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Just a rantlet on some blog trends
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by spenuke 12y ago
YES - The NYRB is fantastic. But, no, not everything is online for free. A number of articles are behind a paywall; some are free. I believe others are website-only, but they are not the usual chum to just attract viewers; they're actu
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by spenuke 12y ago
This is good news for those who appreciate the New Yorker. Not everyone thinks that a world full of advertising and clickbait "information" is a desirable thing. Think of The Atlantic -- at one time, it was on par with The New Yor
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by spenuke 12y ago
Can someone clue me in on the usage of bitwise operators when declaring the cardinal direction variables (NSWE)? I can't make sense of it -- those values don't seem to make use of any bitwise operations further down the line, unle
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by spenuke 12y ago
Anyone know of a clip-art (non-photo illustration) version of this list?
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by spenuke 12y ago
I'm not sure your second paragraph is clear, to me, at least. Person C admitted that their only contribution to the conversation was to announce that they had been nerd-sniped. Which means that they showed zero interest in the "qu
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by spenuke 12y ago
Is it really fair to call poor code an edge case? If not for the double-equals typo, which most code reviews would fix, this wouldn't work. I'm more interested that this team has conversations where person A asks a really simple q
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by spenuke 13y ago
On the subject of automation, I think it's no accident what Theodore's job is: he's a letter-writing consultant. To be more precise, a letter-writer for a "hand-written" letter company. This is crucial to understand
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by spenuke 13y ago
Can you explain more what you mean? I'd say hashes aren't going to make everything faster, but they will always be faster than disk lookup. But more to the point that I understand you to be making - hashes are excellent when you h
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by spenuke 13y ago
The public challenges seem to embrace newcomers. Assuming someone does well on their own - should that person expect to do well in the hiring process? Or is there a significant difference in skill set / level between the public an priv
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by spenuke 13y ago
Well, I might be too dense to grasp what you're saying, but I don't really understand it. I'm not sure, for starters, which axioms you're referring to. It seems worth noting, however, that there is, and there should be,
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by spenuke 13y ago
Understanding that "life can't be reduced to some axiomatic system" is a really important part of being a well-rounded human. But I quibble on calling it a logical fallacy. It is emphatically not a logical fallacy. That'
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by spenuke 13y ago
Not really. The case is not being made that "all successful businesses have this specific trait". I think the most relevant fallacy here is "post hoc ergo propter hoc", which says that if A came before B, then A must hav
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by spenuke 13y ago
Good point. Though the fallacy fallacy is just a special case of Denying the Antecedent: 1. If [argument is sound], then [conclusion is true]. 2. [argument] is not sound. 3. Therefore, [conclusion] is not true. Similar to: 1.
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by spenuke 13y ago
I've just begun chapter 2 of SICP. Can anyone familiar with Van Roy's book (or the edX course?) suggest whether it would be worth putting SICP on hold in order to work through the edX course?
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by spenuke 13y ago
I'm interested to see you show that determinism vs. randomness is a false dilemma. Not that it isn't - it's just that you haven't explained HOW it's a false dilemma. You just skate right onto the issue "more im
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by spenuke 13y ago
Do you think the same benefit could be had from doing it on EC2, or is installing OpenBSD locally from a CD-ROM essential to your suggestion?
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by spenuke 13y ago
I didn't know this one, and glad I do now! Is it possible that the other one I wish existed is already commonplace? I'd like to have an arg that cd's to a directory automatically after mkdir'ing it... or mv'ing a fi
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by spenuke 13y ago
Precisely the opposite: he has a very engaging style, which makes his lack of substance all the more insidious.
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by spenuke 13y ago
How many college-educated liberal folks with a non-engineering background do you know? It's all but impossible to avoid him in these circles. (I say this as a philosophy degree-holding liberal pinko who is is exasperated by Gladwell. T
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by spenuke 13y ago
One of the greatest joys I find is when something of an outrageous reputation actually lives up to that reputation. The Beatles, SICP, a couple examples. Shakespeare is perhaps the greatest example. Some people have argued that nobody shoul
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by spenuke 13y ago
To be clear, since I can't see without being a subscriber, the "audio edition" is different from the "Economist radio" linked on Soundcloud?
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by spenuke 13y ago
What branches of math are good for people who are bad at calculation?
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by spenuke 13y ago
Yeah, so much fun.
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by spenuke 13y ago
“I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).” -- Derrida Both you guys might enjoy this essay on Derrida. I've read a couple volumes of his w
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by spenuke 13y ago
Oh, you don't need to convince me one way or the other. I spent my undergraduate career in a philosophy department that was extremely continental-heavy, as well as dedicated to reading only primary texts. After having read many volumes
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by spenuke 13y ago
Agreed. I was introduced to his work by watching The Trap in a seminar on Michel Foucault, interestingly enough. I was surprised how much depth there was in Foucault's work, despite his reputation as a fudging post-structuralist. Much
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by spenuke 13y ago
How do you go about looking for such documents? Simple google "military instruction document"? Is there a term for those things? I know enough about the military that everything that can be put into an acronym is.
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by spenuke 13y ago
I'd never heard of Big O until this thread, but from what I can tell it'll only be when a solution is in the O(logn) that "running time will get less significant as n gets larger". This is simply the way you describe log
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by spenuke 13y ago
Hey, thanks much! I'm going to have to spend some time with these logarithmic evaluations to really get what you're saying, but I dig the basic concept. Very helpful.

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