mojuba

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by mojuba 16y ago
"Asking" doesn't mean suing first thing in the morning.
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by mojuba 16y ago
What I actually meant was what we create rather than why .
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by mojuba 16y ago
While I agree P != NP doesn't say anything about human creativity, but the reason it can't be automated is, I think, different: creativity is closely tied to libido and biological evolution, which in turn can't be simulated in machines in f
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by mojuba 16y ago
One possible application would be, I think, detection of certain materials provided that antilasers are cheap to build. In other words, cheaper replacement for spectral analysis.
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by mojuba 16y ago
Apart from computers getting faster, Microsoft, Adobe and others should also keep up the artificial trade adequacy. If 20 years ago you'd gladly pay $400 for a software package that arrives on 20 floppy disks, the same amount today should b
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100th anniversary of Konrad Zuse: creator of the first programming language(user.cs.tu-berlin.de)
15 points by mojuba 16y ago|21 comments
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Soros: "Financial markets always provide a distorted view of reality"(businessinsider.com)
3 points by mojuba 16y ago|0 comments
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by mojuba 16y ago
2040: "Rent a Chinese Guy"
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by mojuba 16y ago
I assume by "consciousness" you mean self-awareness. A similar paradox is viewed within the context of quantum replication, i.e. an aboslute precise material copy of your body is created, maybe even more than one, so the question is, what h
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by mojuba 16y ago
The theory behind why material reward makes you perform worse than usual is: while thinking on the problem, thoughts about the reward take up some expensive resources in the brain. Compared to intrinsic rewards, extrinsic ones are a novelty
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by mojuba 16y ago
Just a few questions as an example: * If you write to an NFS-mounted file and write() returns an error, does it mean the block wasn't written to the remote disk? * If you write to a TCP socket and write() returns OK, does it mean data was r
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by mojuba 16y ago
write(fd, buf, size); Can you list all the caveats, possible side effects, reasons of failure of this simple C function call? Hint: remember, fd can be a file, as well as a NFS-mounted file, pipe, network or local socket, FIFO, dev
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by mojuba 16y ago
...and after running a spell checker on your text, put one or two insingificant but noticeable typos to let your readers know you're so cool you don't need a spell checker ;)
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by mojuba 16y ago
Impatient Hacker English?
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by mojuba 16y ago
Just for the sake of explanation, "fondamental" and "développeur" are French words.
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by mojuba 16y ago
... and in case Kashmir gets stuck in your head, use a metacure such as Bach's intro for Johannus Passion :) Seriously though, I think we use music to reconstruct emotions, mostly (but not necessarily) positive ones. In fact we use every po
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by mojuba 16y ago
What makes a bank a bank nowadays is money lending rather than deposits and transfers. Some say money lending itself creates value, but I don't agree. Oversimplified, it can be said that because money is nothing, then money lending is even
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by mojuba 16y ago
> We were on the edge of something that could have taken civilization as we know it to the edge of ruin. Banks alone can't take civilization down because they don't produce wealth. As long as there are factories, services, knowledgeab
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by mojuba 16y ago
WSJ showed the full article when I opened it through Google News Search... didn't know even WSJ does the dirty tricks with referrers.
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Senate Votes for Audit of Fed (96-0)(nasdaq.com)
29 points by mojuba 16y ago|24 comments
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by mojuba 16y ago
Bill Gates wouldn't have taken off without his mother's help who arranged a contract with IBM for her son in the beginning. And I'm sure there are similar stories for the others too. Let's take Ellison's Government project called "Oracle" t
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by mojuba 16y ago
Allow me to be a bit marginal here and ask you, what was not-so-obvious in this annoyingly long talk? I scrolled to random places a dozen times, read through a few paragraphs each time, and found nothing that would be surprising to me. You
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by mojuba 17y ago
As far as I know "tuh-ple" is American programming jargon (Python jargon for sure), while everywhere else it's "too-ple", including American mathematics and European everything - programming and math. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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by mojuba 17y ago
I'm not quite sure I understand the effect with galaxies. So let's say from two opposite parts of a galaxy we would expect certain difference in red shifts because of the distance (one part is farther than the other), but what we observe is
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by mojuba 17y ago
Plus, we still aren't 100% sure if the red shift is due to the Doppler effect, or something else and then the Universe is not expanding at all. I always found it strange that there is such a simple and straightforward correlation between di
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by mojuba 17y ago
> LLVM is not immature - it simply has a completely different goal than JRE, or .NET. But it's a virtual machine too, among other things. > Noone suggests C# in this comment thread It is suggested in the post as one of the possibili
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by mojuba 17y ago
> time didn't exist before it happened Do you see what's wrong here? If there was no time, there could be no "before". Besides, if you are talking about probabilities of something to occur, that means there was some cause of that event,
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by mojuba 17y ago
Except the Big Bang theory doesn't say there was a moment of time zero, the "moment of creation" before which there was nothing. This is a popular misconception about the BBT which is driven by our religious beliefs: there was nothing and t
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by mojuba 17y ago
LLVM may be a bit immature at this stage, true. Then let's look at CLI/C#. We don't know what patents are there kept in Microsoft's backyards. For one thing, Microsoft is not interested in supporting any technology or product other than the
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by mojuba 17y ago
Then LLVM is as viable an option as JVM and CLI. Even better, it's open-source and not committee or corporation-driven. And from the political point of view, once LLVM finds its way into Safari (very good chance) then Firefox and/or Chrome,

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