abraxasz

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by abraxasz 12y ago
Only slightly related but I read "masters of doom" recently and I can't recommend it highly enough. It is a very entertaining read even if you are not crazy over video games. It tells the story of the two Johns, and mention C
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by abraxasz 12y ago
I think it again depends on what you mean by hacker. If a web developer is passionate about web development, learns everything he can about it, enjoys doing it, and approaches it like an aesthete, then according to the author he is a webdev
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by abraxasz 12y ago
I think the problem is more (6) deliberate practice is hard to define. Some people believe that just sitting and doing problem sets is deliberate practice. Some people believe that hacking on a side project is deliberate practice of program
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by abraxasz 12y ago
If so this should really have been made clearer in the press coverage because it is very different from the way I and probably other people understood it. I understand that soundclound would need a way to make money, and what you describe s
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by abraxasz 12y ago
Didn't know about unmode! I checked it out and I like it very much, thanks for sharing!
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by abraxasz 12y ago
That was exactly my thought when I read the comment. I would be very curious to know if I'm missing something here, but it seems obvious to me that if a publicly owned company can do something better and cheaper (cheaper not only just
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by abraxasz 12y ago
I agree with your remarks. One reason, however, why I still enjoy reading articles on the site from time to time is that they almost always make me think. Their perspectives, however flawed, have the merit of being strongly coherent, and tr
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by abraxasz 12y ago
I had a similar thought when I watched the video. Actually, I thought about the concept of 'Quality' as introduced in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Two moments in particular: - the consistent lighting part: the guy is
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by abraxasz 12y ago
Ok, so I do believe that CEO's are usually overpaid with regard to their performance. That being said, I am not convinced by the methodology used in the study, specifically the period used for measuring the performance: 3 years. It sou
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by abraxasz 12y ago
Genuine question: The article goes on and on about how making the apps paid in developing countries would make more sense than using ads, etc, etc.. Ok, I see the point. But is it really that different from the developed countries? How much
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by abraxasz 12y ago
I'm not a specialist of FP, so please take what I say with a grain of salt. Before answering your questions, here's a preliminary point: 0) The problem is that FP is not really defined anywhere, or rather, everyone has its own def
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by abraxasz 12y ago
These are only speculations, but here are points based on my own habits: 1) The most important criterion for me when looking for a store, is walking distance. I don't want to bike, or drive to the store. So the closest store is almost
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by abraxasz 12y ago
Thanks for sharing, that was a wonderful essay, highly recommended!
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by abraxasz 12y ago
"None of the executives who signed the letter are scheduled to appear at today’s Senate hearing. Witnesses on the agenda include Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole, NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett and FBI Deputy Director Mark
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by abraxasz 12y ago
Let me quote an excerpt from Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman (p. 127 from my edition): "... I had a very good group [..] clever boys from high school who had an engineering ability". So yes, it was a team of people, but thos
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by abraxasz 12y ago
Off the top of my head: * John Karmack's game engines for Commander Keen, Doom, Quake * Palmer Luckey's original Rift design * Feynman's "parallel" computer at Los Alamos And many many more if you include mathematic
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by abraxasz 12y ago
I read the book a while back and it is absolutely fantastic. What I understand about monads, I learnt it from this book (no other exposition of monads ever made sense to me), and I particularly like his progression functors -> applicativ
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by abraxasz 12y ago
It seems like this depends on the universities (and maybe also on undergrad vs grad), but I've done my masters, and am currently doing my phd at an Ivy in the US, and I've been pleasantly surprised to find out that we are almost n
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I know that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, and that given the awesome work they are doing, this is worth the hassle. But I'd like to make a comment concerning the payment method. Last week I make my very first do
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by abraxasz 13y ago
... and this is why, selfishly, I would like to see the system implemented somewhere, albeit not necessarily where I live. People keep throwing peremptory statements here and there (on both sides of the argument), even though we really have
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by abraxasz 13y ago
A few points: 2) I've also switched to DDG, but I still find that google gives me somewhat better results for things related to programming are academics. Apart from that, I like DDG a lot. 3) That's the big, big problem for me. I
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by abraxasz 13y ago
"And as the company grew, the founders soon realized that managers contributed in many other, important ways—for instance, by communicating strategy, helping employees prioritize projects, facilitating collaboration, supporting career
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by abraxasz 13y ago
If you look only at the latest youtube thing, it might not be the worst google's been through. But if you look back at all the examples you compiled, two of them happened in the last 6 months. I don't know how it's all perc
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by abraxasz 13y ago
A few comments: > valuable service I'd think that what makes a good api should be characterized independently of what makes a good service. You can have a useless service, with a fantastic api. No one is going to use it, maybe, but
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I did experience revulsion, but I think that you're right, it's an important concept to think about. I perused the link you provided, and here are some random thoughts: - The article lists as a deadly sin: "Evaluation by perf
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by abraxasz 13y ago
Just one data point here, but I effectively switched to Bing for search (actually, DDG, but they use Bing among other things to get their results). In all honesty, I think that google's results are slightly better, especially when it c
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by abraxasz 13y ago
Excellent point. Every two or three week or so, I'm wondering why I'm still on FB. Answer? Because there are those people I met when I was traveling a lot, and even though we don't talk much or at all, it's good to know
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by abraxasz 13y ago
> 34 terrorist plots have been thwarted in the UK since the 7/7 London bombings. One or two were major plots aimed at mass casualties. I see this type of argument often, and I wonder how people can take this type of logic seriously.
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by abraxasz 13y ago
One thing I've found is that the effectiveness of remote work depends somehow on the type of work being done. I'm a currently a grad student, and my advisor is not in town very often. We have frequent skype meetings, but I don&#x2
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by abraxasz 13y ago
I think a more relevant question should be: is a certain degree of "formulaicity" desirable or not? I believe that it is, yes. When I browse a website for the first time, I like it when it's clean and unoriginal in its presen

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