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by wcarss 14y ago
Ah, the distinction of smallness and privacy outside of the group didn't originally catch my eye. Thanks for clearing it up. :)
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by wcarss 14y ago
I don't mean to suggest that many-to-many communication online is a solved problem, but I want to note that the description you offered of small-group many-to-many communication offline, "you sit down at a table with a small group of friend
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by wcarss 14y ago
Mentally rewriting the beginning of your last paragraph to "Sometimes Java or C++ is the right language to use, but most..." made it make considerably more sense to me. As it stands, I think the double-aren't is colloquial or a mistake; I h
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by wcarss 14y ago
They don't necessarily have to, and even if they did, it may not be obvious. Consider a financial company working to improve prediction algorithms for their in-house use, hiring smartypants PhDs and giving them free reign and great pay. The
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by wcarss 14y ago
Just for information's sake, the font that this blog post is written in appears jagged in Chrome 23 on my Windows 7 machine, with ClearType configured.
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by wcarss 14y ago
My idea is to run "sponsored book clubs". You sell a popular or interesting book at a slight discount for the duration of the book club run. (Maybe a discount just for members who paid an up-front fee?) You do a weekly discussion group, one
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by wcarss 14y ago
I've been working with a group of volunteers from Freshbooks to teach to middle-school kids at the Yonge Street Mission here in Toronto. We're into our second class now - we've made some real life games to introduce concepts and have moved
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by wcarss 14y ago
Everything in this subthread is a demonstration of the fall in quality of discourse on Hacker News. Because Cushman pointed out that a compass tends to have two points, he has received several downvotes. He's got, surprisingly, more than on
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by wcarss 14y ago
To be disprovable is to be "falsifiable". To disprove, then, is to "falsify".
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by wcarss 14y ago
I do not believe that that is what Moore's Law means or how it works. Perhaps I just mistook your meaning - what do 'subjective months' mean? Why do they mean that the doubling time starts halving?
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by wcarss 14y ago
You've upset my entire worldview by using the phrase "as apposed to". I started off planning to say that 'apposed' is not a word, and that you've made some sort of grievous error. I opened up multiple tabs, firing off google searches lookin
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by wcarss 14y ago
I made the post informationally -- it seemed worth it for anyone who runs into a problem and is looking for validation from the community that "it isn't just them". I was using wikipedia at the time and went to IRC to find out what's up, bu
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by wcarss 14y ago
From #wikipedia-overflow on irc.freenode.net: 09:29EST <@RD> Wikipedia is currently down - network issues (that is all that we know at the moment) - http://status.wikimedia.org
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Wikipedia is down(status.wikimedia.org)
19 points by wcarss 14y ago|8 comments
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by wcarss 14y ago
This is directed at the parent and grandparent. Could it be a grouse? Your descriptions of a 'diesel engine starting' are different than the description in the wiki article of a diesel engine running. A running diesel engine would make a dr
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by wcarss 14y ago
I am not a mathematician and I do not do long division on any regular basis. I certainly haven't written it out in over a year. But occasionally I have to think about whether a number like 365 is divisible by a number like 7, and I don't ha
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by wcarss 14y ago
Not to say that anyone should have to do this, but I did the following: http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&q=Structural+Regu... Which yields the paper as the first result, showing its publishing year of 1987.
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by wcarss 14y ago
This is insanely cool.
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by wcarss 14y ago
Thank you for pointing this out! I tend to read comments before the article to get a feel for the cultural context and perceived value of an article (it filters a lot of linkbait), and then I jumped the gun here. I've added a note to my or
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by wcarss 14y ago
I voted in favour of your response, because the sort of snark that you presented resonates with me, however, two things: 1. This kind of response (along with the kind that I am giving now) is often just as much a problem as the initial non-
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by wcarss 14y ago
I believe that the word orthologonal should read orthogonal . I don't mean to downplay your points; I agree wholeheartedly with your post, but I actually did a double take and thought I might have been spelling the word incorrectly for s
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by wcarss 14y ago
It sounds to me as though your logic double-flipped at the end of your message... I'm going to try to break it down into propositions: Proposition A: Developers who write windows apps love Visual Studio. Proposition B
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by wcarss 14y ago
I don't generally disagree with what you said, and I'm largely just taking an opportunity to go on a rant. I have to ask -- is the stock market system really "the least worst option we have"? From an interpretation of "have" being "that is
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by wcarss 14y ago
This is great. One request: make video times visible from the listing page.
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Analyzing the response to "Please don't learn to code"(wcarss.ca)
3 points by wcarss 14y ago|0 comments
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by wcarss 15y ago
If you were to take a poll of earthlings asking them whether they've heard of Google and whether they've heard of Wolfram Alpha, Google would resoundingly win. People would also, by and large, be familiar with their search if anything. If y
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by wcarss 15y ago
I didn't see anyone mention this specific fear, but a lot of people talked about this in the context of competition with Wolfram Alpha. What I fear is that google (on purpose or not) will outshine Wolfram's offering, push W|A out of the gam
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by wcarss 15y ago
Having worked in open concept and closed office spaces, I've found pros and cons of each. It's a lot easier to collaborate with your team if it's as easy as saying "let's talk a sec" on IM and then turning around. It's also on average loude
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by wcarss 15y ago
(In agreement) It is tough to imagine the mental investment of another if-statement or more setup/teardown exceeding what's required to notice, understand, and debug one of these structures. You get slightly prettier code at a tremendous po
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by wcarss 15y ago
It was $1,000,000 to Excite, not Alta Vista. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excite

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