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Self-counting functions(therobert.org)
3 points by robertk 16y ago|0 comments
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by robertk 16y ago
Indeed, call me when you're using complicated string-returning lambda functions inside the brackets and maybe then I'll--well, probably just redirect you to an obfuscated PHP contest, but cheers.
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How to Become a Bad Theoretical Physicist(phys.uu.nl)
3 points by robertk 16y ago|1 comments
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Have no opinion of yourself(therobert.org)
3 points by robertk 16y ago|0 comments
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by robertk 17y ago
Her rectangle problem is wrong. Here are four rectangles with the same area and perimeter: x = 3, y = 6; x = 4, y = 4; x = 5, y = 10/3; x = 7, y = 14/5 The formula is fix x > 2 (one side), let y = 2x / (x-2) (other side). Derived from
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by robertk 17y ago
You need parentheses around the -1. Otherwise the series is divergent. I presume you do not live at a divergent address? :)
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by robertk 17y ago
A meta-distinction.
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by robertk 17y ago
"Are we producing more in order to make more money for corporations? Or to make more money for ourselves? Or just to hold on to our jobs — jobs we might not like anyway?" I'm studying to be able to contribute to the singularity, so that I c
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by robertk 17y ago
biggestjerkever.com
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by robertk 17y ago
Steve Yegge wrote it.
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by robertk 17y ago
I'm on my iPhone and I accidentally downvoted you. I apologize. I took the effort to make this reply because I think your comment is the most insightful thing I've heard all day and I feel bad your karma is two points lower than it should b
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by robertk 17y ago
Another worldview changing article. I'd love to be a psychologist, but I'm not clever enough. Honestly, these guys are mind hackers. Finding unit tests for the brain.
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by robertk 17y ago
This is one of those articles that could be labelled "worldview changing." I mean this in the sense that to gain knowledge of certain facts and arguments has immense corollaries for how one understands and interprets the world. Here are two
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Man-made protein 100,000x faster than nature(seedmagazine.com)
21 points by robertk 18y ago|5 comments
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by robertk 18y ago
"Adult Web sites Users visiting Web sites that contain adult content sometimes make unconscious facial expressions. If Opera keeps opening Speed Dial and Zooming In and Out, please be aware that this not a bug. It may be useful to disable F
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by robertk 18y ago
But...but...Platonic pursuit of knowledge and happiness?
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by robertk 18y ago
I looked at the page. Unfortunately, it would not have helped me during the brief time I felt suicidal. Knowledge of fundamental evolutionary facts changes one's perspective about things, such as the statement "some part of you still wants
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by robertk 18y ago
Weird. I was just thinking that XKCD has become much too conservative in its geek humor; often, I sigh when reading XKCD because it's become so close to speaking to "laypeople" (abstruse goose does a slightly better job). Then again, the on
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by robertk 18y ago
My dad retired but is a night-time security guard in a calm midwestern town. He basically reads all night without interruption. Payment for doing what you'd be doing leisurely anyway. :)
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by robertk 18y ago
Very nice jobs can be found on elance if you're willing to look a little bit. When I had no reputation, I would bid on the best-value projects (e.g., $500 for an hour's work) with something like: "Since I have no elance reputation, I am wil
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by robertk 18y ago
How do you post polls? I'm in like...the top 250...I should be able to.
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by robertk 18y ago
Wait, I don't understand. Are you saying that Israel was in some way justified in their attacks, Matt?
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by robertk 18y ago
Please rephrase. It sounds like an interesting anecdote if it were understandable.
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by robertk 18y ago
The US Department of Defense should be renamed to the Department of Offense. War talk makes me sick. The only benefit I see from it is the necessary advancement of nanotechnology, which will hopefully help in bringing the singularity to spe
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by robertk 18y ago
I just got you a customer. :D I got on the bus and some girl just barely made it on and was telling me how she just called her friend to check the cta site and that she's so glad she caught it. I told her she can check by txt using your ser
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions(bookoutlines.pbwiki.com)
81 points by robertk 18y ago|23 comments
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by robertk 18y ago
Just curious, how come your profile is written in 3rd person? Is this really Joel Spolsky, or a representative?
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by robertk 18y ago
Of course, but my point is that the online shops have a much narrower range to work in. If a grocery store makes you walk around a quarter of a mile to get a ten-item list of necessities, people will accept it. If an online store makes you
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by robertk 18y ago
This is why I hugely prefer shopping online to shopping at a store. Even not counting the time it takes to drive there, at a real store you are the store's bitch, to manipulate for maximum benefit. An online store, on the other hand, is you
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by robertk 18y ago
They monitor(ed) the CCTV footage on the spot ? Jesus, that makes it even worse. The only places I've heard that at is high-security corporate and military locations. Certainly not town squares.

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