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by dmoney 16y ago
There could be a business opportunity in interfacing between asshole genius programmers and normal people. I wouldn't want to be that person though.
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by dmoney 16y ago
This revealed that whether high status was inherited or earned made no difference--so the idea that it is the self-made who are especially selfish does not work. It's likely that their parents or grandparents were "self-made" and also pas
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by dmoney 16y ago
I don't know if "paid off" is the right word. If P were equal to NP, HP would probably benefit from finding out first. Assuming this is correct, though, all they get is the satisfaction of having hired the guy who happened to discover the
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by dmoney 16y ago
Put it on regular hard drives and write a note to your future self to come back for them once time machines are invented.
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by dmoney 16y ago
By "dead," he of course doesn’t mean completely dead. So don't say dead. As a reader, I hope paper books are always available. They are much more enjoyable to read. Maybe it's just because I spend so much time on a computer, but it's n
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How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1997)(drdobbs.com)
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by dmoney 16y ago
The rules listed sound like good rules, but I don't think they're meta-rules. They don't really relate to the creation of other rules.
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by dmoney 16y ago
I'd say that I'm addicted to the Internet, but I do want to want it. I just don't want to want it as much.
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by dmoney 16y ago
Internet use seems to be my "ground state", what I fall into when I'm done with the stuff I have to do. But recently I've realized that, even though it's addictive, I don't really find it all that relaxing. So I've been trying to reclaim
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by dmoney 16y ago
> C+ One of my coworkers used the term for a program consisting of a core that was a C library and a GUI that was in C++/MFC. The author of a book I started reading ( http://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Programming-Gurus-Advanced-Grap... )
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by dmoney 16y ago
tl;dr: SpeakerText is their startup, the SpeakerCave is their house or apartment, and no mention is made of it being cave-shaped or made of speakers (bummer).
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by dmoney 16y ago
Some sci-fi has cylindrical ships or space stations spun for gravity, but in Star Trek they have "gravity plating", so the ships don't have to spin. A convenient plot device to cover the fact that they didn't have the budget to shoot every
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by dmoney 16y ago
What would be the consequences if this is accurate? What assumptions are based on the size of a proton? What kind of technology was previously thought impossible because protons were just too darn big? Because (as a non-physicist) I can'
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by dmoney 16y ago
It's flash.
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Ideas about idea-having [video](youtube.com)
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by dmoney 16y ago
And what? I read it the last couple times it was posted here.
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by dmoney 16y ago
According to an interview about Gene Roddenberry (with one of the writers who had worked with him), this is the problem that deflectors (which are separate from defensive shields) are designed to solve. The dish on the front of the Enterpr
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by dmoney 16y ago
Destroying the Earth is kind of overkill. Unless you're making way for a hyperspace bypass, most supervillains' needs could be served by destroying what makes it different from any other planet. Burn off the atmosphere, melt the crust, re
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by dmoney 16y ago
My advice is to get a second desk and put all the mail there. Other than the space it takes up, keeping your mail in a pile is a pretty efficient system. The important stuff like this month's bills are usually near the top, while stuff tha
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Oldest leather shoe steps out after 5,500 years(news.yahoo.com)
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More Sex is Safer Sex (1996)(slate.msn.com)
62 points by dmoney 16y ago|36 comments
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by dmoney 16y ago
Ads.
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Hubble Finds Star Eating a Planet(hubblesite.org)
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by dmoney 16y ago
I don't know if that's necessarily true by their definitions. As I see it they could be the same intelligent devices with different programmed goals. One group of nanobots you tell, "Make as many copies of yourself (including this instruc
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by dmoney 16y ago
The other thread said that it wasn't HTML5.
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by dmoney 16y ago
Grey goo. A grey goo unit just needs to produce more grey goo units. A paperclip maximizer needs to produce both paperclips and other paperclip maximizers. So the goo is more efficient.
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by dmoney 16y ago
I meant statements which state that the statement itself is unprovable. Or are you saying that the halting problem exists because of incompleteness?
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by dmoney 16y ago
Godel's theorem implies that in a consistent system there are unprovable truths. I've always wondered if those truths could be things no one would care about anyway. Are statements like "this statement is unprovable" useful for anything o
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by dmoney 16y ago
There are and will always be large classes of apps for which Javascript in a browser isn't a reasonable approach. Why wouldn't JavaScript and browsers continue to evolve until that isn't the case?
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by dmoney 16y ago
In determining the best coding style, ease of spotting errors is one thing to consider. Another is ease of interpreting correct behavior. At a glance, comma-first is harder, but that may just be because I'm used to comma-last.

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