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by rkachowski 12y ago
That Eliezer Yudkowsky is a pretty smart guy. Against all prior expectations (lol), I am now reading Harry Potter fan fiction and enjoying it.[1] The LessWrong sequences are poignant and concise and pushed me down the road of rational thoug
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by rkachowski 12y ago
I love how they repeatedly frame the internet censorship as "porn filter". Even in the face of (their statistics)6 out of 7 people opting out, it's still desperately trying to be presented as the feature that will save you fr
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by rkachowski 12y ago
The issue that seems to be overlooked here is the objective value of solving the problem itself. Instead it focuses on the developers and their rewards. A does a thing, it takes a long time, solves the problem and he becomes System Analyst.
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by rkachowski 12y ago
I agree - I really like it and I'm learning a lot. However, i'm losing motivation due to the lengthy queue. Task 6 currently has a two month wait. Given that you may have to submit multiple times to get feedback and fix mistakes,
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by rkachowski 12y ago
Ah i see, i didn't expect Google to back up an easter egg with an associated G+ post
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by rkachowski 12y ago
I saw this a few days ago, at first I thought it was an easter egg on youtube's part - saying "so many views we overflow!" But it's real?! It seems incredibly absurd that it could actually overflow, how are signed values
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by rkachowski 12y ago
It's very apparent that XCOM (the game referenced in the article), even in the Steam version was very much designed for touch screen use. The game requires no continuous input or precise input that a keyboard + mouse would provide, and
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by rkachowski 12y ago
I find it pretty surprising that bash is at the bottom of the list. I'd have imagined it to score substantially higher than say, ruby or python.
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Compiling C with Ruby + Rakefiles(donaldhutchison.info)
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by rkachowski 12y ago
For me it took 11 days. The upside to the delay is that it seems incorrect submissions get returned a lot sooner than correct, so you're likely on the right track :)
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by rkachowski 12y ago
I'm viewing it as intentional, a childish meta "fuck you" towards the various government agents that they imagine will be forced to spend hours deciphering the code. It totally flies in the face of open collaboration however.
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How to write useful bug reports(donaldhutchison.info)
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The SDK business is dead(iainhunter.wordpress.com)
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