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by slx26 8y ago
I think it's curious how it's so common to have a hard time picturing someone's face in your mind actively, but we can still easily "picture" them in dreams. Like, we have trouble when trying to accurately recreate
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by slx26 8y ago
well, you have some exposure time when your comment is very recent. if we all deserve equal chances but there are many of us, then the exposure time is quite limited. it's a much better system than most others out there. "direct d
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by slx26 8y ago
I would say many things are more structured nowadays. And maybe it's normal, since we are exposed to more information and a more "complex" world. This can definitely be an issue, yes. But your comment also reminded me from a
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by slx26 8y ago
Which brings us to: knowing when to use bit hacks is as important as knowing how to implement them. And you usually want to know about compilers for that.
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by slx26 8y ago
It's important to let kids be bored and ignored from time to time, so they actually have the space to think for themselves and realize how many opportunities they have out there and how fun it is to explore them. Of course, every kid i
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by slx26 8y ago
Yes, but maybe I wasn't enough specific there. I did not say they are "crucial", and they probably aren't. But at least I would say they have been important, it's hard to quantify, but my point is that they are not
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by slx26 8y ago
The article continuously talks about and highlights the importance of the socialist/anarchist movements in Catalonia and how it was a focus of resistance against the spanish government in many of its forms. From an outsider perspective
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by slx26 8y ago
Well, I don't think there's a need to judge so fast. This is a first step. If we see more steps, we will be able to tell if they are going in the direction they say they want to go. I would just encourage them to do it right.
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by slx26 8y ago
I didn't understand much beyond what zeta values are, but have to say that that illustration opening the article is awesome.
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by slx26 8y ago
Well, when you are not the first, most of the time you end up learning a lot from your brothers/sisters. You are almost always the first for someone in the family.
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by slx26 8y ago
Agree with your point on complexity, I was thinking along these lines too. I realized that the real problem comes when you have a lot of information in your head, and you are trying to keep everything in mind at the same time, designing the
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by slx26 8y ago
The problem is clearly not just about completely pointless jobs. Among jobs that actually have a purpose, we find many that are: required to deal with the problems generated by bad practices/inefficiency (the article mentions duct-tape
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by slx26 8y ago
> COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) You can't compare the languages like that, they were created to fill very different roles, and both were very successful at what they did.
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by slx26 8y ago
I always explain it comparing to watching a movie. Even when you start looking at the screen, the movie is already written and recorded. But that doesn't mean you know what will happen, and you will still feel something watching the mo
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by slx26 9y ago
I understand the discussion, but then that's a very specific use case, which gmail is probably not trying to cover (and it might be a good idea that it stays like that). To be fair, I don't think that's even a good use for em
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by slx26 9y ago
This is a really good introduction to some natural language processing concepts, and the code as other people mentions is very beautiful and easy to read too. Just as a curiosity: I once did some text correction applied to tweets, using wor
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by slx26 9y ago
I think that should have been more discussed in the article. What is empathy? I'd say empathy involves understanding ("I know how you feel"), and I would call what you talk about "compassion" or goodwill/being
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by slx26 9y ago
I think in general we take the "understanding" part in empathy too lightly. I would say we use "empathy" a lot when we are actually talking about compassion. Since the inner experience is never completely shareable, it&#
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by slx26 9y ago
yeah, sorry, that was a typo, it's 1000, not 100. I calculated it a while ago. now population estimations are around 7.61 billions, which is around 1014 years every 4.2 seconds. it's an impressive amount of time
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by slx26 9y ago
Most people is not extremely bright. It can be very frustrating to attempt complicated things and not succeed. Even most bright people would rather do something boring from time to time. Maybe many "boring" jobs would get better s
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by slx26 9y ago
I do not disagree, but I think it's also interesting to consider the following: currently there's a lot of suffering caused by poverty. Or by the frustration derived from the need to get/keep a job to avoid poverty. Those eco
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Is science hitting a wall?(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by slx26 9y ago
To me it comes down to usage: if given a problem X you are likely to chose language Y to solve it, then Y is viable. That sentence probably sounds super obvious, ok. The important point is realizing that the critical question there is: Am I
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by slx26 9y ago
there are more than 7 billion people in the world. every 4.2 seconds, we collectively live more than 100 years. there's a lot of clever-thinking time in a day, it's always nice to keep that in mind
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by slx26 9y ago
Well, many of their ideas challenge the traditional mental model we have about humans and humanity. I think people feeling particularly offended or uncomfortable with that shouldn't surprise us.
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by slx26 9y ago
This. Ruby is used where it's used because it's slow, and you can't write any professional, performant app with it. But if you have a similar language that it's safer and faster , Ruby syntax is a pleasure to work wit
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by slx26 9y ago
I consider speed to be extremely important, because it enables me to use the language in many more practical scenarios. And that's a joy. Writing in most other imperative languages after having learned Ruby feels so painful to me.
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by slx26 9y ago
Recently covered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267202
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by slx26 9y ago
Sorry if it came across like that. Not trying to dismiss his claim, just trying to give a wider perspective. Similarly, in the same way you are right saying it's easier to find information on nearly everything nowadays, it might also b
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by slx26 9y ago
To be fair, we used to die at 40. Now you can get a CS degree at 21 or 22, and you still "have no idea what are you doing". Maybe it's just that technology is really complicated, the world is really complicated, and everythin

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