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by jgg 16y ago
>But this prototype isn't there yet. Ah, of course. I just wanted to see what you'd say in response. (-:
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by jgg 16y ago
From the FAQ: >First, when it comes to power and performance, C++ is still the language to beat. Oh really?
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by jgg 16y ago
How will this be different from StumbleUpon?
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Richard P. Gabriel's Review of "The Art of Metaobject Protocol"(dreamsongs.com)
12 points by jgg 16y ago|1 comments
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by jgg 16y ago
That doesn't make the metric any more accurate though. It just means it gave you a result that inspired you. That's good for you, but why the hell aren't schools inspiring kids like this, instead of grinding them into the mindset required t
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by jgg 16y ago
I clicked one of the flashy things, and I think I voted something up. I'm not sure though.
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by jgg 16y ago
Ah, okay.
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by jgg 16y ago
I haven't really been following this entire storyline, because quite frankly, it seems trivial and unimportant to me. So please forgive my ignorance when I ask, how did the employee's original e-mail come off as provocative?
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by jgg 16y ago
>People like linear status orderings. They exist in every culture and get reinvented when there's no culture present at all. You're right, I think I was just letting my cynicism towards the United states bleed through with that comment.
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by jgg 16y ago
Part of the problem, particularly with Western culture, is the desire to assign everything a rank, without much clue as to whether or not the metric used is credible at all. Your GPA, SAT/ACT/GRE scores, IQ, credit rating, college major,
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by jgg 16y ago
This makes two JWZ references I've handed out today, but this is pretty relevant: http://www.jwz.org/doc/gc.html Memorable quote: "It's a common belief that garbage collection means inferior performance, because everyone who has gotten in
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by jgg 16y ago
I don't understand this at all. To me, this reads as "Here are books that have been recommended to me that I haven't read. Nobody reads these." He implicitly says this himself, when he states "I've read all of these books myself, so I have
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by jgg 16y ago
I listened to the first half, but didn't listen to the second half, since by that time him constantly cutting out on the mic had driven me insane.
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by jgg 16y ago
Worth mentioning: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
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by jgg 16y ago
I agree. At first glance, their length makes it appear to be a reference work, but when you look at his writing style and the exercises at the end of each section, it seems quite clear that he intended otherwise. That being said, I haven't
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by jgg 16y ago
I just signed up for an account. It seems fairly nice, but the big issue with shell accounts is whether or not they stick around. Their manifesto page ( http://devio.us/manifesto ) seems to indicate that they're taking this seriously, so le
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by jgg 16y ago
My point was that so much extra time and money that could be focused on improving academics is spent by the university (and by donors to the university) on irrelevant activities. I don't really care what someone does in their free time.
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by jgg 16y ago
I hope this is okay for Hacker News...I thought if nothing else, the novelty of it made it worthy of submission.
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by jgg 16y ago
>Universities should not be in the habit of forcing all students to pay for the recreational activities of a select few. Yes, thank you. If they're going to pay for someone to play football, they might as well fund me to play Chess or G
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by jgg 16y ago
This blog has several neat entries. I also liked "Image Approximation with Genetically Selected Cosines": http://nklein.com/2009/10/image-approximation-with-genetical...
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Compose Electronic Music, Right in Your Browser(audiotool.com)
49 points by jgg 16y ago|16 comments
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by jgg 16y ago
> It would be very hard to shift funding from sports to academics because it's a cultural thing now. Sadly, you're probably right about this. Sports seem to have become so ingrained in the popular paradigm of what you do at a university
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by jgg 16y ago
Right, but to some degree it seems self-perpetuating: the schools get big because they get money for sports, which causes to them to get bigger, so they put more money into sports, etc. My question is, I guess, why aren't schools founded ar
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by jgg 16y ago
Perhaps it sounds heretical, but how hard would it be to shift all the funding schools receive for sports into academics? Also, where exactly does the funding for sports at major Universities come from?
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Inverse Fourier Transform of a Bee Swarm in the Fifth Dimension(nklein.com)
32 points by jgg 16y ago|6 comments
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Lists and Lists - A Zork-style Lisp Tutorial(eblong.com)
1 points by jgg 16y ago|0 comments