TheTarquin

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by TheTarquin 14y ago
Your premises are flawed. Human brain power is not an additive substance. So 1000 brains are in no sense of the term 1000 times more powerful than one brain. Crowds don't actually have wisdom. All they really have is consensus. As such,
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by TheTarquin 15y ago
Cool! This will be awesome for implementing feature on cross-platform devices. I can definitely see a use case for standardizing mailing across, e.g., several different mobile platforms. Just keep the POST request object across all of th
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by TheTarquin 15y ago
I learned a lot from this, thanks for posting. Mostly I learned how rusty my C skills have gotten in the years since I last used them. Maybe time to bust out my K&R again.
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by TheTarquin 15y ago
I wonder if there's a scientific paper equivalent to Betteridge's Law of Headlines: If a headline ends with a question mark, then the answer is "no".
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by TheTarquin 15y ago
It looks like you have some room to refine your searching / filtering. I'm in the Seattle area and it's picking up some noticeable noise. e.g.: "Tacoma cannery property to be repositioned: Pinnacle Foods Group is looking for a real estate
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by TheTarquin 15y ago
Awesome work! Do you have plans to expand the data source beyond Twitter? Maybe with filters for users to select source(s)?
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by TheTarquin 15y ago
"...a few minutes..." You obviously read a hell of a lot faster than I do.
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by TheTarquin 15y ago
I agree with skyo and aphexairlines. I've found Amazon a fantastic place to work and am, frankly, baffled by the flak it's taking here in the comments. My experience at Amazon has been fun and rewarding, and I'm thrilled to be a coder at
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
Speaking as someone who has had to maintain code written by someone who "learned" from these books, I completely agree. What was there was certainly C++ in a purely linguistic sense, but as code it was complete gibberish.
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
You attack Libertarianism on the grounds that it has adherents that disagree widely on several topics. So does that mean that if I found some Objectivists that disagreed on points of policy, that Objectivism would "mean so many things that
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
Awesome feature. Just in checking it out, I found several excellent questions that it would never have occurred to me to ask. Thanks for implementing this!
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
I'm not sure there's anything one could say about focus/productivity that's particular to software engineers. When it comes right down to it, the sort of work we do is susceptible to the same procrastination pitfalls as any other knowledge
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
This is an awesome take on the VC game. I imagine it's not the only opinion, however. The metaphor he sets up with regards to customers and shareholders could also be twisted (and I'm sure is, by some VCs) to a more hierarchical idea in w
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
Consider how much real achievement we would see if all the motivated hackers put down WoW and started up their development environment of choice. But there's a lot of truth to the fact that human beings need recreation. We need down-time
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
It seems to me that this essay is based on a strained analogy and a whole bunch of convenient equivocation. His whole "achievement" link to video games seems to be a largely rhetorical one. What if those were called (as they are on some s
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
Interesting! I did not know that. Thanks for the explanation and link.
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
What was the distinction there? As far as I understand things, "cabinet maker" would be a proper subset of "carpenter".
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
An interesting idea. This would put it in the same class as a remarkably large number of emergent "senses" like our sense of distance or of weight, which are both effected by ancillary information.
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
Which isn't too surprising since perception constructed by the brain. :) Touché. I really should have said something like "the subconscious can mess..." or "the lizard brain can mess...".
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
So, out of curiosity, down-voted because it wasn't funny, or because jokes aren't encouraged?
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
Interesting. So, out of curiosity, are you just not particular about projects? If you had to choose between two arbitrary projects to work on, on what criteria would you base your choice?
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
It's largely been my experience. The best programmers and the best hackers I know are all more passionate about what they're DOING with code rather than the minutiae of code itself. Which isn't to say they aren't interested in technique.
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
What's even more interesting is how much of the image you can remove while still maintaining the illusion. Block out almost all the image except for squares A and B and just a VERY little bit of space around them. The two squares still lo
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
Agreed. Also, none of the coders I know are passionate about programming . Rather, they're passionate about making cool stuff. As the saying goes, programming is not a what, but a how. Hackers don't get passionate about the act of codin
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
"This data contract won't ever change..."
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
I went to Gonzaga University. In fairness, their program was awesome at teaching the fundamentals, and I did leave with an excellent grounding in both the theory and practice of programming. But only when it came to the actual code. Nothi
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
You want an anti-pirate system that will work? That's easy, we've had a working system for centuries! You hang 'em from the yardarm as a warning to others, and then you burn their ships to the water line. Pardon? Oh, you mean the OTHER ki
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
Very cool links! Thanks for sharing. These bar-graph visualizations remind me of Gregorian notation for some reason.
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
Cool! This is a great way to visualize the relationship of notes in a chord. One of the harder things to teach in beginning music theory are chord forms, since it requires thinking relatively, rather than absolutely. Major and minor chord
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by TheTarquin 17y ago
Interesting. I wonder how how cultural differences will effect how the VC market develops south of the border? I imagine part of the reason why American-style VC isn't as widespread down there is due to political and social differences, r

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