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by zwegner 14y ago
I guess this one is playing a joke on us? It's a feed of what looks like some old Japanese movie: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=27115
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by zwegner 14y ago
A cat is chilling in front of this one: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=8617
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by zwegner 14y ago
Well, at least in my case, they're pretty closely related. It's complicated, and rather hard to explain, but I might say I'm addicted to distraction. It's very hard for me to do something I don't get any stimulation out of.
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by zwegner 14y ago
A few times, not nearly enough to experience any benefits of it. I'll try more from now on, promise! :)
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by zwegner 14y ago
Pretty cool--I've been interested in finding new ways to exercise my mind recently. I have pretty bad ADHD/laziness, so it's hard to commit to doing such things regularly, but I'm hoping that meditation as well as these sorts of exercises w
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by zwegner 14y ago
Seconded! Being able to run tons of reliable automated testing is essential to get beyond the "alchemy" phase of AI development.
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by zwegner 14y ago
Well, on that note--your name comes off rather weird to me. I'm guessing it's supposed to read as "lanyard", but it makes me think "Lanyrd Skanyrd".
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by zwegner 14y ago
Mitch Hedberg.
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by zwegner 14y ago
Two, that we know about--Anwar Al-Awlaki and his son.
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by zwegner 14y ago
> I'm not a designer, but I think most of the ideas on display here are fashion-forward dead ends. This... It seems like these are "design for the sake of design", and doesn't take into account that the vast majority of users really don
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by zwegner 14y ago
Grande has been pretty decent as a local ISP in my experience, though they're not available everywhere. But this should be much faster and better, and anything to chip away at TWC and AT&T is nice.
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by zwegner 14y ago
25 at the moment.
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by zwegner 14y ago
This seems to imply that many of (all?) the emails/encrypted passwords were leaked, but you don't consider most of them "compromised"...
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by zwegner 14y ago
Really? I can't remember an April Fool's Day joke from Google that I found even remotely funny.
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by zwegner 14y ago
This is somewhat of a repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5205058 Kinda surprised nobody else said that yet...
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by zwegner 14y ago
The OP seems to imply later in the thread that the company is based in Cyprus: "I've already sold a part of my bitcoins to cover emergency needs. But I don't plan to recover my business in Cyprus. Instead, I'm moving to another country outs
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by zwegner 14y ago
Same here. It was really quite bad, I had nerve pain 24/7, numbness, soreness, you name it. In fact, when I first learned about TMS, it got worse. I was unemployed, and going through very bad depression, and despite ceasing all computer use
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by zwegner 14y ago
Same here--I spent a couple days porting a compiler frontend from Python 3->2 just to try out PyPy, and got rewarded with a 2-3x slowdown. I messed around with some tracing parameters, but didn't get too much benefit IIRC. Of course, th
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by zwegner 14y ago
I guess I'm mostly going from my own experience. I have actually learned some cool stuff from library books (not in a while though), but it's mostly from the internet. The internet facilitates learning a wider variety of information without
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by zwegner 14y ago
I was more talking about the need to implement this layer yourself, when it should be taken care of by the build system (though I don't know of any build systems that can easily implement your suggestion, since it has to somehow redirect th
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by zwegner 14y ago
Well, consider me in the 5% then. And though you're probably right about the 1-in-20, I don't think I'd put the proportion much higher for CS grads.
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by zwegner 14y ago
Yawn. I would say the same about the glorious PhD professors that attempted to teach me. Even the best professors, who were actually pretty knowledgeable, would never really code at all, pushing that off to the grad students. Some people ju
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by zwegner 14y ago
But degrees are a very strong indicator to most companies that you will do what you're told, have good "work ethic", etc. I dropped out of college because I was learning very little, at a slow pace, and mostly in areas not related to my maj
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by zwegner 14y ago
While this might be a nice sociological observation, or a neat metaphor for life, I think it's taking it too far. Yes, we judge people a lot. But trying to pidgeonhole people's personalities based on how they cross the street is a bit ridic
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by zwegner 14y ago
Yep, same with John McCarthy, who died around the same time.
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by zwegner 14y ago
> The gap between CS majors and software jobs is misleading. You don't need a CS degree to become a decent programmer. Conversely, you don't need to be a decent programmer to get a CS degree. It's a shame that in the age of the internet
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by zwegner 14y ago
Yep. I think before everyone learns to code, they need to learn to think. Just dumping a bunch more people into the software field is not going to help the average quality of software at all, which is already pretty miserable. Of course, co
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by zwegner 14y ago
Interesting idea, I hadn't thought of that before. This only increases the complexity of the Makefile though, and for not much reason. Hashing can help in other circumstances (such as possibly skipping a linking step if the object files don
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by zwegner 14y ago
That's because you're using an obsolete Python :)
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by zwegner 14y ago
Here's a very simple but powerful build system by the author of that paper: http://code.google.com/p/make-py/ It's just a single ~400 line python script. The only major feature that's missing IMO is hash-based rebuild detection, which is

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