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by tkahn6 16y ago
Instead we could live in a p2p wonderland, where each node would be responsible for it's own data. What does this mean? How would I, for instance, retrieve a Wikipedia page?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
FWIW Arabic is apparently ridiculously hard to become fluent in. This is according to one of my friends that speaks English, Hebrew, and Spanish and whose dad speaks Arabic (and English, and Hebrew, and French).
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by tkahn6 16y ago
That's why I said 'language' and not 'APL'.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Just because you understand a language does not mean you understand or recognize all algorithms that can be expressed in that language.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
This may be orthogonal to your point, but Clojure is not a purely functional language and Scala is not as functional as Clojure. In regards to a VM, Haskell can compile to LLVM.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
From a quick Google search, the terminal velocity of a human being is roughly 120 mph. The speed of sound (at sea level) is 761 mph. How is this feat possible?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Hey I'm 18 too :) Don't you want to learn things like theory of computation, graph theory, or compiler design/implementation?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Am I understanding this correctly? The study gave each participant 10 credits and then said they could keep them or give them away and at the end, those credits would be converted into real money. Uh, why would anyone give away credits? It'
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I'm not very religious, but within Judaic law, teaching someone a skill which allows them to better their financial situation is considered the highest level of charity. It comes from Leviticus 25:35 וכי-ימוך אחיך, ומטה ידו עמך--והחזקת
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by tkahn6 16y ago
really change my families living conditions and quality of life Does this mean he was able to get a job with his Python skills?
551.
by tkahn6 16y ago
That's a relatively common thing to see on HN.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
All of the above is the most evil thing I have heard being said about the internet! Uh, why?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Even in the future, the raw materials in machinery won't magically get cheaper. True, and raw materials will probably get more expensive. Another thing to consider, however, is that newer industrial techniques might not even be employable
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by tkahn6 16y ago
This is obviously a very, very small data point but just the other night on the PBS Newshour they had a piece about the 99-weekers (people who have been out of a job for 99+ weeks) and the central interviewee of the story was formerly in ma
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I definitely agree that growing manufacturing is a short-to-medium term solution to unemployment. However, I think it's only a partial-solution going forward in that a) employers won't need to (and therefore won't) employ as many workers pe
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by tkahn6 16y ago
How would you have liked me to phrase it?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
This. I find it absolutely amazing this hasn't been talked about more. I have no idea what the majority of the population is going to do in the near-future. These jobs are not coming back. I posit that a large percentage of the currently
558.
by tkahn6 16y ago
I sure would get a little uncomfortable if my $x told me he skipped college and learned everything from tutorials before $y $x = "software developer" $y = "we made him head of this huge project without even evaluating his skills" I don't
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by tkahn6 16y ago
It would be nice if there was more substance to the article. It would be fascinating to know the reasons Gates has formed this opinion - the specific trends he's seeing and some actionable road-map to make this happen.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
"[At Google,] young 20-year-olds don't necessarily see a place for tremendously talented, experienced 50- and 60-year-olds." - Reid's Lawyer Definitely. Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are neither talented nor experienced.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
You win
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I don't think I implied that anywhere.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
What does it mean to "drop down to C when needed" (under Mobile Engineer)? If you're on iPhone aren't you always in [Objective] C? Are they talking about the NDK for Android? Embedded devices?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
SAT scores and IQ may be correlated, but the fact you can study for the SAT means that it's a weak indicator of 'natural' intelligence. My friend scored 70 points higher than me on the math section and yet he was totally lost in calculus II
565.
by tkahn6 16y ago
You can't study for an IQ test.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
had we known how easy it really was to game the system, we might have started playing the game earlier and earned more points. I think you completely missed the point the girl was trying to make.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
It must have been very painful for her to continue on her path to being valedictorian after she came to this conclusion.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Ah duh. That makes sense. Would it also make sense to use Maybe monad for converting a [Char] to an Integer? stringToInt :: [Char] -> Maybe Integer
569.
by tkahn6 16y ago
I appreciate that. I am actually familiar with Haskell and the Maybe monad. Are there use cases for Maybe where you're not interacting with some sort of IO?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Can you give an example of where monads are not used to interact with stateful things? That would be helpful to me.

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