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by mlazos 8y ago
except nuclear doesn’t produce pollution on a scale close to fossil fuels. 90 reactors are producing %20 of our electricity right now without emitting air pollution (although I’m not sure about the energy used to mine/transport uranium
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by mlazos 8y ago
I don’t really think Amazon has a monopoly. They control 5% of all retail, and like 50% of e-commerce. It’s far from a winner take all point too, I think there will be a lot of fragmentation in the next few years with niche sellers like Ets
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by mlazos 8y ago
> when it isn’t hurting anyone Your worldview is limited if you think that brazen censorship doesn’t hurt anyone. They could erase whole periods of history, cover up mistakes that the government has made, or hide abuses that are in progr
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by mlazos 8y ago
A lot of the time I try to see how far I can push the brute force solution which turns into a nice little programming exercise in optimization.
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by mlazos 8y ago
You shouldn’t have to be a power user in order to use an application. There are no clues what do other than trial and error
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by mlazos 8y ago
I’m actually really tired of people acting like the world is ending because ML algorithms can be tricked. The only time this will result in actual danger is self-driving cars, and military applications, hardly a world ending crisis. Other t
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by mlazos 8y ago
I think for low level systems it’s important to be knowledgeable about the design of OSes. For example, how memory works, caching and paging, how programs are executed, how threads and processes are managed, how communication with periphera
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by mlazos 8y ago
I really like htdp, it was used for a bit in my intro class as well, but that curriculum also covered concepts that weren’t from the book. I also have been forever grateful for being taught scheme as my first language. Previous discussion o
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by mlazos 8y ago
I saw this paper at nips and I thought it was an awesome application of continuation passing style. Typically in CPS one of the advantages is that you really only need a single stack frame (since the remainder of the program is encoded in t
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by mlazos 8y ago
And what objective measures do you have for nations like China, Russia, Iran, and plenty of despotic dictatorships in Africa? There isn’t some magic measure that goes filters through all the lies perpetuated by those countries. There is def
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by mlazos 8y ago
I don’t agree with this, selective enforcement at least has a ceiling of what you can be arrested for. Arbitrary arrest does not have such a ceiling.
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by mlazos 8y ago
I don’t think your thinking about ordering is correct, in fact I remember reading a blog post somewhere (can’t seem to find it now) that made these same claims and was really confusing/poorly written, I’m wondering if you also read it.
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by mlazos 8y ago
So I didn’t know who he is (still don’t) and this article doesn’t actually come across as humble bragging when I read it without your context. He doesn’t even mention how successful he is, and just says change the things you can control and
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by mlazos 8y ago
Of course there is nuance, many times the Chinese government owns parts of these companies, they have zero choice. In the US corporations have much more power to resist the government. At the very least corporations can lobby Congress to ge
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by mlazos 8y ago
For a historical example I’m pretty sure Disney did this with purchasing land in Orlando before they announced they would build Disney World there. They even used fake names. Given in that case the company itself was doing the purchasing in
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by mlazos 8y ago
Wow so that’s how they got the money for that. Can somebody tell me what the point of those streetcars are? They’re just slow buses that are limited to tracks.
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by mlazos 8y ago
As it was mentioned in the article this looks to be a direct response to the NYT article. It’s easy to pretend to care after everyone has found out. I’d be curious to know the details of the allegations against the 48 to gauge whether they
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by mlazos 8y ago
I would like to say no, but the world has proven me wrong in numerous projects that I’ve seen.
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by mlazos 8y ago
I enjoyed this post - but I don’t feel like it added much beyond SICP itself and also one of my favorite books, Design Concepts in Programming Languages (Turbak et al.)
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by mlazos 8y ago
> new TypeScript toy. One thing I’ve come to realize is that MS definitely excels at programming language design, coming out of college I had no experience with the MS CLR languages and I was pleasantly surprised at how well designed a
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by mlazos 8y ago
In my experience, SATs measure nothing - only how well you can take the SAT, after taking a prep course my score went up like 200 points. One of my friends got a perfect score on the ACT after doing alright on the SAT. Some colleges are no
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by mlazos 8y ago
I’ve been back and forth on this and I feel like your argument has just convinced me that workers should take advantage of this. If the government is now only accountable to PACs and big donors, is the end game that corporations will be the
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by mlazos 8y ago
actually I’ve seen sort used for kinds of kinds in some PL papers that I’ve read. Not sure how official it is, some PL researchers I’ve talked to say that they don’t go higher than sorts.
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by mlazos 8y ago
I don’t think anyone is saying avoid taxes entirely. I honestly don’t see why money should be taxed twice. Take income tax, fine, but if I decide to save money for my descendants then let me be. On its face it’s literally just a gift.
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by mlazos 8y ago
Indeed, the main reason I clicked on this was genuine curiousity as to why Americans hate PCs!? What kind of underground PC culture exists to hate? Suffice to say I was a disappointed.
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by mlazos 8y ago
I really enjoyed doing some of the problems in this book. I worked on a team at Microsoft that used the inbox clutter algorithm in production and it was illuminating to see a real life application of graphical models.
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by mlazos 8y ago
Every argument presented in this article is a straw man, the writing is pretty bad, and then he says SoftBank vision fund is positioned to grow because of ridesharing, AI blah blah - as if American capital isn’t hugely invested in those fie
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by mlazos 8y ago
Sorry if this wasn't clear - I'm talking about lambdas. I'm basically complaining about a piece you pointed out, that you can't assign to variables in a lambda expression, this is very not ergonomic IMO. Having to create
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by mlazos 8y ago
Yes and the fact that they aren’t full closures is a travesty - I can’t tell you how many times a nice dependency injection has been ruined by having to add a bunch of def’s. It bloats code and reduces expressiveness.
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by mlazos 8y ago
I think that Apple products have gotten noticeably buggier since Jobs has gone, I honestly think the horror of getting a 3am call from him about your feature was a legitimate fear engineers had at Apple and drove quality up. Not advocating

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