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by ohyes 16y ago
This is a very good point. 'Thinking more slowly' isn't a problem in any other field. I think that in software development, a lot of the time, 'thinking more slowly' with age is actually thinking more carefully. You have more experience, th
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by ohyes 16y ago
The idea is that you would have bits in the hardware dedicated to type checking and garbage collection. The example being, that in the assembly language/machine code, you may have a single arithmetic '+' operation. Determining which hardwar
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by ohyes 16y ago
More like a human shield.
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by ohyes 16y ago
Thinking about it, my mom is actually extremely savvy. One of the first people on Amazon (the free swag and shipping era), one of the first people using Google (got an email response from Sergei when she complained about an inappropriate se
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by ohyes 16y ago
I think it is irresponsible to condone priorities like this. Being dead will kill your momentum a lot faster than being alive and in the hospital. I've got to say, that I don't really care about this guy. I have no idea who he is. I've neve
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by ohyes 16y ago
And in terms of demographics, I mean, my mom reads Huffington post. Ariana Huffington is well-known enough to have done the talk-show circuit at least once. Tech crunch is a niche demographic (silicon valley gossip is only interesting to pe
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by ohyes 16y ago
I don't think that there is really this distinction, because your 'push' and 'pull' methods allow you to acquire different types of expertise/knowledge. If you are all push, you won't be able to program. If you are really all pull, you will
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by ohyes 16y ago
I know that some people will disagree with me violently, but you can self-learn pretty much any topic in CS as long as you are willing to put in the effort (any topic in any subject, really, the main factor is motivation). As someone who sk
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by ohyes 16y ago
When I want to get work done, I just set my hosts file to block all of the time-wasting sites. 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com 127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com Etc, Then if I want to check those sites I have to go through t
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by ohyes 16y ago
I am a CL guy, I find the Java stuff in Clojure quite frustrating. This is not because of any deficiencies in Clojure (it is much better than writing straight Java code). The problem is that it is (comparatively) so hard to do anything in J
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by ohyes 16y ago
My impression is that at 'big name' schools you don't really have much interaction with your professors, until you are at least at graduate level (and even then the doctoral students who get the attention, not the lowly masters students). I
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by ohyes 16y ago
I am not an arbiter of what philosophy is, but it is not bad science. There is no empirical step in philosophy at all. Science requires an empirical step. You have to take science to date into account. If you do not, you will be proven wron
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by ohyes 16y ago
The mind is a concept, the brain is a physical thing. It is very conceivable that things without brains could have minds. 'Strong' Artificial Intelligence is an example of this. Intelligent quasars would be another example. (Meat that think
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by ohyes 16y ago
I apologize if I am bad at articulating this. Philosophy of the Mind is much different from Artificial Intelligence. And it is also much different from Neuroscience. Neuroscience asks 'How does the Brain work?' (Based in biology and chemis
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by ohyes 16y ago
"I think the benefit of the Lisp preprocessor is pretty small too" Lisp doesn't have a preprocessor, Lisp is a preprocessor. You can program with it, but thinking about it as a programming language (ASCII or Unicode Strings to be Interprete
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by ohyes 16y ago
I seem to recall when Facebook (or was it Gmail?) was started, something like this was one of the proposals for producing revenue. There was quite an uproar over it because it meant that whoever it was would be going through all of your per
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by ohyes 16y ago
Thanks for explaining, I can now see how this might be a problem. Through this same mechanism wouldn't the advertising networks be privy to the content of the sites that I am visiting? It seems that even if we eliminate this, we still have
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by ohyes 16y ago
Perhaps I'm not thinking malevolently enough, but in what situation would the search terms that I used be enough to invade my privacy? Presumably, the content of the site is related to whatever you searched for (otherwise you wouldn't click
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by ohyes 16y ago
Our energy (electric) grid is mostly coal. So all you get (for now) is an extra level of indirection away from the burning of fossil fuels (and therefore a loss of efficiency through transmission). You end up with what is (effectively) an o
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by ohyes 16y ago
I believe you misread the essay. His major point is this: "There is no discrete self". He isn't making an argument to discredit any potential religious 'truth' (in fact, he is using the existence of certain religious 'truths' as evidence fo
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by ohyes 16y ago
This audience is not atypical with regard to time wasting. (It is typical). I'm 'wasting' time right now skimming this article, reading this thread, posting a response about how i'm wasting time right now. The difference is that I think it
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by ohyes 16y ago
I think that you would have to be careful with that. To my knowledge, with lazy sequences in Clojure, the thunks are grouped into segments of 32. This chunking is for efficiency, but it has the (sometimes) weird implication that you ask for
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by ohyes 16y ago
Sort of. In true TCO, you optimize not only tail calls to the same function, but also tail calls to other functions. (Think of coroutines as an application). One way to think of a TCO is that you are turning a function call (machine code to
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by ohyes 16y ago
I was hoping the reason would be something interesting like 'we used forensic analysis of punctuation habits to determine the author of certain documents,' and it seems that it was going that way with the Julian Assange bit. Then it rapidly
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by ohyes 16y ago
I think you are, perhaps, playing with the definition of causation in a strange way. Causation is constant conjunction of events; that these things are correlative, and that there are other mitigating factors possibly leading to both at the
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by ohyes 16y ago
> 1. Fact is, in your teens and early 20s your body can digest pretty much anything. Eat a bowl of cereal in the morning (and I mean something like oatmeal or raisin bran rather than some sugary crap) and it barely matters what else you
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by ohyes 16y ago
But the industry has nothing to do with computer science. In computer science we have algorithms and abstractions and plenty of real math in computer science. You are ranting about the art of making people make computers do something. Which
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by ohyes 16y ago
I'm ignorant to what XMPP is (aside from it being an XML-based messaging protocol). Could you enlighten me as to why this is a terrible idea? To someone like me of minimal intelligence and experience, it seems to be a reasonable (and kind o
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by ohyes 16y ago
Western musical notation has been continuously evolving. It is far from being 'largely unchanged for hundreds of years'. For example, look at the notation for this piece by Iannis Xenakis. (Shows the sheet music in the video). http://www.y
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by ohyes 16y ago
You haven't disagreed with me in a reasonable way. I make a flippant remark about fabled 'lisp enlightenment' and it becomes the entirety of my post? I gave a (reasonable) guide to my experience with lisp, state that I like REAL macros, say

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