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by mej10 11y ago
Annuities.
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> they're probably going to be evolutionary improvements that build on what we have, rather than throwing everything away in favor of a brand-new approach. Probably, yes -- but working on a problem starting from the beginning is som
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by mej10 11y ago
The stack choice is especially interesting since I thought they were big fans of Clojure. I would like to hear their rationale for Rust/TypeScript over Clojure/ClojureScript (or Clojure/Javascript). EDIT: typo
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Congratulations on getting this out there! Looks like the team has made a lot of progress. Looking forward to trying it out.
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Yep!
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It actually isn't the JVM startup time that is the problem. The JVM starts up pretty quickly these days. Clojure itself is the bottleneck. Which means it is at least fixable... but seems to require a huge effort to fix.
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by mej10 11y ago
I write Clojure every day and love it. I'm interested in learning Rust, but I'd like to learn it via a project that I couldn't do effectively in Clojure. Any ideas?
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by mej10 11y ago
Leiningen is fine for libraries -- but when you need a more complex build (really, anything with more than one step), Boot gives you better tools for doing it. Boot has other cool things as well, like being able to write standalone Clojure
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Yeah, it was a little strange to me that we got WebMIDI but not WebOSC. I wonder if there are discussions around this choice. MIDI is a super straightforward protocol, so maybe that is why?
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Oh, nice! I wonder if that should be added to the wikipedia article?
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How many people owned Teslas before Musk took over?
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by mej10 11y ago
If you are learning a Lisp for the first time, you should stick with something established that has good resources for learning available. Scheme is a good choice to start with, and eventually you will want to learn either Common Lisp or Cl
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by mej10 12y ago
PG has several themes in his essays around this idea. Others have talked it about it as well. It isn't a hidden secret or unknown. Most people just choose to ignore it.
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by mej10 12y ago
If you want to be (unnecessarily) pedantic, I never said what the frequency of the compounding was. I didn't realize we were trying to come up with a realistic model of expected utility in these three fields. If you don't want to
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by mej10 12y ago
Here is what OP said: > After less than three minutes I was asked to leave his office. No discussion about my condition was allowed. You have to be able to discuss anything about your health with your doctor. This is simply unacceptable
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There are three areas I am aware of where labor can absolutely compound (in terms of output): business, software, and learning. > Perhaps, but what is the delta increase in zeal for their project. From my personal experience, it can incr
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by mej10 12y ago
Get a new doctor.
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(assuming) 10-20%, compounded over as long as you can sustain it. It can make a huge difference. Also, they make most people feel fantastic and like they can conquer the world. Is it really any question why people would find that appealing?
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by mej10 12y ago
They provide value to the company providing the content. Many great sites are only possible thanks to advertising revenues. The world would be objectively worse-off if everyone used adblock.
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by mej10 12y ago
There is a lot less of the unrestrained use of mutability in Clojure, but you can still have shared mutable references via atoms and refs. EDIT: As an example, here is the block-scanner in Clojure: (defn block-scanner [trig] (let [c
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by mej10 12y ago
I don't get your point. So, because software developers make a decent living means they should just be happy with that, even though it doesn't compare to the value that they actually create?
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by mej10 12y ago
What are your thoughts on drug use among the entrepreneur/tech communities? Specifically modafinil, amphetamines, psychedelics.
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by mej10 12y ago
As a follow-up, do you think it is unethical to use AdBlock?
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How do you factor in possible technological advancements that could render a company's business model obsolete? For example, if someone develops a distributed web-of-trust/payment platform, a lot of the value of Uber and Airbnb go
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by mej10 12y ago
What are your thoughts on advertising as _the_ way to make great services available for free (Google, reddit, Facebook, Stack Overflow)? What problems do you see with this model? When should this be preferred? Does it only work for massive
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by mej10 12y ago
I admit, my first sentence was in poor taste. Apologies to Andrej. At the same time, saying that something isn't possible to prove when we literally have no idea about its provability isn't a good stance for a researcher to take.
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> How can we possibly prove that AI is not some kind of magical emergent property, "one simple algorithm away"? We can't. I hope you aren't a researcher, because this is a ludicrous statement. We haven't studied
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> Everyone who actually works in on AI and understands it thinks the fear surrounding it is absurd. This isn't true. Please don't state falsehoods. Stuart Russell, Michael Jordan, Shane Legg. Those are just the ones mentioned e
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by mej10 12y ago
So do you take his thoughts seriously or not? Do you now think AI researchers are engaging in unethical behavior since they don't care about AI safety?
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http://arxiv.org/find/cs/1/au:+Legg_S/0/1/0/all/0/1

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