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by donaq 17y ago
Haha, only on HN.
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by donaq 17y ago
It's morphable, not sentient. Besides, rupturing the inflatable components will remove its morphing ability. Not exactly as resilient as T1000, wot? :p
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by donaq 17y ago
Dammit, where's Eliezer Yudkowsky when you need him. I'm pretty sure he'll have an interesting take on this.
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by donaq 17y ago
Of course, just as we're also allowed to think you're overreacting.
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by donaq 17y ago
Way to take it personally. The person you're replying to did qualify all his observations by stating just that. That they're from his personal experiences. Unless you're included in, as you've already put it, his "limited life sample", I ca
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by donaq 17y ago
Joss Whedon. Because damn, Buffy was a brilliant show.
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by donaq 17y ago
I hate to nitpick, but the computing time required to solve them increases exponentially. In other words, one more city makes the problem 10 times harder. That's just sloppy.
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by donaq 17y ago
Really? Where did you get your CS degree? I thought complexity theory is an essential part of any algorithms module, and an algorithms module is in turn an essential part of any CS degree. I'd hate to have to hire a CS grad who hasn't taken
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by donaq 17y ago
I don't think just anyone could have done the same, but supposing for the sake of argument that it's true, I think not many people would have done the same, which is what compels me to respect rms in the same way as I would respect Willia
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by donaq 17y ago
All the same, here's a quote about him (lifted from wikipedia) that I agree with. There's something comforting about Stallman's intransigence. Win or lose, Stallman will never give up. He'll be the stubbornest mule on the farm until the da
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by donaq 17y ago
Precisely, but my respect for him isn't even because of hacking ability or the software that he wrote. It's because of his ideology and his willingness to dedicate his life to it so that other people may have freedom. Hackers nowadays take
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by donaq 17y ago
If rms or someone like him had never been born and the free software movement had never been started, with what would you have written your "equivalent software"? Borland C++?
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by donaq 17y ago
Style is an indicator of content. If someone uses five different colors and five different ways to emphasize text (I'm not exaggerating: count them) in the first few paragraphs of a blog post, then I expect the content to be equally lackin
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by donaq 17y ago
Interesting. Why do you think that everyone on this forum is above average when it comes to programming?
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by donaq 17y ago
What's "usual CS trivia"? And does relocation assistance include people outside the states?
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by donaq 17y ago
When the smug from this post gets hit by George Clooney's speech, it will be a perfect storm of self-satisfaction. I'm no Java supporter, but all those bits about "better programmers" and "average programmers" was a bit much.
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by donaq 17y ago
You know what would really capture people's imaginations? Space piracy. With frikkin' laser beams. Once there are bad guys in space stealing our shit, you can be sure the public will rally around the idea of sending good guys into space.
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by donaq 17y ago
Hmm. Are you sure this is not some tongue-in-cheek prank?
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by donaq 17y ago
Whoa, just the link texts are already informative.
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by donaq 17y ago
That is, of course, until the present batch of small companies grow big (or die) and all the big companies are putting words like "suck" and "cool" on their corporate blurbs. Then the next batch of small companies will ape them because peop
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by donaq 17y ago
In what way is it inappropriate?
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by donaq 17y ago
Adding to that, I recently visited a wildlife park in Australia and there was a Tasmanian Devil in an enclosure which was just running in loops over and over again. I watched for about 10 minutes, fascinated. It probably won't run itself to
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by donaq 17y ago
Doing hard things for the sake of it, or for no other reason than to find out if you can do it, is the very essence of hacking. It is also precisely that attitude which fuels research, discovery and invention. So while I can respect your pr
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by donaq 17y ago
Wellll, not to nitpick, entrepreneurs aren't necessarily achievers.
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by donaq 17y ago
Image is a huge selling point for most consumers, though they may not acknowledge it. Agreed. I mean, look at Macs. Granted, Macs have technical merit, but how many people who use Macs actually bought them for technical superiority and ho
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by donaq 17y ago
Huh. I first learned programming as an undergrad. Why do you think it is too late? [Edit] Anyway, I think that depends on whether said CS major applied himself in college, don't you? I do have friends who graduated out of CS (well, actually
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by donaq 17y ago
Nice easter egg.
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by donaq 17y ago
The vast majority of Google searches are, of course, done on PCs running Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. It is not in Google’s real interest to displace these products, which have facilitated so much of its success. I call bullsh
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by donaq 17y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s only supported for use on new PCs that are specifically certified to work with it Isn't it supposed to built on a Linux kernel? In that case, I think it will potentially run on a rather wide range of hardwa
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by donaq 17y ago
Somehow, quoting almost exclusively from a satirical parody site does not add weight to the OP's argument.

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