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by isolate 11y ago
Learning to program can teach you approach other areas of your life with more rigor: separating concerns, minimizing dependencies, iterating fully or with a short-circuit over a collection, refactoring, eliminating cruft, keeping history, r
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by isolate 11y ago
Nobody really sells GPL software, they sell support for it or they sell it together with hardware. I mean, the GPL is perfectly reasonable from a commercial perspective if you're going to charge a one-time fee to release your software
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by isolate 11y ago
You can also guess who writes reviews. There was this one guy who got pissed off at me at a conference for nonchalantly discussing who I thought the reviewers on our paper were... whatever man, it's my review now.
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by isolate 11y ago
I went through all that but then I started to develop an appreciation for junk food (Coke, etc.) because it tastes like my childhood. I still buy the expensive stuff but I'm not hardcore about avoiding crap the way I used to be, and I
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by isolate 11y ago
I look for the D.O.P and/or organic farming mark, along with a production date, a best before date, and the region of Italy. I'm pretty sure it's ok, and it isn't cheap. I've heard that the best way to understand t
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by isolate 11y ago
Wow, this is terrible, common law is just great for tax and separation ("divorce") purposes regardless of orientation, an excellent way to provide a measure of equality.
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by isolate 11y ago
What's the difference between a food obsessive and somebody that has trained their sense of taste?
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by isolate 11y ago
Do you mean... "Looking at HN" or do you mean "Reading and commenting on HN and getting into arguments with people and checking your karma and replies and upvoting / downvoting / flagging posts and making observatio
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by isolate 11y ago
I mean if you already have a psychotic disorder, is it a good idea to experience the k-hole (high dose of ketamine)? With or without antipsychotics? What about a low dose? For example, would you recommend that someone with schizophrenia t
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by isolate 11y ago
Yeah, it's a good point. Carrots might work better than sticks. You can always fire people for incompetence though.
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by isolate 11y ago
What if you have a psychotic disorder? Prevalence is ~3%.
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by isolate 11y ago
Penalize them financially for making mistakes or give a bonus for not making mistakes.
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by isolate 11y ago
To expand, good art should be exactly at the level of anyone who looks at it; accessible to newcomers and rewarding for insiders. Incidentally, this is really hard to pull off.
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by isolate 11y ago
Good point, but then again ATRAC encoding >> MP3 encoding at typical bitrates back then.
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by isolate 11y ago
From what I've seen, it's more like there are too many people with great marketing and poor talent that make lots of money, and too many people with poor marketing and great talent that don't. You don't really see a lot
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by isolate 11y ago
> It's like they're super-high-tech in everything - except computers, which are very expensive compared to what you can get here in the US. High-tech/lo-tech and expensive/cheap are different axes. Everyone in Japan
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by isolate 11y ago
> Artists aren't that special Good artists are/aren't special in the same way that good programmers are/aren't special.
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by isolate 11y ago
The purpose cat serves is that it lets you forget about < until you really need it.
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by isolate 11y ago
Stereotyping is impossible to avoid and even healthy. Humans survive because of stereotypes. We need summary judgments to function; this is the core of translating perception into thought. The problem is when people willfully ignore sign
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by isolate 11y ago
Poverty certainly aggravates things like mental illness and drug addiction, and is strongly correlated with homelessness, but I think he means it is possible to be materially comfortable in the sense of food/clothes/shelter, at le
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by isolate 11y ago
Right, but the parent was conflating that with HN moderation.
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by isolate 11y ago
> It would be great just to hear your experiences of the game and how far in it you got. Post this on the TIGSource forums and ask for feedback. That is where most of the indie game developers congregate.
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by isolate 11y ago
Only the government can provide legal rights. Human rights are ideals, not actual things. Regardless, the real point is that property rights trump free speech rights. You can't come over to my house and say whatever you want, because
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by isolate 11y ago
It's not limiting free speech unless the government is asking for or compelling it. https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by isolate 11y ago
I think it's probably true and that the secrecy is more about cult building.
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by isolate 11y ago
A lot of people in finance think it's awesome, and generally speaking those guys run in different circles from computer people. Think coke and strippers.
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by isolate 11y ago
Brute force approaches can work. For example, evolution produced humans. I agree that it's better not to waste your time believing A if you can avoid it.
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by isolate 11y ago
I don't think a lack of intelligence of the IQ test variety is what's holding humanity back. I think it's distraction, greed, lack of empathy (or emotional intelligence), lack of information, and lack of communication. (May
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by isolate 11y ago
Why would it undoubtedly evolve to the same point?
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by isolate 11y ago
Basically, Autotools is really stable software that has a ton of bugfixes in it. You can't just throw that knowledge away. The overhead of unnecessary tests is negligible compared to compilation costs for anything but the most trivia

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