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by phaedrus 19y ago
After 4 years in college for a CS major, I count only two classes as having been worth my time: Intro to Philosophy General Psychology And I mean that both from a knowledge-for-knowledge sake point of view, and a pragmatic view. In contrast
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I modded you up even though I disagree with you. Using design patterns really helped me in a large project I did in C# two years ago - although I must admit I used the friendlier Head First Design Patterns as my reference rather than the or
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by phaedrus 19y ago
The article is mainly about the psychological reasons why people in poverty act the way they do. I'll add my 2 cents: The fact is people's brains are wired to not keep doing something when it seems hopeless. Although from an outside pers
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by phaedrus 19y ago
You've taken one small part of the article - the part that has the least to do with any of the rest of it, and which was given by the author as a counterpoint, not a supporting point - and tried to pass it off as the crux of the whole artic
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by phaedrus 19y ago
But what is the conversion efficiency of the new solar panels they're describing? I.e., if 100 watts of light hits it, how many watts of electricity comes out? I guess, though, if you can manufacture it cheaply enough to spam it over every
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by phaedrus 19y ago
The title is sort of a reverse-application of the broken window fallacy. The truth is that seven billion dollars is not being destroyed; it's now available for new innovation by smaller companies, instead of going to major players like Cis
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by phaedrus 19y ago
That's what you think of the author, but what did you think of the points in the article?
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by phaedrus 19y ago
As an undergraduate, I volunteered to present part of a another student's Ph.D. work at a tech conference. Like you, I was most nervous about questions because it wasn't my research and I wasn't even a grad student, so I was afraid that I
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by phaedrus 19y ago
It's like famous first sentences of classic novels - the sentence is famous because the novel was classic; a classic first sentence did not make the novel famous.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
This was an interesting, well written post. I look forward to reading more from this author (he only has 3 blog entries so far). It's an especially interesting article in light of Intel releasing the Atom.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I thought he seemed familiar.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Patent holders: "We don't care if you use LZW/gif..." (Internet becomes popular) Patent holders: "Oh wait people are actually using this stuff? We changed our minds! You can't use it!"
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I think at least one part of the author's argument bears examining: the author says, "The cold reality that software companies try to ignore is that ANY major piece of software needs to be rewritten from the ground up eventually." He make
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I wonder if the problems he speaks of stem from physical limitations of that particular radio frequency and encoding scheme, or from poor quality equipment?
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I almost didn't upmod this because I thought it was a repeat of the last submission on this topic - this isn't: the last one was a text summary; this one is the real talk. Worth watching, even if (especially if) you've read the previous H
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by phaedrus 19y ago
One of my CS professors is heavy into Kurzweil. He had me read "The Singularity is Near". I decided Kurzweil's arguments are the rhetorical equivalent of those algebra jokes where you "prove" 1=2 but it goes through a step that hides a di
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I found it ironic that they pegged the population for today (around 350 million), amongst all the other things they got wrong, and then went on to say that only domed cities could support such a large population!
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I did not realize, until you said that, how much time I've been spending emailing article links + comments links to my friends who don't yet read Hacker News. This feature would be a great help!
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I'm actually employed to do research in grid computing... one thing I've found is that for all the talk of cloud computing, there are very few mature actual implementations of software solutions for it, and the one I've worked with (Globus
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by phaedrus 19y ago
That's the big problem people fail to mention when they talk about persistence - the trick is to be persistent at the right things! Being persistent at the wrong thing is sometimes hard to recognize until the point where you go down with t
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by phaedrus 19y ago
I think all of the people who were too young have simply not commented, so I'll just throw this in: I was too young (I'm 24 now) - or at least if there were BBS's going on, no one I knew, knew about them. How late were they still in vogue
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by phaedrus 19y ago
This is a great example of using the scientific method to debug programs, and a perfect example of how useful a personal log can be. Imagine if every programmer kept such logs, so that when you have a question about a strange hack in a pro
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by phaedrus 19y ago
"If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing and it will come." I know lots of people - the working poor - who are doing a hell of a lot more than nothing, and poverty still comes.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
This reminds me of the way white boards were covered at a software company I used to work at.
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by phaedrus 19y ago
This poses an interesting question: if you find yourself in such a position, working at a company that is doing so many things wrong, what do you do? I can think of several different things, but which is right? 1. Easy way out - go with
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Well the title is rather misleading; I don't think even they think they will produce any AI out of this. I think the reasoning goes more like: 1. Intelligence is good at representing information succinctly. 2. This is similar to what a dat
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by phaedrus 19y ago
This is an interesting and insightful article, but in my experience a person's superstition leads to the exact opposite effect: it gets in the way a person deducing a correct model of a how something works on a computer. The article postu
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Well yes the programmers should have used example.com instead of donotreply.com!
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Well first of all - it's the same problem as using a credit card to pay for anything you can't really afford! However it has a special "bad omen" significance in regards to running your own business because sometimes you hear stories of som
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by phaedrus 19y ago
Somehow I can't see truck drivers lining up to take "light showers". My best friend is a truck driver - you have enough trouble convincing him to take real showers.

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