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by powrtoch 14y ago
Speaking as the same sort of person (96 secs on expert :-) ), I agree that the most useful strategy is to click in the middle. This is because the cost of restarting is practically nothing for your first few clicks (no sunk time costs), so
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by powrtoch 14y ago
It's obviously a metaphor for the company itself.
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by powrtoch 14y ago
> Grotesque sans were uncommon before the (say) 60s, and were very stylized for the time. Source? Wikipedia sayeth about Helvetica: "The aim of the new design was to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning
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by powrtoch 14y ago
Lobster and Comic Sans are both highly stylized font-faces, Helvetica is not. It's okay for Helvetica to be common because it doesn't scream "Hey look at me, I'm Helvetica!" When non-stylized things become very common, it's usually because
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by powrtoch 14y ago
Reading music is a valuable skill, but not one (evidently) that aspiring guitarists are inclined to tackle, even now. I know a lot of amateur guitarists, and the only ones who can read music are the ones who learned to do so while learning
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by powrtoch 14y ago
This was my first reaction, then I realized that for people who are trying to teach themselves guitar, this would be way easier than learning to read tablature, and even easier than watching youtube videos (since the mirror effect can be
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by powrtoch 14y ago
A few issues: First, if you don't tune it (the write up strongly suggests that tuning is optional), the strings will still make a sound, and that sound will be awful. I think the optional-tuning should be kept on the down-low, since taking
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by powrtoch 14y ago
You're probably using it wrong. rand() simply returns true.
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by powrtoch 14y ago
You don't need the actual source code. You can have perfect knowledge of its inner workings by sensing and reasoning about its output.
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by powrtoch 14y ago
I don't think this is the issue addressed in the talk though. The question he was responding to was "does having lower taxes on the rich create jobs?". He argues that it does not, but that lowering taxes on the lower and middle class probab
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by powrtoch 14y ago
The thing is it really isn't "teleportation" in the typical sense of instantaneous travel. The photons still move at the speed of light, this method just happens to be useful for taking cryptographic advantage of the quantum properties of p
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by powrtoch 14y ago
The obvious example of this philosophy in action is the iPhone. Remember the first time you played with one? You start out knowing just a few basic facts like that you can touch things and pinch to zoom, then you find yourself poking around
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by powrtoch 15y ago
You seem to go about CSS very differently then most. The typical way of doing styleshets is more or less "What properties does this type of element have? Now what about this type?..." Rather than "Now which elements on my site have this pro
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by powrtoch 15y ago
AFAICT, Netflix has said nothing about supporting SOPA-like legislation with this PAC, and indeed has said nothing about FIXPAC's agenda at all. It could just as likely act as a net neutrality advocate. Stow your pitchforks, at least for no
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by powrtoch 15y ago
I have to say, I'm really impressed with Facebook for coming out and making this their issue , instead of just waiting for the applicants and employers to slowly work it out between themselves. In hindsight, it's seems like an obviously sm
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by powrtoch 15y ago
Simple. Let n = k.
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by powrtoch 15y ago
I was thinking the same thing. It would be really interesting if it went into details about which aspects of the message were considered spam-evidence, and how strongly they weighed in the decision. That might not be a particularly useful
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by powrtoch 15y ago
Related: http://lesswrong.com/lw/th/harder_choices_matter_less/
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by powrtoch 15y ago
I was going to suggest this, as well as a way to browse by category. Employers probably don't want to look for "iOS developer" and "iOS programmer" and "iOS engineer", so some kind of automatic way to combine these seems useful. Also, filte
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by powrtoch 15y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this may not be a sustainable trend.
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by powrtoch 15y ago
First thought: "Well of course WSJ would be pro-SOPA". Second thought: "But just because you would expect it of them doesn't make them wrong. What points do they make?" Final thought: "Oh look, a paywall. Oh well..." It seems their missio
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by powrtoch 15y ago
With so many big name sites on the list, it seems absurd that Facebook is doing absolutely nothing with their site.
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by powrtoch 15y ago
Oh sorry, classic case of not realizing not everyone hears your thoughts :-) For "a", there's a list where "a" is the first letter, and a list where "a" is the second. What I wrote out above is an attempt to show the structure. The letters
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by powrtoch 15y ago
I upvoted this in hopes of generating some discussion about whether there might be a better way to do this. Here's one idea: With very few exceptions, all of these words will contain at least one vowel. This suggests that we can (for the mo
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by powrtoch 15y ago
This seems to be at least somewhat weighed against by Yudkowsky's claim to have done it "the hard way", without cheap tricks. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196464
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by powrtoch 15y ago
Did you actually read the article? Making music takes a lot of time, effort, and money. Promoting it (as opposed to just playing for you and whoever you live with) takes more of all three. The author specifically says he isn't talking about
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by powrtoch 15y ago
> it's unknown if ALAC has error handling Shouldn't take us long to find out now.
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by powrtoch 15y ago
> Around this time Sony also came up with other ways to stop people listening to the music they had bought. A system appeared which inserted noise and interference when people tried to compress music from CDs. I never heard about this,
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by powrtoch 15y ago
This. It's very well done and all, but what is the point? That if you explicitly allow access to one specific application, that application will have access? Or is the creepy guy supposed to be the app developer? A better idea (maybe not po
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by powrtoch 15y ago
I wish the Xenobiologist had written more. I went in having never heard the term, and came out with no more information than "this fellow speculates about possible aliens". I'm open to the possibility that this is a legitimate and worthwhil

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