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by vegabook 11y ago
What is ridiculous about it? I have been coding for 30 years and am happy to pronounce that younger coders have a far more nimble mind than me. I'll destroy them on complex software engineering but I'm constantly impressed by thei
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by vegabook 11y ago
fair enough, though I think the idea that 15-year-olds are somehow to be dismissed as greenhorns is incorrect. We surely have a disproportionate distribution skewed towards the young among the hackerati, even if we take into account the fac
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by vegabook 11y ago
Not sure that 15-year-old kids are any less competent at hacking than adults. What they may lack in experience, they compensate for with a fresh, original mind, and nothing-to-lose. We've seen this picture many times before. I'd s
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by vegabook 11y ago
Me too dude. I actually <ctrl>-F'd it and was surprised I was the first. Then again it's 4pm in NY, let alone SF. The night is young...(if the HN algo doesn't tank the story, that is).
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by vegabook 11y ago
In old-economy-speak what you just said basically translates as "you entered a crowded market". When you're standing on an unknown, rainy street corner far away from home, a taxi's services are urgently required, and not
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by vegabook 11y ago
So.... if solar can power the world, as seems increasingly within the realm of not-being-crazy, does that mean that since we're using energy that is already under the ozone layer, that we'll also solve global warming? This is just
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by vegabook 11y ago
have to say - am not sure about it either! I'm simply intrigued by the question, namely, why do we still use linear tools for multidimensional problems? I think you have posited an excellent answer in that it's basically intrinsic
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by vegabook 11y ago
I don't think there is any creative endeavour in life that does not contain very large proportions of mundane work. What gets you through the mundanity is the creative spirit - the idea that the final product will be amazing / dif
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by vegabook 11y ago
+1 on the idea that you may never use something but you will at least have heard about it, know it exists and know where to look, in the future if/when you suspect you might need it. Wasn't a huge fan of applied maths during my
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by vegabook 11y ago
While I agree with you on visual programming, I think another issue raises itself: we are used to linear text editors - write one line after another - because they fit the way the computer works. Even breaking code down hierarchically as we
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by vegabook 11y ago
a) overloaded site b) very nice, but is this "Hacker" News? More like Discovery Channel. How is this interesting from a tech point of view? High FPS cameras. Got it. Got it long ago.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Impossible task because the subject in my domain (finance) changes so soften. Is it New Gingrich shutting down the government today? Is it Bank of America losing its shirt in Detroit? Or is it Greece failing to pay its debt? Or is is it Gle
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by vegabook 11y ago
I cannot endorse this idea enough. Paul Tudor (I don't know why anybody calls him Mr Jones. Anybody who has ever dealt with his firm calls him Paul Tudor) knows what everybody else in finance knows: you're dealing with people who
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by vegabook 11y ago
Can we realistically expect a competent, officially supported REPL for Nim over time? I would be immediately sold if this otherwise very promising looking language could remove this obstacle.
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by vegabook 11y ago
The inevitability assumption. Not borne out by history. There are very long periods of regression if you look at the century-level scale, and it is not unreasonable to contemplate the potential that we might be getting towards "peak te
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by vegabook 11y ago
Very true if, and only if, "a portion of the surplus value generated by these awful machines can be captured and paid to the people they displace". But a very small group of financiers/entrepreneurs/VCs own all the machi
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by vegabook 11y ago
That sorting fruit is "hard labour" is actually coincidental. The real skill is pattern recognition and dextrosity. Skills widely deployed by humans today. We're now on the cusp of destroying this, another whole class of huma
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by vegabook 11y ago
Capital trumps labour, yet again. Talk about a brave new (terrible) world. How is anybody without amazing talent, IQ, and luck in the birth-location lottery, supposed to survive? How are these awful machines helping to advance the wellbei
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by vegabook 11y ago
This company seems to be lurching from one PR disaster to another. I have never seriously developed a twitter API-based application because as long ago as 2012 the restrictions were already on the uptrend, and the writing was on the wall fo
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by vegabook 11y ago
Nice. Tier 1. Supercalafragilistic. Yet when I think about this amazingly cool device , as a developer, I feel no inspiration. I don't see what I'm going to develop for this thing that will be different from what I'll be deve
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by vegabook 11y ago
Awesome, especially in black I think. But WebGL still has an aliasing problem, made worse when we introduce movement. It was the same in the watch movement sim on HN a few days ago. Not to take away from the amazing work of the authors, but
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by vegabook 11y ago
It looks like development has slowed down dramatically. In my view, a project which has a large community behind it is far preferable to something which is theoretically superior but new and small, because in the long run, long-lived projec
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by vegabook 11y ago
The assumption of benevolence is convenient for everyone, consumers and capital alike.
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by vegabook 11y ago
"We" = the vast majority of people whose short term consumption addiction is being financed by China, which conversely is investing in our long term economic serfdom.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Yes it's true that clients should have a right to inspect code for potential malevolence, especially when geopolitics are at play. However the article is peppered with qualifications: “As everybody knows, there’s a tacit understand
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by vegabook 11y ago
China requires all industries, including aerospace, cars, energy, FMCG, and IT, to cough up IP for free in return for access to its markets. Yet we provide access to our huge markets, gratis. Even if Western access to Chinese markets is ine
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by vegabook 11y ago
It starts out simple. Then gets copied. Competition brings feature wars. Features become bloat. Simplicity becomes attractive again.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Yes Dask looks good! It's definitely featuring in my "must consider" list, but I must also, for reasons of responsible planning, give a lot of weight to the JVM technologies, with all their corporate backing etc.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Good point, but personally I am thinking about the future of clustered data analysis, and this seems to be a JVM world and Scala seems to be the language of choice. Flink / Storm / Spark etc.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Well, I use both, and I can do everything in Python that I can do in R. However here are some things which will give you a flavour of R's more consistent, data-first nature: > rollapply(some1000x10matrix, 200, function(x) eigen(

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