement between The Daily WTF and Programming Praxis would make a lack of knowledge defense difficult.
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    > its still my contention that the best method by which to learn any language is the "There ain't nothin' to it but to do it" method. Absolutely true, but you still need something to read to introduce you to the basic syntax and the g
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    I also saw it here...and I need to learn how to proof read.
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    Good observation. This is more apparent if you switch to decimal notation, (For want of a better term. I'm sure there's a name for it, I just don't know what to call the decimal point when you're talking about binary. Surely "decimal" poi
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    I'm pretty sure "1/4 + 1/16 + 1/256... = 1/3" was in the title of the post.
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    I got the idea for this post from something I first saw on reddit/r/math earlier this week, but I also so it here on HN (you might recognize the first proof), so I thought I'd submit this here also. Hope you like it.
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    Six Visual Proofs(billthelizard.com)

    49 points by cruise02 17y ago|14 comments
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    Not to mention that there are seven pictures of Halle Berry (still not enough) on her Wikipedia page, when they criticize one bad photo as if it were the only one there.
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    On the Skillfulness of Developers (part 2/2)(lbrandy.com)

    3 points by cruise02 17y ago|0 comments
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    Re: The triangle problem. If you've figured out that parity matters then you probably have it. That seems to be the stumbling block for most people trying that problem for the first time.
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    > The company will pay $300,000 in penalties and costs to the state. It has also agreed to stop publishing anonymous reviews on Web sites in the voices of satisfied customers and to identify any content created by employees, the statem
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    The closed form still depends on the precision of the decimal expansion of the irrational constant phi, the golden ratio. You can't use it to find any arbitrary F(n) without a precise expansion of phi.
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    or c) at a coffee shop with wi-fi.
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    I've found that the most enlightening explanation is to increase the number of doors. What if the game is played with 100 doors, and the host opens 98 of them after you've chosen yours? At the start you only have a 1% chance of winning.
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    I got 1/3 of the way through the second paragraph and bailed out because it became incoherent. Joel and PG both set good examples to follow.
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    Everyone agrees that your odds get better. Most people intuitively guess that the odds go from 1/3 to 1/2. It's getting them to understand how you got to 2/3 that's the problem.
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    But books aren't commodity goods, like tobacco. When a blogger recommends a book (or a list of them) he's recommending specific books to read, usually on a narrow topic that his audience is interested. His interest lies in recommending bo
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    I was wondering where they went after I polished them.
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    by cruise02 17y ago

    Yeah, I was thinking this sounded like a Hail Mary pass, but I like your analogy more.