super-serial

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by super-serial 13y ago
I always use the chess analogy. Some people can play chess every day for years and never get past being an advanced beginner. That's over 90% of the population whether it's Chess or programming. It's a very intense mental exercise... even
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by super-serial 13y ago
What a worthless study and article. It's like if you asked a group of people from the 1930s to "draw an alien", and you compared that to modern people asked to draw an alien. People from the present would draw the "gray" aliens you see on T
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by super-serial 13y ago
My favorite dial control is this JQuery Knob plugin: http://anthonyterrien.com/knob/ If he wanted the knobs to look exactly like his existing dials, I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to modify the plugin and add an extra dot at the position of
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by super-serial 13y ago
They go home to their robo-housing condo, eat meat grown on sheets in massive labs run by robo-farmers, and any supplies they need are transported by robo-truckers. When they get sick, they just go to the robo-hospital. All these things ar
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by super-serial 13y ago
"We should be designing more user experiences that are so natural and predictable, even dogs can take advantage." There's a web startup idea somewhere in that sentence... "it's like MTurk for dogs who want work for earning treats, and web a
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by super-serial 13y ago
Or you could get a $10/hr shit-job... I think the best part-time jobs are fitness clubs. You're in the right environment to stay healthy and it's low stress. I used to work part-time at a racquet club and it was pretty awesome. If you do
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by super-serial 13y ago
Reminds me of a pic I sent my programmer friend after not seeing him for 6 months... http://oi47.tinypic.com/2utk9b7.jpg
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by super-serial 13y ago
Some people are different. For example - I work a $10/hr part-time job for bills. I could get a programming job since I have a CS degree and a few years development experience... but instead I choose to work a non-programming part-time job
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by super-serial 14y ago
Well the Siri name makes sense considering how it treats Japanese people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiU8GPlsZqE
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by super-serial 14y ago
I didn't make it clear in my comment - but yeah I don't think women are more susceptible to marketing than men. It's just that women value different things. The original poster values functional items such as cars, computers and cool gadg
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by super-serial 14y ago
"Sexism" has become a dirty word. There's nothing wrong with thinking women and men are wired differently. There have been studies on chimpanzees showing that female chimps choose girly toys (dolls etc), and male chimps choose male toys (w
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by super-serial 14y ago
It's how our politicians do business here in Illinois... http://www.salon.com/2008/12/09/blagojevich_complaint/
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by super-serial 14y ago
That's great it kills bacteria... but what about the text spelling applications? I want a vial of that stuff, and then if someone asks me a question I don't like... I'll say "here, this gel will give you the answer." Then I'll walk away, a
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by super-serial 14y ago
These jobs are all things I would outsource to Amazon MTurk for cheap. (and you can specify US ONLY too) Yet no one claims using the MTURK API helps others "develop employable job skills"... website testing, cheap content writing and data e
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by super-serial 14y ago
Your question about the economics wasn't silly... I was just pointing out that corporations like McDonalds are very unlikely to start spending money on robotics research or rethinking their entire business. It just isn't in their corporate
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by super-serial 14y ago
If automated movie rental machines are so popular why hasn't Blockbuster invested millions in this idea, or are these "RedBoxes" just a cute idea that won't scale? In 10 years I think your comment will look just as silly.
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by super-serial 14y ago
"Imagine if the funeral home could rent access to these, as long as it wouldn't seem undignified. (I'm not too good of a judge of this)." No... it'd be fine, just hang a suit on it. If you rotate fast enough you could simulate hugging or p
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by super-serial 14y ago
'Jobs? Where we're going we don't need jobs.' I've always wanted to have a parody shirt with that phrase on it, with a pic of Doc Brown wearing his metallic glasses... above it it would say "Entrepreneur" in 'Back To The Future' text. If
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by super-serial 14y ago
Yeah but if I post a story about my flawless "Dick Algorithm" no one cares. Who says women don't have an advantage in tech?
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by super-serial 14y ago
"The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play." - Arthur C Clarke If everyone is unemployed who pays their bills? Well the idea is that necessities become so cheap that people could pay for everything with what unemployed ge
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by super-serial 14y ago
I read the comments just to see this answer. I thought it was common knowledge - and was surprised it wasn't in the article.
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by super-serial 15y ago
Only good programmers have a ton of opportunity. Where are all the jobs for bad programmers with CS degrees? That sounds like a joke... but by Hacker News community standards I'm sure more than half of CS graduates would be considered m
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by super-serial 15y ago
Yeah, I was hoping it was about "tribes" of developers leaving EC2. If I wanted to read stuff like this I'd go back to reddit.
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by super-serial 15y ago
Nintendo needs to make it as easy to make and sell games on their hardware as it is for developers to make cell phone apps. Without that, their small exclusive library won't be able to compete with an army of developers making all types of
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by super-serial 15y ago
Was there a beer shortage? My theory has always been that if there was no beer, everyone would slowly realize "man, baseball is f-ing boring."
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by super-serial 15y ago
If you get into the content-farm business you can choose how evil you want to be. I'd never steal articles, but I am building automation and outsourcing tools. Like he says... "Passive Income" is the keyword. If these tools make some mone
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by super-serial 15y ago
Challenge accepted? http://memegenerator.net/instance/9240617