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by jmilloy 13y ago
I don't get the sense from this comment that you totally know what you're talking about (neither is it my area of expertise). On the one hand, you're right that many humans are actively working on this problem. On the other h
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What is the point of open source, in your opinion? To me, it has nothing to do with bug reports or feature requests.
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Cool! I would love to be able to "vote" on a couple (dozen) bills and see who I vote like.
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A key part of design is choosing the correct medium for the content/audience/users. While this demo displays a few raw technical skills, it's also a completely incorrect choice of medium. A well designed resume does not l
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by jmilloy 13y ago
>Having said that, I find it helpful to write documentation before writing the actual code. Do you write/have a technical spec? I think that's what you are describing. If I first and only write the comment, there can often be a
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by jmilloy 13y ago
That's fair. I tried to include this perspective as well. Personally I want to agree that this behavior is never ever justified, but do you know that being respectful has no impact on the number of actual violators that are caught? Ins
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I think it's unfortunate that there are false positives. On the other hand, we are free to complain about our government, and that is fortunate. But to those of you complaining, are you sure this isn't just another anecdote that s
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by jmilloy 13y ago
Why should I spread out my labor across 40 years when I could be more efficient and spread it out across only 10? Not all labor is "equal", and the amount of money you receive for it is a* measure for its worth. *I'm not maki
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by jmilloy 13y ago
Okay, thanks. Some of the references from the article are good, too. It's more or less clear how to apply the principle when two individuals interact. People form groups, however, both explicitly and implicitly. If I am part of a group
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by jmilloy 13y ago
My first reaction is that fallacies and double standards abound, in this brief description. Can you point me to a more in depth reference, so I can inform myself before trying to reply? For example: Is it moral to aid someone in their sel
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by jmilloy 13y ago
Since it's data driven, your opinions are nice but apparently not correct; that is, apparently, people are more successful in the company when they are hired by impartial interviewers than by biased ones... The End.
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by jmilloy 13y ago
Sometimes, the vocal majority on hn is highly skeptical, going above and beyond the call of "duty" to point out unsupported conclusions, anecdotal evidence, etc. Other times, they grab their pitchforks and attack the enemy (govern
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by jmilloy 13y ago
The logical fallacy here is arguing a general statement using a specific/narrow instances of it: "learn to code" is a very broad statement, and the differing opinions seem to stem from choosing (different) specific meanings.
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by jmilloy 13y ago
I don't get it. Why can't you get loans? You don't pay them back while you are in school, and afterwards the minimum cost per month is pretty low. I had full, $16k per term FAFSA support for 12 terms, and then needed one more
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by jmilloy 13y ago
I'm not sure I agree; aren't dest and src still variables that are being stepped up? Maybe they are not "controlled variables", I don't know what that means. This is a task that is eminently suited to repetition, an
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by jmilloy 13y ago
>I have run a a little programming experiment Does anyone know what these test problems and solutions were? Or have similar examples?
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by jmilloy 13y ago
The first comment suggests that the reason there aren't a lot of comments is because people save the article to read later. That really has nothing to do with the philosophy you're talking about. As for the second, there's no
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Teaching fractions as pizza slices entails dividing the circle into 6ths, say, and shading in 5 slices[1]. The wedge in the circle shows relative magnitude; it depicts the fraction as a portion (numerator) of the whole (denominator) regardl
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by jmilloy 13y ago
For one, I think that the pizza slices, by being in 2 dimensions, represents the fraction as portion to a (specific) whole without representing the absolute magnitude of the fraction. Both features are important.
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It's clearly useful and appropriate to show fractions as a relation of a part to a whole, as a portion of something , but it's almost always depicted in 2 dimensions (typically a circle) and therefore restricted to comparing to j
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by jmilloy 13y ago
> Write [cherry is a circle] below I don't know pedagogy, but I like that objects have names and properties , which is concrete and comes from the physical world (and our language). However, I find some things about the langua
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by jmilloy 13y ago
Cool, makes sense Dave! Thanks.
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>The teams with the most deserving algorithms will then have a short video interview with Brilliant staff, which will qualify them to compete in the final game. Strange; why not a tournament style? Prejudging based on something other tha
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by jmilloy 13y ago
The user's goal is rarely to manipulate 1's and 0's. Any design that mistakes the tool for the goal will be inauthentic (skeumorphic calculators being an example). Inasmuch as a design helps accomplish the ultimate goal, it i
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by jmilloy 13y ago
As others have mentioned scattered through the comments, of course you shouldn't use a carousel like this one. It's easy to make a feature so poorly that it doesn't work. Show me the best carousel you can find, in the most
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I don't get it. I liked A Dark Room and Candy Box, but hated Frog Fractions, which is completely unrelated.
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by jmilloy 13y ago
Also: I chose ruby on rails because it was hip. Then I chose node.js because it was hip. Now I'm evaluating those choices as mistakes because they were hip, because that's hip. Get a job, get on a team, write code, and stop read
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For me, this misses the point. Regardless of whether or not I have nothing to hide now, that doesn't mean I won't have anything to hide in the future. We would you give the government a permanent lease on your personal details int
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by jmilloy 13y ago
I don't think everyone agrees that votes only matter if they lead to a tally in the Electoral College. Funding is one example.

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