islon

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by islon 8y ago
The same reason you don't visit a city and eat only at McDonalds: you want the local experience. Last week I stayed at an airbnb in Copenhagen shared with the owner which gave me tips about restaurants and nice places to visit. You don
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by islon 8y ago
A research done in Brazil (where racial quotas for universities were implemented) showed that students that got in through quotas performed better, on average, than "normal" students. So I guess you are right.
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by islon 9y ago
Google has often said that it cannot reveal too much or people would use that information to try to game the rankings Isn't this the same "security by obscurity" argument?
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What makes a good REPL?(vvvvalvalval.github.io)
1 points by islon 9y ago|0 comments
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by islon 10y ago
> Chop wood or light fires in the glacial wastes of “Skyrim”? No chance. You can chop wood even in vanilla Skyrim, and with mods you can light fires, ride dragons or do whatever you want.
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Communicating Intent(github.com)
1 points by islon 10y ago|0 comments
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by islon 10y ago
> Unless Rust wants to position itself as embedded-only it will compete with Go for higher level tasks. But that is true for any fast-enough high-level language like Java, Scala, C#, OCaml, Haskell, F#, Kotlin, etc. So it's not Rust
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by islon 10y ago
SNADWFYGDA (smile, nod, agree then do whatever the fuck you were going to do anyway); when you're tired of your manager making nonsense decisions and not respecting your expertise so you give up caring and do whatever the fuck you want
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by islon 10y ago
If the JVM or the startup time bother you you can try using ClojureScript with node.js.
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by islon 10y ago
For me the biggest advantage of FP languages is exactly not have to deal with `GenericConverter`s, `AbstractDTO`s, `BaseEntity`s and other overly-complex constructs that many OO languages inflict upon the programmer, but to create a small a
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by islon 10y ago
Well, you are looking in the wrong places then, there's plenty of complaints about apple/google walled gardens and people don't want windows to be the next one.
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by islon 10y ago
We would want the AI we build to ultimately share our values, so that it can work as an extension of our will. It does not look promising to write down a long list of everything we care about. It looks more promising to leverage the AI’s o
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by islon 10y ago
Alternate title/tl;dr: "Singapore Is Taking the ‘Smart City’ to a Whole New Orwellian Level"
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by islon 10y ago
I wish they were adding power to js as they did to Lua: with simplicity. Instead they are doing doing the C++/Scala way: with complexity. Good thing I have Clojurescript...
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by islon 10y ago
I do something similar but using noScript (js disabled by default). Most of the times the news are loaded without popups and sometimes with wrong CSS but still readable. Sometimes I need to enable js only for the actual host for it to work.
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Game developers must avoid the ‘wage-slave’ attitude(venturebeat.com)
2 points by islon 10y ago|0 comments
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by islon 10y ago
Took me a few seconds and some stares to my dutch friend until I realized I read "Netherlanders" and not "Neanderthals"
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by islon 11y ago
"The experimental AI, which learns from conversations, was designed to interact with 18-24-year-olds." The experiment was a success then.
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by islon 11y ago
"The risk related to birth month is relatively minor when compared to more influential variables like diet and exercise." The most important information in the article.
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by islon 12y ago
"But three years later, when he heard that Russell would be visiting the University of Chicago, the 15-year-old ran away from home and headed for Illinois. He never saw his family again." Assuming that 80% of humanity lives on les
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War against critics is as old as the printing press, GamerGate another example(polygon.com)
2 points by islon 12y ago|1 comments
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Gaming peripheral seeks $250K from Kickstarter to bleed you out in real life(polygon.com)
1 points by islon 12y ago|0 comments
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by islon 12y ago
If our reality is a big simulated game I only wanted to have access to the developer console...
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by islon 12y ago
"... And with the accelerating pace of technological change, it wouldn’t be long before the capabilities – and goals – of the computers would far surpass human understanding." "...In their single-mindedness, they would view t
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by islon 12y ago
What could possibly go wrong? It's not like the whole internet as we know it depends at some level of tcp/ip and there's (probably) billions of lines of code depending on it.
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by islon 12y ago
"Inessential complexity is the root of all evil" this should be the wallpaper of every programmer.
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by islon 12y ago
"Facebook decided to take action against click bait headlines, you won't believe what happens next"
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by islon 12y ago
Can't wait to read physics papers about AbstractGravityFactoryFactory.
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by islon 12y ago
If Notch had done what you said Minecraft would never exist.
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by islon 12y ago
My big point is: - If you don't know what you are doing or you are doing for the first time, there's no point in estimate as your estimations will be off anyway. - If you know what you are doing and already did it before, there&#x

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