rjprins

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by rjprins 17y ago
Heck no!! I mean, well yes, it is possible that the political views you happen to hold go together with the good looks of some candidate.. Also competence may even correlate with looks, but even then correlation does not make any assumpti
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by rjprins 17y ago
Out my 10 closest friends, 3 will not drink a sip of alcohol. And none do it out of religious grounds.
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by rjprins 17y ago
Well, so far I count 4 out of 5 comments immediately trying to reject the conclusion of the article (people base their vote on superficial features of the candidates). That represents wishful thinking, we would all very much like to believe
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by rjprins 17y ago
Or pretty high, if you realize that 7 extinction events were not capable of completely eradicating life.
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by rjprins 17y ago
The guy is all for harder sentences, more jail time, etc. Criticizing judges on these matters is like telling experienced programmers they don't code well. They know what works and what doesn't. The numbers about rape and manslaughter are
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by rjprins 17y ago
In hindsight it's an obvious lesson, but one that is not being stressed in school. Sadly, focus is something which is very hard to consciously apply (at least for me).
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by rjprins 17y ago
Oh thank god we don't need to implement those darn complicated linked lists anymore! Link { Link next; Object value; }
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by rjprins 17y ago
I'm pretty sure by far the biggest win in energy savings can be made in smarter spatial planning. A good city plan keeps the vehicle roads long, bicycle lanes short, has facilities close to housing (shops, schools..) Or specific for bicycle
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by rjprins 17y ago
I don't care who said it (My apologies, I'm always a bit critical of throwing in famous names in a discussion, the arguments should count for themselves.). Internal considerations is really all there is. If you'd take the extreme ego centra
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by rjprins 17y ago
The subject of what morality exactly is has not been discussed. To keep it short, I think morality is a set of rules to keep a society functional. Therefor "good" morality would let a society be more functional, have no unnecessary costs, n
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by rjprins 18y ago
There are not that many publishers and not all crawlers need access. My guess would be the publishers gave Google their own license with which a specific crawler could identify itself.
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by rjprins 18y ago
And I can imagine the content owners to also want it to be discoverable, as it can only lead to more sales.
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by rjprins 18y ago
Pfff, nonsense. Here are some proven future-proof jobs: - baker - prostitute - politician - musician
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by rjprins 18y ago
Yes, but feeling good, doesn't make you act good. Being realistic makes you more effective.
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by rjprins 18y ago
This is an entry level book, it should be called Data Structures for Beginners (presented with Java).
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by rjprins 18y ago
The problem with prediction on this scale is that it's becomes a function of chaotic effects. i.e., Some small unpredictable thing like an invention or some trait of a president can have very profound effects over time akin to the butterfly
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by rjprins 18y ago
Where's computer science? :( Or mathematics for that matter..
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by rjprins 18y ago
It is really a flaw of me, but if it's not challenging I don't care about it and I am incapabable of doing a good job. Luckily I am in a position wherein I can choose my jobs.
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by rjprins 18y ago
Why? What is difference does it make to you if some guy who was born in the US got the job, or some guy who was born in India got the job? Really, this idea that people should prefer people who happen to be in their "own" "nation" is redicu
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by rjprins 18y ago
I hardly ever think back.. I'm always thinking about what I am going to do or what I want to achieve. My memory scarcely goes back further then a week. It tends to make my live a bit empty, I don't remember doing anything.
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by rjprins 18y ago
I am one of those pseudo-intellectual book-clutching atheists and I must point out that your idea of free thinking is wrong. Free thinking means you're free to make up your own mind, not free to be brainwashed by your parents. Also, I did n
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by rjprins 18y ago
Okay, that could be true. I admit my assumption was based on the fact they don't learn construction mechanics (i.e. calculating if structures are strong enough). And from a few Master thesis presentations I generally got the idea people jus
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by rjprins 18y ago
My experience at my university; there are simply too many architects. It's fun to study it and in essence it's a fun job, but the needed skills are not very sophisticated (although they will tell you otherwise). A good recipe for a poor job
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by rjprins 18y ago
If these are real limitations of the JVM, what does that say about Clojure?
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by rjprins 18y ago
What is all this non sense about a war. The US and China are about as far from war as Siamese twins are from schizophrenia! -- I know, it doesn't make any sense at all!! Besides, the strongest weapon China has against the US is economic lev
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by rjprins 18y ago
http://www.iousathemovie.com/ For an insightful look at the US national debt.
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by rjprins 18y ago
Agreed! The author obviously has not thought a lot about AI before and misses the idea of abstract models/functions as implemented by brains. And she is wrong on the "dark, hot underbelly of Moore's law", power consumption relative to compu
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by rjprins 18y ago
Simple and complex are relative terms. What a highly educated person anno 2009 would find simple might be complex to a uneducated person anno 1009. Which implicates this "law" is also relative, making a more useful description: If you make
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by rjprins 18y ago
So it's a recursive technique named "APRiL 1.0" published on April 1st, and it's not an April fools? The code is a bit to intricate for me to completely get it. :(
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by rjprins 18y ago
Which only confirms the correlation. The author clearly points out he does not intend any causation.

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