mkyc

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by mkyc 17y ago
I've re-written your story to read as I read it: In the year 3065 of The Future, people not only have all they need to be happy, but are indeed happy. Alas, uploads remain an imminent futurist dream. Enter a man, a normal man, a man filling
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by mkyc 17y ago
The problem isn't that the information is available, it's how the information is used. That is, the problem isn't Wikipedia, it's the coworker who treats the reformed and repentant ex-convict like trash, then goes home and beats her kids. O
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by mkyc 17y ago
Were you among the physicists? :) Notability is not an intrinsic property of articles: it's like weight, not like mass. Your argument fails at the "if seriously engaged in by enough people" point, since it's simply false (by definition) tha
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by mkyc 17y ago
Exactly. One of the best things about dwarf fortress is that playing it using that initially-confusing interface rather than shiny graphics is like doing math using symbols and equations rather than paragraphs and paragraphs of words.
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by mkyc 17y ago
It's nice to have filtered links with a brief summary, but this is not my thing because your comments are too verbose. The issue is about 500 words/18 links, HN's http://news.ycombinator.com/best is 250/30. HN has little context, but the
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by mkyc 17y ago
Dear downvoters, In this community, we don't vote based on whether or not we agree. We vote up if we think it is worth reading, regardless of whether we agree or not. We downvote when the message is inappropriate - flames and trolls, cheap
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by mkyc 17y ago
Patterns are easier to identify with a non-monotonous font, as research into word-shapes shows. Some of the fonts I use have wider-than-usual spaces, or—and perhaps you've noticed this—punctuation like the em dash that have the correct widt
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by mkyc 17y ago
I've been using non-monospaced fonts for a long time now. I also have had no issues with things I or others have lined up. "Lining things up" usually amounts to screwing around - like variable names having identical lengths, at the expense
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by mkyc 17y ago
See also http://regexpal.com/
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by mkyc 17y ago
by entering the following URL javascript:void(document.cookie="PREF=ID=abac7a90f5a3784b:LD=en:NR=10:TM=1254990196:LM=1254990236:S=uB6F4jDnMP_DuxtT;path=/; domain=.google.com");
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by mkyc 17y ago
I've been using etherpad for collaborating on documents. I've found that live conversation often breaks out in the middle of the document itself. I love this, and prefer it to the normal chat area offered on the right side. (The only proble
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by mkyc 17y ago
If you don't think it belongs, flag it, move on
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by mkyc 17y ago
I don't want to feel connected to the community, I want to feel connected to the content. I don't like scores. A high score means that a comment was posted early, that it was good or agreeable (which is not the same as being good), and that
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by mkyc 17y ago
But this would average out to be (slightly) more accurate than no votes at all.
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by mkyc 17y ago
Turn both on. The dot will allow people to skim, the score will inform the overly curious.
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by mkyc 17y ago
We should use an orange dot, the opacity of which goes up based on the score, with alt text. This isn't a console. It was refreshing to be able to check scores with hardly a glance, even at the cost of seeing exactly how well it scored.
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by mkyc 17y ago
My point is that naming verbosity depends on the code. This is vague but better than saying "cf. Goldilocks" ("choose anything between two crazy extremes"). My other point is that everyday use of names should be a guide for naming in code.
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by mkyc 17y ago
The moral of the story is not to use shorter names, but to write better code. Date start = ; Date end = ; Iterator i = new DayIterator(start, end); while (i.hasNext()) { doSomething(i.next()); } Your Papa Bear example ite
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by mkyc 17y ago
Very much related: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
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by mkyc 17y ago
Modesty. When someone who you respect or look up to inadvertantly contradicts what you have been teaching, this can be embarrassing.
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by mkyc 17y ago
It's not about the effects, it's about the drive and the feel. A new place, alien and exciting, and you knew, you suspected, you had no idea what could happen there. The things you did, the community you found, all very pure, like thinking
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by mkyc 17y ago
When this first came out, I recall bypassing print quotas at my then-campus by finding the ip of and connecting directly to one of the many printers. May I be forgiven, the printer rolled on for what seemed like a half-hour, deposited 100 p
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by mkyc 17y ago
Flagged; this seems to be random gossip.
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by mkyc 17y ago
This is because many people here still vote by agreement, rather than for comments that are interesting, insightful, contradictory, terse, and so on. This happens on a much larger scale with lower-rated comments. I once saw the word "no" wi
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by mkyc 17y ago
There's no rule that says we should use the same vapid title here. I yearn for the day when I come to HN and find that either the submitters or the editors have decided to spoil every teaser and ReMove Those Damned Flow Impeding Capitals. F
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by mkyc 17y ago
You might be agreeing with me, and perhaps are missing my point: more people , especially statisticians, will be engaged in the programming and programming-like tasks that are required to work with ever-increasing data. Not structured-SQL
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by mkyc 17y ago
I think that Martin Fowler hits the nail on the head with Illustrative Programming: "When you look at a spreadsheet, the formulae of the spreadsheet are not immediately apparent, instead what you see is the calculated numbers - an illustrat
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by mkyc 17y ago
This list is incorrect. The author asks "just where have most of the great software companies been started?", and proceeds to list headquarters. Three corrections, for US companies (yes, I checked the entire list): 2. Microsoft: Albuque
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by mkyc 17y ago
The important part of what I said above is that the spam would not arrive in any inbox . The temptation (and ability) to look through spam is the current problem, and would be eliminated. If some servers are already doing that , then they
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by mkyc 17y ago
I don't check my spam folder. If it's in there, it's not delivered. Email providers should (optionally) bounce spam, rather than sending it to a spam folder. This would eliminate the problem of false-positives, since senders would be notifi

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