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by happimess 12y ago
I think that you misunderstand what the article means by "evolved twice." Neurons certainly did not appear out of whole cloth in one generation, and the process involved many false starts and dead ends. The question is, do all cur
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by happimess 12y ago
To my ear, it seems that the emphasis comes from the FBI agent. The reporter keeps a fairly neutral voice, but the paragraph quoted, combined with the ones immediately before and after, paint the FBI agent as uninformed and credulous.
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by happimess 12y ago
It is worth remembering that part of the case against Mr. Aleynikov involves his use of "subversion" software, which sounds, well, subversive. From the Vanity Fair article[1]: "The Web site Serge had used (which has the word
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by happimess 12y ago
I think this is exactly the kind of situation that GP had in mind. A computer would be undoubtedly faster and more accurate concentrating fire on the weakest stalker, but a human is better at deciding whether to attack now or move into posi
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by happimess 12y ago
To be fair, I think a lot of sighted people would agree with you on both points.
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by happimess 12y ago
Surely you're joking--Notch gave away the POC for free, and started charging for the beta somewhere before 2011 (when I started playing). Since then, new features and bug fixes have been essentially non-stop. I picked it up after a lon
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by happimess 12y ago
Does anyone have any insight as to how painful it is to relocate to Paris from outside of France, or even from outside of the Schengen zone?
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by happimess 12y ago
This is a great list for my "while integration tests run" bookmark folder. Thanks! Quick feature request: It would be great to see the number of comments on the HN page.
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by happimess 12y ago
I'm with you--I have a beer with dinner almost every night, but it is very rare for me to have three drinks in a night.
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by happimess 12y ago
The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Vol 2 [1] has a great chapter on ghc, which includes a good look at the ghc runtime (section 5.5). [1] http://aosabook.org/en/ghc.html
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by happimess 12y ago
I've just peeked at this book again, and I noticed that they do start with ghci. They're very up-front about its peculiarities, though.
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by happimess 12y ago
> Also checking out the other people's suggested Learn you a Haskell. Just to get the minority opinion out there, I found the style of Learn You a Haskell to be insufferable. Real World Haskell is available free online[1] and has a
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by happimess 12y ago
Hey, you're right. Maybe clearer messaging is the answer. I had no idea that that was the norm.
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by happimess 12y ago
One more UI request: Given two points, there are two possible third points on an equilateral triangle, and no clear way to choose between them. Great game, though. I'm on level 5 and having a lot of fun.
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by happimess 12y ago
The entry on Warp in "The Performance of Open Source Applications" was similarly fascinating. http://aosabook.org/en/posa/warp.html
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by happimess 12y ago
Parts 2, 3, and 4 are here: http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/michael/blog/1405/index.... http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/michael/blog/1405/index.... http://ww
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Tools for Thought (part 1 of 4)(covingtoninnovations.com)
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by happimess 12y ago
I would alter your list to say that a competent software engineer working together with a scientist > a scientist taking a thoughtful approach > a sloppy scientist > someone who is neither a competent software engineer nor a though
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by happimess 12y ago
My strategy is to do sun salutations until my body fully warms up, and then do a handful of (usually standing) poses that seem like they'd feel good. It may take me 10 or 15 minutes. More is great, of course, but even a brief session d
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by happimess 13y ago
Wear shoes and clothes you can move in. It really is one of the coolest indoor spaces I've ever seen.
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by happimess 13y ago
The headline is over the top, but the article was pretty levelheaded. From the penultimate paragraph: "[...] Freitas points out that if someone is monitoring your internet traffic — or mass monitoring internet users — they’d still be a
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by happimess 13y ago
Based on this account, I imagine that being a psychopath confers some advantage for just about our entire history as creatures that can form and execute plans. Being a sincere participant in social groups has probably provided an advantage
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by happimess 13y ago
I'm sure that there are entities who have $150m in cash lying around. Drug cartels come to mind.
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by happimess 13y ago
For anyone wondering about the acronyms above, ECB is Electronic Codebook, CBC is Cipher-block Chaining, and IV is an Initialization Vector used in CBC. IND-CPA is Indistinguishability under chosen-plaintext, a method of attack. These are e
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by happimess 13y ago
That was very informative, thanks.
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by happimess 13y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but I inherited a wad of xslt fairly recently, and it seems frustrating and verbose to me. What do you like about it? Can you point me to some examples of good code?
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by happimess 13y ago
The tone of the first paragraph was jarring. "Most professionals" are classist, judgmental pieces of shit? What?
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by happimess 13y ago
No, for two reasons. First, Humble Bundle scales. They can pull together a handful of artists to offer some MP3s, and sell it to the whole world. Groupon has to negotiate with small businesses in every market that they want to have a presen
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by happimess 13y ago
I believe Spooky meant "trivially avoided" rather than "resulting in trivial damage."
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by happimess 13y ago
> better concentration, and better impulse control. I have not done a 10 day sit as described in TFA, but I've had a passably regular Vipassana-style meditation practice for a few years now, and concentration and impulse control hav

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