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by wuliwong 12y ago
I can't add much more than just curious guesses into this discussion but someone else mentioned the idea of video games attracting people towards programming. I'm pretty sure there is a strong male sexual preference towards video
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I'm another that didn't start programming until one of my required courses as a physics undergraduate student. We did have an 8th grade programming class but everyone took that and obviously it didn't spur me into any interes
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by wuliwong 12y ago
Was it really profit motive that had them giving data to the DOD? Seems like it was more likely to do with legal pressures. I certainly don't know for sure but that would be my guess as evidenced by all that has come out over the last
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I personally am annoyed by this as I am one of the outsiders who cannot comment on ProductHunt. That being said, when I try to put myself in their shoes, I come up with one possible theory. It is that it is working right now with restricted
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by wuliwong 12y ago
hah, I was about to give everybody crap for being ultra-negative when they have a link to their github repo...but that "fork me on github" takes you to some other page asking for an email address or something. That is pretty bad.
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I take umbrage with this part: "A past that can be revisited has not really passed. So, Gödel concluded, time does not exist." This is a very silly conclusion. My assumption is that the silliness is attributed more to the author o
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I really like the main message of this video. I think it makes loads of sense, I've employed it in my own projects at the beginning. One question is that it seems like the first speaker and some of the people asking questions are askin
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by wuliwong 12y ago
Thirding Atlanta. My point of reference is Philadelphia (not in the bible-belt). Atlanta has significantly more startups and acquisitions than in Philadelphia, at least in the areas that I interact. Even with Philadelphia being home of Firs
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I have lived in Philadelphia, Boston and Atlanta. I was pleasantly surprised to find Atlanta's tech scene to be quite a lot further along than Philadelphia. I'm sure Boston's is the most developed but I was only beginning my
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by wuliwong 12y ago
Yes, that seems to be one of the open questions currently. I also wonder how you deal with the fact that there are so many sizes and distances that TV's are viewed from? That actually might not be very different than mobile or any othe
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Ask HN: Responsive design for TVs?
3 points by wuliwong 12y ago|2 comments
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by wuliwong 12y ago
And some people can't even read at all!
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I don't understand the purpose of this post. "Text wins by a mile." Wins what? "Text is everything." I don't get his point. The opening of this post has the feel more of a fan blog about their favorite baseball
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by wuliwong 12y ago
This seems like rampant speculation. At least the title of the post doesn't imply the search is over. :) The assumption that the universe is two entangled quantum particles is a stretch, to say the least. And maybe I'm missing a
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by wuliwong 12y ago
Look around a bit and you'll see loads of articles and rebuttals to this video's thesis. I for one thought the video was really beautiful but it shouldn't stop researchers from attempting to be accurate, even when it isn&#x27
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I'm sure he meant his comment with a little tongue and cheek. I believe the point is, don't assume that the conclusions drawn in this article are accurate. Do a little cursory "googling" and you'll find quite a few
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I have read a few places recently about techniques and strategies to get rid of ifs and else's in code. It was all in the spirit of writing more concise and compact code, not about the actual speed when executing the code. So often, I
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I'd say that zero being it's own negative number is an important thing not to forget. :)
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I was thinking along these lines as well. I suppose the difference is that these are QR codes that "broadcast" themselves to whoever wants to listen?
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by wuliwong 12y ago
This is exactly what I commented, though much clearer and more succinct. :)
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by wuliwong 12y ago
>Pretending we have the same abilities perpetuates the myth that people can help themselves if they just try hard enough. This seems like an absurd conclusion. It is so generic. This issue with abilities only really makes sense when you
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by wuliwong 12y ago
It's not AA's disease model. AA isn't a medical organization.
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by wuliwong 12y ago
Right, like the fundamentally different types being: 1. The kind that goes away. 2. The kind that just keeps getting worse. for instance?
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by wuliwong 12y ago
Yea but there are a lot more "things other than drugs" than drugs, right? So, your stats make drugs sound very dangerous.
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by wuliwong 12y ago
BTW, I feel like I always come across as a crazy person when I say this stuff but I really don't see a flaw in this. The basic premise is that there isn't going to be a logical explanation of "the universe." So, that see
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I disagree, this author is clearly trying to make the case that the idea that addiction being "progressive" is wrong. That is definitely minimizing addiction. A perfectly reasonable counter to his arguments is the possibility that
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by wuliwong 12y ago
The problem with using Occam's razor to disprove the existence of some sort of god or spirit of the universe is that there isn't any explanation. Remember it's "the simplest explanation is usual correct." We really
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by wuliwong 12y ago
Isn't it possible that the issue is in the difficulty in classifying people as "addicts" instead of concluding that most addicts just grow out of it? The alcoholics in my family do not grow out of it. To a man (or woman) they
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by wuliwong 12y ago
Nice! In fact, this came up first when I searched "postgress full text search rails 4". I'll check it out. I was actually going to make a gem for my own needs. Hopefully you've done all the legwork for me! I'll also
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by wuliwong 12y ago
I'm making the same observation on my site. I thought search would be the clear way to get to where you want to go but it is relatively unused. I have a site which lists tutorials for a specific language. You would think people would b

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