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by gcv 13y ago
So the price of automation is eternal vigilance? Reminds me of the old argument that overuse of calculators means people have lost the ability to do mental arithmetic.
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by gcv 13y ago
If you're in the Bay Area, the live drawing workshop at UC Berkeley is just $4 and runs Friday nights and Saturday mornings. Best deal in art education I've ever seen.
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by gcv 13y ago
Take heart: things aren't quite as bad as you suggest. While the modern art world is certainly full of horrific hacks (Damien Hirst), a good amount of modern art truly is interesting (I'm rather fond of Jackson Pollock, myself). P
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by gcv 13y ago
I'm sure tort reform will happen eventually — after we abolish the Electoral College and rewrite the tax code, it seems like a good next step for the legislature to consider. /s
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by gcv 13y ago
Variants of that argument (usually related to smoking, alcohol, and backyard pools) have not persuaded anyone in debates over the Second Amendment. They seem unlikely to persuade anyone in debates over the Fourth.
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by gcv 13y ago
Surprised and pleased to see the NYT editorial board take this stance, considering it has traditionally supported the Obama administration. According to a poll cited in today's WSJ and LA Times ( http://www.latimes.com/n
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by gcv 13y ago
In zsh: print -l **/*myfile
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by gcv 13y ago
To be fair, Khodorkovsky was a billionaire, too. He'll get a third prison sentence on more trumped-up charges shortly. The existence of various kangaroo courts ("military tribunals") in the US security apparatus since the Bus
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by gcv 13y ago
Best wishes to you and your family at this tough time, Chris. Hang in there. At the risk of committing a social faux pas, I'd like to inject a little humor into this thread. Please watch this, and hopefully get a good laugh: http://www.you
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by gcv 13y ago
Because it worked for me. Strength training helped me overcome the RSI and back pain which plagued me while I was still inclined to overvalue the intellectual over the physical.
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by gcv 13y ago
> I don't care about being as strong as I can be. You should. From the introduction to Rippetoe's Starting Strength: “Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not. As humanity has d
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by gcv 13y ago
Unless I'm missing the point of your argument, it sounds like you're saying that, e.g., computational biology does not benefit from representation as immutable data structures. Although I have no experience writing software for modeling cel
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by gcv 13y ago
To expand on Yuri's comment: the standard view of databases, with mutable data, is flawed in the same way that mutable data structures are flawed in programming. Mutable state makes reasoning about program behavior more difficult than neces
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US Department of Defense requests Defense Distributed to remove content(twitter.com)
4 points by gcv 13y ago|1 comments
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by gcv 13y ago
Does this mean Adobe might actually fix its horrific installers?
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by gcv 13y ago
Were they any fun to drive? After Ford bought Aston, I always assumed the cars would feel like souped-up Tauruses with Connolly leather interiors, but I've never actually sat behind the wheel of an Aston.
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by gcv 13y ago
Because too many of them are busy looking for other people to give them employment (which has been difficult for employers to do), instead of figuring out how to create wealth on their own. If more created their own businesses, they would p
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by gcv 13y ago
C++11 is not outdated. Except for backwards-compatibility artifacts like header files, it's actually quite modern and pleasant to use. If performance is a consideration, then, put bluntly, it's the only high-level language available.
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by gcv 13y ago
I wrote a simple OCaml compiler for a class in college. I particularly enjoyed using different operators for floating-point and integer math — brilliant usability there, really sold me on static types. Haskell does better with its type clas
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by gcv 13y ago
Could this just have been a good old-fashioned programming bug, rather than spamming or malicious intent?
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by gcv 13y ago
Dynamic typing is outdated?!
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by gcv 13y ago
As Heinlein said, specialization is for insects.
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by gcv 13y ago
Really, FTFF is in the works? I'll believe it when I see it. (I don't know why Apple hasn't just bought Path Finder.)
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by gcv 13y ago
Don't confuse computer science and its application in writing software. We have made great progress in algorithms and generally understanding the applied math aspects of expressing computational processes. The software we write is still unt
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by gcv 13y ago
1. Our customers almost never have such excellent and unchanging specs for us to work with. 2. There is no such thing as software "engineering". Engineering implies a degree of understanding of the processes involved which programming, a cr
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by gcv 13y ago
Does the HN community not talk about Pulp Fiction? This app must be buggy.
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by gcv 13y ago
org-mode blows all these terrible pseudo-markup syntaxes out of the water.
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by gcv 13y ago
> Previously, elisp package authors would try to make their code self-contained. And I fervently hope that does not change. Moving Emacs to the world of Gems/Bundler or Maven, where every package depends on two dozen half-assed librarie
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IBM Watson and medical analysis(theatlantic.com)
3 points by gcv 14y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 14y ago
This Lulu thing is fairly controversial, judging by App Store reviews. A previous attempt to do this moved away from posting reviews of men: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DontDateHimGirl.com

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