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by gpsx 5y ago
I don't know what you should do about your job, but I'd recommend watching the movie Office Space.
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by gpsx 5y ago
I wonder if this is what the fed and treasury are really shooting for, trying to push some inflation into worker salaries. If so they may willingly sacrifice some gains in the market.
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by gpsx 5y ago
I know the coffee thing is just an analogy to make his point, so there is not much point in arguing about it. But since I face this question every morning, I can't help but say what I think about, and it is not latency versus throughpu
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by gpsx 5y ago
I bet the author uses print debug statements some times.
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by gpsx 5y ago
A ways back, the president at a multi-discipline engineering consulting firm I worked in made an interesting point. If you give ten EEs a hardware task, they will come back with something that looks similar. If you give ten software enginee
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by gpsx 6y ago
This may be beside the point, but I don't think there is any alien lift out there. I am going to make up number N_life_universes which is the number of universes needed in order for an instance of intelligent life to evolve. Many peopl
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by gpsx 6y ago
I don't understand how people view changing the past with time travel. If I go back in time I might experience a given point in time twice, but that point in time still only happens once. So if I go back to 1940 and kill my grandfather
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by gpsx 6y ago
Wow. People are being pretty hard on this guy. A common complaint is that he wants to code but not put the least amount of work in. What is wrong with that? Or why get angry at him? I've been working on a side project related to being
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by gpsx 6y ago
Most people with exposure to any physics learn some basics about electrons, light and quantum mechanics, but I think it is tough to put these different ideas together. The hard part about quantum mechanics for physicists is not the rules fo
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by gpsx 6y ago
There is an argument that one instance of life evolving does imply there should be much more. I personally don't believe this though, though it is a valid argument. There is a counter argument too. The common argument in favor of more
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by gpsx 6y ago
I think a mix of conformity and independent thinking is important. Conformity is hardwired into us, and I assume that came from evolution as a means to help our survival, though I can't say I understand to what extent. I remember an of
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by gpsx 6y ago
I think it is unfair to say he is not cut out for a startup. If he has trouble doing some of those things, he needs help from someone who is good at those. People in a startup have to wear a lot of hats, but they don't have to wear eve
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by gpsx 6y ago
I'm not an expert but I can make an educated guess. They put dimples on golf balls to create turbulence, which gives less drag than laminar flow over the ball. I assume that is the same thing happening in the sharkskin swimsuit. For th
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by gpsx 6y ago
Imagine that in each pond several different combinations are being tried in parallel, kind of like in a quantum computer. Of course, the universe is a giant quantum computer. This leads to the idea that even if life is very unlikely, it can
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by gpsx 6y ago
Hi HN! This is intended to be an extension of the concept of a spreadsheet to a general programming environment. It looks like a notebook and can be used like one. It can also be used to write client aplications and web services. I find it
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Show HN: Apogee – cross between a spreadsheet and a notebook(apogeejs.com)
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by gpsx 6y ago
Regarding the short term versus long term, I agree with you here. I meant to differentiate between getting profit by investing, which certainly has a lot of value and is the whole point of capital markets, and from getting profit from fluct
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by gpsx 6y ago
I'm not an economics or finance expert, so I may not have a very extensive view of this, but I think there is a meaning to the expression of providing value. If a product has more value to a person than the price of the product, assumi
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by gpsx 6y ago
If you want to get technical, what about air resistance?
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by gpsx 6y ago
It is much easier to think in two dimensions than three. If you picture the ball following a parabolic trajectory in space then you are really thinking in three dimensions here. It might be easier to think of throwing the ball straight up,
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by gpsx 6y ago
Watching the video, I'm not sure I interpret it to say the term technical refers only to code needing to be refactored because it was well written but based on incomplete knowledge. But I understand how someone could interpret the vide
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by gpsx 6y ago
I think Mozilla should have worked on a cloud application suite, like Google and Microsoft have. And possibly they could have done a better job extending it into an ecosystem for other application providers. This is very natural for the com
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by gpsx 6y ago
I don't feel nearly as smart or "outstanding" as I did when I was younger. But I don't think it is because I have gotten much less smart or outstanding. I think my perception has become more accurate.
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by gpsx 6y ago
I really liked this linked article below which talks about what makes people most productive. Its starts off talking about brainstorming, which it says doesn't work, but goes on to talking about more general collaboration and is releva
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by gpsx 6y ago
I agree MWI is the minimal "version" (don't get hung up on that word) of quantum mechanics. I take it as a given and consider the way we experience/interpret the universe as an insight into how the brain works.
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by gpsx 6y ago
Wow, with all that information generated you would think some of it would tell us how to move off the planet and use more of the universe.
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by gpsx 6y ago
No. I wasn't trying to say that. He is right that there is a lot to know to make any contribution to physics. I was trying to make a more general comment that people shouldn't be afraid to try something even if they don't kno
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by gpsx 6y ago
Gerard 't Hooft knows a thing or two about being a GOOD theoretical physicist. But I do have one general complaint about what he is saying. It is apparently common for people, especially ex-physicists like myself, to think they have fi
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by gpsx 6y ago
Cooks use a knife straightener on their knives to keep them sharp longer. Well, I'm not a cook, but I do it too. It works really well. I was wondering if people could do this on razors. I think this is equivalent to palm stropping. For
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by gpsx 6y ago
Watching a video of the blast, you can see a very large shock wave in the air. A large amount of energy was dissipated this way which would not happen in a normal earthquake. I am sure the fraction could be estimated. In fact, in a fluids p

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