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by logjam 18y ago
Excellent stuff. A manifesto for change.
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by logjam 18y ago
You've got to be kidding. It takes an hour or more to get to SFO from almost anyplace in the city, and I suspect LAX is worse. If you're not at the airport at least an hour early these days, you may get bumped. Stress. Security checks.
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by logjam 19y ago
You don't need "business" cards.
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by logjam 19y ago
Yeah, I hear you. One thing I do in that regard is make liberal use of mp3s, to listen to lectures, novels, nontechnical stuff (although I am listening to the complete Feynman Lectures on mp3!). It's an easy way to make use of time like c
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by logjam 19y ago
Absolutely (it is the Wall Street Journal, after all). I do agree with some of what Malone says re: free speech on the Net. However, this is big business' usual schtick....hypocritically arguing for corporate corporate welfare, while dec
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by logjam 19y ago
Don't bother. Just read more. I've always read very fast, and I don't think it helps that much. My experience has been that reading quickly is reading carelessly, which serves well for scanning and finding info - but to understand, you h
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by logjam 19y ago
Ok, why don't you enlighten us all on how "breeding" causes poverty. You might want to check out something like "Guns, Germs, and Steel", which is one of the latest works to effectively debunk your assertion, pointing out, as the article do
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by logjam 19y ago
Knuth just said something about this at his last "Musings" lecture.... http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/notes-from-vale...
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Stop Dreaming. Start Building.(twincommas.com)
13 points by logjam 19y ago|8 comments
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by logjam 19y ago
Category theory in general, because it encompasses areas of computer science, mathematics, and physics.
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by logjam 19y ago
> Somehow, "civilization", "culture", and "society" have guided human development away from that model. Nonsense. If that's your "statement", it's wrong. The entire field of sociobiology (read Wilson) speaks to phenomenon like "civi
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by logjam 19y ago
> Are you saying that biases and potential biases of people have absolutely no relevance in any "valid" discussion, even in response to subjective observations about why people act the way they do? They have absolutely NO relevance to t
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by logjam 19y ago
Frankly, I don't think you "get" Lisp at all. Lisp's lack of syntax is its greatest strength. Beginning or inexperienced programmers in general seem to have great difficulty with this concept. > Even defined down to "true macros", thi
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by logjam 19y ago
"The idea is to give the students a broad view of computer science during the first two years ("making them ready for their first internship or project") and then using the next two years to go into depth in some selected areas. During the
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by logjam 19y ago
Error in reasoning. You obviously need to read PG's recent article.
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by logjam 19y ago
But more than a little more qualified than you are in this area, if you want to play that game. At least the guy giving the "warning" argued from something a little more substantial than "look where this was published." And now your entire
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by logjam 19y ago
Exactly. From the absolutely hysterical reaction here and on Reddit, on codinghorror, and other blogs, you have to know people are projecting absolutely enormous insecurities onto PG's piece. Makes you realize just how defensive and d
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by logjam 19y ago
Oh my god. Lions. I'd have compared them to caged gophers. Since we're talking about animals so much, it's Interesting how some really prefer weasel words. Obviously there are some tender sensibilities here.
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by logjam 19y ago
Absolute horseshit. Really. Exactly what "best work in software" is being done by established companies? Practically every innovation in the software technology that really matters has come out of the startup/non-corporate-open-sourc
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by logjam 19y ago
I have to agree. How again is this not a free way to spam 25,000 people a month?
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by logjam 19y ago
He didn't blame it on Google, which suggests a very strong inability on your part to read. And the fact that you ignore the squeeze on basic freedoms in the U.S. over the last eight years suggests either woeful ignorance on your part, or t