jorleif

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by jorleif 17y ago
I wish someone did a study on how being told other things affect intelligence. For example, there is the stereotype of the dumb blonde. Perhaps being told (or knowing) that one is attractive leads to lower effort and therefore to less knowl
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by jorleif 17y ago
These kinds of startups have an advantage for small loans, but for larger ones the "real" banks that don't have to carry all the money they lend (fractional reserve banking) have quite an advantage. Also, in a system where people loan direc
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by jorleif 17y ago
I've done the same thing he describes, of building a large system that would be quite small with modern tools. I wonder what could be to alleviate the problem. Of course good factoring of code and using a high-level programming language so
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by jorleif 17y ago
I suppose I was wrong about the author's reasoning, but I still think my description applies to many people. Personally, I think both camps have their problems. Academic people can be quite annoying when they talk about something like they
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by jorleif 17y ago
Having both worked in industry and academia, I think the author considers so called "real world knowledge" as the only kind of useful knowledge. For example, a working programmer might learn Ruby on Rails very well by working with the frame
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by jorleif 17y ago
Has anyone tried using statistical filters to detect unwanted comments? If you could get the volume of stupid comments low enough, the users could vote down the more cleverly written trolls. Alternatively one could try to automatically give
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by jorleif 18y ago
I think one very serious problem with someone paying for features, is determining if a certain change actually does what the person wanted. In the commercial world the client decides that software is good enough for them by paying for that