lmarinho

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by lmarinho 8y ago
My usual answer is that math isn't too concerned with what things are , but with how they work with each other. So the answer would be: anything that works like the Peano axioms says it should. The "what it is" can be fill
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You Give Code a Bad Name - Observations about naming stuff in programming(goiabada.blog)
6 points by lmarinho 8y ago|0 comments
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by lmarinho 8y ago
I was a very fearful flyer, couldn't stop visualizing possible accident scenarios while on an airplane, sweaty hands, grabbing the arm rest, all that. Today I rejoice the experience so much that sometimes I consider buying a ticked jus
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To join or not to join? An act of #includes(goiabada.blog)
3 points by lmarinho 9y ago|0 comments
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[video] The Soul of Software – Avdi Grimm(youtube.com)
9 points by lmarinho 11y ago|1 comments
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by lmarinho 12y ago
Thanks for bringing this back to the surface. I see that SEPs design has greatly improved since I last visited it. The new looks make for a much more pleasant reading experience, right on par with the excellent content.
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by lmarinho 12y ago
I think the best way to make people subservient to their government is to keep their subsistence dependent on it. There has to be a better solution for this. Automation might make many goods and services readily available without requiring
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by lmarinho 13y ago
My favourite touch screen UI on current cars is the one on the VW Golf 7. It has this proximity sensor that highlights and increases the size of buttons when your hand approaches the screen. Overall, the interface is very clean and avoids a
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by lmarinho 13y ago
Very touching. I took some similar pictures of my mom as she fought pancreactic cancer, and of the emptiness she left on rooms and objects. I find that contemplating the pain in this straightforward way prevents it from growing into some ki
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by lmarinho 13y ago
I've recently watched this documentary called 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi'. It is about this legendary 85-year-old sushi master in Japan and his two sons who will succeed him in the business. At some point there was an interesting
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by lmarinho 13y ago
What amazes me is that I read the whole article and only noticed this after reading your comment. Now I'm disturbed too.
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by lmarinho 13y ago
Hi, It's great to hear that you are back on it! I stumbled on this page a couple of years ago and was saddened to see it wasn't getting updated. Thank you for this great piece of writing.
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by lmarinho 13y ago
Something that has been working very well for us is asking for payment before the work starts on a set of deliverables. Charging gets very simple, if he pays, you start working, if he doesn't, you don't. Not every client may accep
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Tim Cook is a great CEO(stratechery.com)
4 points by lmarinho 13y ago|1 comments
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by lmarinho 13y ago
I don't know, I can find plenty of iPhone quality photography on the Web already. I expect professional quality content from dedicated news outlets.
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by lmarinho 13y ago
Maybe he can try starting a charter city.
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Harlem Shake vs Gangnam Style(google.com)
2 points by lmarinho 14y ago|0 comments
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by lmarinho 14y ago
Interesting that he uses the term "objects in space" on this text. I wonder if it was inspired by the Firefly episode with the same name, which itself reflects the directors reading of Nausea[1]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_(n
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by lmarinho 14y ago
A little example I've come up with is writing a bunch of tests for a function you are implementing and seeing them automatically executed. Try to fix fib by changing a, b and i values: (defn fib [n] (loop [a 1, b 1, i 1] (if (
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by lmarinho 14y ago
Good point, my statement was poorly formulated. While I agree that analytic geometry and other developments in the field could be more fundamental, Hilbert's formalization can still be useful to express more precisely what one means by "poi
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by lmarinho 14y ago
I'd also refer to Hilbert's Axioms[1], which are the basis for the modern treatment of Euclidean Geometry. [1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17384/17384-pdf.pdf
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by lmarinho 14y ago
I like the high resolution background image, maybe you could find a more graceful way of introducing it. Try fading it in after it has finished loading, like bing.com, instead of making the user watch it "build down".
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by lmarinho 14y ago
During college, in order to plan my time, I used to measure my studying time on more mathematically intense texts. I took 30-60mins per page on average. It is a hard read, at least for me, but intensely gratifying too.
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Back of the Envelope [Physics] Problems(ajp.dickinson.edu)
57 points by lmarinho 14y ago|8 comments
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by lmarinho 14y ago
Love the app, congrats! I will start using it this week and see how it goes. My only gripe with it is related with responsiveness to touch: if I tap on '+' or on 'View all habits', the button doesn't highlight. This can feel frustrating if
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by lmarinho 14y ago
I'm curious about how they plan to bring these materials here. I assume changing the trajectory of the asteroid towards Earth wouldn't be a very good idea, considering the potential risk of impact. Maybe small chunks of material brought by
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by lmarinho 15y ago
Is there a running list of companies/colleges that engage in this kind of practice? I'd like to know to keep my distance from them. Since they are so keen on invading other peoples privacies I gather they wouldn't mind being exposed on this
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by lmarinho 15y ago
The prevailing theory is that it is truly random. Check out the Wikipedia entry on theories that aimed to eliminate that randomness, called hidden variable theories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory
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by lmarinho 15y ago
The example I came up with when trying to explain the concept was pretty similar, however I framed it in a problem of finding the total value in a huge amount of coins.
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by lmarinho 15y ago
That is correct. If the safest policy is to avoid touching patents altogether and people come up with similar solutions to problems without having any information whatsoever about a related patent it begs the question: what knowledge did th

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