loosetypes

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   by loosetypes 8y ago

   > The word innovation has become a buzzword routinely used to describe things that are new, shiny, feature-rich, and, in some cases, breakthrough. Word-inflation is real. Here at Purdue, a new building on campus is called the Innovation
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   I am working through HtDP now. I was initially watching Gregor Kiczales' accompanying playlists[0] on YouTube concurrent with the material. They were good and short enough that I charged through and finished them before reaching the co
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   This case sounds like a positive But it’s a bit scary that the telecommute, which maybe hasn’t, I think, caught on - at least as a means to include in-demand, distributed “information” workers - might catch on at scale when purposed in a w
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   Kind of depends on at what level your thinking about though. In most games some towers can have a random aspects in deciding where/ what to attack. This can lead to variation of outcomes when replaying a given wave but amortized over a
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   I rented a car from National and drove cross country last week. I don’t know if it was for the reason you mention (to mitigate complaints?) or just to upsell it being bundled with the satellite radio/ gps package, but I was surprised t
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   by loosetypes 8y ago

   Per the tweet: CMU has higher female ratios in their CS programs? Is that specific to undergraduate? I’ve looked into applying to their masters programs and of the ~20 options, only two appear to have higher than 50% female[0]: (1) HCI and
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   by loosetypes 8y ago

   Thanks for the first article. “Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it.” This reminds me of a story I heard that
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   by loosetypes 8y ago

   Right, I was commenting less on its utility as a prep. resource than how it seems, to me, either stale or incongruent on Google's marketing front.
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   by loosetypes 8y ago

   I recently interviewed with Google and their recruiter's, presumably copy-and-pasted, spiel included the following footnote: "Steve Yegge (former Googler) talks about his interview experience and "How to Get that Job at Googl
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    Would Chicken Scheme work ootb to code along with SICP?
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    I remember being struck by a snippet of pseudocode in a discrete mathematics textbook[0]: https://pastebin.com/L2dwawgu So basically being able to run an arbitrary number of dependent, nested loops. Now imagine you want to
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    I think I really like that. I had an interesting conversation the with an oyster farmer about the variability in taste geographically in the northeast. And to me, honey is just honey. But apparently some folks can discern by taste which flo
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    For whatever reason I really enjoyed the Symbolics graphics and animations demo[0] linked in the article. I was born in the 90s and have constantly heard the narrative that technological progress is getting faster and faster, and that we&#x
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    > "I'm an academically trained futurist" What does this mean? > "and I'm continually frustrated by the future as being techno-solutionist-driven and mostly Western or some Hong Kong/Tokyo future." Th
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    Torn on this one. I'm currently finishing up my CS degree after having worked professionally as a dev for a few years. I got started with a bootcamp, maybe before they were mainstream. Maybe my expectations were out of line from the on
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    I really enjoyed Norwegian Wood. Would you recommend any particular order when approaching his other books?
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    So CL macros often follow the pattern of several forms of processing before returning a quasiquoted expression using the results of those earlier forms. That is, some regular code lisp code, followed up by, I guess I'll call it, a DSL.
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    It doesn’t work like that with regards to taxing. What they do get is a good PR image at no cost to themselves (many places don’t match any donations[0]). Worse, some even keep a percent in “administrative fees” [1] And there is concern tha
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    (Where) do smartphones fit in the impact spectrum?
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    I usually think of wannabe Mars-colonists as the unrealistic ones, but I can’t help but think of the umbrella notion of curing cancer as the more fantasty-driven idea. Is cancer not just the accumulation of cellular damage? Sometimes it hap
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    I’ve never verified it, maybe because I’m scared it won’t be true. But one of the few facts I remember to this day from 8th grade history, ages ago, is that no land is more than 20 feet above sea level in all of Florida.
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    There was (hopefully still is) a thriving community of D2 single player enthusiasts that had a very welcoming crowd and managed to avoid the craziness of battle.net[1] at the Single Player Forum of diabloii.net[2]. To this day, it's ma
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    I can’t help but compare this to those angry with George R. R. Martin. Is it inherently selfish for him to not finish his book series? Maybe, but I don’t know if it’s the place of a reader to be arbiter. My only secondhand anecdote of Antho
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    And their food prices are deliberately underpriced so you'll generalize the perceived savings onto their furniture.
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    by loosetypes 8y ago

    For anyone intrigued by this sort of thing - that is to say the ethics of hobo culture - I would highly recommend reading `You Can't Win'[1], the autobiographical account of Jack Black's train hoppin', bank robbin'