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by stephenboyd 12y ago
Magic is supposed to do stuff for you, acquiring goods and services. This just sends SMS responses, so it's more like ChaCha. Though ChaCha has a broader focus than clueless men who need generic date plans from a stranger.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
I suppose AskAlexis is a catchier name than AskAdamKochanowicz.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
Bonobos, a similar ape species equally related to humans, can actually play video games, drive golf carts, and all kinds of cool stuff. http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_savage_rumbaugh_on_apes_that_... Skip to 15:52 if y
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
Mongo doesn't stop you from using a schema, but you'll have to enforce it in your application code rather than the database itself.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
This is the author at a programming conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6071MRIzCA You might say that it's loudly styled, but somehow this guy never has people doubting his programming cred: https:/&#x2F
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
Here's the author speaking at a programming conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6071MRIzCA As you can see, she is appropriately attired.
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Keep in mind that the "nerd uniform" was created by only one gender. And most dresses are not stuffy professional attire. Most of my female friends wear casual dresses in casual situations.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
Please tell us more about the dresses that would not garner this response and how they are different from what she wore.
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"But the one thing we cannot do is demand that the entire world see signals differently than they see them out on the street." We can work on it instead of trying to justify such a narrow conception of what a competent programmer
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
"If more programmers wear pretty dresses maybe that look will become stereotypical of programming, but it hasn't historically been the case" She makes the same claim, but instead of accepting that she has to conform to style
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
The author is trying to correct the problem that people dressing in a feminine way are not seen as technical. If people who wear business suits have such a problem, they're welcome to do their own advocacy.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
It's a great idea, but C# is not popular with the Hacker News audience.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
I frequently have dozens of tabs open in Chrome on Ubuntu without any problems and I haven't touched the open-files-per-process limit. You must be talking about a problem with older versions.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
Here's the source (pdf) for the article: http://cispa.saarland/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/MongoDB_doc...
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40k unprotected MongoDB databases found exposed to the Internet(cso.com.au)
1 points by stephenboyd 12y ago|1 comments
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
When coding I don't want autosave, because I don't want my computer to be trying to compile all the time Can you explain this? Is it common to use an IDE that autocompiles every time it autosaves?
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
Attempting to convince users to stop doing things the easy way is futile and a filter could be implemented conveniently. Give the users what they want, to be able to type a friend's name into the comment box to share. If their incentiv
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
The reason can be as simple as identifying with others who aren't into sports. People take on the interests and values of the people they identify with, whether they realize it or not.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
It's an option for people who want the convenience. DO has free snapshots and you can roll your own backup system anyway.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
What happened to this post? It went from the top 10 on the front page, down to the 102nd place within a half hour.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
What would stop a superintelligent machine with mastery of genetic modification from using the same biological systems for replication and repair?
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
Life forms are limited by their genetic legacy. They can only evolve in limited ways, always accidentally. A life form that could intentionally and intelligently write and optimize its own DNA without limitation would be in a whole new clas
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
Why are you surprised? People use the word 'machines' alone to refer to artificial machines and 'biological systems' to refer to natural machines. They're all machines but the distinction is usually crucial.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
If by "morality gates" you're talking about about an ethical filter that all intelligent machine actions have to go through, this can't be "one of the first hurdles" because such a filter would need to be a pow
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
It's 8 lines to add Icecomm to your site—hundreds of lines to create Icecomm.
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by stephenboyd 12y ago
Last year, I was told by one of the technical managers for animation at Pixar that they're all in 24 fps. They've used all the increased processing power since their founding in the 90's to increase detail, so the result is t
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Is Lyft Too Cute to Fight Uber?(nytimes.com)
7 points by stephenboyd 12y ago|1 comments
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by stephenboyd 13y ago
I'd start a foundation that gives grants to journalists, especially investigative and explanatory journalists. I like to know more about what's going on in the world than what's included in press releases.