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by poet 16y ago
Please do write that blog post!
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by poet 16y ago
On the positive side, adding a yes to the bottom of the list as well as the top was a key refinement. I felt that was missing when I viewed the photo of the original and was pleasantly surprised when I scrolled down to see it added in your
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by poet 16y ago
Hero worship? My heroes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kennedy , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Powers . People I'd place in the category of scientist based on the fact that she co-autho
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by poet 16y ago
Not just a PhD. He had a Fullbright at MIT. You'll find his biography either incredibly inspiring or depressing.
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by poet 16y ago
She has published peer reviewed research: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi... (her actual name is Natalie Hershlag). One of the co-authors is Jerome Kagan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Kagan . Seems goo
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by poet 16y ago
What gave you the impression that the paper was supposed to have relevance outside of a classroom? The paper has practical applications to teaching, which should be self evident given the content and venue of the paper. If you don't care th
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by poet 16y ago
Krishnamurthi has also done some really great work teaching introductory programming. He and his coauthors wrote a book meant to occupy a similar space as SICP, available here: http://www.htdp.org . The reasons why they felt an additional
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by poet 16y ago
Agreed. I'm canceling my Netflix subscription the second Amazon increases their selection. EDIT: And holy shit. A video player that works beautifully and I don't have to install anything. I get a nice big message about installing Silverligh
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by poet 16y ago
It's not popular because it's odd, it's popular because these types of freak situations happen to regular old homeowners all the time: http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Corporate-Responsibil... . Only this time the tables have turned
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by poet 16y ago
The existence of a technical solution to a security problem doesn't mean that it gets implemented in practice. Sure the security issues are theoretically solvable, but that means nothing when you're talking about a system with hundrads of m
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by poet 16y ago
It's possible that it is all a work of fiction, but Greg Hoglund is an accomplished security researcher. It's certainly a realistic scenario that Hoglund discovered them himself, or purchased them from someone else if he didn't have time to
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by poet 16y ago
Do you really think he doesn't exercise this restraint? I have a hard time believing the President steps out side for superfluous reasons. And to be honest, stepping outside for a hot dog isn't a trivial thing when you're overworked and the
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by poet 16y ago
I don't think there's anything to be done TBH. In previous discussions about the community's slipping quality I was always encouraged by the fact that submissions stayed approximately the same. That's not the case anymore. And what that me
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by poet 16y ago
Did you stop programming in Ruby before 1.9.1? Most common performance issues were fixed in that release. If you need something faster than 1.9.1, you probably should be dropping down to C anyway.
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by poet 16y ago
This rant seems misplaced. Rubinius adopted a test driven approach for testing Ruby compatibility because Ruby doesn't have a spec, merely a reference implementation. The spec is being worked on, but the fact that it doesn't exist has more
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by poet 16y ago
Beautiful example how a combination of open source enthusiasm and commercial interest can generate some first class software. There's no way this could have happened without Evan's initial enthusiasm or Engine Yard's support. TBH I can list
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by poet 16y ago
What HN used to be above is this stupid pedantry. 300 lines of code is a euphemism for a simple system. That's it. Who gives a shit if the actual system was 800 lines, or even several thousand lines?? The system they made was simple. Notice
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by poet 16y ago
Plus, an office in Monadnock is hardly bleak. I was really surprised at how reasonable their rates for starting offices are.
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by poet 16y ago
I doubt your average developer knows that Paul and Knuth went to Case Western. You're average developer probably doesn't know that the founder of Paypal and the co-founder of Youtube went to UIUC. I'm not really sure what argument you're tr
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by poet 16y ago
A PhD is a formal license to do research and it marks the start (not the end) of a lifetime of research. You need such a license if you plan to work at a company with a rigid corporate ladder or in academia. The only additional reason to ge
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by poet 16y ago
I should clarify. I'm not picking on the open source community. I'm differentiating the open source community form the private sector because the incentives are different. There are crypto guys in the private sector that can build secure cr
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by poet 16y ago
When even someone like Colin introduces a crypto bug like this, it makes you wonder. Are we ever going to get to a place where crypto engineering is something the open source community can take on? How long did it take to push people to s
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by poet 16y ago
When being pedantic, it's best to be right: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/innocuous . 1: producing no injury : harmless 2: not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility : inoffensive, insip
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by poet 16y ago
It's not a grammar mistake, I have trouble when I type quickly. Another error that I make: I often type a word that sounds similar in place of what I actually meant. Case in point: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2067123 .
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by poet 16y ago
Well said.
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by poet 16y ago
As far as the donation goes, my conscious is clear. I donate a big piece of my income to charities and my family and I work with thousands of impoverished kids in the inner city of Chicago every day. Based on my experience, characterizing t
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by poet 16y ago
We can play this game all the way down to the most impoverished society on the planet. A poor Indian could find it reprehensible that a middle class American will throw away a candy bar. A starving African could find it reprehensible that a
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by poet 16y ago
You're argument is orthogonal to my point. I'm aware of the wealth differences. I see similar differences quite often in the inner city of Chicago. One overarching trend among the less well off that Guelo demonstrates is a venomance that g
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by poet 16y ago
Five minutes ago I was looking for a donation link on your site, but I completely lost interest after reading this post. The person you replied to grew up in a lifestyle and culture different than you. This doesn't mean that he's greedy or
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by poet 16y ago
This is a misunderstanding of the discussion at hand. The word driverless in the context of this article and the person I was replying to implies the lack of a human failsafe. Schmidt and Matt address this in their arguments. For example,

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