quietplatypus

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by quietplatypus 11y ago
And a lot of it comes from trying to sound smart instead of readable. Sorry, but if I was this guy's advisor, I'd keep his ass in school until he took away his pretentious "it is obvious from ___ that"'s. Ph. D educ
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Nice cult-like thinking there buddy. Hope your startup works out! I too wish I could enslave myself to something harder than most others (and throw a bunch of my employees under the bus in the process, making it a net loss), obviously the o
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Pretty much this, and I argue that it is because of motivations like his that we end up with companies purely meant to flout regulations to make money for themselves, like Zenefits, than anything that is of real value.
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
We just need artificial wombs at this point. No seriously. Why tie the survival of the species to fickle personal factors?
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
1. It's good that such boring, backbreaking labor is being automated away. 2. It's bad that we're still in the middle ages when it comes to this thing where if you don't slave yourself enough to something, you starve bec
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Haven't people (e.g. Japanese) been doing this for thousands of years?
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Why do we need a language to enforce this discipline of threading? Can't we just take away the lessons? - explicitly label shared data and control flow - group together where the top threads are spawned
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Ah, this explains it! I was thinking about the loop as presented and it seemed to boil down to "do your data flow correctly" but the situation is more subtle.
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
I've no idea about the specifics either, but I've done a little bit of compiler optimization in the JIT setting. What you say sounds right, and I'm filing it in the same mental bin as "when you're looking at which p
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Also, it's like, "What books?" Programming any nontrivial piece of software not covered in a tutorial is not going to be in a book. Or it should be? But there are cooking recipes where as long as you have the tools and ingred
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
I went through phases. At first I'd go on an on about having the most awesome process out of all the companies so as to make programming awesome software into an assembly line, then declare any programs written in Java or C/C++ to
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
That would be about my reading of this article as well, at least my most charitable reading. Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building", while not getting some important points right, is right enough to set anyone on the r
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
BTW, can you imagine if Aristotle et al were listened to in their time, how different things would be?
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Hmm I think I am agreeing with you on the preconditions; I did say that the system, through literacy has sowed the seeds of its own destruction. But it seems like we're on a path that makes this less and less likely, whereas the introd
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Developing tech in small groups, making multiple versions of the same social media apps / manual labor explotation apps lol, while all thinking they will make it big, while sucking up to VC's. You could not have picked a worse exa
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Not even true in that case, because races often come down to luck with pit stops and how aggressive other drivers are in protecting their space. If you can't pass the dude without rear ending him, you're not going to pass him, doe
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Uhh, what if I told you that like most people with common sense and who realize that the initial conditions of a tournament are fixed in advance and that the ranking at the end only applies for that tournament and there are many other facto
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
if it's a long tailed distribution knowing the expected value isn't going to tell you anything you can count on
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
this isnt paradoxical at all, it's just you are looking at only 2 dice at a time not the full joint probability of a < b < c. i can come up with similarly retarded "paradoxical conclusions" if i took enough samples of d
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Is this just the lame philosophical trivia game where if you can name the thing that motivates you, by definition it's not intrinsic? Booooooooooooooooooooooring.
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Do you think either culture can make a case for itself being superior? I have witnessed firsthand the abuse and corruption that stems from Asian "family-first, materialistic" approach and honestly believe the American way stands a
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Isn't this not as meaningful as the mean, because the minimum doesnt really tell you about true capability? I can also easily construct an institution that satisfies your parameters, the minimums of two groups match, as in they have a
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Very interesting! Seems like I don't understand probability as well as I think I do, since I bought the argument till I ran into this comment. So, what are the effects of variance in different evaluation contexts, and do we have a mean
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Also, I find that being able to read code is super important. The faster you can read code and get it, the faster you understand new ways of doing things that actually are backed up under the hood by things that run. This kills the incompet
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
That's especially true about the 10x programmer---I don't see people talking about how they saw a 10x programmer doing <X>, and how that factored into the 10x, I just see admiration, envy, disdain, etc.
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Guy makes a shitload of basic philosophical errors, like most rationality training people. They are all centered around conflating logic with reality and ignring computational costs. If you cant connect a theory with reality that is rooted
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
They make it sound simple: apply a rational, scientific mindset to life. Talk about easier said than done. Most of us sink into easy-to-reach reactions that are only good for the simplest situations, and sometimes not even then, and often c
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
What you said resonates with a lot of Nietzsche's thought, a core theme of which was it is better to experience the overcoming, the removal of an obstacle under your own power, than to have the obstacle removed for you. Nietzsche'
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
One of the interesting ideas from this article is how simulations can map out how a war is going to turn out _badly_ for the people who wish to engage in it, such as Vietnam. Of course, the wargamers' advice was not heeded in the case
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by quietplatypus 11y ago
Great scam. Riffing off of this, there's probably a marketplace for a whole bunch of stuff, incl. urine/blood/faecal/saliva samples correlated with diet/exercise logs, handwriting, etc. Never underestimate the moder

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