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by wcarss 12y ago
Here is a link to the actual video of the talk: http://www.aei.org/events/2014/03/13/from-poverty-to-prosper... And the transcript: http://www.aei.org/files/2014/03/14&#x2F
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by wcarss 13y ago
I believe the parent is thinking of a hypothetical reality trending toward one where technology is capable of solving nearly any arbitrary problem at no material cost. Imagine, say, a world where clouds of von Neumann self-replicating build
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by wcarss 13y ago
I have two things. First, in the revised action table, 'effective influencing action' seems to be used as 'action along the causal path to the solution', which is a departure from the context in which it was introduced:
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by wcarss 13y ago
I just tried the CSS Buttons course on a lark, because I felt I'd be able to breeze through it. I may have hit "Reset Code" at some point, because around checkpoint 4 or 5, the CSS was wiped out and the HTML was back to squar
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by wcarss 13y ago
"Anyway, it's just a tiny program that executes either per-vertex or per-pixel." Thank you. I have never understood the concept of a <thing>-shader; I just knew they were useful and somehow caused neat effects. Even hav
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by wcarss 13y ago
It would be difficult to submit a patch to the Linux kernel, yes. Especially as an outsider with no history with the project. But people do submit them. Because that is how open source projects operate. As for apple: bugzilla.webkit.org and
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by wcarss 13y ago
As someone who works at a company about the same size as Sparkfun, that also allows dogs, I am surprised by two things: the number of dogs they have coming in and the vitriolic responses to it here. We have probably between one and two doze
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by wcarss 13y ago
Just a note: Quora tailors the digests on a per-user basis. I'm not certain what the algorithms involved are, but I'd be willing to bet that they use information about what you and your friends spend time reading about in construc
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by wcarss 13y ago
You've asked us to give you advice not based on the brand, and yet, all you've really given us for information is the brands. "The OS group" at Microsoft is thousands of people and probably hundreds of projects, ranging
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by wcarss 13y ago
This is a really cool map. The controls accessible by clicking "earth" let you select different projections and heights to show measurements from. It's been windy and snowy around the Great Lakes in Canada lately, and it look
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by wcarss 13y ago
I've always had the understanding that electing judges and police chiefs is an issue because they have more important things to worry about than elections. If they had to think about "whether this is an election year" and how
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by wcarss 13y ago
> worked harder than any other human alive at being funny. I don't think that's true, but I also don't think it matters, and the reason why is a very important point about the value of hard work: Hard work, misapplied, is
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by wcarss 13y ago
I got the feeling that it depended on your social status within the team. If you were seen to be a producer and got shit done, then sure whatever, take a nap -- just keep it up. And pretty much everyone I met was someone who got shit done,
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by wcarss 13y ago
how did you manage not to say FreeMail
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by wcarss 13y ago
Maybe I'm misreading it, but to me the far more heinous crime than using difficult code (setting aside that it's in the docs) is that the docstring is a total lie. """Parses an array of xyz points and returns
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by wcarss 13y ago
I have two major gripes with lxml that this library solves, but I agree that for serious projects, lxml is the correct choice. 1) you have to build libxml to use lxml 2) lxml has a large, powerful, complicated API For 1), A friend of mine h
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by wcarss 13y ago
As someone with a rift, I've experienced something really cool: Youtube videos in rift format. It's a way different experience than watching a 3D TV is, where you just get that fun little bit of pop. Just like when playing a rift
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by wcarss 13y ago
If you're willing, would you please explain the bankruptcy connection? That's kinda cool!
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by wcarss 13y ago
I don't understand why this was posted to hacker news, even after a translation was provided. Can someone explain?
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by wcarss 13y ago
Web crawlers and web page views index using GET; if GET affects your server state, so do page views and indexing. GET is idempotent. That's not outdated, and it's not arbitrary: it is literally stated in the protocol specification
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by wcarss 13y ago
This effort was a lot of fun to be involved in -- it's really cool in general that this group managed to coalesce in such a short period of time. Anyone reading this who wants to meet some interesting people, learn some things, and fee
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by wcarss 13y ago
This has been a fantastic thing to be a part of. So cool to see all of these people come together and just give, give, give. Sina and the rest of the group are amazing.
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by wcarss 13y ago
I think "acrimonious" was likely supposed to read "acronyms".
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Ask HN: Who doesn't want Canadians watching American TV?
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by wcarss 14y ago
Glad to see someone mention Jamis Buck's excellent series on these. This recap[1] gives a good overview of the ground covered, with nice interactive bits. 1 - http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/2/7/maze-generation-algorit...
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by wcarss 14y ago
If I've somehow represented that I think their organization would work universally, I didn't intend to. I do think it's important that Valve operate as they have (in being loud about their structure), to point the water out to us fish. It's
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by wcarss 14y ago
I agree with your point, and the parent's, that Valve's success is most directly caused by Steam runoff and their own sales dollars, and not necessarily their dynamic organization style. ...do many people think or claim that their success i
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by wcarss 14y ago
I recall reading that shorter columns of text help people to read faster and raise fact-retention, because it brings the entire body of a line into a single eyespan. Even without speed reading skills, you can typically read thinly columned
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by wcarss 14y ago
people interested in this may also be interested in wiz, a high-level 8-bit 6502 / Z80 assembly language and its compiler: https://github.com/Bananattack/wiz
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by wcarss 14y ago
The opening statement in the video is, "Hello, I'm Tim Morgan and I'm going to help you get started using Squash, the open source exception reporting tool that's better than what you're currently using. Plus, it's free." It looks like a too

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