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by igrekel 16y ago
Not too sure how to place this article. While I understand and have seen this fallacy widespread and know that people have a hard time dealing with it even if they know about it (I used to work for the lottery and casino industry). I am not
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by igrekel 16y ago
Not to mention how close are Smalltalk and Ruby.
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by igrekel 17y ago
Strange, I use Firefox but rely on Safari for debugging web apps because I find the web inspector more practical to use, especially for CSS issues.
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by igrekel 17y ago
Wow... I am surprised refillable beer bottles are so rare in the US. You drink that much of your beer from aluminum cans? Sounds strange because for me, beer in cans is just for camping... and even...
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by igrekel 17y ago
Expect service interruption on new years eve, football games etc when they use them as a giant screen... Or maybe they could just use them as decoration in a night club, or as lighting on highways... Oh and it is forbidden to send sexy ema
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by igrekel 17y ago
> Suits are made to be as comfy as pajamas I figured this out way too late. I went to a school where there was a uniform and the jackets were of course very lousy and I kept that impression that suits were uncomfortable for many years.
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by igrekel 17y ago
While he considers himself a "french philosopher", BHL is not regarded as a philosopher by everyone. In fact, it is very common to make fun of BHL because of this. He is certainly more known as a journalist and a well marketed public figure
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by igrekel 17y ago
I am a bit disappointed, I had hoped the post would compare the strategies used in all these cases... Just saying because I haven't touched machine learning in the last 7 years and think maybe it is time to catch up a bit.
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by igrekel 17y ago
As features accumulate over time, I find this is harder and harder to maintain. But it heavily depends on the situation (abstractions don't always hold as well as originally hoped). I guess I just remember more the times it goes wrong than
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by igrekel 17y ago
Functions are indeed a good tool but at one point, they accumulate more and more parameters or more complex structures as parameters. Eventually, while you still understand the purpose of a function, it is difficult to understand all that i
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by igrekel 17y ago
Or how about a font with proportions made for code? I would imagine special proportions for markers like (){}[] and punctuation marks and fixed proportions for numbers. At one point the difference between that and syntax highlighting and au
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by igrekel 17y ago
About point 3, teh shortage of doctors is not strictly a US thing. I know in Canada doctors often migrate to the US for a better pay, putting pressure on salaries. Point 1 is not really different in many other countries.
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by igrekel 17y ago
If you are in any way like most of us, everything you are pationnate about eventually loses its luster and will feel like finshing your degree. Learning to work yourself in these situations will be more valuable then anything else. Finally
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by igrekel 17y ago
Except for the peace prize... couldn't edit in time, damn no procast settings...
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by igrekel 17y ago
Nobel prizes are from Sweden, not Norway. But that is close enough.
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by igrekel 17y ago
It also work if you put kernels in a plain brown paper bag. But don't put them in a plastic container, the kernels get very hot and melt the plastic.
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by igrekel 17y ago
Or that the equation was built to fit those characteristics. At first I looked at the things and thought: "So what it doesn't provide any insights". Then read on and was glad that the authors point is that it's made up. Pick a few measureme
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by igrekel 17y ago
I had a different understanding of what the core point was, the google part felt more like a sub point. My understanding was that since the content is freely accessible on the internet, people don't need to subscribe to newspapers, and that
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by igrekel 17y ago
I don't see what the relationship should really be with robots.txt. Block their site will not make them profitable, it doesn't provide a source of revenue.
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by igrekel 17y ago
I wonder if it any related to something that happened few years back where Rixstep was using some of the StepWise article and quotes form Scott to support its ramblings against Apple, I don't know the details but I know he was unhappy about
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StepWise is no more(stepwise.com)
24 points by igrekel 17y ago|15 comments
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by igrekel 17y ago
Strange how in what I have seen so far, when things go really bad, it almost never is a technical problem, its almost always a people's problem. But he is still right that it is an often-overlooked problem and that we don't even perceive it
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by igrekel 17y ago
Your first job doesn't mean it's what you'll always do. My first job was a mostly coding job (even tough it was really not "just" coding) but it quickly morphed into something else. If you are good and you are interested, there are many oth
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by igrekel 17y ago
The later slide show pictures get very interesting.
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Mandelbrot fractals in 3D(newscientist.com)
2 points by igrekel 17y ago|2 comments
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by igrekel 17y ago
Here is the original communications of the acm article: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/11/48421-scratch-programm... I've mentioned it before but I am a big fan of scratch, I showed it to my nieces (my own kids are too young) ad they s
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by igrekel 17y ago
Most of these comments from the email don't seem to be that much of a problem really, unless you really believed that these people were not humans. And if people are offended that they had this idea of "bad hands" remember that their result
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by igrekel 17y ago
That is very short, the subject has been explored much more deeply in the past. I'd suggest Brian Foote's Big ball of mud where he talks about software going through phases of expansion and consolidation, he also discusses the total rewrit
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by igrekel 17y ago
What? Only survey results, nothing on what the answers probably are? Seems this is just advertisement
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by igrekel 17y ago
If what you do is sell a library of email addresses, it doesn't really matter if the emails are of likely "customers" or not they just need to be emails with someone at the other end.

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