ericwaller

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by ericwaller 18y ago
I don't know about another dimension, but a pretty cool display nonetheless
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by ericwaller 18y ago
A couple of UX points: It took me a fews seconds to find the video link, even though I was specifically looking for it -- both it's visual appearance and sidebar placement had me thinking it was an ad. And once I did see it, it wasn't obvio
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by ericwaller 18y ago
> He says he’s largely letting his machine-learning lab at Cambridge run itself these days I hope the humor was intentional -- especially since The Register has a whole section dedicated to the "Rise of the Machines™."
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by ericwaller 19y ago
Ok yeah, com.google.mail/inbox preserves the tree hierarchy
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by ericwaller 19y ago
I'm sure you're not being facetious, but I can't figure it out. What's the advantage of this?
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by ericwaller 19y ago
The simplest answer may also be the best: there's a lot to learn. And it seems that as society becomes more complicated, there's more you must learn to survive. There is a strong evolutionary advantage to taking care of our sick and elderly
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by ericwaller 19y ago
"The Rails Way," is by far the best rails book I've seen. As you might gather from the title, this book really aims at teaching the ruby/rails idioms necessary to get the most out of rails.
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by ericwaller 19y ago
Certainly, I only bring up the sports example in attempt to strengthen the case for mental enhancement. Interestingly, your argument comes to bear on drug use in school since competition there is also relative.
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by ericwaller 19y ago
It's a much less noble cause, but I've made a similar argument in regards to professional athletes using steroids. Sure steroids can seriously screw up your body, but some of these guys are making millions of dollars a year for their physic
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by ericwaller 19y ago
These facts and issues simply don't matter to most people. There is an academic-minded "sect" that might consider this blasphemous, but Kabul, the current Secretary of Defense, even the year of WWII, none of these issues come to bear on the
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by ericwaller 19y ago
This is why prototype based languages allow software to model our experiences much more accurately. Inheritance seems to rely on a platonic ideal, i.e. there is some universal sense of chair (parent class) from which office chair, rocking c
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by ericwaller 19y ago
A negative income tax seems to me like a generally good, if naive, solution. Of course the problem is that a straight forward negative income tax creates a resistance level where each additional dollar earned is worth less and less. The sim
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by ericwaller 19y ago
What requires more thought, farming or computer programming? coal mining or accounting? I would argue that today we engage our minds more than any other society before us.
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by ericwaller 19y ago
Paypal is almost certainly the way to go for micropayments https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_micropayments.ht... $0.05 + 5%
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by ericwaller 19y ago
Unit testing isn't a bad idea, but it's not an incredibly prolific one either. Maybe I haven't gotten the proper intro to testing, but what I've seen (mainly in rails blog articles) is a joke. If I'm going to test a function I want to test
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by ericwaller 19y ago
This is hilarious, I think if anything it qualifies this blog for funding..
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by ericwaller 20y ago
With so many saying that google's stock is way overvalued, building a national wireless network or just a 'regular' ISP may be the best way to throw around the weight they have now to establish a truly permanent foothold. Also, (this is a s
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by ericwaller 20y ago
Hopefully the concept of the web as a data source will push more content creators toward open content licenses (or at least more openness toward their content), even making it a requirement for those who wish to be competitive at all. Of co