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by skermes 16y ago
It looks like C# 3+.
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by skermes 16y ago
It's not for nothing that the Singularity is referred to as "The Rapture of the Geeks". In all seriousness, though, the parallels between some forms of Rapture philosophy and some forms of Singularity philosophy are pretty strong. Uploadin
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by skermes 16y ago
Absolutely, seconded. Not only in it's stereotype of geek men (and it's implicit erasure of geek women) but in how the advice could essentially be summed up as "Find this dude that you don't really relate to and cater to his every whim. W
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by skermes 16y ago
It may work well for you, and you should certainly feel free to work however you like, but I've found that diving into the code as early as possible works better for me. I'm generally driven by seeing something working, even if it's only wo
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by skermes 16y ago
In Visual Studio if you hold alt-Tab it'll pop up a quasimodal dialog that you can navigate through with arrow keys to select the tab you want, or hop into one of VS's panes (properties, ReSharper unit tests, etc). It's much less ideal tha
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by skermes 16y ago
When I was in school we had a program (I think it was this: http://www.dynamicgeometry.com/ ) that let you do pretty much exactly that. We were never that ambitious, but it was pretty cool. I remember using it's animation functions to cr
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by skermes 17y ago
Seriously? E-books are going to make everyone stop reading because now we can't use our book covers to passively brag to people on the subway how cool/smart/alternative we are? On the other hand, maybe someone can make a quick buck by sell
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by skermes 17y ago
More importantly, embedding very much non-trivial code in the context of an essay like this is impractical. I don't want (or need) to see an entire application written in both Java and Ruby to get the point. Any code sample that can be re
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by skermes 17y ago
I suspect the lack of context in your reply made it sound like you were saying that there were zero women founders anywhere, rather than zero women founders in your company.
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by skermes 17y ago
From the page: "The survey doesn't have an explicit end. You can continue for as long as you'd like or come back later to do more." So, no, it doesn't have a point at the end.
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by skermes 17y ago
Descended from Loglan, whence came the old joke, How many Loglan speakers does it take to fix a broken light bulb? Two. One to fix it, and another to figure out what kind of bulb emits broken light. In all seriousness, though, one of the t
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by skermes 17y ago
http://goingtorain.com , I think.
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by skermes 17y ago
I suspect that that's the point of the survey, though. Even though the questions can't be answered definitively, and even though they may really be the wrong questions to ask, we're faced with them on a daily basis. Shakesville ( http://sh
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by skermes 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_strip There are plenty of problems with magnetic monopoles, but that was a particularly unfortunate choice of analogy.
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by skermes 17y ago
But that wasn't the message of the story, at least not how I read it. I thought it was very explicit near the end: "If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you." Then there
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by skermes 17y ago
Agreed. It's trite and not nearly as uplifting and inspiring as it's supposed to be. The thing that always bothers me about these stories is how you could just as easily spin the negative foods into positives and come down hard on the 'goo
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by skermes 17y ago
I can see how it may have been fun, but it doesn't even really rate as dubious. Not only is one of your premises (a/a = b/b -> a=b) clearly false, but your conclusion doesn't mean anything. a=b ^ a=b -> n=(n-1) ^ n!=(n-1) is just a
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by skermes 17y ago
Combined with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639266 , it seems like Twitter is less about inviting millions of strangers into the minutiae of your life than it seems from a naive view. I seem to remember danah boyd talking about somet
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by skermes 17y ago
The big problem is that you can work with some fairly large amounts of data and still have the bus be your bottleneck. I was doing some GPU work a few summers ago that focused on matrix multiplications. We were sending matrices with 8k nu
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by skermes 17y ago
The thing that feels... unwholesome about this isn't that TechRadium is trying to crush a superior product through a misapplication of patent law; I don't think they're trying to do that at all. It seems more like they invented a hammer tha
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by skermes 17y ago
My mother used to run a daycare and she'd do something similar when someone came to inspect the school to make sure it was okay for kids. She'd leave something small (slightly overflowing wastebasket, some loose toys in a hallway) that the
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by skermes 17y ago
As a hovercraft, of course. If we'd started the history of transportation by floating instead of rolling, I think we can all agree humanity would be a much better place right now.
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by skermes 17y ago
Off the top of my head, I can think of way more than "four reasons I can imagine [I] would want to show someone a graph." How about "look at this interesting pattern in the data," or "look how data set foo correlates with data set bar?" N
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by skermes 17y ago
This question came up in some of my more abstract classes in college. A few professors in my department were working on slightly different problems in the same general domain of automated mathematical problem solving and proof construction
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by skermes 17y ago
Or they could be translators. They could teach their native language to people whose native language is the one they've learned. They could end up as authors or writing the marketing copy to sell your software in France or on any number o