kovalkos

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by kovalkos 13y ago
You don't have to join "self-congratulatory ecstasy", but you also don't have to be a condescending dick. Instead of making vague and shallow insults, you should try to politely explain what's wrong with OP's w
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by kovalkos 13y ago
Is your comment supposed to be sarcastic mockery of HN or are you being serious?
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by kovalkos 13y ago
I am in exactly same situation. The main problem with "the spiral of learning" is the wasted energy required to switch tasks. If I could just stick with one thing until I mastered it, I would be much more efficient. Trying to go b
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by kovalkos 13y ago
>Imagine a $250 Macbook. The only good part about Macs is the hardware. I would much rather run a normal linux distro instead. Putting OS X on $200 Chromebook is like buying a barn and thinking you will get 1000-acre piece of land with i
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by kovalkos 13y ago
This is an interesting, albeit somewhat scary, application of Automaton Theory. Scientists shouldn't be rushing with this kind of thing (research for sake of research), and we, as humanity, should carefully consider the implication of
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by kovalkos 13y ago
Another problem with torrents is compression of files. Compressing a torrent makes it impossible to select only 1 file from a big collection.
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by kovalkos 13y ago
This is a bad application of the quote. Most of the Lisp hackers are usually knowledgeable about analysis of algorithm complexity. Alan Perlis comment talks about inefficiency of Lisp programs due to a lot of (meta) abstraction and indirect
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by kovalkos 13y ago
There's plenty of people with mental disease who are illogical, but they still have capable of causing harm. And "bad guys" are not necessarily required for a global catastrophe. Human error can do the job just as well.
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by kovalkos 13y ago
This is my rough understanding of what's going on: Ukraine wants to increase cooperation with Europe, and possibly join EU. This would undermine it's relationship with Russia. The previous Ukranian president, Viktor Yushchenko, us
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by kovalkos 13y ago
Yeah, any member of animal kingdom can rationally analyze situations and make logical decisions based on facts, but art, on the other hand, is unique to humans. </s>
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by kovalkos 13y ago
Additionally, it is Open Source.
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by kovalkos 13y ago
What is the point of advertisement? Capitalism is an interesting trick. It is an artificial game, which exploits people's selfishness to benefit the world. But selfishness doesn't usually work like that, so humans naturally try to