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by david927 8y ago
The author is Jonathan Edwards who was a fellow at MIT and is an eminent Computer Scientist. The article stands true on its own, and is not a simple indictment of a class of programmers.
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by david927 8y ago
This is vague and insulting. Good. It should be. Get mad about that. Get so mad that you devote time and effort to fixing it. Programming compared to other disciplines is what might arise from a Lord of the Flies situation. Like the
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by david927 8y ago
> Unfortunately application programming got trampled in the internet gold rush. No, it didn't I think if you don't rely on memory but examine the history as Jonathan Edwards has done, you would be surprised to find that the
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by david927 8y ago
Absolutely. Remember: technology will make everything move to fewer and fewer sources. If you wanted a book 20 years ago, you went to your local bookstore; now you go to one company. And so the people that get to this place first put thei
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by david927 8y ago
I think there's definitely saturation in terms of the short-term money wins, such as creating software for a particular vertical. You see accelerators funding the same things, over and over again. But what is interesting is that very
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by david927 8y ago
I, for one, am looking forward to the nuanced, subtle discussion that will ensue here. For the love of all that is holy, please don't comment unless you've read the article and want to discuss what it is trying to say.
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by david927 9y ago
I remember in Marketing class they taught us about "Herb the Nerd". In the 1980's Burger King was expanding and as part of this came a big advertising campaign centered around a nerdy-looking guy called Herb, who was the only
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by david927 9y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | San Francisco Bay Area, CA but mainly seeking Remote on a European timezone, travel possible Full-stack developer with 30 years of experience. Javascript/NodeJS and/or C# .NET. I've worked in Finance
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by david927 9y ago
Dubious startups
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by david927 9y ago
I would talk to a lawyer.
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by david927 9y ago
And the thesis of almost all of venture capital, all of whom have made a lot of money on the insight and innovation of the past, but which has failed to created any new innovation of any significance. This should be better said as, "Fu
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by david927 9y ago
_“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”_ - Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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by david927 9y ago
I loved it. Thanks.
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by david927 9y ago
oh shit. ok, I see. wow
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by david927 9y ago
Thanks, Ron. I can imagine that measurement and entanglement are the same thing, especially that both, like the uncertainty principle, are about the limits of extractible information. The video link is the same as the paper; if you find it
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by david927 9y ago
I understand now. So it's, "can the information be known?" and the answer to that question, whether instrument or human or decision (such as marking the photon), is what creates the entanglement which causes the collapse. P.
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by david927 9y ago
Fascinating. And the fact that it's entanglement makes it information and thus not subject to space/time constraints.
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by david927 9y ago
I understand. Thanks.
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by david927 9y ago
Sorry, you're right.
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by david927 9y ago
It wasn't really relevant to my question, but you're right, it's a good clip. Thanks.
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by david927 9y ago
I'm still confused: where is the interaction in the double-slit experiment? Here's a quote: In the famous double-slit experiment, single particles, such as photons, pass one at a time through a screen containing two slits. If ei
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by david927 9y ago
With the double-slit experiment, my understanding is that if it's done in a closed room, the wave function won't collapse and you'll get an interference pattern, but if you're in the room, it will collapse and there will
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by david927 9y ago
Ok, I'm going to hijack this thread to get an answer to something I've always struggled with: how does 'observation' cause the wave function to collapse. It won't happen in a closed box, but what about an open box i
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by david927 9y ago
Boris, thanks for answering questions here. One more: has this raised any doubts that the Black Death was a Bubonic Plague?
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by david927 9y ago
I noticed that there are 'pills' in the list of items, but none of the rooms has them. Should have taken your pills, Nathan! She said this was her favorite comment. It had her on the floor laughing!
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by david927 9y ago
Thanks!
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by david927 9y ago
Yeah, it's all Javascript. She's an artist but she's quite good at math and wants to combine them for her career into a form of digital art.
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by david927 9y ago
Cool! Thanks!
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by david927 9y ago
No, she's never seen HyperCard but I think she's played a similar game in terms of game-play before. I'll have to ask.
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by david927 9y ago
Read through the comments here, a lot of the trickiest parts are explained. If you still need help, ask on her Twitter feed.

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