nickbauman

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by nickbauman 13y ago
Bitcoin was never meant to be an investment vehicle. Anyone who has paid any attention to Bitcoin should be worried about its high "valuation" and high volatility. I've always thought the biggest problem (long term) with Bitc
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by nickbauman 13y ago
Nearly all the technology in front of you right now (your computer) came from military programs paid for by the US taxpayer. Google itself was initially funded via a DARPA grant, just like Boston Dynamics. It's public investment for pr
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by nickbauman 13y ago
Funny. Google App Engine auto scaled from day one.
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by nickbauman 13y ago
A couple of points: There are far fewer procedures / pathologies here than are out there. At least sort the procedures / pathologies lexicographically. It would be even better if I could NLS search by the procedure.
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by nickbauman 13y ago
Any stupid can interview for someone who is an exact fit with all the experience needed to do the job. Unfortunately very few people who fit the bill like that are even available let alone affordable.
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C'mon. Right or wrong, everyone knows the "no working from home" policy was a way for Y! to do a mass layoff without having it look like one to the street. This is merely an extension of the same policy. Mayer can afford to m
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"the linux desktop never happened." Correct. Because it happened on the phone.
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by nickbauman 13y ago
When I have a really computationally complex thing I need to write, I first write it in Clojure (or some other Lisp, but Clojure is closest at hand these days) so that I understand it fully. It's just simpler: I don't even have to
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by nickbauman 13y ago
Right. Actually a lot of the issues Bicking points out were handled by Lisps years ago. And you don't have to give op on objects per se: Objects in Clojure (with ad-hoc typing) can be treated as maps and darned near anything is seq-abl
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I totally was going to point out LightTable but I kinda stopped using it when I realized there was no search / replace.
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by nickbauman 13y ago
The strongest indicator of a child's ACT score is the INCOME of the parents. Increasingly IQ tests are being revealed as being culturally-based, too. And the things that you list; things like impulse control, general responsibility, me
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by nickbauman 14y ago
Byrne seems to have not groked that Swartz had access to JSTOR legally, although from a different institution (Harvard, not MIT) and could have downloaded everything legally if he wanted to. The thinking is he went to MIT to make the act il
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by nickbauman 14y ago
Diego, your dad sounds like he was a good man and he looked very happy. My brother left unexpectedly too. Last year. He was only 46. He left a much bigger impression on me than even I expected. You will probably find out just how big your f
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by nickbauman 15y ago
The symbol of the thing is not the thing: people (should) care about the thing. You don't need a degree to get your head around algorithms. If you can write a simple binary search, for example (arguably the most fundamental algorithm), that
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Read that link. Concatenative programming sounds like an interesting subset of Functional programming. You could easily write such a language in Lisp, too.
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Yes. I mean less syntax (you call it "syntactic forms", sure). I can think in this language because it's only the semantics that I have to remember, because there is no syntax to also remember. Any syntax you come up with will be inferior t
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by nickbauman 15y ago
Lisp languages have virtually no syntax. Example: Write a function that generates a string of all the numbers in a range from a start and end value. Java (lots of syntax, many tokens): String rangeString(int start, int end) { String oni =
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What about languages that have no syntax? Or have very little syntax? In my experience, I find them easier to reason about, therefore easier to read and easier to write. My sense is that children would find this to be true as well.
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This is an example of the Lisp Curse. http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html This is the reason why the Clojure community is taking libraries very, very seriously.
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by nickbauman 18y ago
But you did make the analogy of lions to innovators. I confess I prefer the notion of hunter-gatherers and "traveling light" as opposed to Greek Phalanxes requiring entire cities to eat at night. So I give you that analogy. But the biggest