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by neurocline 7y ago
We had 1300 cases. Now it's over 2000. It will be well over 5000 by next week. It does not look like other countries have higher infection rates than the U.S., but nearly similar.
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by neurocline 7y ago
Back in the 2007-2008 timeframe when I added the streaming install/patch/play functionality to World of Warcraft, we also made it operate as an automatic repair system - if a disk block was read that had a hash mismatch, it just d
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by neurocline 7y ago
My current house is apparently worth $2 million. Even with California construction costs, replacing it with a new house would cost less than $350,000. If someone could build a lot of houses nearby, it would drive the price of my house down
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by neurocline 7y ago
According to my wife, the medical professional, surgical masks do protect you - if you change them every few hours. Wearing the same one all day, much less for days in a row, is worse than no mask at all, when it comes to protecting you. Of
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by neurocline 7y ago
I'm just finishing this book, and I echo the recommendation. In fact, when I bought the book, I didn't know it was about Zettelkasten. This book won't satisfy those looking for concrete examples, but it will give you a lot of
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by neurocline 7y ago
This is Bradley Kuhn trying to explain and justify his behavior to himself (and, to take a personal stance, I think he did - I think his actions and motivations are fine). I think it points out several things. 1. Dealing with a controversia
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by neurocline 7y ago
You write code. You write the smallest possible amount of code that can solve the problem. The smallest multiprecision multiply is pretty small; I’ve written that. Just for Starcraft pathing alone (the most complex of all the code I wrote i
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by neurocline 7y ago
I wrote a decent fraction of the code in the original Starcraft, so, yes, I can assure you the Kolmogorov complexity of Starcraft is leaps and bounds above that of multiplication :)
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by neurocline 7y ago
It looks like it’s on Github (link from the Sciter Downloads page).
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by neurocline 8y ago
I have personal experience with someone like this. For many years, my wife’s mom would declaim “if I ever end up in a hospital in a coma with no hope of recovery, just pull the plug; that’s no way to live”. We would all just nod and move on
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by neurocline 8y ago
Matt Ridley - excellent science writer, highly recommended.
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by neurocline 8y ago
"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"
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by neurocline 8y ago
Apparently the optimum information-theoretic alphabet would have e (2.718...) bits, but it's a little awkward to work with a transcendental base. The pain in working with trinary circuits is why we use binary instead.
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by neurocline 8y ago
I appreciated reading all of this; it's a topic that obviously brings lots of opinions to the table. Here are my thoughts on the matter, honed over many years of using visual programming languages and system, starting in the mid 1980s.
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by neurocline 8y ago
This article expended a lot of text and avoided the actual useful information. - 1 ISBN costs $125 - 10 ISBNs cost $250 - 100 ISBNs cost $575 - 1000 ISBNs cost $1000 So if you are fairly sure to self-publish more than 8 books in your lifeti
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by neurocline 8y ago
This isn’t the most important thing I’ve done, but it’s certainly one of the coolest. And it was important to millions of Starcraft players. There was a time when we broke patching for Starcraft. I point no fingers because, of the top 4 eng
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by neurocline 9y ago
I tried reading this book several years ago and bounced right off. Given the multiple recommendations, I'll give it a second try.
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by neurocline 9y ago
Association for Computing Machinery. Theoretically everyone in the computer science field is not just aware of them but is a member :)
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by neurocline 9y ago
Deliberate practice in a nutshell - pick something that has a measurable outcome, have a target that is just slightly harder than is possible for you at the moment ("outside your comfort zone"), do it, then compare your measured r
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by neurocline 9y ago
Do you have companies asking you to do something that they expect will take a week? I've never heard of that in a job interview. That said, I have interviewed hundreds of candidates over the years, and my typical take-home request is s
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by neurocline 10y ago
The very short answer is - writing code makes you a better developer. But it's incredibly rare for you to be able to invent every pattern, every useful trick, every readable style, so you read others' code. Your ability to underst