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by jgg 13y ago
You replied to the wrong comment.
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by jgg 13y ago
Every time an engineer writes a screed against the humanities, I feel like I'm going to break out in hives. Engineering and the sciences have, to a greater degree, been spared this isolation and genetic drift because of crass commerci
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by jgg 13y ago
I agree, barring the unnecessary adjectives. My point was that all 'systems' are corrupted by humans, not just a free market. I was criticizing an absolutist, irrelevant statement about the nature of the "free market" on
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by jgg 13y ago
Alright, this comment thread is going to Hell, but for the sake of formality: It's (been) required reading at West Point, amongst other places in the US. I didn't know that. Thanks. It must be more popular than I realized, but I
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by jgg 13y ago
The alternative is a regulated market, where I trust a government entity, full of humans who are vulnerable to the same forces of corruption, incompetence and greed, to give me accurate information and not be bought and paid for by private
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by jgg 13y ago
I definitely should have been more clear. I meant that in terms of formal philosophy, she isn't usually ranked up there with Plato, Nietzsche or Kant, and that as far as literature goes, I haven't seen too many highschools advocat
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by jgg 13y ago
You are horribly misinformed. Opinions or merits of the book aside, Ayn Rand is viewed as a crackpot and is generally (I'm sure there are exceptions) not taken seriously in academia, and I have never heard of any public highschool that
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Science Shows How Reddit Users Are Like Sheep(blogs.smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by jgg 13y ago|0 comments
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The Compliant Personality(declineoftheempire.com)
1 points by jgg 13y ago|0 comments
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by jgg 13y ago
Why do so many people who want a career involving intellectual curiosity study philosophy or mechanical engineering, when CS also gives you interesting problems, and happens to pay much better? Why don't people switch? Unlike with ME,
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by jgg 13y ago
Technical comment, ignoring the Paul Graham drama (which seems like a non-controversy to me): English is definitely phonetically-inconsistent (it's almost funny how many different sounds vowels, diphthongs, etc. can make). I realized t
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by jgg 13y ago
I don't want to play games with you anymore, Mr. Government Troll. The moving goalpost you keep presenting is quite annoying. If you wanted to find the information you request, you could open your mind and do a Google search. But you&#
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by jgg 13y ago
What a vast oversimplification of my post, and also, a strawman. I never made that claim, nor did I insist anywhere that I thought so. However, notice how when mentioning the debate of "rights" (namely, my right to submit inform
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by jgg 13y ago
You're right. It was a base ad hominem, and I probably deserve to be banned for my behavior (if I haven't been already - there are so many bizarre punishment methods on this site that it's hard to tell). Yet, reading what you
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by jgg 13y ago
How's that government paycheck treating you? Also, it's spelled "asymmetric", Che.
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by jgg 13y ago
> Then US citizens wonder why everyone else hates them. I do wonder why people from countries with corrupt governments that commit terrible atrocities that they have no control over hate me because I come from a country whose government
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by jgg 13y ago
None of this is new. Manipulating and controlling the Internet is, and is a scary new precedent, and I still stand by my statement that it is really a bad thing. With everyone jacked in all the time, manipulating the masses is a thousand ti
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by jgg 13y ago
Plenty of people who are good programmers don't read the book and are fine. Lots of people cargo-cult it and themselves don't understand it, which turns people off. However, it focuses very much on the principles of programming fr
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by jgg 13y ago
You constantly defend authority and yell at anyone who speculates negatively, and yet here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5870726 ) you rather cynically jumped on the "Snowden is a Chinese spy" bandwagon, wh
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by jgg 13y ago
You literally reposted one article that was posted here days ago and used that as a citation to make a sweeping generalization about the "technical community" at large. Alright, that's cool... I would guess that most who pay
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by jgg 13y ago
We went crazy over terrorism? Who's we? Am I part of the we that helped pass the PATRIOT Act (which was an Act of Congress) without reading it? Am I the one who pitched Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction to justify an invasi
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by jgg 13y ago
You know, it's funny. There's this image cultivated of some elite team of soldiers waiting to snipe a pasty nerd at his computer as he attempts to write the characters "#include <openssl/" for civil disobedience,
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by jgg 13y ago
> It means projects with sound footing are likely to be undermined aggressively by all means. So we shouldn't even try?
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by jgg 13y ago
Hello, random new account advising us not to come up with electronic solutions to electronic government surveillance! >Some projects flourish sure but the same forces that profit off the court-less killings of others are collating your d
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by jgg 13y ago
Since we weren't allowed to say it when it was relevant, and the point was muddled and trampled on in pseudo-rational debates (“Can you find evidence that they’re abusing this new legislation?”, etc.), I'll go ahead and say it n
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by jgg 13y ago
Crazy advice: go to college for something harder/more challenging than CS, and then use that to complement your programming skill later. CS was mostly a waste of time for me. I worked through a lot of SICP in highschool and was teachin
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by jgg 16y ago
It seems like we might be heading into an era where questioning the methods of traditional Western education will become commonplace. This is exciting, as it cracks open the paradigm for smart people to analyze and modify. If we let some of
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Beautiful Code, Compelling Evidence [pdf](renci.org)
3 points by jgg 16y ago|0 comments
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by jgg 16y ago
It took a Rudin-based analysis course, much later, for me to appreciate proofs of convergence or epsilon-delta arguments, because my H.S. calc did not have them, and the college diff-eq assumed you knew them already. The shock was painful.
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by jgg 16y ago
In our economy, they're not really ready for you until you're 28 or so. They want you to have a number of years behind you. So when somebody comes out of college at 22 with a bachelor's degree, what can that person really offer Goldman Sac

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