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MIT's Patrick Henry Winston on Marvin Minsky(people.csail.mit.edu)
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The Musical Mind of Marvin Minsky(musicmindandmeaning.org)
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by osteele 12y ago
Typing is faster than thinking, but not once you've figured out what you want to type. My cadence is think;type;think;type. Replacing this by think;t-y-p-e;think;t-y-p-e (when I type with one hand, or on a tablet's virtual keyboar
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by osteele 12y ago
> Or any previous device you might have had with Touch ID. Unless you change your fingerprints when you get a new phone. Any previous unwired device that has not been power cycled and that was unlocked in the past 48 hours. http:/&
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by osteele 12y ago
Cf. Minsky, _The Emotion Machine_.
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by osteele 12y ago
> Gates rightly (and self-servingly) also points out that Piketty does not consider philanthropy as a means to correct some of capitalism's imbalances Doesn't your use of "self-servingly" here apply to anyone who acts
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by osteele 12y ago
The medical example is called a differential diagnosis. Medical school teaches you to make this. Communicating only the highest-ranked one or two items, unless explaining why you're ordering tests that rule out lower-ranked but actiona
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by osteele 12y ago
Ditto. It happens with physical servers too. If you can't survive unscheduled degradation or termination of a node, you aren't running a high availability service. (Note: not every production service needs to be HA.)
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by osteele 12y ago
I like the idea of knowing whether people are actually using a feature or gesture that I as a developer thought, but was just guessing, was so important. So that I can remove or improve it. (I'm not an atom developer. I just envy being
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by osteele 12y ago
A public defender may have in excess of 200 cases. Some defendants spend fewer than five minutes with their attorney. Some counties bid out public defense at fixed prices; in 2007 Virginia capped public defense for 20-to-life felonies at $2
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by osteele 12y ago
Related is that going four steps around the circle of fifths, for a total of five pitch classes, produces the pentatonic scale (e.g. the black keys). This is the longest sequence that doesn't contain any half steps. Continue for a to
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by osteele 12y ago
See also Wolf Interval http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_interval
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by osteele 12y ago
I heard an interview with a world-class guitarist (forgot who, but not classical) where he said he bends every (presumably fretted) note; I wonder whether this is to play non-even temperaments from an even-tempered fret spacing.
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by osteele 12y ago
Related: * Non-profit: Measures for Justice ( http://measuresforjustice.org ) * Book: "Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court" ( http://www.ordinaryinjustice.com ) Plug: I'm putting together a list of
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by osteele 12y ago
Outside of sequence diagrams: Over many years as a indie developer, corporate developer, architect, engineering manager, product manager, technical founder, and CTO, I've never found the specifics of UML (which arrows and box types mea
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by osteele 12y ago
I don't know the particulars of the Nike position. In general it can be because of geography (if the cancelled project was run out of a different region, which can be especially true for skunkworks or acquihired teams), or job specific
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by osteele 13y ago
I once used a similar trick -- queuing uncomfirmed outgoing edits, and replaying them on top of incoming models -- when working on a web client app (Laszlo Calendar, a browser UI to an iCalendar-backed server). It was an act of desperation:
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by osteele 13y ago
The behavior sounds considered; the web site doesn't describe it to the user. How about if the Destroy dialog read something like: This is irreversible. We will destroy your droplet and all associated backups immediately. We will k
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by osteele 13y ago
In my own experience, some optimizations seem to come along on their own accord if I repeat a task (constructing and refactoring a code base using a known language and platform, keeping a meeting on track, getting the timing and finger angl
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by osteele 13y ago
[I'm not the grandparent poster, but in case it's useful:] Allie Brosh in Hyperbole and a Half puts it as well as I've seen http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-par... One aspect
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by osteele 13y ago
This is an excellent essay. I remember sitting in my parents’ basement in high school with a fully assembled electronics board that I’d soldered together from a schematic, and no idea what to do about the fact that it didn’t work. Had I un
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by osteele 13y ago
I think of AWS as a tool for prototyping and early-stage outsourcing of your infrastructure. Use it when you're fighting past market and technology risk with a single-digit team; consider dropping it in order to optimize costs when you
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by osteele 13y ago
Related: • Marvin improvising at the “Music, Mind, Invention” conference at MIT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nynu3pACcyg • Marvin improvising at a brunch party a few years ago. Sorry for the poor quality; this was a few g
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by osteele 13y ago
Many services grant fewer capabilities to a session authenticated only by token. In the case of Starbucks, you can buy a coffee or even reload the card from the user’s bank account via the app, but you need the password and the web site to
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Marvin Minsky wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award(bostonglobe.com)
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by osteele 13y ago
For a high-availability site, you need a cluster of redirect servers behind the same IP. For the reasons you name, it's generally still worth redirecting web traffic to www.*, but it's trivial only for a non-HA site.
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Would the Road Runner’s license plate have been “Blanc”?
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by osteele 13y ago
My rule of thumb is to use a language for something a domain that its community uses it for. Python for scientific programming, Ruby or nodejs for web servers, PHP for embedding dynamism in a static site. Then you're more likely to fin
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by osteele 13y ago
One, among many, of Microsoft's 1990's extensions was XMLHttpRequest. Fortunately, although it was (initially) vendor-specific, neither XMLHttpRequest nor SPDY is/was “proprietary” in the IP sense of the term.
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by osteele 13y ago
This is all good advice; especially that working more hours generally isn't the answer (and can do more harm than good). For those cases where it is useful, I would add: * Make it more fun to work than not to work. Bring in dinners.

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