sophist

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by sophist 18y ago
GLASS, truly a name that connotes rock-solid system architecture.
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by sophist 18y ago
Of course. I was merely making the point that it's manipulative. Not that it shouldn't be.
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by sophist 18y ago
Yea, good thing we never have to sell software to people who don't care how elegant the code is...
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by sophist 18y ago
I think only western culture can produce someone with that kind of boldness and lack of humility.
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by sophist 18y ago
So you're saying they didn't intentionally compose this picture in such a way as to increase the likelihood that people will donate? This is not hacker news. There are lots of kids out there who are in just as much need of help. This one ju
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by sophist 18y ago
Wow, that picture is really manipulative.
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by sophist 18y ago
Right. Because a tattoo becomes less idiotic of you use equations instead of skulls or random chinese characters.
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by sophist 18y ago
Exactly. For maximum outsourcing utility you should learn Kannada or Tamil instead.
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by sophist 18y ago
This could be the best-written, most well thought out blog in the history of the internet, but I will never know because I can't get bast the title.
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by sophist 18y ago
It is possible to speak your mind without being crude and callow, actually.
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by sophist 18y ago
Is it a job requirement for tech super geeks to have the maturity of a high-school kid?
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by sophist 18y ago
I didn't downmod you, but I believe your post is being downmodded because it has no content.
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by sophist 18y ago
The classic nurture side of the nature vs. nurture debate. The problem with your argument is that it's simply not backed up by evidence. There are plenty of cases of children who grow up in virtually identical environments, yet go on to hav
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by sophist 18y ago
Why are there so many of these "I finally understand [cloures | pointers | misc CS concept]" posts? I mean these are pretty fundamental concepts that any first year CS student should be able to grasp pretty quickly.
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by sophist 18y ago
Didn't they get the memo? You're supposed to add more cores now instead of clockspeed.
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by sophist 18y ago
Again, spoken like someone who hasn't lost someone. You may become progressively less likely to let any given person become that important to you over time, but losing someone truly important really doesn't get easier.
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by sophist 18y ago
Only people who haven't really lost someone say this kinda stuff. The pain of loss eclipses all the good parts of having loved by a large margin, in my experience.
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by sophist 18y ago
He's taking credit for Linux now? wtf?
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by sophist 18y ago
"i still think i'm smart, actually." Not smart enough to use proper capitalization, it seems...
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by sophist 18y ago
Because the copied rocket actually came from another photo. The original analysis showing it copied from the adjacent rocket was wrong.
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by sophist 18y ago
No. No no no no no no. Please no Onion on the Hacker News front page.
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by sophist 18y ago
Proprietary software is never better.
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by sophist 18y ago
Geez. Please tell me these pun threads are not spreading here from reddit.
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by sophist 18y ago
Feynman in action: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HKTSaezB4p8
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by sophist 18y ago
LOL
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by sophist 18y ago
It's really not that hard to just type "site:news.ycombinator.com <search terms>" into google. Just sayin...
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by sophist 18y ago
1) Use vim instead.
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by sophist 18y ago
I don't think non-hacker types even know what an interpreted language is. That was actually my point. When someone doesn't know the technical meaning of a phrase, they generally assume the literal and broad meaning of it. The target audie
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by sophist 18y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming that Java is an interpreted language. The claim is that "interpreted language" to most managerial, non-hacker PHB types means "a language that at some point during execution requires interpretation."
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by sophist 18y ago
The difference is that binaries contain instructions that map directly to hardware operations, whereas bytecode is interpreted by a binary. The interpretation is an intermediate step that doesn't take place when a program runs on bare metal

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