Troll_Whisperer

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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
As Kurzweil pointed out, Allen hadn't even read his book. In it Kurzweil provides copious volumes of data to support his claim that the overall trend is still exponential. As one paradigm starts to run out of steam, there is greater and g
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
> What about energy? >It's true that if you look at most areas of technology they are advancing rapidly. Except energy. Energy has stagnated since the 1950s. This is demonstrably false. Solar power generation, for example, has bee
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
> Today, all games are for consoles, all mini-games are iphone games Then I guess I've been living in some fantasy world with Starcraft II, Diablo 3 beta and new games every week at Kongregate. I like it though, so please don't wake m
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
>Everybody understands that there's a cost/benefit tradeoff here, so spelling it out all over again doesn't really move us forward. You just asked the commenter to spell it out in your previous comment. Chastising him/her for doing s
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
A sentence. Requires. A verb.
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
This is awesome. I really, really like interactive tutorials like this. I do have some programming experience, but being pretty weak in JS I found it educational. Thanks.
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
Somebody with the power to do so, please flag this. It's only two and a half sentences. The rest is behind a paywall.
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
Stealing and copying aren't the same thing. The fact that you use the words interchangeably is a testament to the lobbying power of the RIAA/MPAA. Interestingly enough it was those same organizations which brought the word "piracy" into c
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
The author of that also uses a great deal of selective evidence, flat out ignoring genetic research in relationship to music, for example. Specific genetic sequences have been linked both to perfect pitch and to success in classical music.
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
"Further, I believe that a response like mine is the only serious response that can be given to someone (kogir) who actually just suggested, "with a straight face", that a full 10% of the people using the App Store should be /banned from l
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
That was absolutely stunning. I can't even imagine someone pinning their entire hard-earned fortune on a wing and a prayer, but that's exactly what he did. Talk about balls. Better still his start-ups are actually changing the world for t
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
What it does in practice is encourage keyword-stuffing. I've been going through dozens of iOS and webdev resumes a week and about two in three have the right keywords. Their skills don't correlate strongly with those keywords. What has go
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
I agree with you that the author had some really crazy preferences in his example. Penalizing a front end webdev who aren't on LinkedIn as harshly as you penalize those who don't know HTML is absolutely bonkers! In his defense, I think it
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
My disagreement was with the claim that "the Flynn Effect is in full swing". The recent small downwards trend you acknowledge is incompatible with that claim. From everything I've read on the topic, the Flynn Effect ended in the US about
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
This was a great tutorial. There's a long discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/iviw3/whats_a_c...
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
Citation needed? There's only one response to that: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=recent+flynn+effect Right at the top is this excerpt from wikipedia: "Recent research suggests that the Flynn effect may have ended in at least a few developed nati
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
It's hard not to see bringing up GDP as anything other than an attempt to derail the discussion. The author was talking about employment. Implying that the claim was that GDP would go down (which is much less likely), and defeating that c
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
Computer chess improved regularly for decades before becoming a true threat to master players. Why did it start toppling them in the 90s when it hadn't before? More recently, financial programs have carved out a huge niche of the market th
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
Maintain important overseas installations such as Japan and Taiwan. The US hasn't had a base in Taiwan for 30 years. Maybe you're thinking of Korea?
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
I googled "rising senior" and got under a million results. Even more telling, the very first result was title "What is a rising senior?" It's also worth pointing out that I'm US born and bred, spent 7 years at universities and was unfamilia
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
Graphics don't improve linearly with the number of pixels or polygons added. I'd say the improvement is closer to logarithmic. E.g. 500 polygons/second is a step better than 50, 5000 is two steps better than 50, etc. Improving the rate by
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
New mac user here. How do you do ANYTHING full screen in safari? The green plus button just makes a big window, not a full-screen one.
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
I also used to keep a dream journal; mine was for the purpose of lucid dreaming. Morning pages really make me curious. I saw them recommended in the Pragmatic Programmer's book Refactor your Wetware . Have you found that your wiki lead
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2804414
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
Nothing in the link I provided was about orange juice. It discussed wiretapping, linking to sites with potentially violent anti-American content and a variety of other issues. You've commented repeatedly on this thread about how it's THE L
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
> there's no statute against "public example making". If you don't want to be an example, avoid felonies. That's going to get me downvoted, so can we assume good faith and accept this new emoticon I just made up. Don't be a dick. You
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
Actually, I'd say the thought experiment worked perfectly in sussing out the gp poster's values. For many people money is the end, not the means.
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
I may be the target of this article. I like Ruby quite a bit and I don't like Java at all. The word "hate" isn't quite appropriate, but here's my problem with Java: I hate how much work Java makes me do to get things done. It doesn't matt
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
What does it mean when a ! is followed by a double equals? Is !== different from != in netspeak?
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by Troll_Whisperer 15y ago
It's related to the article: Lion's just another big cat name, right? Within seconds, we were on to the next slide, where Jobs was pitching the new release's message: not "king of the jungle" or "the biggest big cat," but the "back to the

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