joelburget

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by joelburget 16y ago
Well, DNA is fairly complex. Of all the elements and compounds life could involve it seems rather unlikely that DNA evolved in two places completely separately. Not impossible, but very unlikely.
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by joelburget 16y ago
I agree that it's an amazing discovery. Admittedly I didn't read the actual press release so you're probably right that they acted correctly. I only read second hand accounts of what they were going to announce.
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by joelburget 16y ago
We not only could have a common ancestor, it seems to me to be almost certain. What are the chances that some other life has evolved with DNA completely independently
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by joelburget 16y ago
Perhaps NASA should be more cautious about holding a press on astrobiology, and with a Science embargo. Clearly everyone will immediately think of aliens, and for good reason. It's NASA, it's about astrobiology, and it's something big enoug
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by joelburget 16y ago
Agreed.
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by joelburget 16y ago
Thanks for a better explanation than I could have written myself. I also like this page as a more basic introduction to type systems: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2010/08/what-to-know-before...
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by joelburget 16y ago
It's interesting that Wolfram makes a quick foray into computer science to bash type systems. (I think he couldn't be more wrong) "To resolve this, Russell introduced what is often viewed as his most original contribution to mathematical lo
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by joelburget 16y ago
Volume 2 of Principia Mathematica, not Principles of Mathematics.
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by joelburget 16y ago
It's exactly this kind of thing that lead me away from C++. There are far too many gotcha's and tricks you need to know to write good C++.
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by joelburget 16y ago
In my experience NaCl is not a viable platform at this time. My friend and I spent a couple weeks just trying to get the developer tools to work. We tried on Ubuntu, OS X, Windows, and Arch Linux. We weren't able to get started on a single
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by joelburget 16y ago
If we're being picky, "l’appel du vide" is actually 4 words.
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by joelburget 16y ago
What language is he speaking? Finnish? Swedish? Also, what is he saying?
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Sergey Brin On "To Tell The Truth" from 2000(video.google.com)
2 points by joelburget 16y ago|1 comments
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by joelburget 16y ago
Someone must be held responsible for this.
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by joelburget 16y ago
Jason Santa Maria is the only designer whose rss feed I'm subscribed to. Check his porfolio for some projects you'll probably recognize. http://jasonsantamaria.com/
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by joelburget 16y ago
The slide that stuck out to me was the claimed number of Haskell programmers: enough to fill 1155 Boeing 747's. By my estimation that comes out to about 575,000 (assuming ~500 per plane), which definitely seems high to me. I would guess the
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by joelburget 16y ago
"It's not about the degree: it's about what you can get out of the university while disguised as a student." Could you elaborate?