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by e_modad 7y ago
I was interested in this when I saw it posted recently, but I don't have the money for it, so I'm definitely interested in getting into the beta. Where would I even get the code though? Twitter? Reddit?
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by e_modad 8y ago
That's a good question. Do you think Steve's opinion on gaming is still baked into the company?
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by e_modad 8y ago
I remember being 12 years old and obsessively reading through fravia's pages into the morning in the mid-90's. On a whim, I e-mailed +orc. He responded so kindly that it had a significant effect on my interests and attitudes. I&#x
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by e_modad 8y ago
I always thought of Opera as the quintessential engineer's browser. I switched away from Chrome a couple years ago and haven't looked back since. It's fast, has tons of extensions and works well for pretty much everything.
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by e_modad 8y ago
Hyperscale is a term already right? I don’t know a lot about HPC, but I think it’s already part of the nomenclature.
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by e_modad 8y ago
The full name is the "Yerkes-Dodson Law of Social Facilitation." It's this idea that a task requires an optimal amount of nervous system arousal. Too much and you get jittery, too little and you get lethargic. So it looks lik
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by e_modad 11y ago
The major difference is that a warrant to access a safety deposit box allows the keys for that specific safety deposit box and no other. What the FBI is asking for is the equivalent of asking for a master key to all the safety deposit boxes
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by e_modad 11y ago
Fascinating! Also, I couldn't help but think of that scene from The Graduate when I first read your post.
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by e_modad 11y ago
Do you have any books or posts that you'd recommend looking at? There's a huge mountain of information I'm looking at right now. Any specific leads? I'm genuinely asking because I agree with you but didn't know abou
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by e_modad 11y ago
That was a great visualization. Thanks for the information lead.
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by e_modad 11y ago
But are they just cogs in a machine? The author betrays his own thoughts on the subject by discussing it that way. I order delivery all the time and have never though of the cooks and delivery people as "cogs in a machine." They&#
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by e_modad 11y ago
Exactly. "Dystopian"? Hyperbole much? This person is just ordering delivery, leaving a nice tip and then making a huge assumption about the lives of the cooks and delivery people. It's not like the restaurants have child labo
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by e_modad 11y ago
Source? That sounds a little high.
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by e_modad 11y ago
Craig Venter says here[1] that Franz Och (of Google Translate fame) has done some analysis for his new company Human Longevity Inc that shows that about 50% of the genome is responsible for the brain. So the number is quite big and much lar
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by e_modad 11y ago
Ah ... you think so gwern? I would assume that most people would think that twins are incredibly similar. Or maybe I'm in an echo chamber and need to get out more.
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by e_modad 11y ago
Isn't it? Kudos to the authors for a super clear paper. The graphs make everything crystal clear. Succinct and clear graphs are oddly satisfying for me.
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by e_modad 11y ago
Sure. So here are a few of the highlights of the paper: - They looked at nearly every single twin study over the last 50 years - The combined population of the all the studies is 14 million twin pairs - The results strongly suggest that eve
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by e_modad 11y ago
Congrats!
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by e_modad 12y ago
Such great advice. Don't wait for permission just get started.
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by e_modad 12y ago
My big problem is the price. It's just outrageous for software that I just want to hack on something every once in a while.
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by e_modad 12y ago
The whole time I was thinking "Man, this is crazy, don't they see how that hurts productivity?" And then I thought about Europe compared to the United States. To our European colleagues: Do you think of us as working ourselve
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by e_modad 12y ago
Likewise! I'm curious too. Why is COBOL your main language? Bank legacy servers?
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by e_modad 12y ago
Hey Adam, I just want to say I loved the recent talks you've given. The one at Hadoop Summit with Josh Patterson was so cool as a general overview. Keep it up!
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by e_modad 12y ago
I'm actually curious, why LCD displays? Was it thought to be incredibly difficult to achieve before?
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by e_modad 12y ago
That's an insightful way of looking at it. Reagan was likely the crest of a wave rather than the start of a new one.
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by e_modad 12y ago
"EDIT. Just in case anyone is wondering: for goodness sake I'm not arguing that we shouldn't be concerned about people's needs. But if the above idea is how the world really works, then there is no point in denying it.&q
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by e_modad 12y ago
I think one of the big reasons we haven't seen the kind of progress our predecessors had hoped for is because most people don't have the physical or mental energy. For big technological and social advancements, you need everyone (
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by e_modad 12y ago
That is so cool! I love HN for stories like this.
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by e_modad 12y ago
I think warrenmar is referring to the fact a paper's impact can be measured by counting the number of times other authors cite the original paper. IIRC, Larry and Sergey used that idea as the conceptual framework behind PageRank. Indee
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by e_modad 12y ago
Terence is doing something vitally important. 3D printing is likely to be a "next big thing" and we have a duty to ensure the technology stays as open as possible. As a community, we're lucky that ideas like 'open source

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