garyrob

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by garyrob 12y ago
My son is creating a software project for a independent study project in high school. I've been nagging him for a while to use version control, and he hasn't done it. I think it's a bit intimidating to be handed a 400-page bo
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Two-Minute Guide to Git(garyrobinson.net)
87 points by garyrob 12y ago|30 comments
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by garyrob 12y ago
Some people have felt that switching graphics modes is the source of Mavericks crashes. I had five crashes in several days last week. I went to the Energy Saver control panel, and turned off Automated Graphics Switching. Haven't had a
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by garyrob 12y ago
I can hardly believe I wrote what I wrote -- I'm not normally that dismissive, at least of the views of people I know to be smart, particularly when I haven't ingested their arguments. I must have been in a very bad mood. Thanks f
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by garyrob 12y ago
True... the possible dangers of AI can exist even if AI never achieves true consciousness. Many forms of life have evolved to service their own needs at the expense of other forms of life, and most of them either have no brains or brains to
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by garyrob 12y ago
I agree with you. Denying the existence of qualia makes no sense to me, except as the result of psychological processes. When you have to believe something in order to hold on to other cherished beliefs, there is a strong human tendency to
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by garyrob 13y ago
"The reason for the dearth of older hackers is the same reason there are few people running marathons at age 60 or 70: As we age, our bodies and minds degrade." That is an overgeneralization that could lead to needlessly depressin
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by garyrob 13y ago
Are you posting your thesis online? I'd like to have a look.
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by garyrob 13y ago
I just want to say kudos to the above responses. I think they're right on the money. In fact, I think the main reason I got into engineering in the first place is that I couldn't stand people's bullshit. In engineering, it ac
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by garyrob 14y ago
This really makes no sense to me. Orian says that "App.net is a service dedicated to providing a new infrastructure for social web applications that will never be funded through ad revenue....App.net has publicly declared that their most va
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by garyrob 16y ago
I read the book before the movie came out (I was 12 at the time; I vividly recall begging my mother to take me to the bookstore to buy it, at which time she presented it to me because she'd already bought it for me for Christmas or my birth
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by garyrob 16y ago
Ebert never mentions Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote the short story that the movie is derived from, who wrote the script with Kubrick, and who also wrote a first-class sci-fi novel with the same name and basic plot as the movie. The Clarke nov
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by garyrob 16y ago
"I suspect his presence is vastly less important. The design team with Ives, operation team with Cook, etc. know what's making things work. He's been "absent" a lot in the last few years, yet it's been the strongest period for the company -
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by garyrob 16y ago
See http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Wag... ("Why Psychologists Must Change the Way They Analyze Their Data: The Case of Psi".) It demolishes the study referred to in the npr article.
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Iran admits malicious software (stuxnet, I assume) attacked centrifuges(nytimes.com)
3 points by garyrob 16y ago|0 comments
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by garyrob 17y ago
I'll just say that I read HN every day and find it VERY valuable. Even the stuff from (or responding to) Joel. I'm extremely busy, and this community filter helps me use my limited reading time much more efficiently than I'd be able to do o