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   by esfandia 12y ago

   If one is home-schooled by parents who give the child a well-rounded education, why not. In this case, one parent is explicitly considering history to be a useless topic.
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   by esfandia 12y ago

   My AI prof once wrote on the board "Learning is generalization". It makes sense: if the only way you're reasoning is by attempting to retrieve things from your cache, it's rote learning and you're not able to deal w
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   by esfandia 12y ago

   It's a bit better since JDK1.7 introduced a modicum of type inference: List<String> list = new ArrayList<>()
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   by esfandia 12y ago

   Based on the title of the article, I expected it to describe very general principles for writing debuggers, but it seems very specific to gdb. Are things similar in, say, Python or Java?
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   by esfandia 12y ago

   Would a P2P version of GitHub make sense? Each outward-facing local repo would provide a GitHub-like interface for browsing code, submitting PRs etc., and would in addition route repo search requests to neighboring repos using something lik
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   by esfandia 12y ago

   I think the author should be using the term "agency" instead of "intelligence", and then I might agree. The amoeba or the most basic animal doesn't have much intelligence, but it has drive and desire to survive and
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   by esfandia 12y ago

   I may somewhat agree with the author's case against productivity, but I think it's important not to confuse it with a case against production . At the end of the day (or life) I think you do want to look back and think of what
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   by esfandia 12y ago

   Why not keep the old document and let the new version (child) refer to the old one (parent)? You then "just" need a refresh feature that can retrieve newer versions of the document for you. In our P2Pedia system (I referred to it
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   by esfandia 12y ago

   We have a P2P file-sharing program that does this, called U-P2P ( http://u-p2p.sf.net ). Content is hashed, and you use a Gnutella search using the hash to retrieve it. Documents are organized by what we call "communities&quo
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    by esfandia 12y ago

    > I come away from this thinking that Omidyar doesn’t have any particular expertise or insight about running a journalism startup. > He seems like a dilletante, trying to improve the world perhaps, but mostly trying to live an intere
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    by esfandia 12y ago

    See Ikiru by Kurosawa for an admittedly fictional and old example.
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    by esfandia 12y ago

    Philanthropy strikes me as anti-democratic. Why should the rich get to choose which causes are more deserving of their generosity? Let the elected government pool the money and make this determination.
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    by esfandia 12y ago

    I didn't see any discrepancy: both the article and Marx are criticizing the alienating effect of the added bureaucracy and the lessening of the doctors' autonomy.
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    by esfandia 12y ago

    > I'd take a crowd sourced db of health info over a doctor's personal knowledge any day of the week. I think it's a great idea, and so I went looking for a StackExchange forum for it. It turns out there is one that is in t
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    by esfandia 12y ago

    I'm afraid the one-page review assignment part at the end of the article won't give much satisfaction to the instructor who came up with it. A lazy student could simply paraphrase the paper abstract to address the first two bullet