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   by yzzxy 12y ago

   Closer to a new media art installation.
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   by yzzxy 12y ago

   I'm getting untrusted cert warnings in Firefox. This appears to only happen on the 'events' subdomain. Normally I chalk these errors up to the insanity of configuring SSL with many web hosts and allow the exception, as IIRC F
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   by yzzxy 12y ago

   I have it on good authority that comment collapse is rolling out at some point in the near future.
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   by yzzxy 12y ago

   I forgot how many days were in that month some time back in the 19A0s. http://boingboing.net/2011/10/11/mixtape-of-the-lost-decade....
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   by yzzxy 12y ago

   Racket (and precursor Scheme for academic reasons) is the Lisp I've interacted the most with besides Clojure, so I never really considered the perspective of a stdlib being so valuable. Clojure->Java and ClojureScript->Js have al
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   by yzzxy 12y ago

   What are the particular advantages of a Lisp on the python runtime? Interop with existing programs could be good, as well as a potential trojan horse to convert a dev shop to Lispier languages if you care about that kind of thing. Otherwise
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   by yzzxy 12y ago

   I just realized taxi medallions could be an good preview of what cap-and-trade will look like.
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   by yzzxy 12y ago

   You're right, I was overly rude, and I regret the wording of what I wrote. I feel the above commenter was misguided in the subject his advice but it was probably well-intended.
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   by yzzxy 12y ago

   Thanks for not answering the questions I asked - namely whether CS degrees administered partially by philosophy departments are any good - and for making the assumption that you know what is "practical" and what is "interesti
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    I believe it is very popular with photographers because it does not butcher images with compression as badly as facebook does.
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    I'm considering several undergrad degree programs in computer science through university philosophy departments. Has anyone had a similar experience who could share their feedback? I've really enjoyed reading the basic philosophy
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    According to the way stem cell research was segregated, those projects would have had to take place in buildings funded without taxes, staffed by researchers paid by private funds, using new equipment and materials, etc...
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    And this is why I love this site. That line just made me think of the guys our our middle school who would buy up bulk soda and sell them for $1 or $2. But getting in on toy/widget fads is much smarter, though with a higher risk of the
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    Location: SF Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: C#, Javascript, Lisp, and a little bit of smattering of others. Can pick up whatever. AutoCAD and other design suite applications. Résumé/CV: http://williamgo
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    I've had the exact same experience. Sometime I need to get around to reading source for a bunch of Inform games to get how larger programs are structured.
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    Predictably from my username I love text adventures, and looking back they were a big influence on me gaining skills in programming and such. I think it may have been just learning the paradigm of working with a console more than anything e
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    I meant it would be funny more from a technical perspective regarding his history with Lisp and as something of a programming luminary, other commenters appear to be talking more about brutal work schedules.
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    > my parents won't let me spend my pocket money on them This sounds like a larger problem. Unless they're trying to get you to invest it or something "responsible," it seems like a red flag that someone as interested
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    I'm not trying to make an ultimatum - there will definitely be exceptions, as I pointed out myself. But if you ask around, most people in that demographic won't know about the story of MS, won't have seen stuff like the Gates
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    I think this is probably because hackers in younger generations never experienced the beast that was Microsoft in the 90s and have seen the progression of MS as one from "company that makes boring and/or bad OS" to the embrac
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    Forget Uber driver, what about a code monkey at some YC startup? I've seen the cable show "Undercover Boss" a handful of times and they manage to sneak in company founders with some minimal, reasonable makeup techniques. Imag
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    I'm arguing that a truly effective meritocratic system should be able to recognize merit that might be hidden by the kinds of social circumstances that affirmative action attempts to compensate for. Even if you don't think industr
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    This seems dangerous. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it incredibly unsafe to run most standard nix packages on untrusted inputs?
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    Because practices implicitly assumes that merit === talent, and that natural talent cannot be hidden by extenuating circumstances such as social pressure away from a given trade or poor access to learning resources.
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    Globe and Mail Canadian CEO of the Year (Profile of Shopify Founder Tobi Lütke)(theglobeandmail.com)

    6 points by yzzxy 12y ago|0 comments
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    Thanks for the advice... I will be bookmarking this and I think I'll load up a FreeBSD install on a Raspberry Pi or something[0]. I know C, but I don't know C, and it think learning about compilers and such would be super intere
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    Enjoying the recent spatter of articles on fuzzing, it's an interesting topic to read about and file for future use. This page brings me back to a question that I've been having a lot recently: how does one get really good at *nix
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    I remember reading this... EDIT: found it http://www.oldlibrary.net/ScienceFiction/Asimov42/27382.html I know Asimov resisted a word processor for years, and ended up switching to one from his typewriter and uppin
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    Hmm, seems like it's changed since the original incarnation. That's probably a good addition, this seems like a very _why project.
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    by yzzxy 12y ago

    The article describes a novel system subtly but importantly different from a simple index.