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by m12k 8y ago
As a non-American, it looks to me like one of the primary reasons why America has become so divided and tribal these days is Fox News. It makes a living selling white working class people their own fear and prejudice back to them in order t
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by m12k 8y ago
From my experience working on a commercial game engine, my guess is that almost anyone working on a huge C++ code base (e.g. a game engine, browser, OS or the like) would rank compilation speed as the #1 issue they would like to see address
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by m12k 8y ago
The controller is always where the trouble arises because it glosses over a lot of details [1], and there's way too much stuff you can put in there if you're not careful. Before you know it you have thousands of lines of highly co
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by m12k 8y ago
Kirkegaard's existentialism was religious in nature, in contrast to the later atheist existentialism of Sartre. So it's quite possible that from Kirkegaard's perspective, it could be possible to regret things after your death
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by m12k 8y ago
I think most serious engineers know that nothing beats actually working on the real thing. Models and test environments are nice and all, but the only truly valid results come from the 'production environment'. I'm glad someo
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by m12k 8y ago
No, "proportional" just means the two things correspond in size, not that the sizes are equal. In other words there is a positive correlation between the values.
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by m12k 8y ago
The way I see it, it's basically just a cost-saving measure. If you have some very varying workloads, instead of paying for having a bunch of servers running all the time (and idling most of that time), when you actually need the extra
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by m12k 8y ago
Neat! Maybe you could add a line or two to describe what each product was? For example I'd never heard about Sidewiki, Google Jaiku or Google Catalogs. It seems fitting that a tombstone would mention not just the date of death but also
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by m12k 8y ago
This sounds related to the 'See One, Do one, Teach One' learning concept from medicine, which also sounds like it works very well.
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by m12k 8y ago
It could actually be argued that many monarchies were a rough form of democracy for the nobility, where the king only got to reign as long as he didn't make himself so unpopular as to make the aristocracy band together and depose him.
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by m12k 8y ago
I'd like to learn a modern production-ready functional language (I have some academic experience with SML), since they seem like a good way to grow as a programmer. Main contenders so far are Haskell, Scala and Clojure (Reason might go
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by m12k 8y ago
This reminds me of the way most application developers aren't security experts, and it's taken decades with a lot of very public hacks for awareness about the risks to be spread and for a set of security practices and middleware
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by m12k 8y ago
Thanks for the link to Bell's Theorem (I recalled there being a result like that, but didn't remember the details of it). If the hidden variables really are in a higher dimensional space, then maybe superluminal communication (in
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by m12k 8y ago
Very insightful, thank you for the detailed comment. About the DAG flattening algorithm you mention - in what way does this differ from a topological sorting? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_sorting ) E.g. d
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by m12k 8y ago
I'm a bit sad that they couldn't reproduce the double slit interference pattern. I'm still holding out hope that we'll eventually develop a model of reality where the apparent indeterminism of quantum mechanics can be ex
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by m12k 8y ago
Yeah, I thought the whole point of OT was that it allowed any client to do resolution (because all operations transform other operations in a way to make them all resolve the same way no matter their order) Which is what made it seem like s
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by m12k 8y ago
There might be a niche for an 'always on' (more or less) video service. It feels very awkward to 'be quiet together' on most current voice and video call services and that causes people to end the conversation faster tha
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by m12k 8y ago
Build up savings as a consultant, bootstrap a B2B SaaS for a handful of years (gradually transition out of consulting as the SaaS starts generating more income after some years). B2B is key since it's much easier to convince businesses
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by m12k 8y ago
So it's Diaspora meets a CMS? I thinking the issue here will be the chicken and egg problem - how do you bootstrap something like this without a killer app to drive adoption? After a certain critical mass adopts a system like that, all
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by m12k 8y ago
I don't think that's at all impossible for Dell or the other OEMs to do (and I think some of that might already be happening a bit) but overall I don't think they particularly mind using Windows for their computers. There&#x2
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by m12k 8y ago
I wanted to ditch Chrome, so I tried Firefox on macOS and it took 3-5 seconds to load most sites while they load in 0.5-1.0 seconds in Chrome. I tried uninstalling (including deleting all profile data) and re-installing to see if that helpe
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by m12k 8y ago
For most companies, securing funding and getting exposure in the media is significantly more important than using technically correct terminology to describe the implementation details of their product.
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by m12k 8y ago
I think you have a very good point, and one the term 'Sitzfleisch' kinda misses. The point is to be actually productive, not just to be seen working long hours - the 'ass in seat' mentality. The former actually actually
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by m12k 8y ago
In the meantime a whole bunch of organizations started accepting 'usernames' as passwords
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My guess is they probably made the investment in the first place to make sure they were onboard if/when music streaming took off. Now that it's well established, and there are competing services, they are probably better off by no
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And unfortunately the alternative people have found is random hearsay on the web. The dieticians lost our trust and now we're just eating junk food instead.
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> Why not turn it around, spend most of the research money and brain time on things that benefit everyone (in the US, and worldwide) I think this is a quirk of the US political system where military spending is the only public spending t
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by m12k 8y ago
As far as I can tell Stripe is very much aware that they are a one product company, and all this is just part of their larger content marketing and "become popular in the industry" strategy.
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This reminds me of one of the concepts from Zen in the Art of Archery - by focusing too much on wanting to hit the target, you're not using your full attention on perfectly performing the actions that would actually allow you to hit th
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by m12k 8y ago
Slay the Spire does a great job of fusing roguelike and deck building game

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