rw

48 ms·

421.
by rw 18y ago
> As for the Quantum/Relativistic physicists: they were quite distributed, but I would argue that during the important years (i.e., the few decades immediately following their theoretical breakthroughs), they were more concentrated in t
422.
by rw 18y ago
Don't forget that skills are needed, to implement smart ideas. MIT, as a specialized engineering school, is going to be an obvious winner here.
423.
by rw 18y ago
Free will is a difficult position to defend nowadays. If free will is physical, you have to explain away determinism and causality. If free will is supernatural, we have to go meta with the discussion and figure out why you believe in the n
424.
by rw 18y ago
You really think this guy is an idiot? Have you attended college, seen what grades do to those who already have a passion for the topic at hand?
425.
by rw 18y ago
Ah, indeed - thanks.
426.
by rw 18y ago
I have not seen as many people with orange nicks posting lately. I had an orange name earlier today, but my high-scoring comments have fallen out of my recent history. Are the orange users being very stringent about what they post? I don't
427.
by rw 18y ago
Dear everyone: Stop meta-referencing - go make something.
428.
by rw 18y ago
SearchYC is often really slow, at least for me. The page loading times are on the order of tens of seconds. HN needs its own minimalist search engine designed to search for submissions.
429.
by rw 18y ago
I've become enamored with PLT Scheme. Clojure main appeal appears to be that it is on the JVM (with all those darn libraries), not that it is a new/beautiful and novel language. I am a proponent of porting Clojure to run without the JVM - h
430.
by rw 18y ago
Login required!
431.
by rw 18y ago
Fine, if you have the choice.
432.
by rw 18y ago
(profit vs. nonprofit) vs. (do good vs. be greedy) Let's untangle some dichotomies.
433.
by rw 18y ago
> "once the product is launched and gains traction to a massive user base." Don't kid yourself, this is hard to do.
434.
by rw 18y ago
The author didn't mention the low-level virtual machine project: http://llvm.org
435.
by rw 18y ago
Remembering and reclaiming the beauty of life leading up to a tragic event, even partially, is one of the most generous things anyone can do.
436.
by rw 18y ago
I wasn't clear. Norvig has written canonical books on AI, but they are not leading edge.
437.
by rw 18y ago
The very first hit on Google for "SICP" is this page, from which your link is taken: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ It's had the #1 PageRank for "SICP" for years.
438.
by rw 18y ago
Does this have to get posted every week?
439.
by rw 18y ago
Leading != canonical.
440.
by rw 18y ago
Is it possible to use hjkl in command-mode?
441.
by rw 18y ago
With Javascript disabled, the sidebar notes are completely disfigured. I love the Noscript plugin, and more webdevs need to think about us.
442.
by rw 18y ago
Why do you use Windows? I find the restricted interface (e.g. inability to drastically alter the window management paradigm) a real UI deal-breaker.
443.
by rw 18y ago
Really misleading title. The source URL does not claim to be "without any problems" of privacy and security.
444.
by rw 18y ago
Fail fast, right? Try to finish fast, too.
445.
by rw 18y ago
What has caused the spike in new users?
446.
by rw 18y ago
Knuth would not be verbose. He has a penchant for elegance, terseness and expressiveness.
447.
by rw 18y ago
Seek out a local Buddhist temple. They will probably have public meditation sessions; novices welcome. The religious aspect is almost absent, especially if you do not understand the language(s) of the chanting.
448.
by rw 18y ago
Never say never.
449.
by rw 18y ago
> But smaller layoffs and career changes are just the cost of technical progress. You assume that there are jobs to be had, that retraining is feasible, and that technological progress does not obsolete people as workers. Capitalism wil
450.
by rw 18y ago
> Also, here's my first law : "Anything that can be automatized WILL be automatized, whatever the costs." The point of automation is greater efficiency and efficacy, not some fetish with robots. Your "law" probably does not hold.

More ›