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by gregfjohnson 15y ago
This is simply amazing. It seems like a beautiful work of art in some strange new genre.
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by gregfjohnson 15y ago
Here is a thought that has helped me get through episodes: I would rather suffer this pain (which is probably not permanent, even though it feels like it is) than inflict on others the lifelong burden of a father, or friend, or companion,
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by gregfjohnson 15y ago
I have used VirtualBox on a linux host with WinXP as the client operating system for about three years, every day. I depend on it for work and have found it to be rock-solid and completely dependable. I really appreciate the contributors
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by gregfjohnson 15y ago
Great post. I sent the link to my manager.
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by gregfjohnson 15y ago
There seems to be some deep intuition that anti-depressant drugs will adversely affect something essential about who a person is, how they will function, or how they will experience and perceive the world. I absolutely share those feelings
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by gregfjohnson 16y ago
Comment by a French computer scientist: "Well, of course it will work in practice, but will it work in theory?"
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Any HN'ers doing the Facebook Hacker Cup?
1 points by gregfjohnson 16y ago|0 comments
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by gregfjohnson 16y ago
The people I worry about in the U.S. are the ones who will not be equipped to be entrepreneurs, innovators, or knowledge management types. Only about 30% of Americans earn a college degree. We university types tend to forget they exist, j
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by gregfjohnson 16y ago
I would have assumed the list would be numbered in binary ;-)
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by gregfjohnson 16y ago
In order to improve the performance of hash tables, why not have the buckets be something like a red-black tree instead of a linked list? (You might improve the efficiency a little by spending a bit and saying "This bucket contains a singl
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by gregfjohnson 16y ago
In case you've gotten used to just using screen on your local machine as I have, as a handy way to manage multiple "ascii desktops": A useful trick is to ssh to a remote machine and start a screen session on the remote machine. Then you ca
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by gregfjohnson 16y ago
I believe the inquiry was to determine whether discrimination against female applicants was starting to happen as a way to redress the male/female imbalance.
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by gregfjohnson 16y ago
My goal is a 20-minute sit in the morning and a 20-minute sit in the evening. The morning sit happens more frequently than the evening sit these days! I do centering prayer, which is a very simple and receptive practice that involves the u
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by gregfjohnson 16y ago
I do appreciate this nice geometrical explanation, but the explanation of Euler's identity via Taylor series expansion has always seemed intuitive and reasonable to me.
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The Microsofting of Apple?(online.wsj.com)
1 points by gregfjohnson 17y ago|0 comments
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by gregfjohnson 17y ago
I agree that tests should be part of the language. For example it would be great to have convenient and natural language support for creating simulated error conditions to force test execution of rarely used error handling code. An essent
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by gregfjohnson 18y ago
I'm a bit of a lurker on HN, but had to add a comment here. The Stanford online offerings are fantastic. I'm taking Stephen Boyd's "Introduction to Linear Dynamic Systems", and it is simply superb. The course is given at a rate of two le
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by gregfjohnson 19y ago
Locality of concerns. I've come to realize that the fundamental issue in programming is that we all look at the universe through finite brain-sized portholes. Higher order languages, structuring systems in abstraction hierarchies, and sof
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by gregfjohnson 19y ago
Great article. Paul provides a useful illumination of the issue. The great medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas operated at level DH6, often with devastating effect. He would formulate and state the argument he planned to refute with clari
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by gregfjohnson 19y ago
bs math Pomona College, ms statistics, ms,phd computer science U Wisc -Madison Am a programmer; love what I do. 6-word novel describing my life: "It worked! Still can't believe it."