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by tsally 16y ago
A lot of smart people go into finance and make a lot of money, so I think there's a general curiosity about their methods and techniques. Unfortunately the better you understand it the more cynical you'll get. :-p
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by tsally 16y ago
Makes me miss Lisp machines :-/
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by tsally 16y ago
Hello from inside America; you don't really want AT&T.
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by tsally 16y ago
Or instead of independently reinventing the wheel while living in communal apartments we could just choose to learn from people smarter than us who have already invented the wheel. I'd rather spend an hour of my time learning reductions fro
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by tsally 16y ago
I only reject small schools when it comes to technical disciplines like CS. Size and funding make all the difference when it comes to the courses offered and undergraduate research opportunities. I actually prefer small, liberal arts school
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by tsally 16y ago
You might be interested in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=901782 . My response in that thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=901808 . A couple additional notes. If you're interested in creating things, a small CS p
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by tsally 16y ago
That's not an accurate description of the research that has been done in the field. There's certainly not "more evidence for the biological side". Mathematical performance on standardized testing is quite similar ( http://www.sciencemag.org
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by tsally 16y ago
Replace "med school" with your scientific field of choice. The general principle doesn't depend on the specific example. I only used it because the article's author did. And as far as your question goes "is it really that simple?" In the co
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by tsally 16y ago
Agreed. Were you under the impression I was arguing as such? I'm simply saying "men think and women feel" is a debate we were having a long time ago before the biological arguments for the lack of women in science were refuted. Now that the
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by tsally 16y ago
This piece reads like a women's rights article from 10 or 15 years ago. We've moved on from this basic debate between thinking and feeling. To be honest I'm pleased that most discourse today is at a higher level. I appreciate the author's p
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by tsally 16y ago
IMO being a part of a community for less than a year isn't a long enough snapshot to accurately judge trends in that community. The site guidelines recognizes this too: "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments
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by tsally 16y ago
2600 has been sold in B&N for a long time, so I'm hopefully that eventually this could find its way into B&N as well.
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by tsally 16y ago
The problem is that the majority of CS is taught as a pure subject with a smattering of applied theory. Curriculum wise UIUC actually does an excellent job of addressing this issue. I imagine other schools are similar. We basically have
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by tsally 16y ago
Computer Science in the US is very similar. Just replace the advanced low-level courses with algorithms and data structures (we still do computer architecture and assembly).
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by tsally 16y ago
PG doesn't actually like Common Lisp, which is what #lisp is dedicated to.
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by tsally 16y ago
Fair enough, but there's nothing overtly weaponizable about communication technology. Reliable and secure communication technology is what enables the military to function. Without it, all the weapons technology in the world wont do you a
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by tsally 16y ago
Actually, I might just be tired. :-p I don't see anything wrong with axod's code. Just emailed you a fairly verbose C version. I hate writing production code...
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by tsally 16y ago
The result of the program should always be a valid string. ;) Tried to be as ambiguous as I could, not really sure of another way to say it.
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by tsally 16y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I'm really interested in the type of work that you did and your negotiating process. Was it software development? What type of companies did you work with?
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by tsally 16y ago
This article missed half the point and doesn't quite capture what was said in the TED talk. Earning above $60,000 a year doesn't affect the happiness of the experiencing self . But as Kahneman goes on to say, it certainly affects the happi
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by tsally 16y ago
If only coming up with a great political idea was as easy as writing a high quality encyclopedia article. Quantitatively there are several orders of magnitude more article authors than great political thinkers. If we place all activities o
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by tsally 16y ago
"You have maximum freedom of speech for political purposes. But if you have malice towards a person for political reasons, and are saying things you know to be inaccurate in order to hurt them, and you have hurt them in some way (perhaps in
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by tsally 16y ago
In order to be qualified to make these sorts of comments, you either need to either (A) submit high quality links or (B) create something front-page worthy. Your last submission (out of a total of 3) was 59 days ago. And I don't see any li
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by tsally 16y ago
Blizzard are successful because they created the first main-stream, polished MMO. Blizzard was already incredibly successful before World of Warcraft. The foundation of World of Warcraft is the brand Blizzard started to build in 1996.
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by tsally 16y ago
Well reasoned for the most part, but Lisp has occupied the high ground for development tools for a long time (REPL, SLIME, trace/untrace, step, describe/inspect, room, macroexpand). Other languages have been playing catch up in this regard
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by tsally 16y ago
I've been in the beta for a while now and I can confirm this is the case. I actually laughed when I read your post, because I definitely play 2s to relax after an intense 1s session.
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by tsally 16y ago
Ok, (1) Problems with the prison system and (2) underfunded child services compared to: (1) ending slavery, (2) desegregation, (3) women's suffrage, (4) free speech for extreme minorities, (5) freedom of religion for extreme minorities, (6)
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by tsally 16y ago
I was using murder in a colloquial sense, not a legal one. I'm pretty sure in England the legal term for what was done to Turing is constructive manslaughter ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter_in_English_law#Unl... ). But IANAL.
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by tsally 16y ago
The argument I mentioned is concerned with psychological development not biological. I don't see how what your saying relates to the argument in any sense. Based on the argument, it would make sense to deny the adoption in your scenario. To
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by tsally 16y ago
Here's the logic of a non-homophobic argument I have heard of. The majority of research on parenting and raising children has been done with heterosexual parents as a base assumption. Someone who is extremely supportive of gay rights who is

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