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by dandrews 12y ago
Links to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSNZA8jVcm4 The youtube commentary also contains the talk outline, which the kurzweilai.net link omits.
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by dandrews 12y ago
Should you step in front of a Googlecar and get hurt, remember before you sue that it bristles with sensors and recording devices, and that it'll all be admissible in court.
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by dandrews 12y ago
Legislating "net neutrality" is a crude hack. The real problem is telco hegemony in the ISP space, as pointed out in John Gilmore's 2010 essay at http://www.nnsquad.org/archives/nnsquad/msg04177.htm
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by dandrews 12y ago
"LibreSSL". Oh dear lord, that'll irritate RMS.
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by dandrews 12y ago
Not really programmer related, but I find these truthy: - (Flight instructor's mantra): Fly the plane. - When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. - Measure twice, cut once. - (Paraphrasing Senator Moynihan): Show me the data. Y
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by dandrews 13y ago
Yes, it is rabid and paranoid, and the repeated "fanboy" references are rather childish. But the article did bring up important points about RedHat's consistent embrace-and-extend history, which is well worth thinking about.
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by dandrews 13y ago
Oh, there must be a Common Lisp predicate that addresses this. prettymuchequalsp? More seriously, I remember APL\360 SETFUZZ from long before many of you whippersnappers were born, which told the system to disregard so-many bits in an &#x2
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by dandrews 13y ago
(I do not think open source means what you think it means.) Some of the data may be products of military signal gathering, capabilities of which those agencies would be loathe to disclose.
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by dandrews 13y ago
See also: "How Harvey Mudd College Increased Its Percentage of Women in CS", a ten-minute interview with Harvey Mudd's President, Dr. Maria Klawe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ssh6ZcOorw
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by dandrews 13y ago
Bolden is certainly not the man for the job. See: [1] http://www.examiner.com/article/nasa-s-bolden-no-american-le... [2] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/201
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MIT Cold Fusion IAP 2014(youtube.com)
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by dandrews 13y ago
O Bog, how I despise semantically null product briefs that promise to "synergistically increase your profit potential" or "apply market-leading holistic techniques to help build world-class infrastructures" or whatever.
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by dandrews 13y ago
Careful with that. You saw what happened to Larry Summers, right? Seriously, I take your point about the differences between men and women. I saw the news tidbit a few weeks ago about the study on toddlers and the toys they prefer. I&#x2
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by dandrews 13y ago
staticelf, most of us here want that "true equality" that you refer to. But the unassailable fact of the matter is that we don't have it today. Look around you: assuming you're in IT, unless you work in a truly remark
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by dandrews 13y ago
Problem is, Crake, we're doing something wrong . Three years I went to Conj, and the first year there were -zero- women attendees out of 300. Second year it was -three- attendees out of 300. Third year it was eight or nine. I don&
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by dandrews 13y ago
Sorry to disagree, but the movie is kind of meh. Read Marty Caidin's book instead. It's hard to put down, and contains a nice section concerning Jim Pruett's finishing school that makes you want to become a pilot yourself.
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by dandrews 13y ago
Swap demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZU0wnpyhF8
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by dandrews 13y ago
Parent was talking about all-Nokia product.
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by dandrews 13y ago
You paint "Clojure people" - I'm one - with a pretty broad brush. If one of us has said something you disagree with, then please cite it along with your rebuttal. It is unlikely that you have an informed opinion of "Clo
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by dandrews 13y ago
Please name a language you use so that whenever you and I disagree I'll be able to cite the "Blub people".
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by dandrews 13y ago
Unless you paid extra for the level-2 protection package. Then the network has to select a level-1 vehicle to go over the edge.
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by dandrews 13y ago
The Maemo-MeeGo transition didn't simply replace technical innards; it completely disrupted the Maemo user community, which relationship was negligently bungled by Nokia management. (Although it may also have been due to Intel's
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by dandrews 13y ago
No, sorry - it's an original thought, half baked and poorly researched. Yudkowski's essays, written early in his career, introduced me to the potential of the technological singularity. I've intermittently contemplated what
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by dandrews 13y ago
I've noticed this too, and can only imagine that Apple clamps down hard. People I admired before they joined Apple (such as David Betz, Jordan Hubbard and Doug Field) became practically invisible, as if they'd fallen into a black
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by dandrews 13y ago
"...they might be looking too" I've postulated this once or twice on HN before: they're there, but they're not looking for us. Civilizations either self-destruct or they reach technological singularity. At tha
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by dandrews 13y ago
You're new to Lisp and JVM? (Perhaps new even to Emacs?) The activation energy required to get going in Clojure can be a bit daunting. Cool tool that it may be, I think that kibit should wait until you can drive around with some con
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by dandrews 13y ago
Been done: see Carl Sagan's Contact
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by dandrews 13y ago
See also: The Man from Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAarR4tVEHU
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by dandrews 13y ago
Would to Bog I had karma points enough to downvote your dismissive comment. Really, couldn't you even read all the way through the article title ? You know, where it says "... and I kind of suck"? OP describes immersing hi
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by dandrews 13y ago
Anything Cognitect - just because I've never met a Relevancer I didn't like.

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