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by freddref 9y ago
I feel like there is not enough "interesting" work to go around. Maybe more experimental work is seen as less likely to be profitable or too risky to implement?
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by freddref 10y ago
writing, not using.
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by freddref 10y ago
It's only intuitive after you understand it ;)
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by freddref 10y ago
This is a very unfortunate state of affairs for science in general, giving the amount of tools we have to make an experiment more replicable. Replication is perhaps simplest in the field of computer science, yet many papers do not release t
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by freddref 10y ago
This is an excellent solution. Schools should really advocate for this. The law is counter-productive in it's current form.
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by freddref 10y ago
How many people are typically involved in this type of decision?
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by freddref 10y ago
Isn't everyone hard to recruit? The difference in perception of coders might be that the evidence for a bad recruit is obvious in the code they produce. There could be many bad recruits in all other areas but are less obvious. I genera
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by freddref 10y ago
If we don't really object to sharing our data with a wide range of u.s. companies, why would we care if it is shared with China or anyone else also?
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by freddref 10y ago
Elephant in the room is of course the amount of data that is sent to the u.s. from phones in the rest of the world. Hardly a surprise that China is getting in on the action too.
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by freddref 10y ago
Either or, or both. The book is short.
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by freddref 10y ago
Each new language seems to provide diminishing returns from the previous ones if you consider only the language constructs. It appears that everything surrounding the language has more of an impact, how easy it is to get started, how big th
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by freddref 10y ago
Probably. But it would be irresponsible to make roadworks appear and not make that information available for those that need it. I'd assume roadworks are usually planned and can be checked beforehand especially when attempting bold exp
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by freddref 10y ago
Well I think it's a great idea in general, so thank you! :) It is something I had been wondering about, and it's something only the hn and google people probably have access to. Wonder could you generalise it for any discussion si
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by freddref 10y ago
How about time of day?
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by freddref 10y ago
"Mrs Clinton told bankers that they were best-placed to help reform the US financial sector" - which is true, but she failed to mention that was also the problem. Bankers are in the best position to reform, but the most unlikely t
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by freddref 10y ago
People shouldn't be writing code at all. A lot of testing and small code corrections should be automated at the very least. We have the iron, lets put it to work.
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by freddref 10y ago
I would guess many people see "office work" as a form of UBI, where people self-regulate how much they work. Office blocks may not be physically empty, but the amount of work getting done appears to vary drastically. Lot of (logic
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by freddref 10y ago
I couldn't afford the required mustache wax.
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by freddref 10y ago
I'd like one of these just for text with an E-Ink screen, no GUI, boot straight to Emacs. What to name it though? Emacs-book, text-book, clibook...
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by freddref 10y ago
"We got tired of all that cheating in the industry" - runs windows
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by freddref 10y ago
Thinkpad's are great, X120e still going fine here despite being years old. Mac hardware is lovely, pity it's such a struggle to get control over it (ie install linux :) I just nearly choked looking at the price of the x131e, how i
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by freddref 10y ago
Is using "boring" tech odd for startups? Choosing and using tech is only one of the things a startup does. I would guess it's more important to do something odd for everything else than it is to do something "odd" t
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by freddref 10y ago
Maybe they're measuring demand before getting too far into the game. Getting people to pay is arguably the best way of measuring demand.
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by freddref 10y ago
I really like the idea of using something similar to the stack overflow model to help with peer review. It could open up the peer review process to more people for a longer period of time, giving a higher chance that more people will cont
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by freddref 10y ago
> Should publisher's work be free? Publishers work is not needed, it can be distributed among authors who can do it at a negligible cost.
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by freddref 10y ago
Will the public reaction be considered at all in this proposal? In line with current trends is it not more likely that public reaction will for the most part be ignored?
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by freddref 10y ago
I too use a netbook (Lenovo x120e) and an Xperia mini pro. I want to replace both and really like the look of the Asus X205TA but there doesn't seem to be any updare on the mini pro. The Pyra seems awkwardly in between the two, without
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by freddref 10y ago
no tape deck?
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by freddref 10y ago
If the price goes to near-negligible, and people (eventually) reach some saturation level for the amount of easily replaceable stuff they have access to, what will a feeling of infinite supply do to consumer demand? Surely you can only need
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by freddref 10y ago
I very recently saw this building for the first time from the hills overlooking Vienna. I didn't know what it was but thought an interesting looking building that fit in with the relatively progressive feel of the city.

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