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by jobeirne 17y ago
Does anyone know if Clojure is GCing lambda's yet?
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by jobeirne 17y ago
Holy cow! That web page is wider than my Macbook.
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by jobeirne 17y ago
Is this some sort of long-winded joke?
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by jobeirne 17y ago
>"I’d spent a year walking around studying flashcards with maths problems, multiplying random licence-plate numbers in my head, just to prepare for the interviews. I memorised The Wall Street Journal every morning." This feels like bull
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by jobeirne 17y ago
>"Mostly free e-books from the Gutenberg Project. Descartes' "Meditations" are some heavy shiznit." Why wound a perfectly good read with words like "shiznit"?
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by jobeirne 17y ago
Looks as though there are many Windows specific chapters and not-so-many *nix chapters.
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by jobeirne 17y ago
Also, this doesn't seem to be an apt analogy; I'm no expert on machine learning (certainly) but it seems to me that "face detector" is simply a catchy abstraction that does not necessarily contradict the underlying technicalities of your pr
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by jobeirne 17y ago
I apologize for the attitude, and it wasn't directed at you, but it's driving me crazy how prevalent the confusion is as to what a genetic algorithm actually is.
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by jobeirne 17y ago
This is not a genetic algorithm; this is a steady-state-ish (MU, LAMBDA) evolution strategies algorithm. Genetic algorithms imply crossover, not simply mutation. People have gotta stop referring to population-based methods of stochastic s
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by jobeirne 17y ago
You obviously misunderstood what I said; "force" does not only apply to physical things: it runs the gamut from plagiarism to patent infringement. You are forcefully (and wrongly) obtaining media in that you have not first obtained the cons
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by jobeirne 17y ago
Easy: if an act does not impose force, threat, or fraud, it is moral.
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by jobeirne 17y ago
Moral relativism is to disavow the accumulation of any generalizable logic during humanity's stay. This is trendy and foolish.
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by jobeirne 17y ago
Morality is not subjective. There is wrong and there is right. Stealing the toils of someone else is wrong. Your argument is still nonsensical; just because Hollywood glorifies theft (which of course they would; it's the allure of the rebel
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by jobeirne 17y ago
Granted, I'm with you there; however, just because something isn't readily available does not provide moral justification for its theft.
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by jobeirne 17y ago
Your argument begs the question. "I haven't legal access to something, therefore it is okay for me to steal it because otherwise I couldn't have it." Loot on. "There is something very wrong when the path of least resistance is often unlawfu
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by jobeirne 17y ago
"it's up to the producer of the media to give the consumer a better experience"? Yeah, but don't forget it's also up to the consumer not to steal the producer's creation. This kind of mentality pervades society today. "It's the job of someo
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by jobeirne 17y ago
Synopsis: young boys are frequently cruel to other male peers, young girls have been observed to exploit sex at an increasingly early age. This is hacker news?
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by jobeirne 17y ago
I'm with you. We should be talking about knocking out our incredulous debt before we even think of expanding infrastructure.
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Ask HN: Active Common Lisp communities?
2 points by jobeirne 18y ago|2 comments
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by jobeirne 18y ago
It's looking like "amazing" won't be the right word in a little while. To a degree, I'm with you. Since I was a teenager, it's been my dream to live in New York, but hearing things like this makes me doubt seriously that NYC can maintain it
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Undercover at Walmart [longer than the old version](nypost.com)
5 points by jobeirne 18y ago|0 comments
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by jobeirne 18y ago
There's a great bit about this in the first chapter of the SICP.
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by jobeirne 18y ago
Which one is the "third" movie?
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by jobeirne 18y ago
This would be a great example of what "hacking" is to someone unfamiliar with the classical usage of the term.
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by jobeirne 18y ago
Someone sounds bitter on account of his favorite programming language. Lisp is especially conducive to this sort of thing because it is (arguably) the best suited language for rapid prototyping; sure this could be done in other languages, b
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by jobeirne 18y ago
In response to the parting question from the article, here's an idea: make cool things with Lisp. Make cool things for Lisp.
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by jobeirne 18y ago
Either that's wonderful sarcasm or I live in a miserable world.
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by jobeirne 18y ago
This is a perfect testament to the masses of people who think they understand (and thus have license to lay valid criticism on) Rand because they read the first 30 pages of Atlas Shrugged. I'm so sick and tired of hearing some pseudo-sophis
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by jobeirne 18y ago
Very frighteningly, accurately, and succinctly put.
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by jobeirne 18y ago
The brokenness of the UN is painfully obvious when member countries can get away with travesties like these.

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