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by miloshh 17y ago
I'm totally with you on the "ideas as answers", but I feel the article is bashing exactly these kinds of ideas - the ones that "geeks" tend to have. There seems to be a number of people here that often say things like "execution" or "knowin
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by miloshh 17y ago
Having your own opinions is also not a bad thing. If unsure, you might consider asking Paul Graham for guidance on this, too.
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by miloshh 17y ago
Yes, I completely agree that there are many bad ideas (or even some whose quality cannot even be measured). But that is different from saying they are irrelevant. I have seen many bad ideas, but I have also seen very smart, hard-working peo
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by miloshh 17y ago
You say that based on what? Did you read it? "The only thing a Ph.D. means is that you're not a moron, and you're willing to put up with the bullshit it takes to slog your way through a Ph.D. program somewhere." If he instead said that it i
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by miloshh 17y ago
I apologize for the personal attack. However, the author insulted, without much argument, so many groups at once (geeks, Microsoft, people that appreciate the value of ideas, Ph.D.s, etc.) that I would claim there is some ground for calling
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by miloshh 17y ago
Downvoters, please explain what is good in the article.
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by miloshh 17y ago
What a dumb asshole. Everything in the article is either banal, a straw-man, or very questionable, which contrasts a lot with his tone. This guy somehow luckily got into a position of power where he is allowed to invest other people's money
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by miloshh 17y ago
Interesting theory, but wrong. In fact, the right answer is well known, and does not involve memes at all. The reason why it's equally good for the genes to produce a male or a female, and why there's an equal number of males and females in
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by miloshh 17y ago
I think you misunderstood what refactoring means in an IDE. Suppose you want to rename a method. There might be many other methods of the same name in different classes, local variables of that name in other methods, or even classes with th
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by miloshh 18y ago
Is it really a joke? The guy might actually be the pompous jackass that he appears to be. EDIT: OK, I see it's published on April 1st. :)
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by miloshh 18y ago
Yes, but that is for an N x N matrix. It is more useful to express the complexity in the size of the input, in which case matrix multiplication is N^1.5 or better. (As far as I know, the best known algorithm is pretty close to linear, but i
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by miloshh 18y ago
As long as the 100 vectors fit in memory, it shouldn't be too bad. I think the commonly used algorithm to find the first singular vectors is Lanczos iteration, where the key operation is multiplying the 100 vectors by the large matrix. I do
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by miloshh 18y ago
Well, I would disagree - the problem is that there is no apparent mutation in the given example. There is hidden mutation, in that the list comprehension mutates its variable. This is probably done for efficiency, but I would claim it's a b
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by miloshh 18y ago
Of course, but the point is, identical twins are consistently more similar than fraternal twins. Furthermore, identical twins are about as similar when growing up together, as when growing up apart.
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by miloshh 18y ago
Yes, it's great for that purpose, except when two ore more people edit too vigorously at the same time. E.g. a file is updated by your friend, while you're working the same file open in an editor. When you save, you overwrite his changes. I
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by miloshh 18y ago
I think you will run into problems like this pretty early on, and no worry, they're all fixable. :) The other links in this discussion are good, and here's another one: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Stack_overflow
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by miloshh 18y ago
Yeah, but in a way a lexer is a parser, just a simpler one (so you can write it from scratch, without a library like Parsec). Most lexers can deal with comments and string constants already, so you could extend it to do "{" and "}" as well.
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by miloshh 18y ago
Perhaps there was too much currency in the system, but I think the actual, real wealth of many people did decrease too. They were better off than they are now, their wealth physically went down. They don't have things now that they did befo
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by miloshh 18y ago
Yeah, Parsec is great - I used it to parse some shading languages. I have thought about the error recovery problem, and I think for some C-like languages there might be a solution, although I never tried it. You could use a "smart" lexer th
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by miloshh 18y ago
An optimistic article, but I wonder if entrepreneurialism has become cool only in very limited circles - like here. Out in the real world, with the crisis and rising unemployment, it is once again becoming a sign of life success to land a s
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by miloshh 18y ago
According to the article (and the one linked in it), the percentage of people that prefer MP3 quality is rising, that's all. It does not say these people would actually be able to tell that the recording they prefer is an MP3.
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by miloshh 18y ago
It might well be that many people complaining about "soulless, thin MP3s" would not be able to tell a 160kbps VBR MP3 from the original in a controlled experiment. Low-quality headphones and speakers are obviously a different matter, but if
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by miloshh 18y ago
Yes, that is true, in the early stage (before the start-up looks like a respectable company from the outside), it's more complicated. Ideally, you would use a different kind of visa, e.g. F-1 OPT if you have a degree from a US school, or TN
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by miloshh 18y ago
Are you sure start-ups cannot afford H1-B? It might be a few thousand in lawyer fees, but that might be well worth it, especially if a few key founders need H1-B. Since more than 50% start-ups had some immigrant founders, I'm assuming that
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by miloshh 18y ago
Nice demo. But unsurprisingly, if something is Turing complete, you can do rendering in it, too. The bigger question is - why did we get into this sad situation where "web" and "performance" are antonyms? The standard answer would be that y
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by miloshh 18y ago
To all the fellow FP fans - why spend so much time trying to convince nay-sayers that FP is great, that it makes code shorter, simpler, safer, more robust, more fun? They will not get it anyway, until they try it. And sadly, they won't try
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by miloshh 18y ago
Actually, I think critic above had it right. Sure, women are considered more attractive when 20-30, and get a lot of attantion from men in that age, much more than men do at any point in their life. After women get past 30, things simply ge
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by miloshh 18y ago
When I keep thinking which other, more efficient ways of achieving financial freedom you might have had in mind, I cannot help the word fraud popping up. I'm sure that's not what you meant, but I have no idea what you did mean. :) Investm
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by miloshh 18y ago
Hmm.. I agree these are becoming bad habits, but what if all the good habits fail? That is actually a very common case, I think. I once couldn't make sound work on a laptop, so I tried all the obvious tricks - check if the mixer isn't accid
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by miloshh 18y ago
I think those complaining about Linux in the desktop being in shadow are missing the point. They are always implying that the problem is people being stupid, or the costs of retraining being high, or evil Microsoft's marketing, or sysadmins

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