zenbowman

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by zenbowman 12y ago
Yes, yes it is. There's simply no comparison. http://rapgenius.com/Dr-dre-bitches-aint-shit-lyrics "Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks / Lick on these nuts and suck the dick / Get's the fuc
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by zenbowman 12y ago
I don't believe that is accurate. There are plenty of patriarchal societies where women have high status and are not subject to mistreatment or violence, but no political or economic control.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Exactly. Programming is about exploiting the machine you are on. Write-once run-everywhere is great for corporate shops, but leads to the crucifixion of creativity and the abandoning of experimentation. I'd much rather have diversity i
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Rap is the most misogynistic genre in the history of music, it is not surprising at all that a rap enthusiast would share the views of the artists whose music he listens to.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
> The model (google's algo) should fit reality. Rather than forcing reality to fit the model. It is impossible for Google to exist at its current scale and not influence the Internet. The tiger is born out of adaptation to the jungl
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by zenbowman 12y ago
I teach kids in that age as well, and I start out with Python + Pygame. For an undergraduate level course I would prefer teaching Scheme or C in an introductory class.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
That's around the wage in LA as well, and you can definitely afford a home in a good neighborhood over here on that salary.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
The Idea Factory is a great book, it totally shatters the myths so often propagated today. It demonstrates without doubt that innovation can happen at a very large scale in very large, monopolistic, noncompetitive organizations. In fact, th
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by zenbowman 12y ago
I don't think I've said anything remotely offensive, I'm not suggesting that women are not discriminated against, I'm just saying that discrimination is not a simple issue as many people claim.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
That is a fascinating study. It's definitely true that at both companies I've worked at, HR has been totally dominated by women. So if it is true that women are discriminated against in the tech industry, why is that so, given tha
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by zenbowman 12y ago
I've never used it, primarily because it is about twice the price of the local maids we get. Is there an advantage of using Homejoy over a local cleaner who you know and trust?
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by zenbowman 12y ago
The Kinect is an awesome device, the only reason it didn't take off is because the game industry is extremely risk-averse these days. The tracking issues are big, I feel that Oculus is doing tracking right by using a standard webcam, b
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by zenbowman 12y ago
I was stating an opinion based on my experience. I don't deny that tools like SciPy are very useful for experimental programming. However SciPy and Matlab are exceptions, where the end-user of the program is also the programmer, so the
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by zenbowman 12y ago
I find this hard to believe. Any time people write systems in a dynamic language, they inevitably run into issues as they scale, ending up wasting money (computers, electricity) and a lot of user time. This usually results in rewriting thin
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Agreed, moreover the UAE is pretty forward-looking relative to the rest of its region, and minority and womens rights are much better protected there than in most countries in the Gulf. Propagating stereotypes about the behavior of the roya
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Sounds cool, downloading now. I've been working on a similar idea in my spare time, using video and sound as input. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iai72LhlcZA Edit: Tried playing, it didn't seem to pick up input
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by zenbowman 12y ago
It's not that it has little value, just that it is extremely easy for someone with an engineering mindset. I took a single class at the USC Law School on Constitutional Law. It was considered a brutal general education class, but mysel
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Great post. I think this is the fundamental thesis proposed by Abelson and Sussman in SICP. You build a system in layers, each relying on the one below. The reason you do this is to manage cognitive load in humans, not "coupling"
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by zenbowman 12y ago
I definitely still see it, "best practices" once enshrined, change slowly.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Great point. Squeezing unrelated objects into class hierarchies to avoid a couple of trivial "ifs" is the ultimate destroyer of readability.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Agreed. I find the best advice comes from people who have built significant systems that are both complex and innovative for their time. Rob Pike and Dennis Kernighan's The Practice of Programming is one of my favorites for this reason
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Yeah, that was a great talk. I highly recommend people watch it. He was definitely right about that, what I like about Linus is he really does seem to prefer to do things in as concrete and simple a way as possible instead of getting mired
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by zenbowman 12y ago
I was under the impression CERN was a C++ shop, have they switched over to Java?
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Here you go, I wrote this a little while ago: http://tech.hulu.com/blog/2014/04/10/beaconspec/ The first part covers MapReduce, the rest you can skip.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
In some categories, yes. In many others, especially those requiring vector or matrix arithmetic (medical imaging, physical simulations, modeling, graphics, scientific computing, video games), there's simply no competition.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
For now, I'm using distinctly colored clothing, a webcam, and OpenCV.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Exactly. I'd argue C++ has a lot going for it, and I think the claim that Java's performance is only slightly slower is simply not true for the vast majority of situations where good memory organization can provide significant spe
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by zenbowman 12y ago
An excellent question. Opinionated: conceitedly assertive and dogmatic in one's opinions. It generally refers to people who assert their opinion without making a sound argument for it. I consider it a huge negative. Another vice that m
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by zenbowman 12y ago
I think Leap Motion is great, but I think that same kind of sensing can be achieved through lower tech ways, like a multi-color glove plus a webcam. It is a cool idea and I hope they succeed, but I'm working on the low-tech LEAP idea a
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Has there been any research about the prevalence of schizophrenia in communities with strong social bonds (multigenerational families under one roof, closeness with neighbors, etc) versus modern urban communities (nuclear families or single

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