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by maeon3 13y ago
Humans do things in exchange for money, the low hanging fruit is gathered before the hard to reach fruit up top. Given a choice to make a million dollars making a website or making a million dollars building automated self-flying cars, rat
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by maeon3 13y ago
Looking at this political story from a programming perspective... What software out there can help me accept as input millions of photographs, with timestamps, locations, angles and such, and generate as output a coherent time line of each
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by maeon3 13y ago
It is the first step of forming an alliance and symbiotic relationship between adversarial systems. When two humans want to acquire all the assets of the other and make the other one the slave, the first step in starting an alliance is doin
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by maeon3 13y ago
I did volunteer work at a soup kitchen and through the connections I made there I worked with someone who kicked my butt and fixed my resume. If that hadn't happened i wouldn't be making the salary I am now. The ancient wisdom: give and it
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by maeon3 14y ago
I see the video as a reminder that the time you wasted watching this video is like a sand castle, wasted, forever.
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by maeon3 14y ago
He's making a big deal out of the fact that some evil human may concoct an evil plan and swindle an honest man out of his hard earned bitcoins. He's missing the entire point, bitcoin was designed to stop the federal reserve and US Mint from
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by maeon3 14y ago
For me the reverse happened, back in 2009ish, lose the job then lose the girlfriend because you're not as spendy as before. I dodged a bullet on that one. In hindsight it was the best thing to happen to me. But while I was going through
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by maeon3 14y ago
I wasn't saying certain people should not be held accountable to certain laws I'm just pointing out the major theme of the phenomenon taking place here. As programmers we are a tremendous emerging power and it feels like programmers are be
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by maeon3 14y ago
When everyone is a criminal all the time, with selective enforcement, it makes it easier to tax and control. When political winds shift, you can eliminate anybody you want, because you just make an excel spreadsheet of political enemies an
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by maeon3 14y ago
I like getting boilerplate responses from people, it's basically a message to me: You are worth nothing to me and if I can make a profit by throwing you under the bus, I will make no hesitation to do so, and you shouldn't expect me to. It's
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by maeon3 14y ago
The goal is to have a vehicle that can land on another planet and return to the surface of Earth in working condition with the only requirement as add fuel. One hindering factor is the problem of having enough fuel to make the return trip.
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by maeon3 14y ago
Which means, if bitcoins were to 100% replace US Dollar today, the US Government would have to immediately default on the treasury. I get the sinking feeling that when Bitcoin takes off for it to make any kind of fractional dent in society,
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by maeon3 14y ago
But how will the Federal Reserve be able to allocate new blocks of bit coins to give to one of the 12 federal reserve banks so we can fund more trillion dollar packages of spending borrowed money if all they can do is try to acquire bitcoin
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by maeon3 14y ago
To transcend your genetic programming to create more of you takes a kind of self control few people in this world can muster, I don't even think I can do it. The problem is, the moment you achieve it, you immediately remove yourself from t
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by maeon3 14y ago
I spend several thousand dollars testing a few "eyesight for the blind" products by taking video on a head mounted camera, encoding the image as an 1 image per second audio file that is transmitted to the ears. I was actually able to get i
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by maeon3 14y ago
Two Programmers are walking along the sidewalk when both simultaneously spot a hundred dollar bill on the ground between them. They begin a lively discussion of the nature of the problem, what is right? What is moral, what is just? What wou
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by maeon3 14y ago
Programmer asks for some advice on what data structure to best map his family tree: 2nd Programmer says: For you I would suggest a "directed acyclic graph".
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by maeon3 14y ago
When reading/reviewing a particularly bad piece of code in front of the person who wrote it, say: If your language had true garbage collection, the compiler would have deleted this program upon execution.
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by maeon3 14y ago
When you have the attention of more than 3 passionate guru programmers, ask: "Does the curley brace go on the first line of the for loop or on the next line?" Laugh at any opinion given, calling them "silly".
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by maeon3 14y ago
My program won't compile, I think I've lost one of my bits, can you help me find it? I think I dropped it on the carpet over there, it may have rolled under the desk.
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by maeon3 14y ago
When Chuck Norris throws an exception, it’s across the room.
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by maeon3 14y ago
Working on a coding project, one programmer asks the other who wrote up these project specifications? Other programmer says: I can't tell you where the specs were designed, but be careful, the paper is still hot.
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by maeon3 14y ago
While pair programming: "There!! It compiles!"..... SHIP IT!
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by maeon3 14y ago
If you are using an IDE like Eclipse or anything with auto code completion, syntax color-highlighting, and syntax error highlighting, get rid of that while coding up the exercises in the PDF. Use Notepad++ or kwrite and disable those featur
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by maeon3 14y ago
What would impress me is an entire car, made stem to stern from 3d printers, even if it took a year using Titanium 3d printers and plastic 3d printers. Also he would probably make more waves/growth if he were to print up things like all-pla
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by maeon3 14y ago
And thus, the Government became a listening party to every data transmission that will ever exist for the next thousand years. Voice, video, conversation. The talk with your kids. Everything. We need to do something about this. The int
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by maeon3 14y ago
Critical thinking is hard to teach, because people have it beaten out of them. Where I came from, raised in a church during the formative years of my mind, I was trained that Critical thinking, Scepticism, using logic and thinking very dee
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by maeon3 14y ago
The right to bear arms and the human bill of rights is not up for re-interpreting and re-writing. Why are you trying to unwravel what the Utopia that our founding fathers created by making us more like Russia and China?
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by maeon3 14y ago
Could it be a stunt by a particularly intuitive student to prevent a shooting incident by creating a false alarm, to get everyone to tighten up security, thus reducing the probability of an actual shooter event really happening? Shooters ar
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by maeon3 14y ago
You are right. I was not looking at the whole picture. But still, if Bill is putting that money into another growth vehicle, that means that he believes Microsoft isn't going to rise to superstar status again. It's not a place where his

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