adamgravitis

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by adamgravitis 2y ago
Other than the opportunity for a misplaced pun on the term “spiral”, why would you take an otherwise linear-in-time graph and make it radial? Why would age 0 to 50 be somehow cyclical?
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by adamgravitis 3y ago
I'd rather they be able to run mail servers. SMTP lends itself to intermittent delivery.
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by adamgravitis 3y ago
Orig article has lowercase ‘n’ in ‘next’, which makes more sense…
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by adamgravitis 3y ago
Because it was perfect…
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by adamgravitis 4y ago
The author is displeased with the sort of discussions present on networks built on a couple different technologies. Unclear how the third technology magically makes them “happy.”
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by adamgravitis 5y ago
I concur. The term obviously refers to another sort of thing entirely.
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by adamgravitis 6y ago
"In short: this author is endorsing a funding model focused on low initial investment and faster profitability." -> so basically, Canadian "venture" capital. They don't even want to talk to you unless profitabil
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by adamgravitis 7y ago
This is the furthest thing from the truth. That a human has a certain capability does not in the slightest imply that “DNA”, at least as commonly understood, encodes that capability, at all. A bunch of molecular recipes encoded in a few gi
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by adamgravitis 8y ago
I would just point out that HN does this in the title of every link posted, and has been doing this for years.
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by adamgravitis 8y ago
Toronto’s tech talent is keen... but relatively green. Since few companies have had to deal with scaling networks, users and data to the same magnitude as is common with Valley companies, it’s almost impossible to find senior engineers wor
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by adamgravitis 9y ago
I agree this is an abysmal article. A much much more rigorous proposal was put forward by an American mathematician several years ago regarding the geometry of trajectories of computer programs, which holds considerably more promise than wh
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by adamgravitis 9y ago
Are you guys going to release something describing your concept of "category oriented programming" any time soon?
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by adamgravitis 10y ago
To be fair, I do insist on calling Deloitte "Deloitte Dot".
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by adamgravitis 10y ago
Reducing the number, length and complexity of regulation is a valid goal, and that hasn't changed in thousands of years: "The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." - Tacitus
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by adamgravitis 10y ago
The main computationally intractable problems around drug discovery surround protein folding and identifying macromolecule shapes. This is necessary to infer receptor sites for potential drug targets. The problem is massively intractable.
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by adamgravitis 10y ago
Basic income is absolutely one route, but I can think of a few others. A startup could thrive in a smaller city where their employees could achieve a high quality of life without extraordinary expense. You'd still have to solve the r
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by adamgravitis 10y ago
Cities are largely about people, and people are largely about the difficult-to-describe sense of 'opportunity'. Cities reflect networks effects as strongly as anything, which is why the same cities that were important 100 years ag
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by adamgravitis 10y ago
Hi Alan, I've heard you frequently compare the OOP paradigm to microbiology and molecules. It seems like even Smalltalk-like object interactions are very different from, say, protein-protein interactions. How do you think this current
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by adamgravitis 10y ago
Then there'll definitely be ads.
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by adamgravitis 11y ago
...with just really bad inter-node bandwidth.
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by adamgravitis 11y ago
For sures. The ECEs are very much complicit too. Perhaps this is a ECE<->software team communication or power problem? ECEs invent the systems architecture and some poor chap has to attempt to secure the thing? Or maybe the softwa
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by adamgravitis 11y ago
So, it's becoming abundantly clear that vehicle companies (autos, jets...) have approximately zero knowledge how to hire software engineers. Presumably they're somewhat more successful hiring mechanical engineers because that&#x2
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
I just noticed this was authored by Michael Nielsen... co-author of the text on quantum computation, and now a huge open-academia advocate. And he's open-sourced the micro-lisp he wrote in this article: https://github.com
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
My understanding was that the greater losses in today's tech tend to lie at the VDC->VAC conversion panel-side. Also, I agree that the USB Power Delivery spec is a very good candidate for modern homes/vehicles.
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
The rule of thumb with this kind of thing is you try to use plausible data in your screen shots. Having "moar project" and "even more project", and "super project" and "new project" makes it hard to
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
I am, however, sympathetic to Chris' point that just teaching people how to code doesn't necessarily accomplish anything. I think this concern actually strikes at the core of the difference between programming as a "trade&quo
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Keeping Upverter Up(blog.upverter.com)
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
I'm not sure it's a perfect analogy. People might ask Ford to go faster, people are asking technology to let them work longer before it dies. I think the sentiment is pretty clear: this doesn't mean we need better Li-ion b
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
I massively disagree with the importance of swappable batteries. While I suppose there are people who are pretty happy hauling around a bunch of batteries with them, I haven't considered such a thing since camcorders were cool. A bi
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by adamgravitis 12y ago
He taught our Calculus II course a few years ago, which had rather famous exams. A couple years later I was poking around the library and found a book he'd just published entitled something like "50 challenging undergraduate math

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