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by crux_ 15y ago
Great info, but a clarification of my comment may be in order: I wasn't talking about the "sciences" vs "humanities" divide (which is huge), but a divide that goes deeply within humanities itself, which is much more of a left/right divide (
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by crux_ 15y ago
I think even a university professor is smart enough to recognize that journal articles are a poor way of creating culture. ;) The ivory tower has always been more interested in understanding than creation, postmodern or not. (And an edit
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by crux_ 15y ago
I think your "dying" is wishful thinking -- postmodernism's popularity came about at least partly because it offers genuine insight. I think that over time it will settle down into a mature discipline, rather than a fad. And outside of acad
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by crux_ 15y ago
That's not completely true; they are fighting words, but they're fighting words re-used from the Culture Wars, which still rage on. (Particularly in academia.)
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by crux_ 15y ago
The US has a deep divide in academia between folks who wish the study of philosophy and literature had ended in 1950 or so, and those who embraced what came after (perhaps a little too strongly). (Alternatively you could maybe draw the line
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by crux_ 15y ago
Yes, the article read like something produced by The Heritage Foundation; but that doesn't mean it cannot have some valid points along the way. As to your first sentence, one of the largest weaknesses of the entire essay is that most every
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by crux_ 15y ago
> it wasn't so easy to poke your head out and see really different worldviews. With the internet, it's easy. That doesn't really matter if nobody does it -- and it turns out to be even easier to find (& stay in) communities that
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by crux_ 15y ago
Completely and totally off topic, but I find the popularity of the "filter bubble" concept fascinating. It's not as if the vast majority of us didn't already manually create deeply effective filter bubbles, after all; but now that we can bl
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by crux_ 15y ago
I don't think WebGL is meant to be a serious alternative to PC or console gaming. It has a very good chance of replacing casual Flash games, however.
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by crux_ 15y ago
One of the author's points is that the essence of history is "who & why", not "what & when," and that Khan is completely omitting that essence in his summaries.
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by crux_ 15y ago
Perhaps not all knowledge is concrete.
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by crux_ 15y ago
And quoted in the ancestor comment, too. My "are you being sarcastic" is because phuff's wording made it sound as if she/he thought they were introducing new information ... ;)
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by crux_ 15y ago
To echo a common opinion, I think the world needs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation more than it needs Microsoft.
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by crux_ 15y ago
> One article I read about this mentioned that it takes several passwords and a significant time investment just to _open the camera_ I can't tell. Are you being sarcastic?
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by crux_ 15y ago
I think we're talking past each other. First, I'm talking about capabilities, not aesthetics. Also not on the list of things I'm discussing: teach-ability. Second, you asked for Java+1 ... then you post a code snippet that's pretty much exa
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by crux_ 15y ago
> a version of Java that had local type inference and a lighter syntax for instantiating anonymous classes Isn't this ... Scala? Sure, it has a lot more too, but there's zero obligation to use every single feature.
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by crux_ 15y ago
> But the functional part gives no guarantees of referential transparency or immutable state, so the killer value of FP is lost. I don't think I agree here. First, the language's type system can give you those guarantees where you need
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by crux_ 15y ago
This is not quite the same thing as "politics" but when it comes to certain issues under discussion I often feel like I'm forced into a choice between: * A unequivocal angry response, * Leaving the community entirely. This is because on cer
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by crux_ 15y ago
> You're so full of yourself it's amazing. Glad to see that you're easily impressed! WRT, 1 and 2), your statement was that assault and harassment are inevitable and unavoidable aspects of human nature. Funny enough that is the exact sa
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by crux_ 15y ago
> You are kidding yourself if you think blog posts like this change things. As long as men have had penises things like this have happened. It will always happen. A response, in several parts: 1) So men are mere unthinking animals, vict
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by crux_ 15y ago
> When a man has been rejected/ignored by EVERY SINGLE woman he has met thus far, you can't really blame him for not being very friendly towards the next woman he meets. a) "Not very friendly" is a different thing from assault and haras
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by crux_ 15y ago
I don't give a flying fuck about your psychological scars. They are no excuse for improper behaviour and do not absolve yourself (or "technically oriented men") from responsibility from their actions. If you want to see improvement in this
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by crux_ 15y ago
> be accused of being a woman-hater This only seems fair, as your opening salvo began with accusing anyone who disagrees with you a man-hater. I seriously doubt that a blog post was the "first thought" in any of the many prominent incid
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by crux_ 15y ago
I think an underlying reason for so many anecdotes of the sort in the comment threads here is the sheer number of hires the Goog is trying to make right now -- according to http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html , they've grown h
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by crux_ 16y ago
Tahoe-LAFS seems to fit the bill, except I don't know about #3. From what I understand it's rather stronger on #2, though.
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by crux_ 16y ago
I agree with everything you said (hence the winky hanging off of "theory"), except for this: > I find it unlikely that much insight can be gained from this for in-memory data structures. Reasons for my skepticism: First, better big O re
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by crux_ 16y ago
I don't suppose there's a chance of seeing the O'Caml implementation released as well, is there? It's neat to see it being used for what (IMO) is a really underutilized sweet spot for the language. (That & the fact that a code release i
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by crux_ 16y ago
On the other hand, cache-oblivious algorithms (and upon first skim, the presented data structure is) should play just as nicely at the L1/L2 vs RAM level as they do at the RAM vs disk one, without needing to be specifically tuned or rewrit
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by crux_ 16y ago
I don't think append-only has much to do with seek time [1]; as you said, it has to do with corruption & consistency. Second, they actually tout that their data structure is better on SSDs than btrees (due to block-size obliviousness):
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by crux_ 16y ago
Part of the reason this one isn't more widely known is certainly because there's already a lot of good tutorials. (And even more bad ones). For every article like this one, there's quite a few people posting "here's another awesome tutorial

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