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by jsnx 19y ago
I'm forced to reconsider this remark. Venture capitalists -- like all investors -- play an important role in bridging the gap between consumer demand and actual innovation. They are less risk averse than most investors, though -- and more a
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by jsnx 19y ago
Deploy: Ruby things. GEMs work better than EGGs, in part because there are fewer of them. Ruby makes OO easier. Maintain: Python things. There are so many EGGs! If you need a new package for something or other -- the JSON parser isn't fast
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by jsnx 19y ago
One could also develop a separate kernel API for version control. Filesystems without version control would just have null operations in this API, while filesystems with version control would root around in their database for the change inf
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by jsnx 19y ago
Because of UniHan?
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by jsnx 19y ago
I can not believe you linked to yourself! It does not speak well of an author's arguments when they rely on generalities -- "you don't know everything" and "programmers can't communicate". As for Leibniz, Euclid and Newton -- Gauss was by a
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by jsnx 19y ago
Ruby has always had excellent support for Japanese, though.
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by jsnx 19y ago
Well, if you don't place much weight on foreign language, that's okay -- my point still stands. U.S. performance in math and science is comparatively disappointing. I can't really agree with your position on language learning, but I'm a lit
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by jsnx 19y ago
The reason we have public education... ...is to allow the economy to function more efficiently, through pervasive literacy, use of numbers, &c. It's in the interest of the wealthy if they can off load some of the organizational detail
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by jsnx 19y ago
If it were just Asian countries, I might agree; but the U.S. lags those wild and free Northern European countries in matters like math skills and foreign language training.
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by jsnx 19y ago
They may be admitted, but they won't actually go :) They'll get a package with a punishing amount of loans.
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by jsnx 19y ago
Maybe it would be better if people always used cat, always used wc, &c. Sure, performance is better the other way -- but multiplying the functionality of each command comes at a price, namely that only grognards can do things "the right
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by jsnx 19y ago
Sure.
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by jsnx 19y ago
If I understand it correctly, the idea with Reddit is that the community can decide what news it wants to see, by posting links and then filtering them. If the community wants hate speach (or more of those Ron Paul links) and Reddit serves
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by jsnx 19y ago
I hate to press you on this point -- the wreckage of many a flame war has barely had time to grow moss -- but can you point to a specific feature? I assume you mean OS level features -- system calls and such.
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by jsnx 19y ago
I would like to hear more about why you use it. I used to use FreeBSD for everything, but it's my understanding that the once significant differences in performance and stability between Linux and BSD no longer amount to anything. I switc
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by jsnx 19y ago
Gentoo
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by jsnx 19y ago
The objection that, in the midst of a long document, telling what level of indentation one is at would be difficult is easily addressed by having the editor show space marks or using 'fold lines' in print -- neither of which is difficult. I
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by jsnx 19y ago
In Zen, it is said that "aggregates" (things) have no "self nature", that all things arise in "codependent origination" -- you can't get a driver in a universe without cars, nor a car without drivers. One seeks not the "car-ness" in cars, b
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by jsnx 19y ago
It is a clash between classical logic and intuition, which is the point -- it indicates a difficulty with applying classical logic, and encourages us to take up other avenues.
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by jsnx 19y ago
The Raven paradox is a good example of why we need Bayesian inference. The paradox is not a real paradox -- it doesn't imply true and false at the same time -- but it makes a strong case for a system that integrates degree of confidence thr
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by jsnx 19y ago
Doesn't the statement limit itself to the present? "All ravens are black."
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by jsnx 19y ago
If two logical statements are equivalent, then yes indeed, evidence that implies one of them (in classical logic) implies the other one. The solution is indeed intuitive but is not formalizable in classical logic. Classical logic does not
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by jsnx 19y ago
There is a lot of cynicism about undergraduate CS -- but no one in the industry offers internships to anyone but students. If you don't like what the Universities are selling, stop buying it!
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by jsnx 19y ago
And what about more effective?
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by jsnx 19y ago
I feel so bad for doctors and lawyers after reading your post. Now think about how the poor sysadmins feel -- man, picking grapes is starting to look pretty good...
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by jsnx 19y ago
I was a homeless man two Januaries ago -- I lived in a van at the corner of MLK and Oregon in Berkeley. This wasn't a student project, either. I really just had no money, no friends who would take me and nowhere else to go. Thank God someon
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by jsnx 19y ago
I meant to highlight the irony of doctors and lawyers , of all people, complaining about this fact. I am not a socialist.
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by jsnx 19y ago
Venture capitalists benefit themselves and a handful of other people economically, while providing funding for services that are -- in so many cases -- vacuous garbage. The tubes of the internet are clogged with pr0n, but where is a single
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by jsnx 19y ago
Wow. To think of the envy doctors must feel -- making a measly 200Gs while the venture capitalists are making millions! We all ought to consider, too, the absolute worthlessness of venture capital in a social sense (and the basic worthless
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by jsnx 19y ago
It's too bad you can't set the width. In fact, it's too bad the guy doesn't force it to 80 chars...

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