jdreaver

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by jdreaver 11y ago
I agree. When we talk about government and big business propping each other up, I don't want to get into the chicken and egg problem of whose fault it really is (if such a thing could even be defined). I just like to address the fact
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by jdreaver 11y ago
> the victors are not those who best solved the problem but those who made the most profit. I would argue that most of the time those go hand in hand. If the most people freely gave you there money for a problem, then you accomplished th
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by jdreaver 11y ago
If anyone reading this is genuinely interested in a perspective on how many core government functions (law, police, defense, roads, etc) could work in a society without government, check out The Machinery of Freedom [1] by David Friedman. E
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by jdreaver 11y ago
This looks very interesting! It also looks like there is a lot of support from may volunteers so far. No one at my 3-person company besides me uses Emacs, so it would be great to share workflows and ideas with others. Also, what a great way
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by jdreaver 12y ago
People argue that the owners of the robots will amass wealth and then sit on it like Scrooge McDuck, leaving everyone else to starve and live in poverty. Not that I agree with them :)
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by jdreaver 12y ago
> The way we do economics depends pretty heavily on there being enough jobs for everyone... That's the way many economists interpret the economy, but modern macroeconomics economics can hardly be called an accurate and reliable repr
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by jdreaver 12y ago
$income goes to zero for that particular person at the time they lose their job, yes, but all of their prices for every good that gets automated goes down. If we repeatedly make everything cheaper, then a low income doesn't matter. E
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by jdreaver 12y ago
Indeed, it would be unfortunate to lose your job to a machine, but oftentimes people fail to see the upside: if a robot can do a job more cheaply than a human, then whatever that robot produces is then cheaper for everyone else to buy! If
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I routinely program in Python, C, and Haskell, and write prose in Markdown, reST, and LaTeX. I also sometimes use emacs modes for other languages, like QML, YAML, and GLSL. It is very convenient to have a unified interface when using those
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I understand that the law may not strictly apply to me. I am making a statement on the principle of the situation. I don't think MIT or Harvard should be forced to provide captions for their videos either.
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by jdreaver 12y ago
Alright, then who will pay for it, either in time or money? You are free to go caption videos all you want, but why should people be forced to caption videos they make in their spare time?
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by jdreaver 12y ago
Agreed. Really, I do applaud people going out of their way to accommodate others. If I had just one personal, direct request to create closed captions along with a "please," you bet I would try to help someone out. But making it i
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I don't like this type of precedent. If I make a video wherein I teach some concept, but don't provide closed captions, and then distribute the video for free, am I discriminating against the deaf? If I knew I had to create closed
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I see a lot of people taking interest in this idea. For a more nuanced and holistic approach to "not worrying about things you cannot change," I would check out Stoicism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism
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by jdreaver 12y ago
The assertion in the post title is absolutely untrue. You can get foods like beans, chicken, eggs, milk, oatmeal, and pasta in bulk and for very little money. There isn't some false dichotomy between "esoteric, lefty food" an
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I'm a mechanical/software engineer, but I set up our company's web and continuous integration servers using Ansible. The experience overall was excellent, and everything worked mostly as advertised. A couple pain points I had
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I regularly use projectile with helm. I particularly like helm-projectile-grep/ack, which runs grep or ack on the files in the project. Another great feature is the set of projectile commands to toggle between a test and implementation
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I just taught git to my boss and a coworker. They both use Windows exclusively and don't touch a command line. I was able to teach them the basics (push, pull, clone, commit, status) and they learned very quickly. I told them to ignore
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by jdreaver 12y ago
Exactly. The way I see it, if someone has a large pool of wealth, then they have already been taxed when they earned it. Taxing capital gains is double-dipping. Furthermore, I don't see how we can justify having a very low interest rat
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by jdreaver 12y ago
Surge pricing is necessary for more important goods, or else there will be a shortage! When there is a hurricane, and the government declares a ban on "price gouging," then there is inevitably a shortage on things like gasoline,
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I would have loved an internship like that! I'm afraid that some would accuse you of oppressing your friend by exploiting his labor at the unlivable wage of $12/hr though :)
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by jdreaver 12y ago
A lot of time was spent fleshing out the core "gloo" module, which is an object-oriented abstraction of OpenGL. If you know OpenGL, you can create very high performance visualizations. There is currently a lot of work on fleshing
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I knew I liked vispy after I spent some time to write this Mandelbrot set example [1]. I only knew a little bit of OpenGL, and it took me less than a day to understand vispy's API and create it. This was also before the new scenegraph
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I got a programming job where I rely heavily on my mechanical engineering background. For much of the day, I am programming in Python and C doing user interface work, web programming, and optimizing numerical algorithms. However, I also get
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by jdreaver 12y ago
Prostitution is a victimless crime. Why is it that two people can't agree to exchange sex for money? You can't legislate morals into existence (not saying prostitution is immoral, but people who want to outlaw it probably do). The
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by jdreaver 12y ago
Maybe their definition of large is whatever can't fit on disk. I'm sure they keep the definition vague as not to make too many guarantees.
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by jdreaver 12y ago
We use SQLite as a file format for our desktop application (based on PySide) using SQLAlchemy. I decided to use SQLite after realizing I was slowly reimplementing many features of a database. I also read this [0] article entitled "SQLi
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by jdreaver 12y ago
> Ah, yes. This is classic. The orthodox economists might tell you that Bitcoin shouldn't have any value at all. Yet, I can sell 1 BTC and pay for months of gas. I'd rather have a running car than an economist's opinion. I
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by jdreaver 12y ago
I used to always use the VS debugger when I used C# in school (my research lab used C#). Now, I use Python and C for work, and I never use a step debugger. For some reason I just don't miss it, and using print statements is just fine.
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by jdreaver 12y ago
The whole point of this is to disrupt the current education model, and your criticism is that it doesn't follow an aspect of the current education model. Yes, a lot of people travel away from home for school. I'm sure it can be a

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