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by zzalpha 12y ago
I gotta say, this sounds like a perfect recipe for becoming the narcissistic, self-centered developer. The modern equivalent of the ladder-climber. To me, the perfect example is the "never ask for help" advice. The reality is, sp
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by zzalpha 12y ago
Well that's an unfortunate choice of project name: http://amber-lang.net/
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by zzalpha 12y ago
Yup, fair enough! I have no doubt some degrees have greater value in the economy than others, and god knows management degrees (as an example) have their fair share of detractors, rightly or wrongly. To me that just means folks need to be
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by zzalpha 12y ago
The first four years of college is what you make of them. You ultimately get out what you put in. And ignoring that, you also cannot make blanket statements like this... there's an incredible amount of variability in four year program
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by zzalpha 12y ago
Classic survivorship bias. "I became a successful, self-taught iOS developer, therefore all school is for suckers!" It's unfortunate that this kind of thinking is so pervasive. You see it in a lot of contexts... I've s
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by zzalpha 12y ago
Yup, also a great point. In the small, anyone holding a mortgage during a deflationary spiral is steadily squeezed. In the large you'll see businesses and government penalized for taking out loans to invest in capex, market expansion
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by zzalpha 12y ago
Congratulations for confusing micro and macroeconomics. What happens to the price of a single good over the lifetime of that good is not a useful lesson in what happens as a result of broad, economy-wide deflation. Frankly, the issue with p
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by zzalpha 12y ago
But emergent properties are everywhere. Consider Conway's Game of Life. A few basic rules and you end up with remarkable, emergent complexity. The game of Go is another beautiful example. The same is true of any number of phenomenon.
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by zzalpha 12y ago
Eh, by that reasoning, you could equally live without electricity or running water. Technology is leveraged, not because it's strictly necessary, but because it's useful. After all, the very website we're having this convers
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by zzalpha 12y ago
Do you really think said hackers are "gleefully building these tools" specifically in order to enable a surveillance state? Of course not. It's been said a million times before: every technology can be used for good or for il
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by zzalpha 12y ago
Heh, fair enough. I think I was caught up by the word "all" in the phrase "would break basically all anti-spam technologies". I read that as implying that e2e encryption makes managing spam impossible. Seems clear that
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by zzalpha 12y ago
I'm quite aware that encryption and authentication are separable elements in a PKI cryptosystem. But I don't believe that invalidates my point. Assuming a PKI cryptosystem, I can (and I contend should) greylist all emails that ar
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by zzalpha 12y ago
I don't get it. Full end-to-end encryption means you can validate the identity of the sender. Once you can do that blacklisting bad actors or whitelisting known-good actors is trivial. Even hijacking accounts in this model for the pur
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by zzalpha 12y ago
What I find most baffling about this article is the lack of acknowledgement that scientists don't yet have a full picture of why we sleep, nor is there an understanding of the function of each sleep stage. To claim we can somehow fin
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by zzalpha 12y ago
"You probably never noticed, and just had a really nice sandwich." Speak for yourself. When I buy spread for my sandwiches, I buy mayonnaise, not some ill-defined "spread". I'm sure I'm not the only one. The
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by zzalpha 12y ago
"That is why the US, which has high wealth inequality, also has high standards of living overall." I see. So countries with more redistributive policies, like Canada, obviously have lower standards of living than the US. Right? I
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by zzalpha 12y ago
"Cat's already out of that bag on that one." I'm sure you would've said the same about Standard Oil or Bell back in the day. Breaking up large corporation can and has been done before. It could be done again if gov
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by zzalpha 12y ago
So, the statistical correlation between states of particles is literally the fundamental thing that defines quantum entanglement. Suppose you and I both get a coin and we flip them. You then turn over your hand and reveal heads. If the tw
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by zzalpha 12y ago
And how can you tell if the particles are no longer entangled without observing both? It's not like there's some outward, observable property of the particle that says "I am entangled". It's simply a statistical c
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by zzalpha 12y ago
Both Lisp and Ruby all follow that convention. Probably other languages, too, but I'm too lazy to look... :)
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by zzalpha 12y ago
Or, you know, alternatively, maybe online harassment is actually a problem. But you're right, a massive government/capitalist co-conspiracy working to end your right to anonymity is definitely the more reasonable explanation...
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by zzalpha 12y ago
"Word’s intellectual model is effectively timeless: you paint the text with its attributes. WordPerfect’s is active and progressive: you change a setting, continue typing, and then change some other setting" Umm... those are the s
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by zzalpha 12y ago
What a fantastic example of marketing/advertising disguised as content...