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by jorjordandan 12y ago
I think that of all people who could be automated away, musk is probably not one of them. He probably would be happy to get rid of BS jobs. The problem is that once an AI gets to the tipping point of being able to improve itself, it will a)
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
... or else just use chef ...
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
Nice! Now we just need to be able to deploy lunch with `git push table`
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
The Benjamin button short story by F. Scott Fitz was 64 pages story and a 166 minute movie, yielding 2.6 minutes of film per page.
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
reminded of the brilliant David Foster Wallace essay "Tense Present" which is THE BEST http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
My favourite part is the people who imitated the facial expression. Like they saw the site and thought, "Nothing says good web designer like mouth scrunched off to the side"
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
Well you gotta pinch your doctors nose while inserting a paper clip in his ear and wait thirty seconds. Factory reboot
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
Nice! Now if only we could finish reverse engineering the Tassimo barcodes.. https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3919/...
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
wut
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
How is glorious sandboxing different from regular sandboxing? Is there a 'glorious' certification? Just kidding - looks pretty awesome!!
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
Again thanks! But using Facebook was still a poorly chosen example of what their apps won't do, since they aren't aiming for hosting large customer facing apps like a social network. Perhaps that is what contributed to my confusio
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
Ah, that makes much more sense now! I think they need to figure out a better way to spell out their value proposition.
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
Would a sandstorm app prevent you from using say, Google analytics or new relic without getting a users permission?
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
The web site says apps cant perform psych experiments, and links to the contentious facebook emotion split test. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to do split testing on these apps... That small criticism aside, I'm very curious
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
A lot of people seem to think this is a story about programming. It's not. It's about perceptions. A good programmer knows that a certain portion of his work is managing perceptions. This is part of a skill-set known as 'sof
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
I think you would be killed by the diamagnetic properties of water first... If you can affect water with a small magnet like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FvWtEdY4sE Then a magnetic field of sufficient power would
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
I have also noticed that the content of blog articles varies slightly depending on who manufactures the ram that I'm using - related issue?
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
A lot of people here seem to be grasping at straws to defend the status quo. Doing things like presenting at conferences, teaching the governor to code, etc., at age 16 are amazing experiences that are only available to people who are willi
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
Somebody buy this guy a 3d printer.
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Let's (finally) hack the Tassimo
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
'nother hamiltonian here. Hoping to start working at platform 302 a couple days a week, soon. emailable at jordan@jordandavis.ca
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
Obviously, the point of this essay is that it is supposed to be easy to disagree with. But I feel obligated to take the bait for some reason.. The idea of a single global culture is a pretty dark path, historically speaking. It is a utopian
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
He has announced that for his next challenge, he will store 4k video on betamax tapes. Impressive.
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by jorjordandan 12y ago
A tip for aspiring professional pencil sharpeners - On step 7, after correcting the collar, make sure to clean the tip with strokes TOWARDS the tip of the pencil. Your client will not be happy with the product if graphite residue has staine