mantrax

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by mantrax 13y ago
So the only thing you didn't answer is the actual question, which was how much time it took you. And "your time" counts when we discuss "how long"...
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by mantrax 13y ago
2008 called, it wants its imaginary problem back. Short links are intended to be transient. They're used in environments meant to be transient (tweets, emails, phone text messages etc.). No, we don't need to hoard every single twe
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by mantrax 13y ago
The reason the CPU is not using most of the energy is because it's not used all the time. And that's by design. Every single thing possible under the sun is done to keep the CPU off for even a split ms on mobile. Because if you st
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by mantrax 13y ago
I can sum up this article & its predecessors like so: "What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!"
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by mantrax 13y ago
Well, the first half of the title is right.
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by mantrax 13y ago
In nature most animals do not die of old age or sickness. In fact, dying of old age or sickness is the most horrifying and prolonged death possible for any life form. It's torture. Being hunted and dead in the span of hours, or even
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by mantrax 13y ago
Many of those hundreds of languages do actually run on iOS. Many games on the App Store are written in Unity (a C# platform). Heck, many are written in Flash too. Yes, Flash. I actually consider it a very healthy sign that the people compla
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by mantrax 13y ago
1. Prison. The philosophy of prison as punishment is wrong, but the idea of keeping a murderer isolated from potential victims isn't. So don't throw out the baby with the bath water. 2. Animals, just like humans, die. There's
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by mantrax 13y ago
People who are willing to reinvent the syntax of a language only to shave a few parens and braces have a lot to learn yet about what truly matters.
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by mantrax 13y ago
"I think the best solution is to make charity cool again." No, charity doesn't need your branding efforts. It needs accountability. Throwing money at a generic "charity" initiative is the best way to see your money
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by mantrax 13y ago
That's the problem with studying animals, they can't defend themselves to correct our hilarious over-generalizations and misrepresentations of their species.
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by mantrax 13y ago
You shouldn't trust that interpretation by Wolfram Alpha. 1. Distance . One obvious discrepancy is that the closer you look at the photo the less detailed it'll look. That's the opposite of how actual "vision" work
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by mantrax 13y ago
It's not so poor. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7441530
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by mantrax 13y ago
Actually there's no solid evidence how much help an accountant is with regards to safely using Bitcoins. Would an accountant know enough to safely store "wallets", to monitor "blockchains". Is this in their training
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by mantrax 13y ago
I actually envy Mark Karpeles' ability to not give a fuck throughout this whole situation. In fact, I think it's some sort of super power.
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by mantrax 13y ago
Don't take me too seriously. Programmers like to joke, too ;)
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by mantrax 13y ago
PHP: I can do this better than ASP. Wait, I can't.
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by mantrax 13y ago
Yeah, almost assuredly they approved of an abridged version talking about how Apple has hit a rough patch after Steve's death and how it costs $2 to make a $20 adapter (which wasn't a part of the interview to begin with). Please.
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by mantrax 13y ago
It's a lab.
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by mantrax 13y ago
Calling being unable to decide what to wear as "only being able to make rational decisions" is interesting, but it's not what's really happening. Every decision has a ROI. The line where ROI meets costs is your maximum b
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by mantrax 13y ago
I'm in love with your out-of-the-box analysis, but it also makes basic mistakes. The informal definition of rational is having good sense and good judgment. If your formal definition results in agents that never do anything, or are in
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by mantrax 13y ago
It's interesting how the community explanation is that some set of perfect ideals was "corrupted" by consultants. That actually happened fairly early in the process. It's the very consultants that are now blamed for corr
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by mantrax 13y ago
We need a version with tiny sharks being jumped.
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by mantrax 13y ago
I don't get this, I never will. So this journalist gets access to Ive himself, does an interview, then feels the need to hide that interview and retell it to us, inserting mini-quotes here there. Why!? Give us the damn interview !
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by mantrax 13y ago
I have a secret "eval" page on sites that's enabled during development (protected by a huge password, just in case, though). It evaluates code & shows the results as I'm typing it in real time. Better than a console.
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by mantrax 13y ago
"Those who score lower on measure of intelligence." We know how well those work, don't we? I know that unless I trust someone (say, my team) I won't get anything done, and that's enough of a reason to find people to
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by mantrax 13y ago
You know, cynicism doesn't count as insight nor evidence in my book.
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by mantrax 13y ago
"Despite being well treated and paid, for his hard work, he was still looked at as just a worker that produced well. He was never considered to be a key player in the company." He was right. He should've been recognized as a
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by mantrax 13y ago
Exactly.
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by mantrax 13y ago
He is absolutely right, it is a mirage. But a mirage we collectively believe in, becomes our reality. Heck, if we still believed tulips are expensive, they'd still be quite expensive.

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