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by kenster07 13y ago
"Today if you are not a founder, you’re not worthwhile." I lost interest in the article after this sentence.
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by kenster07 13y ago
How much does one need to understand how a car's engine works to drive a car? I believe there is some relevance to a deep understanding of algorithms, that relevance being a function of the job. But in situations where the relevance is
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by kenster07 13y ago
Adding to my original post, every process is managed by Erlang's VM. Whereas in many languages, concurrency constructs are mapped to OS threads, Erlang has virtual threads that it manages for you. If the VM detects a multicore processo
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by kenster07 13y ago
Without morality, ANY social system, not just a market economy, will have problems, since many moral constructs directly lead to social stability. Some basic examples: 1) Thou shalt not steal, cheat, murder, etc... 2) Notions of karma -- i.
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by kenster07 13y ago
It is built with concurrency in mind, from the ground up, making it much easier to write concurrent programs than when using the traditional languages that you've listed. 1) Every process in Erlang manages its own memory and has its ow
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by kenster07 13y ago
Lots of broad generalizations without any stats. I have gamed in the past in guilds with female members, and none of them have been treated particularly poorly. The anonymity of the internet will always bring out the worst in some, and that
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by kenster07 13y ago
Is SFGate a tabloid? Step 1: Cherry-pick most extreme comments possible and imply that they represent the average opinion. Step 2: Make numerous anecdotal assertions without any effort to back them in statistics. Step 3: Instigate mudslingi
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by kenster07 13y ago
In computer science or math terms, the market economy is incredibly simple to understand: 1) People are encouraged to locally optimize -- i.e. optimize their own happiness. But as any psychologist would point out, lots of people have no ide
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by kenster07 13y ago
There is hope yet for the patent system in America.
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by kenster07 13y ago
I do not see this as a problem with Thrun, but as a problem with the current educational system. If MOOC's carried a fraction of the "academic credibility" that college degrees did, Udacity would be a home run already. This w
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by kenster07 13y ago
Love of complexity is a programming disease.
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by kenster07 13y ago
I was going to post my take on this matter...but something struck me when reading the replies. The quality and thoughtfulness of the discussion here is so good compared to the utter crap that is regurgitated on TV and most newspapers. I&#x2
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by kenster07 13y ago
Find a job you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
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by kenster07 13y ago
I don't mind working long hours so long as I am actually gaining useful knowledge which I can leverage later to get many times those hours back.
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by kenster07 13y ago
So if they aren't apparently trying to maximize their personal profits as measured in dollars, then they are failures. That's quite a harsh generalization.
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by kenster07 13y ago
If one were to analyze this concretely instead of with a bunch of platitudes, you want to find the optimal intersection between the productivity a language grants you for the task you are trying to accomplish, the amount of developer time r
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by kenster07 13y ago
This is a great substitute for employers without adequate intuition about their candidates and/or the willingness to actually go through a candidates' references and public projects.
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by kenster07 13y ago
That is only one definition of fairness. Another definition of fairness would declare: "No Mr. Multi-millionaire, you really don't need a 5th Ferrari, just because you won the genetic lottery." I see the merit to both sides,
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by kenster07 13y ago
Boosting aggregate demand will not solve the unemployment issue when you consider that one person with automation can produce enough goods to satisfy the demand more than one person.
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by kenster07 13y ago
Of course. But compared to actually spending money directly on goods that are produced by the average person, they may as well be stuffing it under their mattress.
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by kenster07 13y ago
Yes, that is a good thing. The bad part is that they aren't using the other 99.99..% of their wealth, essentially taking everyone else's labor and ending the cycle of trade that would otherwise help keep an economy going. And that
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by kenster07 13y ago
*presuming that you went to an undergraduate institution where the variance in student intelligence is large enough to detect an appreciable difference between the avg intelligence in these two majors.
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by kenster07 13y ago
You have a point. Sometimes, I forget that there are actually people out there who pursue careers where they know they won't enjoy the journey.
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by kenster07 13y ago
What I mean is that people who enjoy programming probably tend to be smart. I haven't done any statistical surveys, but the motivational feedback loop for learning programming rewards intelligence.
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by kenster07 13y ago
Okay, but any specific suggestions on how to do that?
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by kenster07 13y ago
Exactly. I would feel much more comfortable testing the job's requisite domain-specific knowledge directly.
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by kenster07 13y ago
"...a smart person eager to learn is a breeze compared to teaching problem solving to someone who memorized the reference manual." I would guess that there is actually significant overlap between these two groups.
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by kenster07 13y ago
Worse yet, the standard education indirectly discourages independent thought. It is difficult to reconcile the standardization of education with the wide diversity of students. There is simply no way everyone's intellect can flourish u
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by kenster07 13y ago
This "elephant" is a racist opinion of your own making. Parents want to send their kids to a school where their peers will influence them to be good students. And as anyone who has gone to a largely "non-ethnic" school c
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by kenster07 13y ago
I appreciate that, and if the story is true, I hope the perpetrator suffers the consequences. But we are not the jury here, as fun as it may be. We should not try to ruin someone's life in such a fickle forum.

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