iamcurious

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by iamcurious 5y ago
We are already there. Machine learning is the flavor of A.I. that keeps business barriers of entry high. If we had invested in symbolic A.I., things would be different. A similar thing happens with programming language flavors. PHP lowers b
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Social arbitrage. Have american rugged individualism, enjoy japanese social system.
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Anime characters become masters by being highly specialised in one area. They would only learn one framework.
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by iamcurious 5y ago
I used to think that privacy was a technical problem, then I thought it was a legal problem, now I think it is a reaction problem. We are not disgusted enough. I do wonder if that will change.
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Cool, to an outsider, would you recommend studying Domain Theory side by side with Category Theory, or is the latter a prerequisite of the former?
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by iamcurious 5y ago
You are onto something factoring social pressure. Social pressure has a direction, if a doctor says you are going to get better it is creating a pressure on yourself to get better. In many cases that pressure might be all you need. The home
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by iamcurious 5y ago
By focusing on Small Science. Big Science needs big money, big equations, big machines, big careers, big meetings, etc, so big science should be last resort. Make experiments cheap, cheap enough that it becomes embarrassing not to double ch
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by iamcurious 5y ago
>Scientists present as very clean and orderly to the outside, but the process of writing a paper and getting it published is usually super messy. Just like cooks!
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Given the huge number of life changing decisions that involve the '%' symbol, this is great advice.
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Related question, to those who have experience in both PHP and Hack, is Hack worth it? Would you start a startup in it?
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by iamcurious 5y ago
An alternative to Mendix and Outsystems is GeneXus. It's widely used in South America and parts of Asia.
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Algol and Lisp were both specified in 1968, but Algol only introduced lexical scoping two years later. So probably yes. I don't have evidence though.
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Thanks! Page 11 also has a good bit about scoping.
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by iamcurious 5y ago
The invention of the if-expression in page 11 is a gem.
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History of Lisp (1979) [pdf](jmc.stanford.edu)
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by iamcurious 5y ago
We went from fotolog to Facebook to Instagram to tiktok in a decade or so. In a few years more it will be something 3d we can't completely envision, who knows in a few decades. In each iteration language changes faster, cause memes are
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by iamcurious 5y ago
I would enjoy reading more (with links!) about the spam filtering story.
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Anecdata, but PHP is still growing outside the valley. It has the shortest effort to MVP measure of all languages. So if you only have money for one part time engineer, you go with PHP.
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by iamcurious 5y ago
The unwrapping is implicit so you can pretend it's not there until you absolutely need it. To take a related example from c# (please excuse my pseudo c#, I'm rusty) you can use the operator ?. to say: return myList?.deleteFi
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Interestly, it was also associated with black turtles and a fear of buttons. Some scholars think that there were two different apple gods, both named Steve, while others insist that it was two aspects of the same deity. Records point that t
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by iamcurious 5y ago
What's the next China then?
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Good point, funny and goes along with user name. 10/10 would read again.
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I like the aesthetic and crowd, but it is still a news site made by an incubator behind billion dollar coorporations.
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Any recommendations for italian? edit: I also asked for something international and with only titles, without images, like HN. But reading other comments, I could configure an RSS client for that. So, any news recommendations for italian?
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by iamcurious 5y ago
For some features, like autosaving and cloud sync, sure. Others like doing things in bulk, macros, plugins, not seeing ads, control over updates, all that stuff is vanishing.
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Ops is just one letter away from Oops. Now, seriously, I find the various Ops way of seeing things refreshing. Usually it's just a repackaging of old ideas, but hey, half of infrastructure is packaging. So go for it. If I get to avoid
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Sounds fun, are they hiring remotely?
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Ahmed, all this thread is terrible advice. My advice, if any, is to fly. If for whatever reason you can not fly, the only way left is to see their humanity and show yours. In that order.
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Maybe if the article was right here instead of a click away, more people would read it.
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by iamcurious 5y ago
Haha, maybe a bit. But he was also very conscious of the different mindsets between Europe and America (and he firmly stood in the European mindset). Read "on the fact that the atlantic has two sides"

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