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by kleevr 17y ago
Currently reading: "infinite jest" (wallace) "how to rock climb" (john long) On deck for winter: "god created the integers" (hawking) "critique of pure reason" (kant) "illuminatus trilogy" "a brief history of technology" (up to
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by kleevr 17y ago
I was learning C# (had just come from Java/Eclipse land), and I was using the command-line compiler just to get comfortable and learn some in's and out's. I was the first CS programmer they hired (I was still in school), they were crewed up
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by kleevr 17y ago
Yeah I recently dumped my .net job and ran for the hills. Now I've got my slices /etc/host'd, and I can just sshfs in and gvim around to my hearts delight. (I actually got reprimanded for using gvim at the last job, luckily we struck a comp
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by kleevr 17y ago
yyp
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by kleevr 17y ago
I used VS+VIemu at my last job (.net shop), and it started to feel kinda homey after a while.
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by kleevr 17y ago
What is this, distributed captcha hack?
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by kleevr 17y ago
a cheeky name for "god"... basically he wanted to pray, but felt silly saying 'God' so he came up with something he thought sounded more rational
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by kleevr 17y ago
Agreed. I don't respect a company that won't give a person two weeks to get the feet wet... i.e. set up dev station, learn the network topology, and bone up on the development stack. By not letting someone acclimate to your tech environmen
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by kleevr 17y ago
> This reduces the risk for the employer while also giving the employee a chance to examine the company and be paid if the work is satisfactory. How about a one week stipend. You're view point is too company-centric, I MUCH prefer to w
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by kleevr 17y ago
I like how it seems to tap into some preternatural intinct to guard, protect, and incur against other "theoretically" boundaries... It's like you can see the player's minds working sometimes (maybe if I was better it would be more often), a
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by kleevr 17y ago
I've got the paper back. I read it back in highschool, and I'll recommend it. One passage that stuck with me, was when he spoke about how he taught himself to write. The process was basically to read a page out of a "good book" several tim
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by kleevr 17y ago
I've played both a little Reversi/Othello and Go. If you haven't tried Go I'd give it a shot. It is good to start by playing a little against a computer (and don't feel bad about using a handicap) until you the basics click. Then find ot
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by kleevr 17y ago
Especially when you want to change the battery and listen to music. Can you use as USB hub? Haven't tried it myself...
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by kleevr 17y ago
Good point, I'm woefully ignorant of Branson's history of success; perhaps I'll meander through some wiki pages today. I did liked the notion Stephen Dubner added. Namely that the two schedule types aren't necessarily mutual exclusive to a
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by kleevr 17y ago
Well if you consider the "makers" magical 5 minute window of extreme insight that he or she might have specked throughout their half-days, it appears to me that it is just as significant as a Branson's. Branson's leverage comes mostly from
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Neuroscience: Functional Simulation of Regions of the Human Auditory System(lloydwatts.com)
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by kleevr 17y ago
Ray Kurzweil's book: "The Singularity is Near" My copy isn't so near, but I think my "intuitions" were informed somewhere in one of his "Reverse Engineering the Human Brain" sections. (Sorry I can't provide a more precise reference.) His b
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by kleevr 17y ago
What about the parts of the (human) brain that are just some wet-wired differential processing grid. Though their phenotype is ultimately prescribed in DNA (granted a list), I wouldn't be surprised to find that many of those "moving parts"
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by kleevr 17y ago
I have included emitted UML (from running code) into my end documentation (from c#/VS world). But for any work I've ever done, there is a unordered heap of back of envelope artifacts that I fear only make sense to me. It is hard to capture
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by kleevr 17y ago
I don't know how you feel about counter histories; but, based on the keyword density of your post, I'll go ahead and recommend "The Shock Doctrine, the rise of disaster capitalism" (by Naomi Klien).
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by kleevr 17y ago
Sometimes I'll play trance ambient just loud enough to smooth over the environmental noise while coding: http://www.hbr1.com/perl/apax.cgi?run=jorbis&station=
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by kleevr 17y ago
My bad, the Nausea hit the night before. It's funny, I wasn't crazy about the fade-out feature (Though, I did find it witty as hell.), but after pulling a ctrl-a on the above... well I'm actually a huge fan of it these days! ;)
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by kleevr 17y ago
tl;dr: too drunk to even care; so be it HN, I think I'm almost done here; feels like a fair mention, so I'll push the point and a-void your convention.
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by kleevr 17y ago
Maybe instead of cardinals, you could have: (Up Arrow) "?", "!" (not necessarily mutually exclusive) (Down Arrow) But what would be more interesting is to not force any meaning on them whatsoever. And wait and see if some sort of meaning e
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by kleevr 17y ago
edit: yeah, I'm pretty sure I agree too, I'm not sure why I wrote so much... I think strict Up-Down voting ultimately regresses to a Boo/Yay judgement; despite whatever benevolent community coercion exists to color the vote along some more
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by kleevr 17y ago
"The harvest is great, but the laborers are few"
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by kleevr 17y ago
Or, perhaps you could define 'merit' as continously compounding interest with their average karma density (votes/items). Taking the interest forumula "Pe^(tr)", and substituting might yield something like: P = 1, -1, it is the single up/dow
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by kleevr 17y ago
As a programmer in this day in age, you might as well be a free mason from the middle ages. You can move virtually anywhere in the world and make at least enough money to comfortably cover for your human conditions barring a complete collap
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by kleevr 17y ago
As a simple heuristic, it's an elegant solution. Could the front page 'merit' be more or less ~accurately~ described via continuous function? for (User user : item.up_voters) merit += user.life_span_in_months/12; for (User user : item.down_
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by kleevr 17y ago
as an every-guy, who only at various times has "suffered" mild OCD fits: I can see the value to be had by the clinically compulsive.

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