sjclemmy

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by sjclemmy 12y ago
Books. Definitely. And printed books at that. You can't scan a video quickly for relevant content (I don't mean digitally scan, I mean look at quickly), and it's easier to flick through a book than an e-book/pdf.
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by sjclemmy 12y ago
Don't do either. Go and see places you've never seen before. The reasons are two fold; this is probably the last time in your life you will have the opportunity and it will benefit you later on as you'll be able see how other
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Laser hits a mirror – captured at 100B frames per second(popsci.com)
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Air traffic control service cut IT investment(m.bbc.co.uk)
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2 Futures Can Explain Time's Mysterious Past(scientificamerican.com)
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by sjclemmy 12y ago
This guy should have been a comedy writer, not (and?) a programmer. I found this whilst backtracking: http://moronlab.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/moron-lab-goals-princ...
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by sjclemmy 12y ago
I know enough to be interested. Not enough to know if its nonsense. Although, I read this: "A pier is an Urbit virtual machine that hosts one or more Urbit identities, or ships. When you run bin/vere -c, it automatically creates a
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by sjclemmy 12y ago
Time is one slippery concept. I have a book called "The End of Time" by Julian Barbour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Time_(book) , which I have read, but lack enough of a formal education to underst
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by sjclemmy 12y ago
Reasons 2,3,4,5 and 6: photographs in the background. What's that got to do with search?
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by sjclemmy 12y ago
So the argument goes something like this: Because my brain models things imperfectly it follows that my model of my self awareness is imperfect therefore doesn't exist. What? And then the title suggests there is evidence for this, but
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Banksy anti-immigration birds mural in Clacton-on-Sea destroyed(bbc.co.uk)
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The country with one people and 1,200 sausages (but it's really about beer)(bbc.co.uk)
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The ultimate maker project(buildtheenterprise.org)
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by sjclemmy 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wIvsZBFhQ
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by sjclemmy 12y ago
I would suggest you make yourself easily contactable. Posting this question on HN might interest a possible employer who would offer you some work. However they will have a hard time doing so, if your contact details are not mentioned in yo
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by sjclemmy 12y ago
Those two kinds of memory mentioned must be concious memory and unconscious memory. I'd be interested to know about how memory affects ones sense of identity. I'd also like to know if there has been any work that pinpoints the par
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by sjclemmy 12y ago
This ran as a piece on BBC Radio 4's today programme (quintessentially English), er, today. "Do you think it's a machine producing these? Or is somebody sitting there all day producing these?", and other such questions f
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Digital slavery? The net’s grey job market.(contributoria.com)
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by sjclemmy 13y ago
capitalism, get used to it.
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by sjclemmy 13y ago
I like this as I always find it hard to write sales copy. My pithy summary would be: Know your audience. State the value that you offer.
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by sjclemmy 13y ago
Github meets SoundCloud. When I create a piece of music (using something like Logic Pro) I go through many iterations and only end up with a mixdown piece and no idea of how it evolved to that point. so it would be nice to see the evolution
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by sjclemmy 13y ago
Word to that. I was contracting once and I asked about the backups. Someone was diligently changing the tapes on a daily basis but the backup had actually been failing for months. How we laughed...
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by sjclemmy 13y ago
The broader point this raises is the cost of information exchange, not just corporate email but all valuable content. I can envisage some system attaching cost to information exchange. Kind of like curating through market forces. I suppose
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by sjclemmy 13y ago
I've never seen the 1qaz2wsx password pattern. Does that mean there's also 3edc4rfv and things like that in your 'logs'?
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by sjclemmy 13y ago
I've just started looking again at getting a DAW, so I've looked at Logic and Ableton and Reason etc. Being a JS programmer and having a small amount of exposure to the webAudio API I concluded that there will be, at some point in
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by sjclemmy 13y ago
I have experience of the same thing. The capable ones quit and took control of their own destiny (with great success). The mediocre stayed.
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by sjclemmy 13y ago
I love this kind of modernist, socialist utopian ideal. It's gratifying to think that whilst the idealogical battles of the 20th century were still playing out, the idea of marshalling effort and resources toward the common good withou
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How we built ampp3d in 8 weeks(martinbelam.com)
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by sjclemmy 13y ago
I find regular expressions intensely annoying. I come across situations where they are a perfect fit, but, as I've never got around to learning the syntax I spend ages looking for a perfect, or sometimes not so perfect, answer on SO th
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by sjclemmy 13y ago
> Writing sorting algorithms is like tuning a guitar.... I know it's not meant literally but, I play guitar and write code. I couldn't play the guitar without having to tune it, so yeah, I can tune a guitar quickly by ear in or

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