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by hugh 18y ago
OK, so firstly, "choosing the best out of three options" really doesn't count as "hacking", especially when the best option turns out to be the default. Secondly, what a terrible experiment. Even if you accept the premise that coldness vs c
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by hugh 18y ago
Not a bad article, but most of the examples given of "lonely dissent" seem to me to fall much more into the "vegetarian" category than the "clown suit" category. For me at least, the feeling upon encountering somebody who tells me that he w
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by hugh 18y ago
I think this is a problem with the students as well. Kindergarteners need to be taught by people who are trained for teaching. Eleven-year-olds need to be taught by people who are trained for teaching. But by the time you get to the the uni
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by hugh 18y ago
Perhaps they mean an advisory board rather than a board of directors?
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't think there can be a category killer, because I don't think task management is a problem which can, in general, be solved with software. Some people will find a solution which works for them, which fits in with their particular styl
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by hugh 18y ago
Oh, fair enough, that makes sense. I got the impression you were a first-time (non)-entrepreneur. My apologies.
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by hugh 18y ago
What's the point of establishing credit if I'm never planning to go into debt? This is actually a serious question -- I've been in the US for three years and I haven't bothered to acquire a local credit card, so my credit report is complete
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by hugh 18y ago
I am deeply fearful that the current economic problems will lead to the resurgence of the kind of idiotic socialist ideas represented by this Guardian piece.
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by hugh 18y ago
I forget where I was reading an analysis of this kind of thing the other day, but it argued that there are really two middle classes: the commercial middle class and the academic middle class. The academic middle class loves the lower class
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by hugh 18y ago
That sounds like an interesting book. Does he come at the problem from a left-wing or right-wing perspective? In my experience, academic leftism is seen as more of a social obligation than a set of deeply-held beliefs. (There are, of course
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by hugh 18y ago
OK, firstly, if this is what "neo-con" means to you then the word is sufficiently broad to have lost all meaning. Secondly, I'm guessing this has more to do with broader demographic trends. Since the 1970s there's been a huge increase in th
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm a little confused. Why is somebody who can't decide whether to start a company or not, or indeed what kind of company to start, writing a blog containing "tips for entrepreneurs"?
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by hugh 18y ago
When I gamble, I do it because the pleasure I get from winning five dollars ("hah, take that, casino!") is slightly larger than the pain I get from losing five dollars ("oh well, who cares?"). I guess that truly rich people who gamble do it
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by hugh 18y ago
Interestingly, I tried rewriting one of my C++ codes in Python one day, using numpy. It was mostly manipulation of largish (~1000 x 1000) matrices. On the upside, it was 100 lines instead of several thousand. On the downside, it was several
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by hugh 18y ago
1. I don't know. 2. I don't care. 3. Why should you?
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by hugh 18y ago
Aha, I found the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3408 It's all about exploiting vulnerabilities in the type of single-photon detectors that are used in real systems. Looks like pretty clever stuff.
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by hugh 18y ago
Almost certainly either: a) Complete BS, or b) Not what it sounds like, but it's not possible to figure out which from this article, which provides no information. If anyone has a link to a better explanation, I'd love to read it. The close
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by hugh 18y ago
You're right, that's probably still going to be an option. I'd forgotten about it, but I used to share an office with a guy who went into management consulting at the end of his PhD. Last time I saw him, he was trying to figure out whether
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by hugh 18y ago
I can't escape the feeling that while seventeen bucks an hour is pretty good for a retail position, it's pretty lousy for anyone with the word "Genius" in their job title.
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by hugh 18y ago
Yes, they both were. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_B... Amazingly, his motor challenge was quickly met by a meticulous craftsman using conventional tools; the motor met the conditions, but did not advanc
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by hugh 18y ago
Completely unrelated fields like what? Traditionally, the answer has been "Finance!" but I don't see that particular job market bouncing back quickly.
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by hugh 18y ago
Yes, I had to check the date on this article. Hasn't this guy noticed that we've been stuck at 3 GHz for the last five years?
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by hugh 18y ago
Hmmm, can't think of one. There's a lot of freshman chemistry textbooks, but they're all pretty similar, and pretty boring. Chemistry, the in-between science, doesn't really lend itself so easily to popularization as physics or biology. The
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by hugh 18y ago
Mingle good, flow bad. I actually think "flomingle" would be better. It de-emphasises the less pleasant connotations of "flow" while getting closer to the "flamingo" connotation. "Flamingle" on the other hand would only be good if it were a
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by hugh 18y ago
Chemistry and programming? You mean, like, computational chemistry? (That's an awfully hard subject to get into, and I don't know any books written at an introductory level.)
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by hugh 18y ago
Relax. Even if we had the hardware today we'd still have no idea how to write passable AI software. By the time somebody figures that out, maybe the hardware will have caught up.
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by hugh 18y ago
"Natural materials", eh? You could make the case out of wood, and insulate your wires with sap, but I'm afraid I can't think of a good natural source of n- and p-type doped silicon wafers. Seriously though, modern semiconductor processing i
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by hugh 18y ago
Why attribute to corporate malice what can easily be explained by individual stupidity?
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by hugh 18y ago
Well, I was gloriously uncertain about whether the last bill was a good idea or not, and I'm happy to say that I have no clue whether this one is better or worse. Sometimes it's really nice to not have strong opinions on difficult subjects.
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by hugh 18y ago
What if I have a 30-year-old restaurant with revenues of $900K? I was wondering about the definition of "startup" the other day. Would it be reasonable to define it in terms of profitability? Once you reach profitability you have a proper,

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