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by jakeinspace 8y ago
I interpret the story as though the programmer thinks about the world (in this case, the thermos) as actors, acting explicitly on their inputs. This type of thinking aligns with code full of conditional statements, such as checking the inpu
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
For any particular company or even country to some extent (since the games industry is quite globalized), this is true. However, if there were widespread unionization among many of the biggest studios then that could conceivably lead to a m
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
Well, as far as questioning deep blue: 1. There were only a handful of players around during those matches who could hold a candle to Kasparov. A team of the top GMs could maybe topple him, but that would require a significant conspiracy by
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
This is like It Gets Better, but for fragile software engineers who obviously are talented enough to make 6 figures some place else. I understand rejection can feel personal, especially when so much of your life and identity comes from the
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
This seems like it might be useful for hackathons, especially when working with team members who aren't well-versed in git or virtualenv.
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
Or think of villagers in rural Africa or India, doing intense manual labor all day for little playoff and a premature death. Unfortunately, life's brutal and unfair. You could take your savings and put it all on 28 in roulette, and hey
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
Nobody's gonna do much better than lagging the market price using a model based purely on historical price data, markets aren't nearly that predictable.
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
We clearly don't need an entire hospital and school system to handle children. Yes, the infant mortality rate would surely be high compared to our own, especially with the effects of stress and lower gravity, but a few doctors should b
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
I'm sure Indonesia would also be a much nicer place to live with 10 years of Western savings in the bank.
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
How could spinning rapidly possibly help for communication? Unless this distant companion is moving at many times the speed of light in a massive ellipse. Also, as someone else mentioned, rotational motion isn't intertial, it's no
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
Truly some sage advice, I say bring on the unlicensed pilots.
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
That is a frightening thing to read. Just because you don't appreciate music doesn't mean you can dismiss out of hand its cultural value. I would rather live in a world without software and computers than one without music, not ev
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
100% agree, assertive but kind is a wonderful skill and one which needs to be cultivated. My point is just that for whatever broad psychological reason, this seems to be a somewhat rare trait among very technically proficient people. It&#x2
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
Linus is stubborn, persistent, and unyielding to what he sees as bullshit. These I believe are all very valuable qualities for the head of a massive software project, and may be part of the reason as to why Linux is where it is today. Howev
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
Every few weeks I see a Clojure post on HN, and almost always there's a battle going on in the comments over whether the language is too clever, impractical, a toy, poorly designed, etc. My experience with clojure (a ~1500 loc library)
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
The idea is that we are inside (or on the surface of, same thing) a black hole whose event horizon encompasses the entire universe (observed and unobserved). The black holes we can see in our universe would then be children black holes (or
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
I use Facebook for 3 things: messenger, University/student groups, and marketplace/for sale pages. I live outside my home country, so messenger is the only way I can talk to many friends back home (or friends here in Canada when
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
Plenty already exist which support dynamic programming "natively." For example, the 'memoize' function in clojure.
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
Possibly the stupidest idea I've yet to read on HN. This flies in the face of centuries of advancements in the idea of justice, quite hammurabian.
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
No networking can touch silicon-level interconnect between cores or within cores on a single chip, at least for latency. Erlang's model of computation doesn't have much to say about physical implementation, and multi-socket/d
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
A common argument against offering minimum wage work or advanced technical training to prisoners is that this reduces the disincentive of prison time. From a purely logical standpoint I can see how that makes some amount of sense, but in re
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
I spent this summer doing exactly that for an internship. I set up a xilinx Zynq chip to run a basic video capture and streaming program (based on gstreamer), with the encoding portion handled by the fpga. This chip has a baked-in encoder s
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
You are probably aware but for those who do not know, Penn (University of Pennsylvania) is not a state school, Penn State is.
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
I'm an almost-graduated computer engineering student. I had a relatively pleasant interview last week with a whiteboard component which I thought was fair. The interviewer asked for a Fibonacci function, an easy problem that still allo
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
Only problem is the second law of thermodynamics but sure, why not.
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
Maybe look into datomic
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by jakeinspace 8y ago
I think the text is pulled from a "Top 10 Bob Dylan Protest Songs Lost" article.
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by jakeinspace 9y ago
The general idea I've had is that a quantum computer will be much more similar to a classical analog computer than digital. It requires setting up a quantum system which models the problem physically, and relies on quantum properties (
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by jakeinspace 9y ago
And where was this 10 days ago in time for my probability exam, may I ask???