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by te_platt 18y ago
What really stuck out to me was how pleasant it was to read a news story about oil that wasn't alarmist. I kept waiting for the "Burn the witches!" segment that never came.
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by te_platt 18y ago
I know enough to know the author believes it to be a serious contender. At least it's not some kind of joke.
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by te_platt 18y ago
I spent time at BYU and the University of Utah and I thought the U of U had a much more solid CS program. The U has a long history in the field. It is also where I was introduced to lisp, bigO notation, and algorithm analysis. BYU was mo
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The Tiger effect on internet traffic(asert.arbornetworks.com)
1 points by te_platt 18y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 18y ago
I would have titled it "The inherent problem of scientific theories if you think science is to establish TRUTH or to PROVE cause and effect". This "inherent" problem goes away if you consider science as a process of finding better means to
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by te_platt 18y ago
Funny, I started on an Atari 400 too. I had a couple of older brothers that showed me a few things in Basic but I wish I had someone giving me better directions.
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by te_platt 18y ago
Choosing the right language is only part of the question. What kind of problems do you think make for a good start?
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Ask HN: How would you teach kids to program?
2 points by te_platt 18y ago|9 comments
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by te_platt 18y ago
Anything by Martin Gardner.
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by te_platt 18y ago
"If I anonymously tip some blogger, what do I get? Nothing!" What about getting more of the kind of content that you enjoyed?
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by te_platt 18y ago
That sounds like a good next step. Move from no access to capital to lousy access to better access. The attitude I saw from critics of the program was that some how people should go from no accss to good access, and if that's not possible
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by te_platt 18y ago
If the default rate is high enough then 70% could be what it takes for the lender to make a profit. Someone who thought that was the best rate they could get could agree to such a rate.
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Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work(igda.org)
1 points by te_platt 18y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 18y ago
Right. I understand that part. Same reason why professional cyclists wear helmets. Helmets slow you down a bit but everyone would rather wear one for safety even if they wouldn't because they would take the risk for a better chance of wi
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by te_platt 18y ago
Somehow this part of the article bothered me: "But isn’t that cheating? What’s the difference between Progivil for students and steroids for athletes?" Is it cheating for tall people to play basketball? Should smart people take a drug to m
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by te_platt 18y ago
My inlaws once raised a couple of turkeys. They did name them. Thanksgiving and Christmas. They tasted good.
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by te_platt 18y ago
As a parent I have found myself lying to my kids exactly as layed out in this essay. Mostly along the lines of protections. I just have a couple of specific dissagreements. Sex, Having a soon to be 14 year old daughter this section hit cl
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by te_platt 18y ago
No, I did the exact same thing.
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by te_platt 19y ago
My idea is to vote for the submitter, not the story. Each user sees a different front page based on how he/she has voted in the past. I see more stories from people who have submitted stories I liked in the past. I have a test site runni
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by te_platt 19y ago
Sure if I thought anyone was interested. I think anyone half way proficient in arc could redo what I did easier than trying to figure out what I did by reading the source.
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by te_platt 19y ago
Funny you should say that. A link to jaanix was one of the first stories submitted to voteTheUser. At first I thought jaanix was too complicated but I really should give it a good look.
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by te_platt 19y ago
I thought I would give a go at learning arc and was looking for a project to start on. There have been a lot of comments lately about the quality of the submitted stories and it sounded like an opportunity. I thought it would be interesti
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Vote up the submitter, not the story(votetheuser.com)
6 points by te_platt 19y ago|7 comments
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by te_platt 19y ago
I am very surprised at the discussion this essay has touched off. I thought it was almost obvious what pg was saying. I have been from start up to large company to starting my own start up to working for a large company again. I've lived
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by te_platt 19y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but isn't that why we have money?
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by te_platt 19y ago
Do you have an example of a company undercutting prices to kill competition and then later raising prices? Gmail is still free. I'd worry about a company establishing a monopoly by using government coercion. It seems to me a company that
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by te_platt 19y ago
It's nice to see some common sense find its way into our civil court system here in the U.S. I only wish awarding attorney's fees to the winner were mandatory.
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by te_platt 19y ago
At least now I have a visual idea of why I was so confused after watching the movie.
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by te_platt 19y ago
Not quite. As I understand Penrose he only claims quantum mechanics is a reasonable place to look for an explanation of consciousness. He doesn't propose that QM is the explanation. In other words, he believes consciousness is not comput
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by te_platt 19y ago
My impression was a bit different. It seems to me his thought process was: I deduce consciousness is not a computable process. Consciousness is a real physical process. Quantum Mechanics may include processes that are not computable.

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