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by gmarx 12y ago
yep. Manufactured by your liver, on purpose. Cholesterol is necessary for animals to live. It comprises,for example (if memory serves) about 50% of animal cell membrane. It's bizarre that people have been convinced this stuff is deadly
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by gmarx 12y ago
I'm probably one of the niche guys but I see wider applications for this. I like in dash GPS which I have from an after market unit. I use it frequently. The problem is that to update the maps, you need to purchase a CDROM for a hundre
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by gmarx 12y ago
i'm not sure how to contradict this since it seems orthogonal to my point. I don't know those programs and can't tell which aspects of them you consider unmodelable. A human designed system could be stupidly designed but as l
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by gmarx 12y ago
Look at the literature and try to find convincing evidence that high cholesterol causes heart disease. I've never seen it. They keep looking for new fractions of cholesterol that will finally show significance but they never question t
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by gmarx 12y ago
I think the most important aspect of the object paradigm is that it models real world entities. The real world has a logical consistency so code properly modeled on it will have a logical consistency. This makes it easier to extend as you t
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by gmarx 12y ago
The the woman who grew the DNA crystals that enabled Watson and Crick to do their model. Almost all scientific progress is an extended team effort both laterally and vertically in time. You have the draw the line somewhere. If they gave eac
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by gmarx 12y ago
Fair enough but I was making a statement about the contribution of genetics to IQ. I was making a statement about the notion that someone with a low IQ can do high IQ stuff just by trying really hard. I'm not a psychometrician and I do
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by gmarx 12y ago
I believe that most people who believe as you do haven't spent a lot of time in deep interaction with people who are significantly less intelligent than they are. If you frequent Hacker news, i'd hazard a guess that you almost nev
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by gmarx 12y ago
The most difficult part of most software projects is the interface between people who have the problem and programmers. Most programmers don't have the ability to handle this part themselves. This is why we have product managers/b
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by gmarx 12y ago
tres cool
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by gmarx 12y ago
I disagree that society is more accepting of older men marrying younger women. There is a different reaction to it, a different set of assumed scenarios, but in my limited experience people accept both until the age difference goes over abo
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by gmarx 12y ago
I spent (I think) about two years walking by a sign in the south loop that said something like "coming in October of 2005, Target" and I thought, well, that's a pretty bold estimate for completing a building. Damn if that isn
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by gmarx 12y ago
I read an article/opinion piece a few years ago that posited the reason there are fewer female scientists is because scientist is, on average, a bad choice for a career. The author claimed that contrary to popular opinion, this was jus
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by gmarx 12y ago
It's a strange thing you see in many popular press science stories; It's not enough to report the findings. They want some kind of human conflict. So contradicting a person like Chomsky gets the reader more involved.
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by gmarx 12y ago
"... promise what no others can: the opportunity to do irreplaceable work on a unique problem alongside great people." So, step one- be a great person. In the words of Maxwell Smart "missed it by that much"
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by gmarx 12y ago
Humans best understand systems by analogy to systems they already understand. We best understand systems we have built ourselves. It ends up limiting how we think about problems and which problems we can understand. For example, to model th
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by gmarx 12y ago
Yes, whether or not you make the distinction, neither applies. I take it people on Hacker News don't dig Ellison. For all I know he is a sociopath. The above is not evidence for that.
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by gmarx 12y ago
No it isn't. If people keep throwing around these kind of assertions, these very serious psych diagnoses will lose all specificity and become useless.
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by gmarx 12y ago
Good point. He says you need to make them do documentation; How about your responsibility to document requirements/specs?
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by gmarx 12y ago
Good programmers do live all over, but there are selection effects at work. In the US programmers tend to be people who like to program. In many other countries they are a cross section of smart college grads who do it more because it is a
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by gmarx 12y ago
I created an account just to tell you how wonderful your rambling is. When I think about similar issues, my mind wonders towards evolution. If you believe that our brains evolved to solve problems we faced way back when, you must accept the