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by rauljara 15y ago
I recently had to scrape the yellow pages for a list of doctors around chicago. My first script caused them to block my ip address. The warning page was cute, it said I had violated one or more of Asimov's 3 laws of robotics. I wrote a se
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by rauljara 15y ago
I agree that b) is the correct interpretation of events. And I would add that they shouldn't be let off the hook if they are late again. However, if corporations see that: a) the community's response to non-release is complaining b) the c
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by rauljara 15y ago
There is a demo. There are a number of controls on the top right, and one is labeled "Demos", though there is only one demo at the moment, and it doesn't seem complete. I suspect this is still very much a work in progress. I seriously do
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by rauljara 15y ago
True. But credit where credit is due. Very cool analysis for a throwaway blog post specifically manufactured to garner karma. Only thing I'll add as a data critique, the negative factors are reported as things to avoid. But, in fact, all
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by rauljara 15y ago
You clearly do not understand ad hominem. An example of an ad hominem attack: "You are on the internet, therefore you are wrong." The premise "you are on the internet" is clearly true. That the conclusion has anything to do with the prem
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by rauljara 15y ago
If overturning established ideas is as easy for you as you seem to portray it, you should enter into a career in science. Scientists who can prove that existing paradigms are wrong, or incomplete, are treated as rock-stars, not pariahs. V
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by rauljara 15y ago
Ah. This makes more sense. In this comment you seem to be arguing that some mistrust of science is caused by poor reporting. Which I wouldn't disagree with. From your first comment, I thought you were saying that there was no mistrust of
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by rauljara 15y ago
You accuse people of being too lazy, but as you pointed out, science does change because flaws in research do eventually get pointed out. In fact, there is an entire profession devoted to making sure that they do get pointed out: scientist
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by rauljara 15y ago
While I have seen plenty of news reports that mangle scientific findings, in all the internet debates I've witnessed on vaccines and global warming, I've never seen someone attack the scientific conclusions on the basis that they're being
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by rauljara 15y ago
Very insightful analysis as to how quotes get mangled. I feel like the only thing "new" about this event is how quickly it happened. The retweeted quote is so in keeping with Dr. King's beliefs it is no surprise that so many people would a
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by rauljara 15y ago
I wasn't entirely sold on the splitting up of attributes and properties at first. After all, a big part of jQuery is adding convenience, and this does remove a certain amount of convenience at the end of the day, even if only a little. Th
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by rauljara 15y ago
This is at best half correct, depending on the model. The RAM in iMacs come with tabs to help you pull them out. You do need a screw driver, but it's kind of hard to have a snap-off cover on an aluminum case, no? You are correct about the
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by rauljara 15y ago
I think this response sold me on learning Racket first (though it was definitely a cumulative effect of hearing people's good experiences). I don't have a project in mind for either dialect. Basically, I want to learn lisp because I've hea
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by rauljara 15y ago
Slightly off-topic: ever since I started working my way through Land of Lisp a while ago, I decided I would spend some time trying to seriously learn a lisp dialect. I was thinking that dialect would be Clojure because of its compatibility
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by rauljara 15y ago
"Over 120,000 people apply every year, according to the state Legislative Analyst's Office, but the academy only enrolls about 900." I could only think about how if California spent a similar amount of money on teachers, they could (apparen
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by rauljara 16y ago
Is this some sort of snide commentary on how much more limited of a language php is? It doesn't seem like it could possibly be meant for production. I guess I could see it being a fun learning project, tho.
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by rauljara 16y ago
Many psychological findings are remarkably un-surprising in retrospect. And I agree with you, this seems stupidly obvious once I know the answer. But I took an undergraduate course basically dedicated to the history of IQ testing and this
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by rauljara 16y ago
Thanks to _why, I do tend to like comics making programming ideas more clear. I'm not sure how someone who doesn't already know how a Haskell heap works is supposed to get anything out of this, tho. How is "Some presents explode when you
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by rauljara 16y ago
If you actually read the document, you would see that the document includes provisions for a court system under the very correct assumption that some people would read the document and come to different conclusions about just what the docum
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by rauljara 16y ago
One of the reason the humble bundles do so well is that people have the option of paying more than the asking price (of free). There is no option to pay more than the $0.38 (number pulled out of my ass) amazon charges because of a promotio
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by rauljara 16y ago
Anyone downloaded this? Anyone have a sense of how it compares to any other ssh clients? I was super excited when I downloaded TouchTerm, but it was just so difficult to do anything with it on my iPhone that I gave up, despite thinking it
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by rauljara 16y ago
"If you change the flow of the river on your property such that it affects mine, then yes you have aggressed against me (it is easier to see in the reverse, it is clearly an aggression against me if you flood my land even if you poor the wa
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by rauljara 16y ago
If a philosophy doesn't work in absolutist terms, perhaps it shouldn't be expressed in absolutist terms. The parent comment left no apparent wiggle room.
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by rauljara 16y ago
Very glad that someone's trying to make a game in Haskell that goes beyond a weekend hacking project. That said, on my OS X system, the arrow keys didn't work. A common complaint about Haskell is that doing "game-like" stuff (updating gam
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by rauljara 16y ago
I wouldn't worry about [terrible thing]. There are natural responses to [terrible thing] that are fully foreseeable consequences of [terrible thing]. One of them is [even more terrible thing].
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by rauljara 16y ago
"It reminded me of when, in 2007, Drew Houston stormed onto the scene with his "GDrive killer," which was, of course, Dropbox." So wait, Drew Houston specifically made and positioned his product in response to perceived competition, and the
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by rauljara 16y ago
Whenever I read about a campaign to stop someone from being deported, I am almost always sympathetic and supportive. But I also can't help but think about the people who are no less deserving of support, but don't have a community with the
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by rauljara 16y ago
I kind of disagree. I remember things much better when I screw up doing them. The fact that it isn't immediately evident what exactly is wrong with my query means I have to go back and read, and figure it out. Much like debugging. I kno
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by rauljara 16y ago
I love that about the tutorial. One of the few tutorials where I actually have to think.
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by rauljara 16y ago
I happen to have a friend who was forcibly admitted to a mental hospital as a result of delusions and suicide attempts. I visited him a lot, and while there were many things that were disappointing about his treatment there, I'm pretty sur

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