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by tokipin 19y ago
i can see this becoming very popular, particularly for students in school/college who could very quickly populate it with their circle of friends one thing: what will happen with people who have the same names?
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by tokipin 19y ago
one thing i hear a lot is the "brain drain" of smart people from India moving to the US (GB too? not sure.) if opportunities within India present themselves then maybe they will begin staying and start their own companies
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by tokipin 19y ago
yep. when i used mice i only used a particular microsoft model if you do decide to try the unshifted symbol layout, be careful with desires to modify it. for example, in standard layouts the ( and ) keys are together, so when typing a fun
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by tokipin 19y ago
when i used two monitors (my expensive graphics card died T_T) i kept absolute positioning, which is one of the things i like about tablets. you don't need to know where the cursor is, you just move the pen where you want the cursor to be
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by tokipin 19y ago
Dvorak : been using it for a few years. i switched to it cold turkey. one thing that can screw you up is touching qwerty after switching, something you don't really need to do. dvorak is implemented as a language and comes standard in
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by tokipin 19y ago
looks like they learned how to use feedback loops
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by tokipin 19y ago
he wasn't really insanely intelligent. what set him apart was his creativity and persistence. famous are his thought experiments and the ten-year gap between his special and general relativities there are many people who are very intellig
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by tokipin 19y ago
what's interesting is that the most charismatic personality type in Jungian theories (ENFJ in MBTI/Kiersey) has never been found in a president, nor has any other 'idealist' http://www.keirsey.com/idealist_presidents.aspx but it's clearly
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by tokipin 19y ago
he talks about the length of his blogs here: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogging-theory-201-... quite funny
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by tokipin 19y ago
recently i found a very good collection of lectures: http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=nptelhrd a couple are math-specific, but they keep adding videos so there may be more later on
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by tokipin 19y ago
rofl. nice pictures lol
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by tokipin 19y ago
does eHarmony still refuse to match a huge chunk of people? i've heard about 20% or so are unmatched or something like that. which interestingly almost coincides with the commonness of a certain range of personality types in the Jungian t
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by tokipin 19y ago
oh dear. this brings back painful memories. a couple years ago i drove from cali to illinois. starting out it was all nice and beautiful in cali. all this lush green and drizzling rain. then i crossed the mountains into nevada. well e
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by tokipin 19y ago
i place my bets on existential depression from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_giftedness#Depress... "A number of people have noted a higher incidence of existential depression [in the gifted], which is depression due to highly
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by tokipin 19y ago
i can't imagine not programming in Vim. it's so natural. using a normal text editor (including professional IDE's) feels like trudging through quagmire by comparison a mistake learners of Vi make is being in insert mode most of the time.
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by tokipin 19y ago
this year a particular language surprised me: Lua. i'm not a polymath of programming languages, but in my experience Lua is the most powerful non-lisp language (in terms of abstractive power). it's scripted, functional, dynamically typed
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by tokipin 19y ago
for those that haven't seen this one yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg
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by tokipin 19y ago
lol. i like the "lazyness"
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by tokipin 19y ago
i think if the screen was writonable they'd have something
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by tokipin 19y ago
not to be technical, but i believe "non" means "absense of," not "inverse of." so for a given statement there's a lot of non-corroborating evidence that is irrelevant
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by tokipin 19y ago
this is why i like google video. it doesn't have a limit on what you can upload and it's a good place to find lectures
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by tokipin 19y ago
they're talking about passion
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by tokipin 19y ago
long ago when i started programming i used OCR. it's a terrible font, designed to be easy for machines to read, "Optical Character Recognition." but at the time i didn't know that, and didn't care. i was young and wild a few months ago i
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by tokipin 19y ago
i think that's the problem: having idea people working on details. by definition they're not good at them -- it's like forcing a shape into the wrong hole. their powers are best used in creative positions but those sorts of positions aren
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by tokipin 19y ago
mathematics comes to mind as an area with many obscure specialties. i think the problem is that its abstractedness makes it very easy to place stakes in horrible places. unfortunately there's no sign of whether or not even the most obscur
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by tokipin 19y ago
the problem is that the layers aren't very connected or related. in particular the higher-level languages essentially stand on their own by their altitude, and the lower-level languages likewise by their ties to machinery
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by tokipin 19y ago
i once let a friend use my TI-89 for a couple of minutes. he wanted to program a game for it. when i checked to see what he had written so far, it said "there is a ball" although hilarious, it's an ideal that shouldn't be laughed at
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by tokipin 19y ago
hopefully religious folks would loosen up a bit
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by tokipin 19y ago
i'm saying there won't be any transition caused by us i do like the benefits of seeking efficiency. the sorts of technology that will arise when efficiency is economically supported (for example, by artificial markets a la kyoto or californ
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by tokipin 19y ago
yea, that's in the nuclear case. in the relevant case of human CO2 emissions, nothing is likely to happen. earth is an immensely stable self-repairing system

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