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by dreish 18y ago
Should I be suspicious of those glowing reviews, given as the article says, "[the] problem here, from the psychologists' perspective, is that the user's sense of achievement is exactly what we should most distrust"?
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by dreish 18y ago
I like how you automatically assign a guest ID so visitors can try out the customization features right away, and think, "Hell, I'm halfway to joining -- might as well go the rest of the way now." The same thing could have been done invisi
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by dreish 19y ago
My first impression of the site is that no big value jumps out at me when I look at it -- nothing makes me think, "Hey, this is really a lot better than trawling Google News and the Yahoo! Most Popular page, plus a few niche sites I find in
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by dreish 19y ago
It's inspiring to think that people can do more than they're expected to be able to do if they just don't know what that limit is. A lot of people around here are trying to push themselves pretty hard, and appreciate the inspiration. (This
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by dreish 19y ago
If you find a great story there you've absolutely got to share, maybe you could look at this as an opportunity to find a second source for it.
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by dreish 19y ago
Escape seems to revert to the text that was in the input field before anything was typed. How does that help?
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by dreish 19y ago
You have to backspace the autocompleted text, but it doesn't appear immediately, so you have to either: - Type what you want to type and race to hit return, or - Wait a moment for the text to appear so you can hit backspace. The wh
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by dreish 19y ago
In Arc, as written by a n00b: (= f [+ (sqrt abs._) (* 5 expt._.3)]) (= a '()) (repeat 11 (= a (cons (coerce (read) 'int) a))) (each i a (let f_i f.i (if (> f_i 400) (prn i " TOO LARGE")
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by dreish 19y ago
I'll take a stab at an explanation. This guy went to the trouble to gather data, chart it, try to show his readers something interesting, and your response is, "He produces dull, reliable software, so he can't know anything about who is a g
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by dreish 19y ago
I think the term "griefer" is more appropriate. I hope it continues to gain currency.
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by dreish 19y ago
I laid out my objections to your objections here: http://www.kurzweilai.net/mindx/frame.html?main=show_thread.... I wouldn't be surprised if he's spot-on about the technology of speech recognition getting to that practical level exactly o
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by dreish 19y ago
As someone who is trying to hire a really good Perl programmer right now, I can almost guarantee you they will (if they're actually as good as the ad promises). I'm more worried about competing with the other offers I expect they'll get.
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by dreish 19y ago
I wouldn't call your first point a problem. There are plenty of voracious newshounds out there that are collectively scraping all available news sites clean and originating these link posts and chain emails. That's why the phenomenon exis
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by dreish 19y ago
That sounds pretty computationally intensive, if each page load is going to result in recalculating all scores for a relatively large universe of objects, but maybe "people who have similar voting habits to pg (or some small, select set of
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by dreish 19y ago
Lame annoying sophomoric humor. Big waste of time. I wish I'd taken your advice, but I can't get enough of Linux history. There's no Linux history here you can't get in less-annoying form at: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rhasan/linux/ or
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by dreish 19y ago
Not all of them, but you should only need to hand-pick a few before the classifier starts to make the job much less tedious.
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by dreish 19y ago
I would guess that they're also about whether the candidate is the sort of person who is curious enough about the way things work to dig into a sorting algorithm and spend a free Saturday afternoon playing around with it, even though it's i
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by dreish 19y ago
Maybe by implementing that gravity* slider alluded to in news.arc, or at least decreasing gravity so higher-rated articles last longer at the top of the front page.
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by dreish 19y ago
The author has since added an italicized paragraph explaining that this is what he meant to write, but I think the original wording crosses the line from shortcut into misleading, because by the time it will have "the right to lend $9,000 t
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by dreish 19y ago
That's pretty much what I was going to say. To be more specific, though, the author is right that there are a lot of dollars out there being hoarded because the USD is the global standard currency, and that its fall from that status will ha
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by dreish 19y ago
Carl Sagan's Cosmos. I saw it when I was a kid, and didn't realize how big an effect it had had on me until I watched it again a couple of years ago.
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by dreish 19y ago
Lack of closures is hardly an "invalid" reason to dislike a language, especially if the reason for lacking closures is that they're too confusing for less-skilled programmers.
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by dreish 19y ago
If that works after the next outage, I owe you my life, or at least 0.002% of it.
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by dreish 19y ago
The GE microwave that came with my house is worse than I thought was possible. It includes an appointment scheduler (!) and has some sort of message button I've never pressed for fear of being reminded of what my voice sounds like. Appare
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by dreish 19y ago
The numbers would be higher for 60 and 90 days. The statistic is that 70% of networks that were ever created have been used within the last 30 days before today. The other 30% were most recently used more than 30 days ago.
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by dreish 19y ago
Who is going to implement this idea? Hearing this, the novice suddenly achieved enlightenment, several years later.
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by dreish 19y ago
In order to commit to doing a ridiculous amount of work to bring an idea to reality, one must believe deeply that there's a realistic chance the venture will lead to obscene wealth, fame, magazine covers, and a 60 Minutes interview. Believ
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by dreish 19y ago
Yes, he clearly doesn't understand the concept that generalizations are not always better than specializations. You can also see this in his old mailing-list exchange with Marc Andreessen on the subject of embedding images (or arbitrary do
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by dreish 19y ago
I would add a tenth (to get us to one of those lists of ten we all love so much): the martini method that I discussed using here with a very low bar: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121576
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by dreish 19y ago
3rd grade in Bulgaria, maybe. To us Americans, that's like an amazing magic trick.

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