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by wickawic 9y ago
> I suppose they want researchers to be motivated merely by the ability to contribute knowledge I might phrase it more as "They want researchers who are already motivated by the contribution of knowledge" I know that if I were
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by wickawic 9y ago
The point he is trying to get at is that in an OO language you take it for granted that all methods can call all other methods. However without such trickery as described in the article this is not true in the simple language with only func
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by wickawic 9y ago
> Which has nothing to do with recursion. Had you read the article you might have realized this term is overloaded.
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by wickawic 9y ago
Agreed, but I think the distinction is that the original book was talking about language design. Since languages are Turing complete we can always implement the features of one in another, but it stands that open recursion is not a feature
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by wickawic 9y ago
Fair point, sorry I read your comment uncharitably.
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by wickawic 9y ago
It doesn't have to be about immigration, that's silly. The US currently had supply and demand issues amongst it's growing and declining cities.
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by wickawic 9y ago
We'll talk when access to Bitcoin is considered a basic human right
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by wickawic 9y ago
The anonymity is overrated anyway. At some point you want to turn your currency into tangible benefit like food or a car or drugs or whatever. At that point it isn't hard to connect the anonymous wallet with the guy who bought the new
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by wickawic 9y ago
> people like you People with common sense? Governments (the institutions that get to use guns and jails and make laws) will not let their control of currency slide out from under them. Blockchains are cool and fun and applicable, but I
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by wickawic 9y ago
True, but at least the news cycle made it seem like companies raised formal objections at a late stage.
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by wickawic 9y ago
HN doesn't need to be a place where we can "teach the controversy" about stealing people's money. Imagine Amazon raised money by selling people BezoBucks, but promised "BezoBucks are totally safe because their value
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by wickawic 9y ago
Oh that's clever. By noting the zeroes I just assumed the joke was that the number was embarrassingly factorable.
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by wickawic 9y ago
Seiko and Orient have lots of nice mechanical watches in that price range.
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by wickawic 9y ago
I think that is a strictly good thing though; it is a flywheel solution (almost literally!) because the more people buy in and work with that model, the more successful it becomes. In a sense you gamify the electrical grid to train people t
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by wickawic 9y ago
That's a different axis than the free will vs determinism debate though. What you are describing is your (and my) inability to convincingly prescribe meaning to our actions. Just because we don't understand it doesn't mean it
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by wickawic 9y ago
I would be happy if my code only had a bug every 50 years.
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by wickawic 9y ago
Anecdotally, my younger friends seem to be much more ok with someone vaping than smoking cigarettes, to the point that mentioning it is harmful is brushed off. This is among people that are not habitual tobacco users; it seems the advertisi
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by wickawic 9y ago
Wait until someone says you work at a "lifestyle company" as if this is a bad thing.
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by wickawic 9y ago
Many workplaces require a certain attire. You probably already own dress clothes, but someone who doesn't might have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to obtain clothes for their job. But I'm not just talking about just wh
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by wickawic 9y ago
> Anxiety about anxiety is probably the most dangerous kind. So the prose was effective! Sometimes being dry and objective is not the best way to get across a point.
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by wickawic 9y ago
If you are using spring (or any of the less cumbersome DI frameworks) this is exactly true. Generally in Java DI frameworks you make a bunch of factory methods for your logic classes(this may be magically done through annotations). A single
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by wickawic 9y ago
What do you mean by that? I would consider the treatment of dairy cows to be at least comparable to raising cows to kill them.
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by wickawic 9y ago
> take their labour elsewhere If we are talking about a UBI, we might as well start treating people like people again instead of job-executing machines!
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by wickawic 9y ago
I was about to reply that go seems more systems oriented, but on second thought that is really more of a self fulfilling prophecy. With the proper library support I bet go would be a great language for mobile development.
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by wickawic 9y ago
Google and Facebook don't (get caught) breaking each other's Terms of Service. I haven't read the leagalese, but I would imagine using Lyft's APIs to compete directly with their business is probably not kosher.
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by wickawic 9y ago
> Sadly, academia is increasingly in the role of independently re-discovering what has been known for 10-20 years but treated as a secret. This has been true of network programming for a long time as well. Private companies find novel wa
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by wickawic 10y ago
That 70% idea comes from Colin Powell I believe. Of course it probably isn't his originally. http://govleaders.org/powell.htm
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by wickawic 10y ago
I used to go to school near a gas station called "Pump-n-Munch"
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by wickawic 10y ago
the T-30s' two-line display is just so perfect. You can always see your last result as you are punching in your next calculation.
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by wickawic 10y ago
Reminds me of all the historic (and continuing!) confusion around women's sexual health.

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