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by hawkice 12y ago
> In my opinion, if humans were to create robots as intelligent as humans, then those robot would actually be human. What's the difference between passing information via DNA and passing information via some programming code? Well,
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by hawkice 12y ago
This is perhaps the clearest example on the value of implementation-oriented code comments. When you need them, they are superheroic. But... don't need them, please.
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by hawkice 12y ago
I think you've captured the absurdity of the scenario quite well. Unfortunately, I don't have quite the poker face to pull off a claim like "developer <-> management communications aren't absurd". To be slight
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by hawkice 12y ago
> To be clear, I'm not sales-phobic or anti-design, I just don't think that security vulnerabilities need to be marketed. I understand this worry, but I don't think executives will ever see sites like this... except when e
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by hawkice 12y ago
I personally attempt to use 'hipster' to refer only to ironic culture, people who enjoy things defensively (potentially the opposite of 'geek' whose enjoyment knows no bounds, including social expectations), and whose ch
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by hawkice 12y ago
Calculating how poor people are based on comparing against a time known to have unrealistically high and unsustainable housing prices, which made up a very large portion of net worth, seems like clickbait. We haven't re-entered a housi
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by hawkice 12y ago
It's worth saying, as hackers we're familiar with the quotes about, if some old expert says something is impossible, be much more skeptical than when a young person says it is possible. Things like: "It is difficult to say wh
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by hawkice 12y ago
Who cares who writes the essay? If you aren't reading the content without regard to who wrote it, yes, it will be less credible. You're using a system of authority / ad hominem, and those two sides of the same coin are not a
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by hawkice 12y ago
I initially completely agreed, but now I'm less sure. I used to mentor someone, and if he was found using skills I taught him to act fraudulently, I would accept partial responsibility. Obviously Techstars can't force people to st
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by hawkice 12y ago
It's worth pointing out that things get to the top because people feel they have value to the community. Read into that what you will.
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by hawkice 12y ago
My first attempt at barefoot running on cement was a 5k -- the blisters are killer. Couldn't even stand without fairly extreme pain. I think the notion is to work your way up a lot slower than I did, but I haven't made the same at
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by hawkice 12y ago
I mean, you have to load the instructions, too. That being said those have pretty intelligent pre-fetching baked in, but if it's the computational bottleneck, you can get the values into registers for the lookup. I'm not sure this
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by hawkice 12y ago
Yeah, I don't want to smear the work of good people. Neil deGrasse Tyson gets/got a surprising amount of hate mail from children due to his involvement in the definition of 'planet' and the reclassification, and man, he
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by hawkice 12y ago
The peeler guy makes a 100% irony-free pitch, based on value, which we can all learn from.
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by hawkice 12y ago
Not totally unrelated. For instance, interest in car ownership has gone down as a product of... maybe both, or some intersection.
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by hawkice 12y ago
> Perhaps you don't agree with me, but imho this is the most bizarre essay I've read by pg, and I really don't agree with most of his political leanings, so for me that's saying a lot. Of course this is a weird post.
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by hawkice 12y ago
Anything that increases executable size might/will cause it to make more fetches into memory, if only to get all those bonus instructions. I'd say this is a pretty minor effect in every scenario I've dealt with. Haskell, in p
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by hawkice 12y ago
So, let's say we have a number. It correlates with ability to solve a number of different puzzles, lines up with our understanding of certain dangers (iodine deficiency, etc.), is consistent, explains some variation of the success in c
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by hawkice 12y ago
It's also worth considering that your hypothetical might be anything but! At extremely high levels of intelligence the rate of extreme social disorders skyrockets up to "most" (I recall the cutoff for 50% happening at ~165 IQ
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by hawkice 12y ago
> Perhaps it can made into a lessons learned (yet another one) for high up government officials. I'd be much more interested in comparatively low level people, maybe a team lead or something? I feel the exact same way -- how could s
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by hawkice 12y ago
> So the tension around types comes from the fact that if you want to program in a style that turns effects into explicit things that get passed around. > We now need some way of translating code with side effects into code that retur
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by hawkice 12y ago
I think a helpful lens is to generally worry about what you are funging against. Time, as a fungible resource, can be allocated to work (generally done in fixed portions), and the remainder to other activities. In America (I have no knowled
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by hawkice 12y ago
GitHub: a product so close to our hearts that even extremely well meaning changes that really do help in many cases can sting sometimes. I normally wouldn't understand this type of thing (others say they don't see the problem and
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by hawkice 12y ago
I clearly don't vouch for Thiel -- but isn't this an ad hominem attack? If he has a substantial critique, how is it relevant that he, personally, is bringing it up?
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by hawkice 12y ago
I mostly agree. For instance, I don't believe there exists a conflict of interest in challenging the ethics of a competitor. Choosing to support a competitor because a company behaves unethically makes a lot of sense to me. That all be
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by hawkice 12y ago
I agree with your conclusion. Worth adding this doesn't even find the two dimension distance between two points, it finds a hypotenuse length using the Pythagorean theorem and doesn't accept two points as parameters (unless they a
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by hawkice 12y ago
So, to clarify something: you connect to the VPN, and the VPN connects to TOR. If you do it the other way around (as you point out) it's pretty worthless. If you connect to TOR from the VPN then the most de-anonymized you are going to
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by hawkice 12y ago
So, I'm a motivated privacy-seeker with enough technical chops to configure any not-yet-for-the-masses technology out there. I would very much prefer for my ideal strategy not to be "poop my pants in terror" -- any guidance f
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by hawkice 12y ago
> These properties are useful for all of our applications, all of the time — not just when passwords or personal information are involved. Bingo. HTTPS only is a much better way to operate web properties these days -- the only downside i
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by hawkice 12y ago
Wait, how do you already know what your revenue numbers for 2015 will be?

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