limist

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Types (and Languages) à la Chart(james-iry.blogspot.com)
30 points by limist 16y ago|2 comments
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Telomerase reverses ageing process : Nature News(nature.com)
2 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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Mark Twain's autobiography, released 100 years after his death(npr.org)
6 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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When The Speed Of Light Is Too Slow: Trading at the Edge(kurzweilai.net)
69 points by limist 16y ago|66 comments
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by limist 16y ago
Closely related to the first Thing of problem reductionism: "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection... Except for the problem of too many layers of indirection." — David Wheeler
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Neural network DSL using Clojure(cs.unm.edu)
12 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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Python progression path - From apprentice to guru(stackoverflow.com)
147 points by limist 16y ago|23 comments
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by limist 16y ago
Very nicely done! What I'd enjoy seeing: A listing of builds/combinations, which can be filtered by price, popularity, etc. Other HNers have suggested this too so I imagine this feature would be popular. Along the same lines, it's not so
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by limist 16y ago
It is (potentially) mind-blowing. Our models, understandings, and predictive capability w.r.t. time, space, matter, energy, and causality would need revising. Jobs and reputations would be lost; new theories, paradigms, technologies, and
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by limist 16y ago
I'd agree with your thinking - beyond practical uses and the practical need for a functional democracy to have thinking citizens, knowledge enriches human life. What was a bit surprising to me was how contrarian the author was willing to be
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by limist 16y ago
Yes; and I rather wish every college graduate would be required to take one semester of the philosophy of ethics so they can avoid the circular fallacy of psychological egoism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_egoism Whether fr
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G.V. Ramanathan - How much math do we really need?(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by limist 16y ago|3 comments
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World’s First Carbon Capture and Storage Project in Basalt Begins in USA(cleantechnica.com)
1 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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18 Iconic Products That America Doesn't Make Anymore(businessinsider.com)
2 points by limist 16y ago|2 comments
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by limist 16y ago
You may disagree with the colloquial usage/meaning of the word "preventative," but in the context of health care, I'd argue it's a worrisome sign when the scope of that word expands from lifestyle changes (which even doctor friends would of
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by limist 16y ago
Hummm, I think "preventative" for me means focusing on causes . Such drugs may act on symptoms (I don't know how effective they are, wouldn't surprise me in light of this article if they are not, esp. considering side-effects), but woul
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by limist 16y ago
Fixed link: http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/medicine/prescription-drug-s... Are Lipitor and Plavix truly preventative? Aren't they prescribed when there are already issues with cholesterol and the heart?
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Astronomer Seeks ET Machines(astrobio.net)
1 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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by limist 16y ago
Thanks, my immediate reaction to the article was that data normalization was not done. Now with normalized numbers, how 'bout that Swedish nepotism? :)
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by limist 16y ago
This seems to be the same talk given back in March 2010 and discussed on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1140596 Regardless, useful points worth keeping in mind.
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by limist 16y ago
Good story, reminds me of a favorite quotation: The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. — Albert Bartlett
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by limist 16y ago
This is philosophy made relevant; there's no evaluation like self-evaluation.
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by limist 16y ago
In short: 1) No ACID Equals No Interest 2) A Low-Level Query Language is Death, and 3) NoSQL Means No Standards. ACID, complex querying, and standards matters when dealing with something more than a string dealing with what someone had for
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The four stages of (functional) programming(pchiusano.blogspot.com)
2 points by limist 16y ago|1 comments
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Steven Hill: The China Superpower Hoax(truthdig.com)
3 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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by limist 16y ago
I upvoted you just for the historical reference. :)
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by limist 16y ago
A general business person is not much use to a technical startup early on. To paraphrase Peter Drucker, every business has only two core functions: innovation, or marketing. So any "business" co-founder had better be awesome at marketing/
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Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis(cs.yale.edu)
6 points by limist 16y ago|2 comments
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Django on uWSGI and Nginx(brandonkonkle.com)
3 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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by limist 16y ago
Looks like you'd need the Linux 2.6.33 kernel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM#Operating_system_support http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=51105

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