rahelzer

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by rahelzer 8y ago
The human genome has less information in it than a playlist. And even at that, we share most of our genes with mice. Our brains can store at least 5 and probably 10 or 15 orders of magnitude more information. I'm not saying that genes
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by rahelzer 9y ago
A couple of German Shepherds.
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by rahelzer 9y ago
This is so wrong on so many levels. 1. If it were collective code ownership, there would be collective compensation. But programmers are compensated individually at market prices. Since programmers don't own the profits from the cod
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by rahelzer 10y ago
What is correct when responding to scientific evidence is does not change with one's political views. The correct response is the same as for any other scientific result: Was the experiment designed correctly? Was it executed correct
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by rahelzer 10y ago
There is a subtle difference between this and reductionism. Suppose your big problem is you are hungry. You could break this big problem into little problems in many different ways, e.g. [drive to McDonalds, get food], or [go to fridge, e
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by rahelzer 10y ago
The general principle that any problem you face, no matter how big, can be broken down into smaller and easier to solve problems, recursively, is the most important idea in human history. Atomic theory is just a special case of this insight
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by rahelzer 10y ago
If feel you man, but a submariner really doesn't go with a tux.
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by rahelzer 10y ago
Acceptable? The whole point of a programming language is that you can do whatever you want to with it. Anything "Acceptable" has to be something which follows a pattern everybody has seen before, and is familiar to the point of b
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by rahelzer 10y ago
Not a good idea. Its about 100x worse than tracking down your stolen iphone using GPS to find the guy who stole it from you and demanding it bck. Do not do this. Its not worth your life.
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by rahelzer 10y ago
Mentor Graphics has private offices. When our company was acquired by them, I thought I would really love them. But to my surprise I didn't like how it changed the culture at all. Private offices really do make developers more insula
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by rahelzer 10y ago
Back in the 90's, I was the "minister of truth" for the student group "Purdue Libertarians". Since then, I've evolved into a socialist. Both my former and current selves are appalled at this. Never in my wi
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by rahelzer 10y ago
Excellent. Notice also this solves the problem of outragious CEO pay. If we figure the marginal value of the CEO as how much more the company would earn if it added another CEO, its at best zero, because the company only needs 1 CEO. Two CE
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by rahelzer 10y ago
Any problem caused by an aging population cannot be a long-term problem.
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by rahelzer 10y ago
This is kind of like saying why should you buy a $200 mechanical keyboard when you can get a perfectly serviceable model for $15? Its not even false.
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by rahelzer 10y ago
Of course. Because we spend most of our time fixing our own bugs, no other profession confronts someone with their limitations and shortcoming as much as computer programming does. But a cheesy pop-culture reference rings true here: Q. &q
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by rahelzer 10y ago
The best way to quantify something like this is a "wisdom of the crowds" method: basically let everybody vote and then aggregate the results. For this to work, however, each of the people voting have to come to independent decisi
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by rahelzer 10y ago
Lets think about this analytically for a minute. Why do you use Google? Because it gives you the answers you wanted to find. If Google didn't give us what we wanted to find, we wouldn't use Google. Google isn't optimized
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by rahelzer 10y ago
When stimulus is suggested in a Keynesian context, it is not to create new factories, etc. It is to provide demand to fully utilize the productive capacity which the economy already has, but which is not currently being used because of lack
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by rahelzer 10y ago
Please don't forget that this might very well cause VW to have to withdraw from the U.S. market entirely, and could even pose an existential threat. As far as morals go, by all means skate as close to the edge as you possibly can. Be
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by rahelzer 10y ago
Well, you have to fix the problems you have. 1. You must become a jedi-knight of white-board programming. For this, go to HackerRank and work absolutely as many problems as you can. But don't program them in an editor, get a whitebo
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by rahelzer 10y ago
I couldn't disagree more strongly. The one-child policy was one of the most visionary and far-sighted policies of any government at any time. Already Beijing is so polluted the air is literally (not metaphorically) poisonous. Can yo
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by rahelzer 11y ago
Great idea. But why limit it to just Foreign workers? Just think how Uber they would be if they would just encourage anybody to use their EU passport and move to Elbonia if they don't pull down $50k.
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by rahelzer 11y ago
So most of the above replies seem to be a threat. Give us free stuffs. You have a nice website there, be a shame if anything happened to it..... Seems like the Tony Soprano way of doing things.
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by rahelzer 11y ago
Do the undersigned send any money to github? It might be better to phrase your demand in the form of a question, "how much can we pay you to do this work for us?"