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by pfedor 17y ago
When and where was it taken?
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by pfedor 17y ago
The follow up research which refuted some of the Kruger and Dunning's conclusions: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kburson/files/bursonlarrickklayma...
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by pfedor 17y ago
Let me quote a co-author of Quake: 'At this point in the book, I was originally going to present a BSP-based renderer, to complement the BSP compiler I presented in the previous chapter. What changed my plans was the considerable amount of
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by pfedor 17y ago
This completely does not match my experience. When I first started programming, and even after a year or two in the industry, I used to write zero comments. Or maybe a line or two of comments every few thousands lines of code. Then, I st
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by pfedor 17y ago
Would your grandfather have been able to retire if not for the population growth?
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by pfedor 17y ago
I've been doing this eye-contact experiment, i.e., making eye contact with random people in public places and waiting to see how they react. Reaction in Poland: look away. Reaction in Switzerland: look away. Reaction in California: smile
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by pfedor 17y ago
I have no opinion about energy drinks, but I think I can explain why Science Fiction and comics are more popular among geeks than general population. Sci-Fi and comic books are two examples of fields of art where the social perception is b
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by pfedor 17y ago
My favorite patent: http://www.google.com/patents?id=6AoYAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...
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Google Research Blog: Machine Learning with Quantum Algorithms(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
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by pfedor 17y ago
This may be their true intent, but they chose not to pursue this goal directly (I'm guessing because a direct attack on free speech would have less chance of succeeding). Instead, they're filing a complaint with the Division of Occupationa
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by pfedor 17y ago
Do you have a source for the 50% number?
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by pfedor 17y ago
Just a piece of trivia, the Viaweb folks didn't start their own store on it -- http://www.paulgraham.com/vwfaq.html (scroll to the last question).
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by pfedor 17y ago
So where's the source code for this port? I couldn't find it.
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by pfedor 17y ago
If you ask parents why kids shouldn't swear, the less educated ones usually reply with some question-begging answer like "it's inappropriate," while the more educated ones come up with elaborate rationalizations. -- (also from a Paul Grah
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by pfedor 17y ago
How are they borderline literary theorists? One of them has a PhD in theoretical physics, the other one in mathematics.
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by pfedor 17y ago
In my experience using a small monitor with X configured to use a virtual screen (i.e., the monitor just shows a small part of a much bigger desktop and you can scroll it with a mouse) is just as good as the giant monitors. I don't feel I
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by pfedor 17y ago
The results from Experts Exchange are typically useful, but you have to scroll all the way down past the ads and other crap to see the actual answers.
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by pfedor 17y ago
I recently decided I wanted to learn assembly language. So far I haven't started but I spent an hour or two perusing books on assembly language on Amazon, reading product descriptions and users' reviews, and I decided to start from this on
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by pfedor 17y ago
But you may learn what's out there. Not all learning has to be in-depth learning. Getting an overview of a field is important too. Reading Hacker News won't teach you anything in-depth either but you choose to do it for the same reason.
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by pfedor 17y ago
Which part of your argument cannot be used to argue against the use of machines instead of physical labor? The machines cost less, ergo they push current workers out of jobs, US citizens suffer, businesses benefit. Do you want to call the
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by pfedor 17y ago
Also easier to search for. Recently I had to perform a very simple image manipulation: given two images, I wanted to use the second one (which was all grayscale) as the alpha channel for the first one. I spent quite some time googling for
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by pfedor 17y ago
If your definition of rich is $110k salary or owning $1M in assets (which translates to relatively safe passive income of $40k before tax, according to the financial planning books I read) then sure, you can absolutely achieve it with caref
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by pfedor 17y ago
I see what you mean but I'm having trouble translating this from lawyers to computer programmers. You can get a programming job at a large company and then impress someone with your skills and become a tech lead and an engineering director
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by pfedor 17y ago
What's career planning and how does one go about it?
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by pfedor 17y ago
The web page puts more emphasis on a different paradigm than the programming language, in fact it says you can use a version of Wt with Java, Ruby or Clojure.
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by pfedor 17y ago
I think it's a reference to Qt which is pronounced "cutie."
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by pfedor 17y ago
There's also http://www.musopen.com/
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by pfedor 17y ago
I admire Carl Djerassi. He created the first oral contraceptive and made a lot of money off of it, and then as a chemistry professor he did first-class research in organic chemistry for many years (according to my dad who is a chemistry pr
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by pfedor 17y ago
Last I checked (a few years ago admittedly) GNU Smalltalk didn't include line numbers in error messages, which made it hardly usable for anything > 300 lines. Does anyone know whether it changed?
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by pfedor 17y ago
Not to defend this particular programming idiom, but the third result for [perl underscore] is "About Special Underscore Filehandle" http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=613621 so it's rather easy to Google.

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