dusklight

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by dusklight 15y ago
Have you heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
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by dusklight 15y ago
I don't fully agree with this, it depends on what type of project you are working on. There is a certain type of cowboy programmer that depends on thinking quickly and having a good memory. This type of programmer can write code that works,
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by dusklight 15y ago
Can you please be more specific about which "liberal jewish values" you are talking about? Similarly can you give specific examples of Japanese cultural values that have taken hold in the US?
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by dusklight 15y ago
I have to disagree with your statement about T2 .. To me at least it is one of the best (true) science fiction movies because it made me think more deeply about what does it mean to be human, what is love, courage, self-sacrifice? I didn't
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by dusklight 15y ago
Please don't take this the wrong way, this is a serious question, and I hope you give it some serious thought before you answer. Do you feel fulfilled? Do you feel like this is the most you can contribute to human civilization? If you could
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by dusklight 15y ago
Yeah I really don't get it? Google is valuable because (the theory is) you buy advertising and you get more business and you make more money. So the more money you spend on google the more money you make. Ok I get it. Facebook is valuable b
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by dusklight 15y ago
Have you heard of the term "confirmation bias" before?
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by dusklight 15y ago
Can someone explain to me why dropbox has been so successful? I get that its a good idea but what makes it so valuable?
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by dusklight 15y ago
When all is said and done, I wonder if Hitler will have done more good than evil? For all the things he did when he was alive, one of his lasting legacies has been, he has made it incredibly shameful to be racist. Most people don't dare to
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by dusklight 15y ago
It's not that the olden times were more civilized .. it's more that today, our uncivilized components can read and write and use facebook, whereas in the past the working class wrote no blogs and left no written record (because they didn't
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by dusklight 15y ago
I am not saying that being a coward is a natural state, rather I am saying that courage can be taught. If you want to work in software engineering you have to teach yourself pretty much everything -- identifying what you need to learn is a
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by dusklight 15y ago
This is why I mentioned the Dunning-Kruger effect. You have no idea how bad you are at programming and how completely wrong you are. From other comments in this thread we can already see how poor of a decision it was to use a dynamically ty
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by dusklight 15y ago
People hate math because they are cowards and people are cowards because we have math 101 in school but not courage 101 ... I have spent a lot of time teaching myself how to learn, so I agree that current institutionalized methods of educat
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by dusklight 15y ago
It shouldn't be called codecadamey, it should be called javascriptkindergarten. I think it is arrogant because it is claiming to be teaching how to code, when it is not doing anything of the sort. I think it is supremely arrogant to not eve
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by dusklight 15y ago
Why doesn't this say right at the very beginning what language you are trying to teach? The tone of the site is incredibly arrogant. What makes you qualified to teach? Have you heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect? It should be more explicit
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by dusklight 15y ago
The idea behind not optimizing prematurely is there are some optimizations that come at a cost of decreased maintainability/readability. Not prematurely optimizing means choosing to prioritize your code structure to allow no-unexpected-side
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by dusklight 15y ago
We are talking about billions of dollars here .. people have killed for much less. We know that there already are companies who sell upvotes for digg/reddit. selling tweets, etc. There is no evidence so far but no one can deny that there is
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by dusklight 15y ago
Title is extremely misleading. Should be "Verizon Android Phone" instead of just Android.
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by dusklight 15y ago
What I think the real problem is entrepreneurs who are primarily looking for money/recognition don't look for problems that need to be solved, they look for problems that can be solved. I would love to see more cross disciplinary startups i
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by dusklight 15y ago
Hey so we know that facebook has hired PR people to try to make google look bad .. what's up with these recent anti-google posts from ex-googlers? Can anyone verify that these posts weren't paid for?
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by dusklight 15y ago
I still remember http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html but it's not true anymore is it? It looks like the nerds are now spending much more time on trying to be popular than anything else nowadays. You got a post with lots of karma because
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by dusklight 15y ago
Personally I think the main problem was lack of commitment in customer discovery and how much were you paying the PHD students? Why weren't they motivated enough to help you advertise? In the US, most graduate students assist professors in
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by dusklight 15y ago
Uh so you wrote that bad code isn't a factor .. imagine if it had taken you 2 weeks to write the code instead of 6 months and you spent the rest of the 2 years on customer discovery instead, imagine if you were able to make significant feat
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by dusklight 15y ago
Yes but India has/(had? kinda not really) the caste system so it would be expected that people in the same family have the same profession. Intellectually speaking, in your average Indian village just how many people would you expect to be
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by dusklight 15y ago
I don't know if this is the right time to be introducing clojure to beginners yet. The language is still undergoing some basic fundamental changes. If you look at 1.3 there is so much that is different and breaks stuff from 1.2 and before.
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by dusklight 15y ago
Hangouts is going to drive adoption. It's chat roulette without the roulette.
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by dusklight 15y ago
actually I take that back, after closer examination of the hangouts feature .. that is going to kill in the middle-school/high school crowd.
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by dusklight 15y ago
When I look at this demo, I just think about sporks. Sporks are so cool! They are a spoon AND a fork! But they never replaced actual spoons and forks. Because while sporks are an improvement over the old design, they just weren't better eno
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by dusklight 15y ago
Just a quick comment about averages .. the writer makes the argument that the average income of a college graduate is much higher than someone who did not go to college but this is a very misleading statistic .. because the incomes of colle
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by dusklight 15y ago
How's this. I want to buy a new graphics card. It retails for $200. I offer to buy it for $150, the store makes a smaller margin but still profits. You might not wait a long time to get a pizza but would be willing to wait a few days to see

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