veddox

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by veddox 10y ago
Thanks for the link, unfortunately, I was unable to find the section you mention...
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by veddox 10y ago
Yes, I have sometimes thought too that some of my longer comments on HN could be expanded into a blog entry quite easily. Unfortunately, I don't have a blog to publish it on and I don't consider it worth the hassle getting one.
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by veddox 10y ago
Absolutely! If you do it, I might just subscribe :-)
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by veddox 10y ago
> It's a single sentence and you read things into it I was not quite thinking of. Quite possible. However, if you insist on bringing up a Nazi comparison in a three sentence comment, it can be hard not to be misunderstood...
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by veddox 10y ago
Ah, OK, now I get you ;-) An interesting hypothesis, I honestly don't know whether that would work. The biggest problem then is that there is a large percentage of HNers who see downvoting as a legitimate way of showing disagreement. O
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by veddox 10y ago
> Anti-white racism. It's identical to the antisemitism of the far right in the 30s and 40s, except it is with whites. Wow, I officially have a new "worst-comment-seen-on-HN". Sir, have you ever experienced anything clos
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by veddox 10y ago
> A way to reduce disruptive comments might be to make one downvote cost one karma point. That is such a good idea it has actually been integral to HN for, oh, I don't know, a pretty long time... From the FAQ ( https://new
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by veddox 10y ago
I like that idea! The only problem I see is that great comments are often embedded within an extensive discussion - how do you give readers of such a digest the necessary context without too much bloat?
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by veddox 10y ago
Care to share a link for the benefit of the OP?
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by veddox 10y ago
OK, that is an understandable motivation. However, I still think that a programming language isn't something you can learn from an audiobook. Like fourierhero6 said, you'd probably be better off with a book about programming itsel
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by veddox 10y ago
Like the other commenters before me, I am highly sceptical whether this is a good idea. How are you going to learn a programming language without being able to see its constructs? Just imagine somebody trying to read a C++ Hello World out l
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by veddox 10y ago
Usually. And like you say, I often find that what I was going to say has been said (at least once) before; or I realize that the comment that first sprung to my mind isn't really necessary at all. Either way, I save myself some typing
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by veddox 10y ago
About your first point: Evaluating how effective a charity is can be incredibly tricky, especially when they operate in a culture that's foreign to you. To be able to judge well, you would need to see them in action as well as have a t
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by veddox 10y ago
Do you know anybody involved in charity work? I personally only give to charities that I have personal connections to. (Although I have plenty of those connections, so there's no shortage to choose from ;-) )
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by veddox 10y ago
Kaspersky has served my family very well. It's not free, but it's effective (usually one of the top three in all the rankings I've seen) and it stays out of the way. Good UI, too.
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by veddox 10y ago
> At the cost of the health of the researchers. Absolutely. We burn through our scientists (and those who want to become ones) at an incredible rate.
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by veddox 10y ago
One of my professors recently reached the legal retirement age, but applied for a senior professorship so he could keep doing research - or, as he put it, so that he "would be allowed to keep working". I found it very encouraging
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by veddox 10y ago
And your surrounding culture. In some places, you'd be out the door before the word had fully left your mouth. In others, nobody would blink...
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by veddox 10y ago
Wow, that's the first time I've seen 500+ comments on an HN thread about cycling! As to the "Dutch" grip: when I did driving school in Germany some years back, my teacher took great pains to impress on me to always look
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by veddox 10y ago
> I think a very small percentage of people are future obsessed about the AI revolution. In the HN echo chamber it might be more but the majority of people don't give it a second thought outside of, "NO SIRI! I SAID WHERE IS...
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by veddox 10y ago
> Our most important breakthroughs happened at a time of little marketing hype. I think what he meant was that a marketing hype pushes more people to get to grips with a new technology, and thus speeds up its development. The actual tech
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by veddox 10y ago
I would rather know the past to understand the present than hypothesize the future.
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by veddox 10y ago
I think in general, as a society, we are. Although as other posters have pointed out, our "future" has shrunk from trying to predict the next 100 years to predicting the next 10.
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by veddox 10y ago
Yes, debug logs are my usual m.o. too. In general I follow the divide-and-conquer approach for localizing the source of a bug - it works well for > 95% of bugs. If you're using an interpreted language, a REPL is brilliant for debugg
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by veddox 10y ago
Learning programming without a computer is going to be really tough, but if he's dedicated enough, he should be able to make some good progress. (Although he shouldn't expect to be employable as soon as he gets out.) CS theory pro
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by veddox 10y ago
Yes. IIRC, the pope allowed him to write a book on his views but to include both sides of the debate. Galileo did so, but put the traditional view into the mouth of a character named "Fool"...
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by veddox 10y ago
Just about every group of people does that (including programmers). Belonging to a group is one of the basic desires of every human, and one easy way to create a feeling of belonging to one group is to differentiate its members from everyon
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by veddox 10y ago
Sounds like life in '68?
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by veddox 10y ago
Quite interesting to see this being done with bees, but the statement "The study [...] shows how animals may be able to able to pass on skills in a way we previously thought was largely exclusive to humans" is very misleading. Obs
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by veddox 10y ago
Yeah, single page apps can be really annoying. Sure, they look great on a modern browser with good internet, but take away either of these two, and they're a pain in the neck. On the plus side: that does mean that I waste less time onl

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