calroc

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by calroc 12y ago
The "problem" that basic income is trying to solve is the massive increase in productive capacity due to automation, of which the increase of unemployment is a symptom. It's not so much that supply would meet demand (and so
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Hackable HUM. Your very own orgasm graph. Crowdsourcing sexual research(tinyletter.com)
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by calroc 12y ago
I have to disagree: There certainly are people who can keep (very) large systems in their minds and refine and extend them, but they are very rare and most of the people who might call themselves "Software Architects" are not. It
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by calroc 12y ago
"... From there it is only a small step to measuring "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced per month". This is a very costly measuring unit because it encourages the writing of insi
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by calroc 12y ago
Like Lessig's Super-PAC? https://mayday.us/
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by calroc 12y ago
If I had another life I would go search for this plant. It seems plausible to me and would definitely be awesome to find it if it exists.
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by calroc 12y ago
But psychopathy is a kind of divorce from reality; while it seems that the genius is somehow closer to reality than the normal person?
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by calroc 12y ago
That's pretty amazing! I sometimes use imagery of a toilet flushing and the thought going down, several flushes if necessary (imaginary water is free!) Also, imagining white noise (visual and auditory) washing out the thought, increas
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by calroc 12y ago
Your friend could have gotten the same benefits while working on something that also was of greater (presumable) benefit to others than "Cat Snaps". (I speak as one who has tremendous respect for the good that cat pictures have do
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by calroc 12y ago
The point of spiking trees isn't to hurt people, in fact the tree-huggers tell the loggers that the trees have been spiked so that they won't attempt to cut the trees. The point of the tactic is to prevent damage to the forest,
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Building a Git Server – A dive into Twisted, SSH, and Git(medium.com)
5 points by calroc 12y ago|0 comments
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by calroc 12y ago
No new features, no improvements, nothing -- just the same language, for a decade. Am I alone in being excited by this? I am figuratively drooling over such stability.
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by calroc 13y ago
I've been saying for years now that Star Trek forms the best commonly-known model for what future "economics" will be like. It's really awesome to read a well-thought-out treatment of that idea. Some points in no partic
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Gödel machines(idsia.ch)
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Achieving Usability Through Software Architecture(resources.sei.cmu.edu)
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by calroc 13y ago
"So much to do at Cartmanlaaaand.. But you can't come! eXpecially Stan and Kyle!"
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by calroc 13y ago
Well, waste is waste. Burning VC money is practically criminal when you think of the "opportunity cost" of what might have been achieved with it. The saddest was overhearing a (retired) doctor I worked for attempting to mortgage h
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by calroc 13y ago
I took a bit of umbrage at the idea that humans surviving longer than, say, the dinosaurs did is "over hyped and misunderstood". That comment was my attempt at an unhyped and easily understood definition of "sustainability&q
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by calroc 13y ago
"KNOW HOW THE DOUGHNUTS ARE MADE" In my recent experience working for startups in the SF Bay Area I saw this pattern repeatedly, and it shocked me. Otherwise intelligent and competent people are, in effect, setting their money on
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by calroc 13y ago
Derp. My bad.
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by calroc 13y ago
Will there still be humans in 300,000,000 million years?
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by calroc 13y ago
Except this: "Yes! Lisp is the superior language! The only reason it doesn't dominate all others is that most programmers are too stupid to see how wonderful Lisp is!" ...is exactly right. Not even hyperbole. Exactly ri
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by calroc 13y ago
Backus' paper on Functional Programming might be of interest; click on: "ACM Turing Award Lecture" http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/backus_0703524.cfm
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by calroc 13y ago
The original use for that code was to build a list of parsing objects to create a single parsing object that was the OR'ing of the basic ones. Aw, heck, code speaks louder than words: https://github.com/PhoenixBureau&#x
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by calroc 13y ago
My dad was a salesman, and a really good one. He absolutely maintained that it was both counter-productive and morally wrong to sell people things that they didn't actually need or want. On the other hand, if you have a product you be
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by calroc 13y ago
Yeah, I realized after posting it. (See edit.) The original code was using non-string objects. I basically come up with this to get the same behavior as str.join(). ;-)
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by calroc 13y ago
I couldn't resist. Moar funky-cool Python: >>> from string import ascii_letters >>> ors = ['|'] * (len(ascii_letters) * 2 - 1) >>> ors[::2] = ascii_letters >>> '&#x2
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by calroc 13y ago
This is a great, if somewhat basic list. My $0.02: Python is a tool for thinking clearly. That you can run your "thoughts" as written is a very nice bonus, of course. There are some really interesting things that Python allows:
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by calroc 13y ago
In this form you perform the lookup twice: once to test 'x' in d and then again to actually get the value d['x']. Try clauses in Python are very inexpensive if they pass (don't raise an exception), so often the try
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Python-based Assembler in Two Days(pythonwise.blogspot.com)
2 points by calroc 13y ago|0 comments

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