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571.
by shasta 15y ago
This transform to dynamic typing is not local and thus is more akin to embedding another language.
572.
by shasta 15y ago
As wealth accumulates among the masters of technology, asking what jobs might provide value to your peers is the wrong question. What value can your friends provide to big corporations?
573.
by shasta 15y ago
The existing patent system doesn't guarantee you'll be compensated. In fact, most patents are worthless. The award system could easily incorporate a patent scheme, based either or first to file or first to invent. The important difference b
574.
by shasta 15y ago
That would also be the notion behind a system of awards for copyable works, so I'm not sure what your point is.
575.
by shasta 15y ago
I don't really understand your objection. If, instead of trying to impose an artificial scarcity on copyable works (which includes inventions), we had a pool of "awards" that were distributed to creators proportionally to the value of the
576.
by shasta 15y ago
Alternative title: UX guy sucks at programming language design. And if Perl is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.
577.
by shasta 15y ago
I took your point to be that people only tend to perceive faults in others if they have those same faults. But since this projecting of faults is itself a fault that you've perceived in others, your maxim applies to you. My intent was not
578.
by shasta 15y ago
Then you must be someone who accuses other people of being things that better apply to yourself.
579.
by shasta 15y ago
It was a joke. I can't delete it now.
580.
by shasta 15y ago
I'd guess that roughly 50% of asteroids passing by end up closer to the earth than the moon.
581.
by shasta 15y ago
This.
582.
by shasta 15y ago
Exactly. If they get close to apple quality, they easily win on price.
583.
by shasta 15y ago
I don't think you need explicit honey pots. Just give a select few special up/down votes that mean "this should never be flagged" and "this should never be upvoted". Then use this labeling of the data to compute a metric for vote quality.
584.
by shasta 15y ago
I wasn't comparing the men. I was comparing the arguments. Which means that Godwin's law doesn't apply. And all of the folks down voting me are Nazis.
585.
by shasta 15y ago
That's also what I respect most about Hitler. Like him or not.
586.
by shasta 15y ago
You've missed my point. Why do you not consider sqrt(3!)? It's not integral, but if you multiply by sqrt(6), the result IS integral. I don't think an optimal solution will have non-integral subexpressions, but you need an argument to just
587.
by shasta 15y ago
Reasoning in the article has a flaw - no factorial is a perfect square, but how do you know all intermediate results need be integers? At the least, this deserves an additional argument. (Though it would be fair to say that factorial is o
588.
by shasta 15y ago
If you only want to detect one frequency, can't you jut use the "slow" fourier transform?
589.
by shasta 15y ago
Easier, I'd say. I was hoping "I deleted eery third paragraph" was going to be his response to "why isn't data mining on here?".
590.
by shasta 15y ago
A relation between X and Y is a function X -> Y -> Bool.
591.
by shasta 15y ago
And a graph is a relation, and a relation is a function, etc. Just because you can model everything with graphs doesn't make them special. You can model everything with lots of things.
592.
by shasta 15y ago
I imagine that timr thinks it is.
593.
by shasta 15y ago
Steve Jobs was certainly loved by the HN crowd if this gets a positive reaction.
594.
by shasta 15y ago
I've never seen or heard Sean Parker speak, so this really just reinforces to me that Justin Timberlake is a douchebag.
595.
by shasta 15y ago
Confirming employment is standard, isn't it?
596.
by shasta 15y ago
It's not necessarily malicious. It could be someone checking out your other posts to see where you're coming from, and then finding out that in turns out they disagree with all of your recent comments.
597.
by shasta 15y ago
If.
598.
by shasta 15y ago
The relevant issue isn't "fairness", it's "market value". There is a lower supply of people willing to work in regions with high cost of living (for the same wage).
599.
by shasta 15y ago
That will be the story in the year 4000: ancient Americans believed the world would end in 12012.
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by shasta 15y ago
Not to accuse anyone of astroturfing, but the comments on this link read like what you'd hear on a late night infomercial.

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