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by yaseer 7y ago
A great achievement, congrats! Although, it may never top your blog circa 2001, it's a fine achievement nonetheless.
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by yaseer 7y ago
He did teach himself rocket science, and build an aerospace company as a 'side project' Most programmers don't do that as their side project.
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by yaseer 7y ago
John Carmack seems like a guy that would've made fundamental contributions to science, had he been born a century before. Computer science now occupies the place physics once did, in its impact on moving the world forward. Best of luck
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by yaseer 7y ago
This article should reflect on it's own philosophical assumptions. The differential return on progress with time is not linear. Intuitively, progress is harder, the deeper we probe. We have reached the point where we are probing the fu
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by yaseer 7y ago
I agreed. I just wanted to take it a stage further and emphasise the definition of 'wrong' is always complex in moral discussions.
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by yaseer 7y ago
You make a compelling point. The key is 'acceptable use'. Acceptable use is cracking passwords in an investigation with just cause. Acceptable use is a script to automate the checking of weak passwords, and notify users. Unaccepta
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by yaseer 7y ago
I agree, - but morality is sticky and complex. It was obviously wrong to be the creepy sexist. In the abstract sense, it is wrong to invade privacy. But then, if in your invasion of privacy you uncover a wrongdoing, the right thing to do is
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by yaseer 7y ago
Not that I'm aware of. If you produced a mind-map to show their inter-relatedness, It's quite a dense network. A quick sketch of some of the nodes and vertices might start to look like: Logic <--> Gödel's theorems Göde
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by yaseer 7y ago
It's an interesting question that poses interesting problems. The main problem is that beta reduction is an awkward operation from the perspective of computational complexity, which is a fairly fundamental concept in algorithm analysis
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by yaseer 7y ago
They have to offer significant promotions and sell their rides below the rates of other taxi companies, in order to obtain market share. They've been doing this to grab market share for the last decade. Undercutting competition is not
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by yaseer 7y ago
The number of hours one can work a week productively will vary based on individual and lifestyle. But to me, currently working 60 hours in my startup (sleeping well, eating well and exercising, without children and with a good social life)
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by yaseer 7y ago
Thanks for posting this. I haven't yet got on the 'challenger bank bandwagon' mainly due to laziness. This has made me a lot more hesitant to do so. Certainly not with revolut, who are now notorious for a broken growth-first
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by yaseer 7y ago
As one of many people looking for a Professional laptop to replace the Macbook Pro, I really hope this thing delivers. If the second screen is just recognised as a second monitor in Linux, this could be awesome.
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by yaseer 7y ago
I'm curious to see how passengers will react to flying via 737-max. Will ticket prices be lowered to reflect the inevitable wariness of flying in one again?
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by yaseer 7y ago
I have to assume the reason that Bluetooth is still annoying 10 years later is the lack of synchronicity between OS vendors and hardware vendors. Unfortunately, this is something that Apple does well, and most other manufacturers and operat
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by yaseer 7y ago
Harsh, but completely true
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by yaseer 7y ago
https://medium.com/girl-writes-code/git-is-a-directed-acycli...
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by yaseer 8y ago
If it's not illegal, it should be made so. It's a form of false advertising.
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by yaseer 8y ago
The perceived downward spiral is factually incorrect. Read Steven Pinker for the full breakdown. By any and every measure human beings enjoy better lives than in the past; health, violence, leisure and more. This trend is continuing. Second
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That escalated quickly...
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by yaseer 8y ago
International collaboration on scientific projects (International space station, CERN) always fills me with hope and optimism for humanity. It's a nice contrast to opening the papers and reading the regular news, dominated by politics,
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by yaseer 8y ago
FFX was the last one I really loved. I've played a few since, but none quite sucked me in so much as VII and X.
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by yaseer 8y ago
In the case of the Final Fantasy games, I agree. The latest one is just garbage, story-wise despite being absolutely beautiful.
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by yaseer 8y ago
I miss the inbox UX & UI in particular. Gmail seems slow and cluttered by comparison.
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by yaseer 8y ago
Unless we come up with some objective criteria to compare touchpads, this may be a subjective judgement. Nevertheless, there are a large volume of people who subjectively believe Apple's touchpads 'feel' better and more preci
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by yaseer 8y ago
No, it's because Apple's touchpad hardware is superior, and the industry benchmark. I say this grudgingly. I have given up on Apple's laptops for a host of reasons. The touchpad is the main thing I miss. It's not a quest
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by yaseer 8y ago
That's just your personal experience. It's reflective of your personal surroundings. Nobody I know is into baseball. Either I assume there is no real interest, or I assume it might be a reflection of my surroundings. (I live in Lo
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by yaseer 8y ago
I would qualify that as a situation that repeats itself. If money from new investors is repeatedly used to pay old investors, it resembles a ponzi scheme.
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by yaseer 8y ago
I would argue that any investment scam in which money from new investors gives liquidity to old investors, resembles a ponzi scheme.
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by yaseer 8y ago
I agree - this article was not clickbait. The content delivered on the title. Piquing your interest with the title is just good headline-writing. It only becomes clickbait when the title is a cynical perversion of the content.

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