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by unoti 14y ago
My progression was similar, and my thoughts similar, except for this one divergence: Right around the same time that Unity the window manager came out, I needed to start working with Unity 3d the game development platform, which is only ava
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If this interested you, consider checking out the book A New Kind of Science by Wolfram. It describes tag systems, and a hundred other things that are similarly cool and fun to play with.
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I'm not sure why there's so much vitriol about Kurzweil. Maybe it's disappointment that we don't have our brain uploads ready yet, just like we were pissed about no flying cars twenty years ago. He doesn't have to be right all the time to
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by unoti 14y ago
Holy cow! I'm blown away on so many levels. This is an amazing thing.
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When you're any public figure, especially the head of the CIA, it's wise to follow Seneca's advice: live in a such a way that you could tell your enemies anything you could tell your friends.
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by unoti 14y ago
Something I posted on this thread which is related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4712392 Incidentally, feeling like it's too hard for you and that you're not smart enough just goes with the territory. Also try to ignore the temptat
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Try not to worry about it. Because seriously, no matter how good you are, there will always be room to doubt yourself. Software development is full of people who will always be available close at hand to make you feel like you're not good
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People who have illicit affairs are susceptible to blackmail. It's a common way for people in important positions or with access to secure information to be compromised to enemy operatives. Similarly, having a good credit rating is import
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by unoti 14y ago
My son works at Tesla. He got the job as his first real job after doing a tour in Iraq with the U.S. military. Tesla taught him how to operate a laser cutter, and a bunch of other heavy machinery. He just left for work a few minutes ago,
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A while back I moved, and my Mom asked me if I felt at home yet. I told her, "I felt at home the moment I plugged in the first ethernet cable."
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Fantastic and inspiring. You should really consider getting this book: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d... It's super fun to figure everything out for yourself, but I guarantee you that if you read this book,
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by unoti 14y ago
Yes, and no. The problems of what movies I might like or what music I like are also entirely human, but Netflix and Pandora have been doing a way better job of figuring that out than Yelp has. And what motivation does Yelp have to do bett
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I am so glad for this. Yelp ratings have been horribly un-useful to me. Their questionable business practices aside, it's really hard for me to figure out good places to eat when I'm in an unfamiliar city. And Yelp's ratings are to me us
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by unoti 14y ago
That's a great point. And perhaps working for cool people is better. Maybe the doors it closes are doors best left closed.
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This is, sadly, false. It may be true that anyone cool would ignore such things, but there are plenty of companies and recruiters out there that will consider this kind of thing a red flag and downvote people during the recruiting process.
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by unoti 14y ago
I'm pretty sure libel and slander are really hard to actually get judgements on. The information can't be true, and the victim has to be able to demonstrate damages. There may be other technical factors as well, such as whether the victim
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by unoti 14y ago
I for one appreciated the info. But you're right: shawnee should definitely consider trying to hide the hate, because even well-justified and 100% righteous anger can prevent you from landing the perfect job you want. Pretend you're a zen
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> As a species, humans agree to basic rules of conduct that form an implied Social Contract. Can any non-human species do that? A great question, and the answer is yes. Here's a clear example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAFQ5kUHPk
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Don't elephants have the same kind of self awareness? There are certainly plenty of stories of elephants helping each other...
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A static site on s3 or similar is essentially infinitely scalable: you never have to worry about whether it can stand up to some publicity and its performance will always be snappy no matter what. It's cheap. It's controlled in source contr
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by unoti 14y ago
There's a very good reason for returning a result as (error_code, resulting_data) instead of just returning a single value of resulting_data and then having the caller check to see if resulting_data is an error. The problem is that if you c
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by unoti 14y ago
If you haven't read it, consider reading The War of Art http://www.amazon.com/The-War-Art-Through-Creative/dp/044669... What you describe is precisely what this book is all about.
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Turns out, my iPad was truncating the whole thing at line 24. Sorry, nevermind!
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At the end after line 24 do we need another line of code that reads data into the newly created byte array? If so, that says a lot about the readability of the code since I'm not a Go developer...
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Underneath it all is transistors, and there are languages that add abstraction on top of that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog The tension between simplicity, abstraction, and just throwing it all away is fascinating and ever present
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My dance instructor says that learning to dance goes in three phases that spell MAP: Memorize, Automate, Personalize. First you just memorize the steps and walk through them. Then you get to where you can do the steps without thinking abou
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by unoti 14y ago
Cool idea, except 20-50% more of 99 cents is still squarely in the race-to-the-bottom category, in my book.
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Leaving the flamewar world and focusing more on the work seems like a real healthy thing to me.
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> Many people tried to create alternatives, and failed miserably. It works. Don't fuck with it. Although you made some insightful points here, I swear I'm not kidding when I tell you that I've had people tell me almost the exact same th
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At least this letter gives some insight into why there's a highly paid security team.

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