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by jimfl 17y ago
You don't have to learn to be lucky; billions of years of evolution have bred lucky right into you.
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Why, that's backwards! In the U.S. we have castes related to social networks.
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Also remember that lights timed for 35 are also timed for 70.
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by jimfl 17y ago
It looks more like a K't'inga class Klingon Bird of Prey.
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It would give your statement more weight to know what paradigm you prefer.
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A lot of people should quit 'pointless' Twitter. Each time that happens, it becomes more useful to the rest of us.
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by jimfl 17y ago
Interesting read. One candidate I had heard for the Great Filter discussed in the paper is MMORPGs. A civilization advances to the point where they develop immersive games, then vanishes. I tried to track down the source of that idea. Anyon
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by jimfl 17y ago
Statisticians commonly use SPlus or R. Applied mathematicians use some flavor of Fortran, in part because of numerical libraries available in that language. Matlab is also in heavy currency in many disciplines. Much of the time, a scientist
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by jimfl 17y ago
I made a Processing hack based on distributing the color space over the Hilbert curve. http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=2178 My wife liked it so much she made a quilt based on it http://www.flickr.com/photos/abulafia/28963
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by jimfl 17y ago
I misread "The db.eval() statement provides a way to automically perform several operations at once; however, its use for this is not recommended as this eval() atomicity will not be supported for certain cases in sharded environments" as "
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The fact that there is no linux version is no impediment to determined hackers.
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The system need be no more complex than first-order Peano arithmetic, which is the Peano axioms (reflexivity, transitivity, succession, etc.) combined with the concept of induction.
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The proof presented in Nagel and Newman's book is not that difficult to follow, and the insight that you get from following the proof itself is genuinely worth the effort of sitting down with the book for a weekend. I should think that anyo
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My guess is that Raymond Smullyan is not confused about this. The explanation isn't presented as proof, it's an explanation of the theorem and its consequences.
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This tends to be the job of the IDE. I am working on a largish .NET codebase, and Visual Studio, combined with a plugin called Resharper is the thing that keeps that sane, giving us context menus that allow us to quickly find usages of a me
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http://www.ecis.com/~alizard/images/bigbro.gif
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Infinity is thus far the most violent idea humanity has come up with.
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From my reading, DCI doesn't supplant MVC, but is an architecture for organizing code. Object behaviors are mixed in (via mixins, traits, or templates) according to roles (the common examples are ATM withdrawal and deposit) which are implem
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by jimfl 17y ago
Upon reading the article one learns that the "death spiral" refers to the runaway inflammation called a cytokine storm in individual patients.
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I suspect that the editor should be held responsible for the lack of context surrounding the Messiasen introduction.
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Charlie Stross anticipated this news story about a simulated brain about as complex as a cat's with his Aineko character in Accelerondo, suggesting to me, that no, SciFi has not fallen behind actual tech advances. http://www.mercurynews.co
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Give me a laptop battery, my belt, and some duct tape, and we'll be talking about an definition a little further down in the dictionary entry for the term "battery."
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In some languages, this is rule #0 btw.
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Each line of code is a liability. Even tests. Eventually, something will happen to render that line of code incorrect; either another line of code, changes to other code, changes in the tech stack or 3rd party libraries, and even the domain
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by jimfl 17y ago
But seriously (If I may spend a little accumulated karma), I argue though humor alot (ALOT), and I sometimes have people ask me "how come you're never serious?" to which I reply, I'm deadly serious. If I didn't care, I'd just be quiet. Keyi
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All serious comments in this thread will be downvoted.
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I am surprised by how few there are.
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If fun is not your goal, it is time to reevaluate what you are doing.
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TechCrunch seems to revel in the abandonment of accepted journalistic standards. Story embargoes for example.
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And working fun beats working smart and hard.

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