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by dsrguru 14y ago
Why is that?
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Figuring out how to encode various classes of data into images is one of the more challenging aspects of the method of loci. Also, memorizing an associative array of data is less natural in the method of loci than memorizing ordered data si
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by dsrguru 14y ago
To be honest, I know a lot more about spaced repetition than I do about creating memory palaces. My only exposure to the latter is from Foer's book, and while I've begun using my house as a memory palace to easily memorize short lists (15 o
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Exactly! He's the author of Moonwalking with Einstein, the book Bill Gates raved about in the parent article.
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I'm really glad you brought up spaced repetition since spaced repetition and the techniques described in Moonwalking with Einstein happen to be two of the items on my relatively small list of the most amazing things humans are capable of th
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Yeah, the book starts by stating that everyone can have a photographic-like memory if they practice the right techniques, goes on to explain the history of the art of memory, and then intersperses detailed descriptions of the techniques wit
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by dsrguru 14y ago
The point is that pg popularized LISP, and Clojure is the closest extant LISP to the ideal that pg describes in http://paulgraham.com/hundred.html , http://paulgraham.com/arclessons.html , and #6 of http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html .
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I love the idea in concept, but I hope people wouldn't actually use it. I'm not sure which I find worse: not being honest with your coworkers or having them judge you for not silencing your phone before a meeting.
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Buying a new car isn't necessarily a stupid idea from a financial perspective. It's true that cars depreciate in value at a ridiculous rate (which starts the moment you drive off from the dealership), but buying from a private seller means
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Corrective upvote. In the words of Wikipedia, "Skype was founded in 2003 by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennström from Sweden" [1]. It would seem the developers were Estonian, but that doesn't make you wrong about its founders. In f
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by dsrguru 14y ago
The HN title is unclear, but the point is that this would be the first time programming is taught to all first graders in a country. At least that's what the article's title claim implies: "Computer programming will soon reach all Estonia
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by dsrguru 14y ago
"11. Your job is to put yourself out of work." I couldn't have said that better myself.
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Did you click Dan's?
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by dsrguru 14y ago
As an aside, you should also note that you can interact with the X clipboard from within vim or gvim. It's represented by the * register, so you can do things like "[asterisk]p to paste from other programs or "*Y to yank to them. Replace
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by dsrguru 14y ago
You're making it sound like a chore to script in lisp. The whole point is that lisp is probably the most concise and flexible (i.e. most powerful in both the pg sense and the conventional sense) way to customize a sufficiently large enviro
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Outside of the last point about the each method not being a good first exposure to looping, the article was mainly just debating the definition of idiom. That's irrelevant because definitions of English words are overloaded in different fi
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Not always though. I don't know if this is still the case, but "while true" used to be more idiomatic in Python than "while 1" even though the latter had better performance due to the state of the cpython implementation at the time.
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I thought it was pretty clear that the great-grandparent post was referring to being asked out, not being raped. In fact, the latter interpretation didn't even cross my mind until I read comments like yours, although I see now how the post
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I just found this chart ( http://tinyurl.com/9f7pxnq ) of languages Clojure users came from [or are still using] from cemerick's 2012 State of Clojure survey, which suggests that Clojure is not only catching on outside of the LISP community
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by dsrguru 14y ago
The failure of Lisp to gain traction historically might also be a result of marketing. Now that people are associating Clojure with things like startups, Heroku, concurrency, and the JVM, it seems to be catching on outside of the Lisp comm
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Do you mean because the syntax isn't sugary or because Lisp lends itself to a DSL-driven style of development where user-defined constructs are used more extensively than in any other language family? If the former, I'd argue that's just b
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Ask PG: May I please have my IP unblocked?
3 points by dsrguru 14y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What are some other good replacements for traditional Unix utilities?
5 points by dsrguru 14y ago|3 comments
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by dsrguru 14y ago
By conceptually separating synchronization from mutual exclusion and abstracting concurrency into separate models (atoms, agents, refs) that correspond to separate use cases (synchronous and independent mutable access across threads, asynch
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I find it ironic that the site isn't loading now.
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by dsrguru 14y ago
"What Erlang does, you simply can't do with ... anything involving ... the JVM." As a matter of fact, Clojure runs atop the JVM and has a concurrency model that parallelizes even better than Erlang's, although Erlang's model of concurrency
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by dsrguru 14y ago
You might not be disagreeing. tytso appears to be using populist in the European sense of "demagogue" or "pandering to the uninformed masses," not the neutral or positive sense of "for the people" that it has in American English. See: h
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by dsrguru 14y ago
On the contrary, I seem to recall him saying something to the effect of "it's unfortunate than the U.S. government classifies spacecraft as weapons, so we have to do everything in house." Found it: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/oneperc
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by dsrguru 14y ago
1. While I happen to be American, not all of "us" on HN are. In fact, I have a friend from China who is part of the HN community. 2. How is wishing that all of humanity makes progress rather than just your own country self-hateful? Isn't
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by dsrguru 14y ago
That's really interesting. I always assumed hiding dotfiles was a deliberate convention, but to semi-quote one of the commenters, Rob's got a point. Or two.

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