halbermensch

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by halbermensch 14y ago
...like the contortions I have to go through to get exception-safe asynchronous flow control. OK, I'm game. Care to elaborate?
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Why, that would have to be the very book I'm reading right now, in the moment, as we speak: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Aufzeichnungen_des_Malte_L...
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Yeah, man. We know, we know, we know . What's your replacement?
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Have to admit I'm not exactly afraid ... but kinda spooked out by those dried lotus seedpods
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by halbermensch 14y ago
'sall good - both kinds of learning are useful and necessary, actually.
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by halbermensch 14y ago
...or a notch under, for good measure.
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by halbermensch 14y ago
You'll also be exposed to: near-stupendous degrees of waste, inefficiency, and general head-in-the-sand-i-tude. Like: signing up for a $140k/year "consulting" gig, but having a secretary pick your sole "workstation", a 12-inch, low-memory
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Seriously, your English is quite good, but there are a few grammar nits in your writeup, so it would pay to invest in a bit of proofreading (from a native speaker, if possible).
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by halbermensch 14y ago
So everyone thinks they're hiring the top 0.5%, even though the same 199 losers are spamming their resumes to every job posting. Yeah, when you think about it, this whole "we only hire the top 0.5%" condescension really amounts to a basic
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Well and good, but it might be better to say "correlate with" rather than "predict." In the scheme of things, it's probably more accurate to say that pi(x) is self-generating, and it's the zeros of the zeta function that are tagging along
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by halbermensch 14y ago
...but not nearly as hard as learning to program well in any single one of them.
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by halbermensch 14y ago
My wrists, presently. Need a job where I can think for a living, for a change.
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Quite interesting though, as far as "useless" ideas go.
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Except that the Free City concept wasn't dreamed up in a libertarian vacuum. Except the way Thiel & Co mean it, it was. There's no way you can compare their schemes with historical examples with HK, Trieste, the Hanseatic League etc
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Umm, the people he represents weren't protesting that "Free Cities" are being built near their property (their "backyard") -- rather, that outsiders are proposing to build them on their property.
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Emanuel Derman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua(mathbabe.org)
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Or not goofy, if you think of 'number' as an enum constant denoting that variable's type , rather than its value . In this context, 'NaN' just happens to be another admissible value within the space of "number".
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Are you really posting from Iran? Are you familiar with the Tor Project: http://www.tor-project.org/ In any case, please be careful there, friend. Be very careful.
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Nifty little app, but in no way comparable with a service the scale of Gmail. So a better title might be, "Doh! What's above the hood != what's under the hood."
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Basic Latin American history, guys. Do a bit of reading.
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Because the whole "Free Cities" thing is part of the old Libertarian wet dream of establishing instant Utopias on whatever scrap of "unclaimed" land they salvage from somewhere (some rock or coral reef somewhere... or in this case, lands be
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by halbermensch 14y ago
I think the basic point you've failed to notice is that, not-so-paradoxically, it's the "Free Cities" entrepreneurs who are seeking to benefit from, i.e. are openly acting in direct collusion with, these very same forced expropriations.
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by halbermensch 14y ago
Jeez. I'm all for ditching $9,000-a-month "internships" at staid glass-box financial companbies. But someone needs to break it to this kid that war is no place for Experience Junkies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hetherington
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by halbermensch 14y ago
First-class Canadian-run legal systems, oh my! Sounds so wonderfully egalitarian and efficient, you almost want to move there... except that things aren't always what they seem: The problem is there are no clean slates. Honduras does not
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by halbermensch 14y ago
One of the ways we gauge an applicant’s ability to handle unknown situations is with a Lego test. ... Top-tier applicants will stand out during surprising interview situations, like the Lego test, based on their ability to handle adversity
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by halbermensch 14y ago
As for military spending, the US benefitted from that brief synapse in time in between the collapse of the Soviet Union/fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the emergence of another combatant 10 years later whose conflict with the US is al