spdionis

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   by spdionis 11y ago

   And give away all their money to the poor...
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   by spdionis 11y ago

   In countries like Sweden I think the tax cut is around 60%. Also, Europeans don't have near as much military power, there's where your money goes :).
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   by spdionis 11y ago

   Except that the download links on wkhtmltopdf.org send you on Sourceforge...
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   by spdionis 11y ago

   The difference is that it's a fact that vaccination is not harmful, while consciousness is more of an open problem.
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   by spdionis 11y ago

   I think the leap they'd have to make in infrastructure and architecture to support that is not worth it in their mind. But who knows.
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   by spdionis 11y ago

   Great example of YAGNI, related to the post by martin fowler posted earlier today on HN.
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   by spdionis 11y ago

   This is the biggest danger of working in PHP actually. A lot of people do very cool things with PHP (despite the haters) but more people do the exact exceedingly amazingly boring work you describe. When interviewing for a PHP position you
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   by spdionis 11y ago

   Agreed that coding is not a very good idea on an interview, especially during a phone-screen. But it's good to pose a problem and make the candidate roughly describe the approach he would take. Combined with a small homework task that
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   by spdionis 11y ago

   I think upvoting means promoting discussion, not necessarily liking the article linked.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    When you access arrays by index do not use magic numbers. Define FIRST = 0 and SECOND = 1 for example.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    I don't understand why Americans ever talk in gross income. Where I live people speak and negotiate only in net income, they don't even consider taxed money as their money.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    Moldova. I considered a sell price of around 400 euro.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    Same here. If I actually needed a small temporary loan I'd reach out to a friend, but never a credit card like that. We actually don't have such credit cards here, although we have other options for micro-crediting.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    You're right.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    Totally agreed on the lots of stuff argument.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    All good liars are charismatic != all charismatic people are liars
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    Very touching post. Good luck with your life. I wanted to point out a funny thing though. Living in a post-soviet country I can sense my bias that tells me that this is totally ridiculous. Probably the difference between here and America is
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    I was only arguing that the child could actually learn Spanish, nothing more. Not knowing basically anything about AI state of the art what stops us from feeding a RNN image data and text data and make it correlate them automatically by con
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    Even then, I think the pre-wiring only benefits us humans in terms of efficiency at learning and don't change the learning process itself that much.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    When I was little (5-7 years old) I had quite a few anime videos and magazines in italian sent to me by my parents who were abroad. Where I lived no one knew a single word of italian. I often watched and rewatched those videos and read tho
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    It's funny how for me, having grown up and studied in Europe, creationism sounds completely ridiculous and I expect that everyone around me agrees. My first instinctive reaction is "No one in their right mind would ever believe cr
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    This was awesome. Thank you :). http://existentialcomics.com/comic/13
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    I live in a post soviet country and I don't think it is so heavily influenced by American culture. I actually found European people to be much more open to such matters. Otherwise I agree with you.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    I don't want to convert those people to being philosophy fans because I'm not that big of a fan either. I simply want them to at least respect it and not hate it.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    Thank you for your comment. I also always found that the interesting part is analyzing a philosopher's way of thinking based on the context he lived in and the other philosopher's arguments. Same with literature. Studying these t
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    This is a great thought provoking article about the intricacies and paradoxes of our current society. It's a little OT but I want to ask HN a simple question. The vast majority of my friends and acquaintances completely despise philoso
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    I nave a Dell laptop and it has a great trackpad. Gestures work consistently, I use them all the time. The only real annoyance is that the material of the trackpad is not the most comfortable for finger swiping but it's alright.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    The original premise was actually finding girls. When I read your second sentence I actually thought you meant that.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    There is also an Android version of M&M III and M&M II.
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    by spdionis 11y ago

    PHP actually has quite a few features I like compared to other dynamic languages, although maybe that's a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. Typehints alone make PHP preferable to python and ruby for me. Only quirk is to remember to always us