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by prospero 17y ago
Fair point. I was referring to the canonical works (i.e. everything by Plato, but not everything about Plato), and was thinking about the period just before Gutenberg. The available body of knowledge was pretty irregular before Gutenberg
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by prospero 17y ago
There was a time when a person could have the entirety of human knowledge on their bookshelf, but then Gutenberg came along and screwed that all up. Since then, even the most ambitious person has had to settle for less than complete knowled
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by prospero 17y ago
There's not a single scale for outrageous behavior; context changes everything. Musicians, lawyers, and doctors generally understand and adapt to the social norms of whatever situation they're in. This is only sometimes true of computer pr
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by prospero 17y ago
Money is the most concrete way to quantify the level of commitment that's being discussed. Anything less would just be a bunch of hand-waving about science being super important and stuff.
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by prospero 17y ago
Being an entrepreneur means that you can't reflect on the consequences of past choices?
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by prospero 17y ago
In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA, has invested in a number of companies specializing in facial recognition, and has also been closely involved in Facebook's funding. If you set aside all the conspiracy theories you can generate
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by prospero 17y ago
A friend of mine has degrees in english and computer science, and works as a technical writer. While his job does sit at the intersection of those two fields, what he learned in college is laughably underutilized on a day-to-day basis. If s
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by prospero 17y ago
They can do variable configuration for a wide range of machines, or they can create a static configuration for a narrow range of machines. They've done the latter.
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by prospero 17y ago
According to http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=844 , you "can open as many windows as you want from a single program", which I assume means sub-processes are not counted. Also, IE8 creates separate processes for each tab, just like Chrome. O
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by prospero 18y ago
I know a fair number of newly-minted laywers, and my understanding is that most of the concrete material tested in the bar exam is taught in the summer following graduation from law school. Law school is largely concerned with abstract con
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by prospero 18y ago
Do you want to back up that assertion? I'm not saying regulatory capture doesn't exist, I'm just saying it's not the primary driving force behind legislation. You don't get to just say I'm wrong and make vague references to historical tre
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by prospero 18y ago
Why is it bad that in order to automatically generate binding legal documents, someone involved needs to be educated in the subtleties of legal language? A walking, talking lawyer should be personally responsible for the quality of the d
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by prospero 18y ago
But when radio stations play a song, potentially thousands of people are listening to it at the same time. In the case of YouTube, the upper boundary is a couple of people crowded around a monitor. How is even an order of magnitude reduct
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by prospero 18y ago
So to your mind, interaction/graphic design is the major differentiating factor, and you're looking at outsourcing that work? That seems roughly analogous to a bunch of business students failing to find a CS major who will do their coding,
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by prospero 18y ago
Your business is doomed to fail without a graphic designer? Unless you're selling graphic design, I'm not sure how that's possible. But if it really is that crucial, maybe you should revisit the business idea you're pursuing. If your team
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by prospero 18y ago
If your goal is to have people click on your ads, what other denominator is there than the click-through percentage? Google is a middleman for advertising, it's not for them to judge whether their viewers are worthy of clicking on their ad
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by prospero 18y ago
On the other hand, maybe a lot of people got laid off and decided to pad their resume with this certification. If you're up against a lot of other people for the same job, having an extra acronym may be (or seem like) a deciding factor. Als
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by prospero 18y ago
It's based entirely on what people think it is worth, given disclosure of the relevant details. No one outside of Facebook (and, presumably, its investors) has that information. That being said, I don't think Facebook is being honest with
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by prospero 18y ago
this isn't some sort of Star Trek giggle factor Is that the technical term?
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by prospero 18y ago
All true, but that's a lot of ifs.
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by prospero 18y ago
Just to be clear, I don't really take issue with anything they said. Everything quoted in the article was the same locker room bullshit and wishful thinking that's been around since forever, and I don't buy that moving it to a permanent me
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by prospero 18y ago
Are these molestation charges backed by the names of real families, or are they anonymous? There's a world of difference between the two. There's also a clear distinction calling someone a child molester and calling someone "cheerful and b
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by prospero 18y ago
I seriously question the judgment of anyone who uses anonymous, hyperbolic statements on the internet as criteria in any decision they make, let alone for a job application. Historically information in publicly broadcast mediums has been tr
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by prospero 18y ago
V8 isn't hardware accelerated, and probably won't ever be. That won't matter in every case, but there will always be situations in which V8 is not a valid substitute for Flash or Silverlight.
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by prospero 18y ago
But our brains don't just hide outliers, they help disparate things make sense with respect to each other. I have to figure the world would seem really disjointed if you were just walking around, rather than sitting in some controlled envi
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by prospero 18y ago
Point taken on the simile. It's like that like never existed. As to the rest, I dunno. Let's consider the following scenario: every time you wrote something down on paper, there was a chance the paper would spontaneously burst into flame.
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by prospero 18y ago
It's an unsatisfying conclusion, but is it really all that surprising? To coin a metaphor, a programming language is a shoe; only you know if it fits right. It might stretch out and become more comfortable over time, but it's not a debata
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by prospero 18y ago
My personal measure is that I'm most productive when I'm least aware of time passing. The longer the day felt, the less productive I was. This doesn't give me any insight into the relative productivity of the guy sitting next to me, but i
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by prospero 18y ago
Grumbling doesn't effect change. I'd say that there's more than enough grumbling, and precious little else.
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by prospero 18y ago
I think his stance is that there's (more than?) sufficient grumbling about Microsoft, and insufficient grumbling about Apple and Google. There's an obvious bias to his writing, inasmuch as he just takes this as a given and moves on, but th

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