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by jibiki 18y ago
Somebody posted a study which showed, IIRC, that ~150 lines was the optimum length for subroutines. I really should bookmark these things... EDIT: Hooray for searchyc: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=509978
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by jibiki 18y ago
I think people might be more inclined to discuss this with you if you were willing to actually address their points. The post you are responding to makes the claim that decriminalization increases the percentage of drug users who seek reha
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by jibiki 18y ago
(I think that might have been the joke...)
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by jibiki 18y ago
When I see that site, I think timecube.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Does anybody have the link to the TED talk about this prelude?
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by jibiki 18y ago
But the analogy is awful! It's entirely reasonable to expect good reporting from TC, and entirely unreasonable to expect MS Songsmith to produce professional-quality music.
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by jibiki 18y ago
I am certainly not a good programmer, and using this logic, you might hire me. So your list isn't perfect; however, I suspect that it's pretty good. The basic problem is that it won't distinguish between people who are really enthusiastic
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by jibiki 18y ago
There's a lot to be said for this theory if you look at the real world, where anonymous interactions play out well 90+% of the time (selon anecdotal experience.)
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by jibiki 18y ago
Cool article, maybe you should submit it. There was a similar article some months ago, but it seems to have gone unnoticed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248613 The NYT article you cited is way better, although I don't think there'
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by jibiki 18y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. This is a good move because TC seems to be his bread and butter.
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by jibiki 18y ago
I got that the 2nd generation average is 48.7% and the 3rd generation average is 50.4%. I'm too lazy to find the standard deviations.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Fascinating. I'm extremely skeptical, of course. The thing that bothers me most is that they list percentages (perhaps this is the percentage of time that the rats guess correctly?) rather than $ amounts. Even if the experiment fails, exp
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by jibiki 18y ago
The article is actually not about why anti-intellectualism exists. It is about resolving the following paradox: all people are curious, but most are anti-intellectual. His resolution is that the premise is false: most people, in fact, are
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by jibiki 18y ago
I give up. What's the difference between whining and critical thinking?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Also, grown women are the stereotypical audience for "casual games" (match 3s and such.) Whether this corresponds to reality, I have no idea.
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by jibiki 18y ago
I've never understood the retraining argument. Surely going from computer-illiterate to windows-trained takes orders of magnitude more effort than going from windows-trained to linux-trained. Setting linux up takes a bit of work (solving
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by jibiki 18y ago
I think the people downvoting you don't understand your point. If the vetting team told Kundra that they didn't think he was fit to be CTO, that might tip Kundra off to an ongoing investigation. The whole thing is a moot point now, because
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Patent troll to sue Linden Lab, Blizzard(washingtonpost.com)
24 points by jibiki 18y ago|5 comments
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by jibiki 18y ago
I don't think it's memeworthy. Too much of a "you had to be there" thing. I just can't think of a situation where it would be funny to say "quick everybody lets talk about Erlang."
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by jibiki 18y ago
I have had classes where I stumbled through with cargo cult code. (Basically, I had a choice between thoroughly learning ML in a week or just winging it.) The experience was thoroughly unpleasant. While your email was extremely rude, you
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by jibiki 18y ago
The article establishes that people can, in fact, tell the difference between MP3 and uncompressed, no?
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by jibiki 18y ago
> world's smartest country South Korea?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Besides the problems mentioned in the other comments, there are many homeless people who aren't really fit for any job, due to severe mental illness or drug abuse issues.
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by jibiki 18y ago
You are ignoring Pat's point, which is that many of the homeless choose to be homeless. So you must answer the question: should we force homeless people into shelters?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Ok, would you trust democracy to those who could pass a civics test?
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by jibiki 18y ago
> My point is that such keys can now be generated independently of the sale. I'm pretty sure his suggestion is to have the keys generated randomly, so that they cannot be generated independently of the sale. If we are to believe him, t
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by jibiki 18y ago
I think you've got a shot at getting some stimulus money. Good luck.
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by jibiki 18y ago
If you're literally just looking for code that appears in two places, then there is an obvious polynomial time algorithm, no? (Check every substring against every other substring...)
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by jibiki 18y ago
I know for many things, being relentless is a necessary condition, but not sufficient. It is very easy to get stuck banging your head against a wall instead of finding a saving resource.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Considering that there still seems to be disagreement about the causes of the great depression, my guess would be that there are people who know, but nobody knows who they are.

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