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by yzzxy 12y ago
Reminds me of King James Programming - excerpts from a Markov chain trained on the King James Bible and Abelson and Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Serious question, as I don't really have a strong opinion on zero rating either way: In a scenario where zero-rating is available to all actors at equivalent prices, is there still a problem? It would raise the barrier to entry for int
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by yzzxy 12y ago
So isn't help from friends or a professional network related to hiring EXACTLY what I described?
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by yzzxy 12y ago
It's as if you didn't read the comment above where I said that "I have no idea if Terry would like to work or not."
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by yzzxy 12y ago
How would I be underestimating him? If anything, I'm underestimating his potential employers. There's a digital fossil record of what he's said online at this point, and the average hiring manager will probably just throw him
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by yzzxy 12y ago
As the commenter I believe you are quoting, I think you are reading a little too much into what I said. Nobody implied helplessness as a being, or that Terry should be compelled to enter gainful employment. I think it would be insane not to
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I don't know if this is true. I find it extremely unlikely that the average employer would even consider employing someone with apparent mental health issues, so it's possible many people in similar situations just give up. I don&
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I don't think there's sure evidence either way, but I did read this line: > Unable to work, he collects Social Security disability and spends most of his time coding, web surfing, or using the output... I have no idea if Terry
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I wonder if there is something the programming community could do to help him. I'm not sure what this could entail, but I'd hope there are people who would be willing to talk with him about his interests or attempt to set up some
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by yzzxy 12y ago
It's very real. I've installed it in a VM and played around for a while - it's technically very impressive and has a HUGE number of utilities and weird little features.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Slow, grinding, yet easy, parallelize with other projects, and eventually profitable and comfortable SaaS.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I wonder what institutional[0] NSA motives could have been in the unlikely event there is a link. I'm guessing fundamental security weaknesses in BTC would have been discovered by now, so there's probably no hope of ensnaring th
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Probably because the Netflix UI experience has a lot of inertia - there's a Netflix frontend on every TV or device sold nowadays, I'm guessing a feature has to be ESSENTIAL if they're going to make new GUIs for every modern s
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Having built Cardboard myself, but used an Oculus DK1 for about 10 minutes, I can tell you for sure that even the first Oculus is a totally different order of magnitude of product compared to Cardboard-style devices. I'm not really a p
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by yzzxy 12y ago
There's an iphone header in the screenshot.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Probably because craigslist approximates this but gives more power to the sellers to choose customers, which is probably perceived as essential when meeting with people in real life.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Yeah, the EBay auctions are going up fast: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m5...
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I really like reading stories about trading and especially the quant end of things that isn't as present here. I would like to enter into one of these fields but I don't think I could long-term justify doing work that creates litt
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by yzzxy 12y ago
But then you need to seduce the JS runtime into actually performing your optimizations. Maybe time for C/C++ extensions to become more prevalent a la Python?
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by yzzxy 12y ago
No. I'm sick of these comments. Articles from sources like Washington Post, NYT, and The Economist, which are often high quality, constantly get branded with some form of this complaint. It is so easy to avoid the paywall: any major b
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Computation is not defined by difficulty for a human. It is closer to being defined by the ability to follow a (possibly arbitrary) decision procedure. In this violin method, a human is required to follow a decision procedure, unlike in a p
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Ok, I see your point of how a violin can be used to "search" a solution space for the transform. I still think it would be a bit of a stretch to say the violin performs the Fourier analysis here, as the human brain is required to
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Wouldn't the human then be performing frequency analysis, not the violin itself? You seem to be conflating decomposition of a signal with generation of the same, and Fourier analysis with a lot of things. How does one take a "Four
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by yzzxy 12y ago
No, I mean he wasn't missing the joke... I obviously enjoy Stephenson way too well for my own good if I can spot an oblique reference to the wrong book.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
You're not missing anything by not reading it. [0] The above poster believes that the phrase > maximize shareholder value originated as a joke in the writing of Neal Stephenson and is not simply the financial terminology it appears
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by yzzxy 12y ago
This was available in some (probably limited and gimmicky) form decades ago in devices like the Reflection Technology Private Eye. This is the best link I could find: http://www.loper-os.org/vintage/paralleleye/eye
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Does anyone know how well "aligned" the texts are? It's rare to find good bilingual texts for light reading/studying.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
That's almost definitely mangling of Chinese idiom puns - suffice to say they are much more succinct in Mandarin.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
> Why does a rather trivial construct like this require an arcane label like 'fixed-point combinator'? On a site named after fixed-point recursion, no less.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Yes, but that river does not sell software to run an online store. That's about as close to Amazon.com as AWS Lambda is to a Lambda function. If you tried to sell ecommerce software under the name Amazon, you would get a cease-and-desi

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