dusklight

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by dusklight 13y ago
Yeah and when cars replaced horses, the next generation got dumber because they no longer learned the skills they would have acquired by learning how to ride a horse? If anything, based on what I have seen, the next generation will be shock
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by dusklight 13y ago
what's less bullshit than quantum mechanics if you don't mind me asking?
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by dusklight 13y ago
I think this writer of this post is more than a little ignorant of the class that he is in and the class that the people he has been meeting are in. As a personal account from someone honestly expressing his own opinion I still think it was
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by dusklight 13y ago
Have you done any study on our current understanding of the brain and cognitive science? [ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1290271... ] not everyone agrees on the above model, but I think its sa
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by dusklight 13y ago
I didn't say it was incorrect, I said that the audience should always fact check. I am also not saying it is correct. Boolean logic has stunted our minds. There is not only true and false. There is true, false, unknown, and undefined.
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by dusklight 13y ago
Keeping in mind her "pi = 4" and similar videos, isn't it better for the audience to always be questioning and always be fact-checking than to blindly trust that what she says is correct?
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by dusklight 13y ago
Keeping in mind the section of the video about sports and kids on the train talking to each other, is it possible that she is not wrong, but that you misunderstood what she was trying to say? If there was some misunderstanding of communicat
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by dusklight 13y ago
Could you please go into more detail on what were your requirements that Clojure did not fit? What you have so far IS an impressive, audacious, idea. You can probably tell by the amount of attention you have gotten for it already. False hum
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by dusklight 13y ago
Instead of designing your own language Logos, have you considered using Clojure, which is also homoiconic, is a modern variant of lisp, and was/is designed by programmers who have industry experience, so it's not an academic exper
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by dusklight 13y ago
Nope I do this too.
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by dusklight 13y ago
Citation please?
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by dusklight 13y ago
So because it's hard to be ethical we shouldn't try? Because it is hard to quantify greed it is no longer a bad thing? Because other people are doing it too is a good justification? I recently watched the movie "Django Rising" and the chara
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by dusklight 13y ago
Is everything only about money? Is it really ethical to try to get as much money out of your customers? If you are making a profit after all costs are considered, how much profit is too much? The question is maybe not too important when app
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by dusklight 13y ago
How is he being barbaric by proposing that prospective parents should reconsider having children if they don't think their children will be able to have a happy life?
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by dusklight 13y ago
No comments about the truth of the prejudice against older programmers, but this study does not prove anything. There is a huge self-selection bias going on here, as not all programmers go on stack overflow and certainly not all programmers
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by dusklight 13y ago
Speaking as someone who has interviewed quite a lot of people, I would say we have an ample supply of kids who started programming in college and successfully graduated with a 4-year degree, or even a masters. But we have a huge shortage on
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by dusklight 13y ago
It's pretty clear that we are not the only animals with brains, so there are other animals who use their brains to make decisions, such as how to hunt and when to sleep and so on. We make what is in our opinion more sophisticated decisions,
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by dusklight 13y ago
Clicked on link -- I am interested in learning about math, physics and CS. Saw registration screen. Closed window.
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by dusklight 14y ago
Did you get any funding at all? Did you make at least $1 of profit? Gross? The "meeting people" problem is asymmetrical. You have a bunch of people who want to meet new people. Unfortunately the type of people they want to meet already know
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Great apes have midlife crises too, study finds(latimes.com)
5 points by dusklight 14y ago|0 comments
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by dusklight 14y ago
I downvoted you because you added nothing to the conversation by claiming you have a 6 but then adding no details to it. Hey I can do that too. I have an idea that ranks a 7! I am cooler than you! But I am not going to tell you what it is b
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by dusklight 14y ago
I think there is some bug here? Clicking on the above link about booleans leads to code about how to draw ellipses.
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by dusklight 14y ago
I don't really think it is fair to characterize Clojure as conservative. If anything Clojure was created out of the motivation to have the cake and eat it too. Most other languages grant you the benefits of type-safety but at the cost of re
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by dusklight 14y ago
I personally think how clojure has been presented so far is its greatest strength and it is the reason why it is so strong so far and why it continues to get stronger. You have to be a better than average programmer, one who has worked with
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by dusklight 15y ago
I just want to say I use duckduckgo, but the reason is because I find Google's recent policies to be unsupportable and I no longer want to use them. So far duckduckgo has been inferior in just about every way to google, most notably search
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by dusklight 15y ago
What if musicians freely allowed the distribution of their music, but charged for concerts? That would be a clear parallel to the "smells" analogy. Many musicians would be able to survive, and it will encourage them to put on more spectacul
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by dusklight 15y ago
I think it's kinda dumb to ask for code samples, because while a code sample from a honest candidate can be very helpful in determining how good they are, it is very easy for a dishonest candidate to doctor something up. Also when looking a
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by dusklight 15y ago
Maslow [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs ] would disagree with the fundamental premise of this post.
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by dusklight 15y ago
I have no idea what this does, the explanation is not clear. there is no way for me to try it without signing up for an account. Therfore I am going to ignore it and close the window.
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by dusklight 15y ago
dadgum has been mentioned a few times in this thread .. could someone please explain why that is a good blog, maybe a link to an article that is insightful?

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