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by zmj 14y ago
Results and strategy summary of an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma tournament from last year: http://lesswrong.com/lw/7f2/prisoners_dilemma_tournament_res...
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Is Kickstarter selling dreams?(blogs.reuters.com)
57 points by zmj 14y ago|33 comments
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by zmj 14y ago
The negativity is skepticism that they can deliver what they're promising, and concern over the fallout if they don't. It's not a character attack.
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by zmj 14y ago
> I've seen developers who create, rather than reduce technical debt; who take longer to get familiar with codebases; have a hard time focusing in the presence of distractions; and who seem to have difficulty ramping up solution domain
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by zmj 14y ago
I'm using it for some personal projects. A variety of web servers, mostly. The standard HTTP/networking libraries and goroutine model are fantastic.
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by zmj 14y ago
Go uses the Error type and multiple returns in the scenario you describe. Code might be something like this: foo, err := GetDataFromDatabase() if err != nil { foo, err = GetDataFromLocalFilesystem() } if err != nil { f
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by zmj 14y ago
Layperson question: what does it matter? What impact does Facebook's valuation have on its day-to-day business, now that they have the IPO cash in hand?
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by zmj 14y ago
It's interesting that none of these criticisms apply to the Udacity offerings. I feel like that team has a more original approach than the university professors who are transplanting their lectures to the Internet.
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by zmj 14y ago
Which one is the original? Both have the same memories; I think they both have a good claim to that identity.
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by zmj 14y ago
By '33 bits', I understand that you're referring to the minimum amount of information to identify an arbitrary person on Earth? 2^33 ~= 8.5 billion. Interesting idiom. I hadn't heard it before, but the usage makes sense.
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by zmj 14y ago
Maybe I'm missing something obvious - is there a volume control?
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by zmj 14y ago
What makes you think that you're qualified to judge what's relevant to you?
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by zmj 14y ago
Sure it will. You might have to turn it in late, though.
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by zmj 14y ago
It's so sad to see old age claim a great mind.
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by zmj 14y ago
You might try looping your tokenizer in its own goroutine and passing tokens along a channel. That separates emitting a token from the loop/return structure of next_token. Edit: check out this example http://blog.golang.org/2011/09/two-go-
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by zmj 14y ago
This idea is as old as Lisp. http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/the-emacs-problem
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by zmj 14y ago
What's your evidence for that? Don't you think it's possible that initiative and creativity are important for getting your research noticed by jey on Hacker News, but not for actually doing the research?
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by zmj 15y ago
In the sense that flows are taxed to provide income for the government, GDP is analogous to income.
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by zmj 15y ago
C# 4.0 actually has all the pieces you'd need to write Go-style concurrent code. It just won't be pretty. The upcoming 4.5 release fixes some of the ugly.
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by zmj 15y ago
Combinatorics. Yes.
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by zmj 15y ago
Casual programming happens in Excel every day.
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by zmj 15y ago
I agree. I can't see anything Lisp does that I can't do in Blub.
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by zmj 15y ago
Like what?
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by zmj 15y ago
Got your experimental programming language: > Vitess - a new project released by YouTube, written in Go, it’s a frontend to MySQL. It does a lot of optimization on the fly, it rewrites queries and acts as a proxy. Currently it serves
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by zmj 15y ago
Good point. Having to deal with portions of old code is better than not being able to use new features at all. I've revised my opinion.
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by zmj 15y ago
I agree in large, but there are some rough edges. -It's wordy. The var keyword was a step in the right direction, but there's still a lot of redundant type information, even compared to other statically typed languages like Go or F#. -Legac
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by zmj 15y ago
The reality of it is slightly more meta than that. Some people just want the right answer. Some people want a tool that they can build a consistent mental model of. Hackers prefer the latter. Everyone else? That's up in the air.
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by zmj 15y ago
Five hundred years ago, "kids being kids" would have described setting cats on fire. We can do better than that, and we can do better than this.
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by zmj 15y ago
The comparison is the same whether you normalize to $0 or $X.
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by zmj 15y ago
I am interested to see how the real-money auction house works out. Somebody's going to be making some money off that.

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