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by Scriptor 17y ago
It already has the poll about whether yc startups use Django, Rails, PHP, or other.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Not really the exact same results. Having low-speed CPUs doesn't quite lead us to drill for and burn more fossil fuels.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
What if you're in a field where teaching yourself is not much of an option unless you're exceptionally dedicated and have very few distractions?
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by Scriptor 17y ago
[Disclaimer: I'm a college student] Depending on your industry and (sometimes) on your college, you're more likely to get in touch with those more influential and powerful than you (for science it might be renowned researchers, for law high
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Are those med/law students actually living at home or in their own apartments?
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by Scriptor 17y ago
In case anyone's still interested, actual spelling is Julius Genachowski.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
What process did people use to discover patterns like this? Is there a special rule for being able to incrementally build up a pattern in Life?
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Since you: hardly seem to read my comments completely misinterpret what you do read respond by calling everything fiction or ridiculous and throw around equally baseless claims of your own. Yes, this is discussion is over.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
How do any of those break any limits of science? Please, I'd love to know. Maybe you think I'm talking about Matrix-style robots and have decided that I'm just being silly. I'm not. A simple bot that has the capability of manufacturing mo
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by Scriptor 17y ago
What counts as a living form? The definition of life is based entirely on scientific observations of what we currently perceive. Does a virus have a soul? Why or why not? (If you say it doesn't because it's not alive, what are your criteria
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Same questions as all other new JS framworks are faced with. How is this different from existing code (jQuery, Mootools, Prototype, etc.)? What advantages does it give? Why should I choose to invest my time in this?
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by Scriptor 17y ago
"In our brain, certain impulses are carried via electricity, so they are as fast as possible (inside their structure)" No, electric impulses in your brain are not carried in the same way as electricity in wires. Please read up on basic ne
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by Scriptor 17y ago
That sounds like the same strategies used by proprietary software companies who go through all sorts of loops to discourage uses that don't ideologically fit with them. Almost like Free's version of DRM.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Wikipedia has a brief description of this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_Legacy I think rather than being a full trailer for the movie, this is more of a single, and visually cool, scene to hype up people not familiar to the origi
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I suggest you download FoldIt ( http://fold.it/portal/ ), it does a pretty good job at modeling the 3d interactions in proteins using your computer, which I'm pretty sure also has that "1 dimensional" memory. Do you know how nature uses a
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by Scriptor 17y ago
This seems to work well only with highly general or extremely popular searches. I tried web.py, django, and jquery and got far fewer results than there should be.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
"the next atom of information can be (physically) more or less distant from the previous one" Not true, at least with something like DNA. When something like RNA polymerase goes through DNA, it always goes to the physically closest nucl
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by Scriptor 17y ago
How is DNA not an array? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Lisp lists are linked lists, so elements don't have to be next to each other in memory. On the other hand, DNA is stored and processed from one molecule to the next one physically.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Could you be more specific about what you mean? What exactly is a processing grid and which parts of the brain do you mean? Not questioning you, just really desperate right now for inspiration.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Any reason for that?
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Integrating social networks into search engines just sounds like something straight out of a web 2.0 idea generator. I don't see how this will be useful at all. I'm gonna make a guess that the kind of highly general searches this would be g
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I think "whore" has evolved somewhat to basically mean anyone who will do whatever it takes to get something. There is the term "man whore" but that's more used for males who are sexually promiscuous. God I sound way too old writing that.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Voting will not save anyone. A simple rant can now get to the top _and_ get unflagged. I don't get on HN to read about how everyone in Microsoft is a dick and everyone in marketing is a whore.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
This write-up is nowhere near comparable to those works. A Modest Proposal discussed in a frank tone the idea of selling babies as food for money. 1984 showed an ultra-totalitarian state through the eyes of someone used to it. Sure the tort
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Then I'd like to see posts on HN linking directly to such stuff discussing his pioneering. An obituary is not the best way to do that.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
So is everyone who becomes famous in their respective field a "hacker"? What were his innovations? Did he come up with some clever new way of doing the news? Just because you're good at something doesn't make you a "hacker".
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I've never really looked much into Lua before? Does it also have some sort of unifying base underneath it all? I liked Why's Potion because it reused many of the same syntax constructs in different places, so that there were few special cas
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by Scriptor 17y ago
What counts as visible progress? In my experience, simply piling up code for every new feature leads to giant monolithic messes with little structure and organization. Since each feature always seems small and easy to do, it becomes temptin
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by Scriptor 17y ago
As a former MIT applicant this is actually news to me considering I ended up going to a school where I mostly don't see any self-segregation. What exactly goes on there? I have a problem with your argument though, how does encouraging segre
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by Scriptor 17y ago
This is a joke, right? All these supposed researchers are saying is that "it's possible for humans to echolocate, provide we figure out how to do it".

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