aaronasterling

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by aaronasterling 14y ago
Internet connectivity is over rated. I bet my wall paper is swanker than yours.
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by aaronasterling 14y ago
One doesn't have to buy into the system you describe. I basically sleep on the beach on Maui and mostly eat for free. In many ways, it's a good life :)
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by aaronasterling 14y ago
If one starts with star-R to begin with, then why does one need the transference theorems?
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by aaronasterling 14y ago
If doing a better job means that you will be negatively evaluated by your employer then find a better job. Catering to mediocrity breeds mediocrity.
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by aaronasterling 14y ago
> It's a bit presumptuous to squarely pin something like that on evolution. Evolution is likely to favor many things, including individualism and rationality. To a certain extent we will see individualism and rationality favored by evol
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by aaronasterling 14y ago
You'd have to ask its designer. Sloppy programmers do like globals and JS was targeted for them.
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by aaronasterling 14y ago
The defacto standard is to put nothing in an enclosing namespace unless it's needed there. The purpose of functions (especially in a language like JS) is to wrap up everything that's needed to accomplish a given task and leave no mess behin
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by aaronasterling 14y ago
But when writing code, how do you know that it's always going to be "single page bound"? YAGNI is frequently useful poison and nothing more. When it's so easy to do it right the first time, why not?
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by aaronasterling 14y ago
"I mean, if you're making these decisions collectively how could you justify the division of effort?" For the sake of argument, it could be arrived at by deciding that Python was good for some things and Ruby was good for others. Or rationa
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by aaronasterling 14y ago
Individual humans aren't subordinate by misfortune. Evolution "designed" them to accept cultural assumptions so as to avoid threatening cultural cohesion. I love Ayn Rand (as a writer, not a philosopher. I have never identified with a chara
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by aaronasterling 14y ago
Much of the psychological benefit of exercise comes from increased testosterone. This happens by stimulating muscles. Try to develop a regular routine for things likes squats and pullups and see if that doesn't make you feel better.
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by aaronasterling 14y ago
I would recommend some kind of "zen" type of meditation as well. It doesn't have to be the religious type (i.e. the lowercase Z suffices) but learning to stop thinking and accept the present moment for what it is without preconcieved notion
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A math/love song (youtube.com)
1 points by aaronasterling 17y ago|0 comments
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by aaronasterling 17y ago
plus if you think about it, you have to do tokenization before you do 'stemming'. I was really excited about finding this because computational linguistics is supposed to be the sort of thing that lisps are really brilliant for.
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Clojure Series: Table of Contents(writingcoding.blogspot.com)
22 points by aaronasterling 17y ago|4 comments
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by aaronasterling 17y ago
I don't understand how you claim that your sense of objective morality is on the same footing as utility of the senses and the fundamental correctness of human reason in terms of accepting them as a foundation for reasonable argument. human
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by aaronasterling 17y ago
I don't think it even does that though. if the ability to absorb a system of ethics is an inherited trait, then atheists have presumably inherited the ability as well and would therefore be (from a statistical perspective) as ethical as eve
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by aaronasterling 17y ago
"everything" might be more then is understandable by pure reason, i have to give you that.
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by aaronasterling 17y ago
He just messes up and shows his ignorance/stupidity when he tries to say that "man is more complex then an avatar of pure reason" implies "the processes by which man was created are more than is understandable by pure reason". believe wha
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by aaronasterling 17y ago
Am I missing something or does this have nothing to do with "new atheism"? "It challenges the new atheists, who see themselves involved in a war of reason against faith and who have an unwarranted faith in the power of pure reason and in th
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by aaronasterling 17y ago
that sounds like that show "the office" gone wrong. i'd hang myself