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by ebcode 9y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I do have some experience with amending contracts to protect my rights of authorship and ownership over code that I write, and I would encourage all software developers to fight for these rights. That first sentence i
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by ebcode 9y ago
No smock for you!
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by ebcode 9y ago
I agree with you, but... until we have some sort of "Test For Consciousness", I think it's safe to assume that we're not going to accidentally create consciousness just by writing computer programs --- even if the prog
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by ebcode 9y ago
Relevance is relative. So, relevant to whom? It would of course be relevant to the consciousness created, but how would the creator/programmer of the AI even recognize it as being conscious?
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by ebcode 9y ago
I was lucky to see a scene from "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail"[1] when I was in junior high. But really, if you consider that "politics" is the art of directing policy, and policy is just another word for legislation,
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by ebcode 9y ago
So grateful that someone picked up the ball on this when the original dmoz went down. It's great for finding resources on specialized computer topics, such as Artificial Life.
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Lost Job Due to Popular Article [on Software Estimates](gofundme.com)
24 points by ebcode 9y ago|21 comments
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by ebcode 9y ago
Yeah, you really need to see where the cuts are for it to make sense. Here is a better version (without fictitious ocean): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fuller_projection_rotated...
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by ebcode 9y ago
As a web developer, I would urge you to focus your efforts on the mobile experience. On any given day, more smartphones and tablets are purchased than laptops or desktop PCs. The trend is more and more towards mobile -- soon it will make up
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by ebcode 9y ago
"... orbiting a particular yellow star." Our star actually casts white light. It just looks yellow from Earth. If the sun were yellow, then the moon would look yellow when it was straight overhead. The moon looks white overhead, b
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by ebcode 9y ago
The one that immediately springs to mind is "Mathematics For The Million" by Lancelot Hogben. I really enjoyed it because it places mathematical developments in their historical context.
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by ebcode 9y ago
seconded.
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by ebcode 10y ago
just found out about "approval voting" last night, so i'm experiencing baader-meinhof thanks to your comment. found out that The ACM and IEEE use this type of voting system (i think), and maybe there are some scientists out
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by ebcode 10y ago
> Collective strategies win against individualist strategies. Sounds very "black and white" to me. Besides, I believe in magic.
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by ebcode 10y ago
Like school grades, competitive sports, policemen, and war, race is an idea that only serves to divide us. I want to see humanity reach its true potential, and not be endlessly mucking about over rank and status (or ownership of resources)
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by ebcode 10y ago
forgot the "sexy" ref: https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-th...
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by ebcode 10y ago
I don't know much about hiring (so my opinion isn't worth much), but I assume you're using "data scientist" as the job title? If that's the case, it might be the reason for some of the difficulty you're e
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by ebcode 10y ago
Bryan Cantrill gave the most wonderful rant on Oracle/Ellison at LISA XXV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc (rant starts at 33:00) Two gems from the rant are, "You actually don't need to be open-mi
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by ebcode 10y ago
It sounds to me like maybe your problem is not necessarily with "managers" specifically, but more generally with people, and by extension, yourself. Relationships are hard, no matter what. We humans are primates by nature, and d
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by ebcode 10y ago
This is hilarious. But for the sake of the internet, I just have to say, no, really, don't actually try meth.
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by ebcode 10y ago
Just as a counterpoint to your argument about unstable banks: It appears that the marketplace was sorting out the unstable banks, which is why they needed to be "bailed out" by the government. If the government had not intervene
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by ebcode 10y ago
"Essays on Cellular Automata" by Arthur Burks is a good starting point. Then there's the proceedings of the conference, "International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry".
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by ebcode 10y ago
Glad to see someone raising this particular criticism. We keep hearing this same refrain, "The only way we can really change things is by getting more girls interested in technology from an early age ..."[1] Whereas the author of
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by ebcode 10y ago
I think the answer you're looking for is "no". Because C was developed at Bell Labs in the pre-internet 70s, the first "official" documentation was the book by K&R. Due to the language's popularity, it was
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by ebcode 10y ago
only tangentially related, but I recently had this idea for a short (very short) film: You see a person wake up in the morning, jump in the shower, brush teeth, eat breakfast, the whole morning routine... then they grab a briefcase or whate
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The New Intimacy Economy (2015)(medium.com)
2 points by ebcode 10y ago|0 comments
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by ebcode 10y ago
RoguelikeRadio -- if you're into that kind of thing.
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by ebcode 10y ago
> Even the US left its own portion of nuclear waste in the northern latitudes, such as the once secret reactor at Camp Century, in Greenland, although this is minuscule compared to what the Soviets left behind. The pro-US bias in this ar
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by ebcode 10y ago
I upvoted this before I read the article, simply because I agree with the headline. I wonder how many others here did the same?
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by ebcode 10y ago
The ad is in this sentence: "Additionally, this article illustrates how publicly available data from the California DWR can be easily loaded into the non-relational Axibase Time Series Database (ATSD) for interactive analysis with grap

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