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by jilebedev 11y ago
For a layman's introduction to how (pardon the hyperbole) soul-crushingly difficult this problem is, have a look at this amateur attempt to process language inputted by players into a video game: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by jilebedev 11y ago
> proliferation will all lead to an increased likelihood of nuclear war Again, the unstated implication is that the US has a moral right to shepherd the rest of the world to the correct moral conclusion to this situation. The rest of the
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by jilebedev 11y ago
> Once a country has a nuclear bomb or two, there is not much other governments can do to stop it from making more, says Ilan Goldenberg, a former head of the Iran team at the Pentagon. Plenty of states want such capabilities. https:&#x
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by jilebedev 13y ago
On other discussion boards, I'd assume you were trolling. There is enough good faith on HN that I'll reply honestly. > miserable schmuck > barely gets by in his job People who are miserable schmucks barely getting by in the
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by jilebedev 13y ago
Manipulative people succeed in life, and in business. Unfortunately, this is a skillset orthogonal to focuses of STEM majors: hence the drama generated by this post. As the Marines say: improvise, adapt, and overcome.
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by jilebedev 13y ago
Moreover, would the meditation participants behave compassionately in other situations? A waiting room forms an implicit assumption that the present humans will have further interaction. What of compassion shown to stranger where the subjec
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by jilebedev 13y ago
>how utterly incompetent the local military is no matter how much time we put into attempting to train them. Somehow in the US we're able to take (often poor) 17/18 year olds, and in 10 weeks of BCT (Basic) and then in 3 week to 2 years
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by jilebedev 14y ago
That's a lot of words from both authors to say: nobody actually cares about "you". They only care about what they can get from you. That can be horrifically depressing or pragmatic and inspiring: the emotional reaction is irrelevant, it is
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by jilebedev 14y ago
RapGenius is also a big factor in the meritocratic rise of quality hip-hop. A track like Kendrick Lamar's Keisha's Song[1] would have been inaccessible and quickly discarded by a human like myself had it not been for the RapGenius page[2] f
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by jilebedev 14y ago
I'm actually really impressed. Thanks for the recommendation.
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by jilebedev 14y ago
Can HNers recommend a good personal finance management software solution? I'd like something that connects to my bank account and allows me to keep track of incoming vs outgoing money. Ideally, I'd like to tag every outgoing dollar as bel
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by jilebedev 14y ago
>My favorite writers get to the point quickly and effectively. It's not so simple. If the reader is interested in comprehending a large amount of technical or objective information quickly, then yes, by all means, start with the point,
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by jilebedev 14y ago
Piloting machines (cars, busses, trains, jets) is a task that is fundamentally fit better for a machine than a human.
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by jilebedev 14y ago
Waiting an idea out does two important things. 1. It ensures you're objective and clearheaded. There's no reason to value the thinking process of an euphorically happy man over a suicidally depressed one. Both are irrational. 2. Humans ar
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by jilebedev 14y ago
The most useful context to use FreeMind, in my experience, is when planning a project. After weeks of discussions and meetings and specifications, it's difficult to remember all the details, nuances, and dependencies that simply need to ge
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Ask HN: what do you use for instant/asynchronous communication?
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by jilebedev 14y ago
Balsamiq is a tool you don't think about needing, but when you find it, it fits like a glove and you wonder how things ever got done before it. Moreover, Peldi's blog is frequently featured here on HN, and he writes cogently and about inter
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by jilebedev 14y ago
> When able-bodied competitors engage in hard physical activities like running or swimming, blood pressure and heart rate increase automatically. Athletes with spinal injuries do not get that response. Can anyone explain why a spinal co
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by jilebedev 14y ago
It's good that you bring that point up. I disagree with you, and if I could be so bold, I'll paraphrase tptacek's post above: communities are built on principles that goad people to excellence, not forbid them from mediocrity. Communities
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by jilebedev 14y ago
> the article makes great sweeping points, pretending to talk about some sort of general truth while in fact catering to a very specific readership For reference, here are the article's points: > The market doesn’t care what you lo
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by jilebedev 14y ago
Programming started for me as "hey, check out what I can do with BASIC" and turned into "now defend your algorithm using the O(n) notation." There was never any time to play with the things I had learned, to fall in love with them. It becam
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by jilebedev 14y ago
That's taking it a bit far, eh? Tasteful user interfaces answer relevant questions - not just any question at all.
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by jilebedev 14y ago
What pain point exactly is this trying to solve? That twitter is ad-spammed? I'll admit I rarely use twitter, but I can't recall ever seeing ads on it. (I can, as a side note, recall how /slow/ twitter pages load.) That twitter changes its
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by jilebedev 14y ago
What a poor article. That there exists an unequal amount of men and women in a certain profession means nothing on its own. That there exists a systematic bias against a group of people in an industry, wherein the defining quality of that g
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by jilebedev 14y ago
> comments that don't add to the discussion Atwood: > don't advocate learning to code just for the sake of learning how to code. Shaw: > Never listen to people who try to make beginners feel like losers The OP here is non sequit
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by jilebedev 14y ago
Great execution, but I'm uncertain of the idea. My personal perspective: I read wikipedia for information -- I read HN for critical insight. Not always present, but a higher signal/noise ratio than other websites. I don't want a summary of
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by jilebedev 14y ago
> Time to ditch the arrogant tech blogs No. Time to stop disguising attacks at media outlets as constructive advice. If the author had wanted to be constructive, the article would have read along these lines: "It's a tough problem to fi
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by jilebedev 14y ago
I'm struck by a sense of extravagant expense toward an inefficient process in the name of company PR: "we're green, here's what we've done." I'm willing to admit I don't understand the process behind this powerplant, but three things jump o
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by jilebedev 14y ago
>MegaCli specifies the address in one format, but sets a flag indicating that it’s in another Far as I can discern (I'm not a kernel hacker) that is the root cause. Can anyone with static code analysis experience chime in on whether it
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by jilebedev 14y ago
Each day, you arrive to work, sit in a chair, and focus on Python programming. After five years, you're a pretty damned experienced Python developer: you've become wiser, more efficient, and generally more productive. But ... you're still n

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