vsingh

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by vsingh 16y ago
No, I do not believe in a strict order imposed by the hierarchy. My view, which I've come to through studying both Maslow's Hierarchy and Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration, is that you're able to operate at the highest level you
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by vsingh 16y ago
The "Chinese mother" approach to raising children is based around motivations at the second-highest level of Maslow's hierarchy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maslow%27s_Hierarchy_of_Ne... While this aggressive approach to parenting c
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by vsingh 16y ago
>Some sort of ethnic autonomy that says Indian rule of India is better regardless of the lot of the common man? I'm surprised you find this hard to understand. People throughout history have fought and died for self-rule. Hell, anyone w
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by vsingh 16y ago
It's not that interesting, but my sleep habits have been pretty poor in 2010. My resolution for 2011 is to be in bed by 1AM every single day, and to be up at 8AM on every non-weekend day.
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by vsingh 16y ago
Ah, that makes things clearer - thanks. > What I'd like to know is how you can guarantee that all garbage is eventually collected in a system like this. Me too. If you can't guarantee that, it seems that when you unmap a page of virtual
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by vsingh 16y ago
Could anyone explain the "self-healing" algorithm in simplistic terms? From what I gathered, when they compact a page of memory, moving all the objects within it to different locations, they will set a marker on all pointers to be "unset".
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by vsingh 16y ago
He gave a TED talk recently which covers these ideas: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_com...
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by vsingh 16y ago
That's really neat. Bravo! I've hit a roadblock in my attempt to install the proper Clojure SLIME environment in Emacs. I've got clojure-mode, SLIME, swank-clojure, and leiningen installed, and I get as far as the slime-repl showing up pr
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by vsingh 16y ago
"Today, he was deep in his own personal maelstrom of defensiveness and hostility. His head was frequently down; in fact his whole posture betrayed his unhappiness. He frequently hid his hands behind his back — a classic defensive posture —
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by vsingh 16y ago
Is Arc a success on the same scale as Viaweb or Y Combinator? In the academic sense ("was it a design that influenced others?") I think the answer is yes. pg's essays about Arc and the language itself got a lot of people thinking about how
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by vsingh 16y ago
"If we believe something about the world, we are more likely to passively accept as truth any information that confirms our beliefs, and actively dismiss information that doesn’t." This is important. Darwin, on his journeys, was very strict
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by vsingh 16y ago
This appears to be the book, on Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/7846856/Generatingfunctionology-H-...
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by vsingh 16y ago
I'm trying to understand the lesson behind this result. I don't think it's the obvious, well-understood fact that biological systems have massive, redundant parallelism, whereas our software systems do not. I believe it in fact says somethi
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by vsingh 16y ago
>The whole system is built so that everything mostly works, most of the time, usually recovers, and it doesn't matter much whether this cell dies or that mitochondria malfunctions. What makes you think we can't design reliable software
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by vsingh 17y ago
Here's another way to look at it: not only do they get their employees to spend 20% of their time working on their own cool stuff for Google, they have ex-employees spending 100% of their time working on their own cool stuff for Google. :)
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by vsingh 17y ago
"If" is one of my favorite inspiring poems. Here's a great video version of it: http://www.vimeo.com/1305608
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by vsingh 17y ago
I like studying all sorts of different things, even if it's not deemed the best route to success these days. I don't usually do what I'm supposed to do, anyway.
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by vsingh 17y ago
And here is the code for it: http://github.com/richhickey/clojure/blob/270185aba54cef1d8c...
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by vsingh 17y ago
Nice. It's not nearly as awesome, but here's my Sudoku solver in Clojure: http://github.com/vishsingh/lisp-toronto/blob/80ea008e80976d...
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by vsingh 17y ago
Agreed.. Anyone running a startup should have this article on their desk at all times.
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by vsingh 17y ago
An engine that scans forum posts for factors like "emoticon content", builds a network of who replies to whom, and uses that information to establish a hierarchy of social status among the participants.
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Come on out: Toronto Lisp meet-up this Tuesday May 5th, 6PM at the Linux Caffe(common-lisp.net)
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Come on out: Toronto Lisp meet-up this Tuesday, 6PM at the Linux Caffe(common-lisp.net)
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by vsingh 18y ago
The Toronto Lisp users' group will meet there at 6PM today. Come on out! I'm giving a little demo of the language Factor - it should be fun.
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by vsingh 18y ago
No kidding! Take a look at this code I wrote for adding a node onto a binary tree: http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=addtobinarytreescre... It is shown compared to the analogous code in C++ and Lisp. My Factor version could probabl
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by vsingh 18y ago
I've been toying with Factor for about a week. It's been an enjoyable experience, as both the language itself and the included development environment are extremely well designed. Having never played with Forth-like languages before, I'm fi
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by vsingh 18y ago
If you have a Radeon 9700, you can watch this rendered in real-time: http://ati.amd.com/developer/demos/r9700.html
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by vsingh 18y ago
This Lubos Motl guy seems to be a sort of Erik Naggum of physics. Yikes.
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by vsingh 18y ago
I realized that Google didn't really get design when they added dropdown menus to Google Docs. Even Microsoft has moved past that. One of the things that impresses me about 280 Slides is the amount of functionality they've been able to pack
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by vsingh 18y ago
I think you're committing a sort of broken-window fallacy. You're seeing what is there, and thinking it's alright. I'm seeing what's not there, and thinking it could be so much better.

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