sharkfish

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by sharkfish 18y ago
I see I'm being modded down by programmers who also can't spell.
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by sharkfish 18y ago
I hate rants with misspellings. One I found was "breaktaking". I'm sure he meant "breathtaking". Get an editor, you twat.
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by sharkfish 18y ago
I was asking a sincere question. Why was THAT modded down?
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by sharkfish 18y ago
I recall Affirmative Action being challenged (Univ of Michigan?) successfully. Not sure how, qualitatively, race-based admissions is different from letting rich people jump ahead of the line.
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by sharkfish 18y ago
Modded down because I'm an atheist, or because I imply that religion is dogma? Just curious.
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by sharkfish 18y ago
But then most atheists also succumb to comforting lies, and make excuses for death even less defensible than the outright lies of religion. They flinch away, refuse to confront the horror of a hundred and fifty thousand sentient beings ann
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by sharkfish 18y ago
So IM is better? 3000 messages in my inbox that I can attend to when I'm ready vs. IM - where I'm dealing with everybody simultaneously and live? That's worse than the telephone, IMHO. Anyway, if you get the same query more than once, it i
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by sharkfish 18y ago
I can't stand Card's political views. He hates gays and has expressed violent attitudes toward gays. Who knows, maybe his writing is a form of repressed homosexual relief for him. I still enjoyed Ender's Game very much, however. My problem
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by sharkfish 18y ago
The vast amount of data and the prediction task remind me a lot of stock market prediction attempts. I enjoyed Pi, by the way.
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by sharkfish 18y ago
1. I'm saying your timing is suspicious. 2. My own anecdotal experience tells me successful people want to believe they earned their success through brains and hard work 3. Gladwell states that a good portion of success is due to hard wor
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by sharkfish 18y ago
It kills me how the Gladwell book brought this out of Joel. Nobody wants to be told their success is a good part luck and timing. They all want to believe it is because they are smarter and worked harder. So suddenly the software world's
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by sharkfish 18y ago
How does anyone with dev background bear a job for any length of time where all you are doing is editing HTML and ftp'ing it?
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by sharkfish 18y ago
I dunno. I re-read the article after I read your comment, and I came to a different conclusion: It is very possible we are in one of those gaps in time where if you have put in your 10,000 hours, you can leverage them. You can be one of
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by sharkfish 18y ago
I really hate over-simplified platitudes. They only comfort the stupid or short-sighted. Kind of like reading a sound-bite on trickle-down economics and applying it to your life.
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by sharkfish 18y ago
Or the "prove your mom wrong" trait. That seemed to be his motivation, heh-heh.
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by sharkfish 18y ago
My father showed me how much faster hot water freezes in an experiment we did when I was a kid. How many of us owe our fathers for what seems to be innate curiosity now that we are adults :)
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by sharkfish 18y ago
If, as in the case of extsmail, one wants to be robust against errors, one has to handle all possible error paths oneself. That's not really a bad thing, as the author points out. One thing I've always felt a sense of dread about in C# an
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by sharkfish 18y ago
"exposing your weaknesses" Yeah. They bring out the ASS in some parents.
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by sharkfish 18y ago
Spoken like someone who is genetically thinner (or one of the few fat people who can just skip a meal and lose weight) than most and never really has to deal with weight issues. A few years ago, for 4 months, I ate a small breakfast of oatm
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by sharkfish 18y ago
I...believe you’re either pro life or pro death. Bleh. Black and white thinking. Bleh.
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by sharkfish 18y ago
It seems to me that people with children in the war are more likely to want a leader that supports getting out of the war sooner rather than "staying the course". Anecdotal, of course, but the people I know who have been over there or who h
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by sharkfish 18y ago
He removed much of the verbiage but he still supports net neutrality (as evidenced in your link).
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by sharkfish 18y ago
If you have children in the Iraq war, you might feel differently. Also, I'm glad we have so many people in this country who understand that the economy is driven by the working people, not the wealthy. I don't agree with all of Obama's idea
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by sharkfish 18y ago
This slacker thing could backfire and people in line jobs could get paid less. That'll make'em work harder! But seriously: In software engineering, my colleagues don't want to be managers. When I worked in IT, they did want management. I
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by sharkfish 18y ago
"HTC had strong engineers developing notebooks, said Mr. Chen. But it was a volatile business with lots of competitors. She saw that clearly and pushed for the other instead." I'm curious as to how she decided cell phones over notebooks. C
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by sharkfish 18y ago
Interesting I should read this today. I saw an ad for a job I wanted back in early September. I wasn't qualified for it that I could tell from the ad. I applied anyway and went through the interview process. I didn't know exactly why I w
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by sharkfish 18y ago
How will it modify an African person? Asian? Are there different algorithms for those? I know someone will chime in that beauty is universal but I have my doubts.