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by nnq 13y ago
I'd even go as far as to suggest the opposite "be liberal in what you send [1], be conservative in what you accept (and fail as noisily as possible)". [1]: by this I mean that it's ok if your "liberal" output (
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by nnq 13y ago
The "stuff" is still there, in the company, allowing people to be employed for doing stuff they really like doing and to create more stuff... it's not as if he sold all his shares, converted it to gold and buried half of it i
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by nnq 13y ago
Well, he did say the truth about getting paid by Atari, and gave him "his half", which Woz regarded as "good enough compensation", otherwise he wouldn't have considered working with him in the future. It's kind
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by nnq 13y ago
I see this as the main takeaway from the article instead: > One or two 233U bombs were tested in the Nevada desert during the 1950s and, perhaps ominously, another was detonated by India in the late 1990s. [...] intense gamma radiation 2
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by nnq 13y ago
It's good to remember this story too, because it shows that he was also a ruthless businessman, no matter how much effort he put into convincing everyone that this part was not "the real him". And it's not a bad thing,
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by nnq 13y ago
I sincerely recommend against LYAH! It takes sooooooooo loooooong to get to the interesting bits that actually make Haskell worth learning an has so many try-to-be-funny examples that it makes you run away screaming... I tried going through
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by nnq 13y ago
How would one compare/contrast D vs. Rust? Both concerning the problems they try to solve / the niches they target, and the way they choose to solve them. I almost never heard/read something about Rust from a D developer and
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by nnq 13y ago
It matters more than locally: those invention seeded the minds of the next generations, showed them what could be possible. It's not as if Gates and Jobs didn't hear about the work done at PARC. They most likely did and it "s
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by nnq 13y ago
EDIT+: http://www.mitportugal.org/press-releases/a-portuguese-fast-... - you now have systems that can do the charging without frying the meat :)
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by nnq 13y ago
To be honest, it was probably a dead-end tech that could've worked, but will probably not be developed because other approaches are kind of safer and worked on by more reputable scientists: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing
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by nnq 13y ago
Don't you have all the needed technologies and pieces in any high end mobile phone? Yeah, there's the electronics for the implanted electrodes, but I doubt they can't be made small enough to be put under the skin. You's
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by nnq 13y ago
It just shows that the old doc was a brave maverick that had the courage to go through with it even without the funding he needed! That's why everything probably fell through after his death. He probably funded most of it with his time
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by nnq 13y ago
Considering how primitive the tech looks, someone could surely reverse-engineer it... but good luck trying to get funding for it and trying to find surgeons willing to take the risk of it blowing up in their face, because they will inevitab
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by nnq 13y ago
People do realize that this technology is now proven to work, right? And because you can now do everything the wireless way (including the charging part), and using off-the-shelf components (you just need to find a subset of components that
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by nnq 13y ago
And the similar: server-side/back-end is easy! Sure, there's an ubersmooth learning curve with HTML/CSS/Javascript, but once you get to heavy client side SPAs and supporting every device and format under the sun and then
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by nnq 13y ago
I wouldn't mind the outputed javascript - it's unfair to compare it with coffeescript as cs is just a thin syntax layer whereas opal giver you all the goodies of rubyan oop (like, method_missing? :) ), so there is a price that nee
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by nnq 13y ago
in Coffeescript you don't have to `...` jump to raw javascript every couple lines
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by nnq 13y ago
If one needs to write code like: `#{context}.lineTo(#{x}, #{height})` ...you're doing it wrong. Please do figure out a way to "automagically" make things work without `...` or just don't bother. `...` should be
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by nnq 13y ago
I'm not a Linux expert, but why are other services even allowed the possibility of writing to the kernel log? I seems that this should simply not be possible. If you make it possible, someone will surely abuse it sooner or later.
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by nnq 13y ago
> Ultimately we shouldn't assume consumers value convergence Yep, indeed. And the frustrating part is that they choose "easy" over "simple" and end up drowning themselves in "complexity". And they go li
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by nnq 13y ago
...where do you have that "understanding" from?! Are there any actual information about the 'Homo sapiens sapiens' <-> 'Homo sapiens neanderthalensis' contact and relationship or are you just spreading so
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by nnq 13y ago
The OP is saying something equivalent to "I snort less coke now, because I've also started drinking and smoking pot, and having a commitment to meet the pot dealer each morning helps me wake up" but translated to workaholic l
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by nnq 13y ago
Will we ever stop conflating opinions with competency , in general? A person can just as well be a full-blown racist or xenophobe and at the same time a very competent leader. The only thing you show when pushing someone down from a lead
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by nnq 13y ago
> it has a fairly shallow learning curve when it comes to syntax Now imagine a pilot saying: "fighter jets have a fairy shallow learning curve compared to gliders"... Syntax has nothing to do with it and you will never find a l
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by nnq 13y ago
LESS or SASS/Compass are you friends :) ...and the only way to maintain sanity when doing heavy edgy CSS3. Once you have your mixins abstracting away browser prefixes and common patterns, you can get to the new level of style patterns
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by nnq 13y ago
Now actually selecting the outliers, the people that, on average, made really good predictions despite access to limited information, and data-mining their features set (psychological traits, information diet, background etc.), THAT would
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by nnq 13y ago
Got some sample code or a link to it? I really like figuring out ways to express existing code in a different style/pattern/language :)
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by nnq 13y ago
...I know it's the fashion to write compile-to-js languages and js-VMs for other languages, but I really have to ask: WHY? I mean, Lua is a dynamic language with first class functions just like Javascript is, no big difference here. I
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by nnq 13y ago
It's not as if one business unit can't give a "90% discount" to the other if the grand common leadership thinks it's a good idea... now, that would be anticompetitive to all other hosting providers, but it would mak
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by nnq 13y ago
> jail-based FreeBSD VPSs Isn't this called "shared FreeBSD hosting with shell access"? Like http://djangoeurope.com/ used to be, I think (I see they're Debian based now)...

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