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by jkaptur 9y ago
> “But, I feel there is a clear line between human power and non-human power,” he added. “I think there should be a very simple classification: human-powered or not human-powered. I wonder which side of the line electric shifting (which
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I'm not a domain expert, but both could be right - isn't the point that some currencies and tenors are very illiquid, not that the entire market doesn't exist?
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> #1 reason for a hacker to not work for Google, you could program "Hello, World" and they wouldn't sign off on it. This is just not true. If you want to write code that isn't owned by the company, you just ask [1]. I
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You might really enjoy the Graph Gear line of pencils and pens as well: http://www.pentel.com/store/graphgear-1000 .
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Right, I think that WeChat basically exemplifies this too. But at that point, is the user really interacting with a "bot", or is the chat platform just an app delivery mechanism like an OS or a web browser? I'm honestly askin
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I think that the pizza analogy is really useful. We've had intelligent voice-capable agents for pizza ordering for ages: calling the store. People hate it! They want a specialized UI for ordering pizza.
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I think that they also had Joan say "the medium is the message" about a decade before McLuhan thought it up, but I could be mistaken.
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I don't get it. Programmers are surrounded by trees. The filesystem, your code's AST, dependency trees, the HTML DOM, any JSON ... why do people consider it so unreasonable to ask a question about simple manipulation of a well-und
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Does the IMPORTDATA function work for that?
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But the whole point of this approach (as I understand it) is that companies may be able to deliver the ads in the same HTTP response as the content, they may render the whole page as a <canvas>, they may go to crazy lengths, but by si
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In case you're not aware, the design you're proposing is generally called "RPC" (remote procedure call). In many ways, it's much more intuitive, but there are tradeoffs. This article might make interesting reading:
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I first learned how to program by reading - nearly cover to cover - the TI-83 instruction manual. Fantastic.
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I think that a major component of Norquist's thinking is that the more painful people find taxes (including the process of calculating them) the more they'll support his agenda of "a government so small you could drown it in
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FYI, court cases are not a good example of this. Mock trial is quite popular.
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The Closure Compiler is open source and can do this.
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At the bank I used to work at, traders had a habit of wandering over and asking questions about the differences between the prices of securities over time (as arbitrageurs, it's all they thought about). I got so sick of writing one-off
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Sharepoint, Wordpress, and SAP fit that description too.
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What would it take to convince you that the tech industry is more hostile to women than men? Honest question.
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Sure, but it's hard to think of much that would hurt "the mission" more than the harassment that's been alleged (and corroborated). Properly investigating that, removing those involved at any level, and ensuring a cultur
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"Toxic" seems to be the wrong word for this tool. Another commenter used the word "polished". I think we can agree that the sentence you quoted is "polished"?
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I think HN is basically already like this. It has its own set of problems, but I agree that it's an improvement.
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Very interesting, though I'd love more details about the signals they're using. I hold out a slim hope that this discussion doesn't once again devolve into "but how can we even define 'truth'??" This seems
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The fact that changes might be coming is no argument against changing policies in the world that exists today.
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I didn't get a lot out of GEB, but I pored over Metamagical Themas [0]. It was perfect for a teenager just learning programming. The bite-sized nature of it makes it extremely approachable - perhaps a case of constraints (periodic colu
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You don't think the educated citizen should have an informed opinion on current emission standards? Your second two examples rely on specific facts or techniques, which I don't think mine do. For example, I didn't say that th
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Plenty of people "do just fine in their lives" without knowing how to read. This is discussing how to "be an educated citizen", a far higher bar. An educated citizen: * can have an informed opinion about the NSA's d
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The Closure ecosystem definitely evolved a bit differently from the rest of the JS world, but it pioneered some techniques 10 years ago that the rest of the community is only now rediscovering, like isomorphic rendering and type checking. S
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That was my impression too. For this to be comparable to subprime loans, there would need to be opaque, surprisingly-leveraged derivatives of these loans. The article doesn't indicate if that's happening (it only mentions bundling
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Is there much internal mobility at Facebook? My understanding is that the point of a single hiring committee is to ensure that every individual at the company has met a similar standard, which reduces the barrier to switching teams. I'
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> Conducting business is a First Amendment right. I'm a big fan of the First Amendment, but I'm not following your argument here. The amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or

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