As Kurzweil pointed out, Allen hadn't even read his book. In it Kurzweil provides copious volumes of data to support his claim that the overall trend is still exponential. As one paradigm starts to run out of steam,…
>What about energy? >It's true that if you look at most areas of technology they are advancing rapidly. Except energy. Energy has stagnated since the 1950s. This is demonstrably false. Solar power generation,…
>Today, all games are for consoles, all mini-games are iphone games Then I guess I've been living in some fantasy world with Starcraft II, Diablo 3 beta and new games every week at Kongregate. I like it though, so…
>Everybody understands that there's a cost/benefit tradeoff here, so spelling it out all over again doesn't really move us forward. You just asked the commenter to spell it out in your previous comment. Chastising…
A sentence. Requires. A verb.
This is awesome. I really, really like interactive tutorials like this. I do have some programming experience, but being pretty weak in JS I found it educational. Thanks.
Somebody with the power to do so, please flag this. It's only two and a half sentences. The rest is behind a paywall.
Stealing and copying aren't the same thing. The fact that you use the words interchangeably is a testament to the lobbying power of the RIAA/MPAA. Interestingly enough it was those same organizations which brought the…
The author of that also uses a great deal of selective evidence, flat out ignoring genetic research in relationship to music, for example. Specific genetic sequences have been linked both to perfect pitch and to success…
"Further, I believe that a response like mine is the only serious response that can be given to someone (kogir) who actually just suggested, "with a straight face", that a full 10% of the people using the App Store…
That was absolutely stunning. I can't even imagine someone pinning their entire hard-earned fortune on a wing and a prayer, but that's exactly what he did. Talk about balls. Better still his start-ups are actually…
What it does in practice is encourage keyword-stuffing. I've been going through dozens of iOS and webdev resumes a week and about two in three have the right keywords. Their skills don't correlate strongly with those…
I agree with you that the author had some really crazy preferences in his example. Penalizing a front end webdev who aren't on LinkedIn as harshly as you penalize those who don't know HTML is absolutely bonkers! In his…
My disagreement was with the claim that "the Flynn Effect is in full swing". The recent small downwards trend you acknowledge is incompatible with that claim. From everything I've read on the topic, the Flynn Effect…
This was a great tutorial. There's a long discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/iviw3/whats_a_c...
Citation needed? There's only one response to that: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=recent+flynn+effect Right at the top is this excerpt from wikipedia: "Recent research suggests that the Flynn effect may have ended in at least a…
It's hard not to see bringing up GDP as anything other than an attempt to derail the discussion. The author was talking about employment. Implying that the claim was that GDP would go down (which is much less likely),…
Computer chess improved regularly for decades before becoming a true threat to master players. Why did it start toppling them in the 90s when it hadn't before? More recently, financial programs have carved out a huge…
Graphics don't improve linearly with the number of pixels or polygons added. I'd say the improvement is closer to logarithmic. E.g. 500 polygons/second is a step better than 50, 5000 is two steps better than 50, etc.…
I also used to keep a dream journal; mine was for the purpose of lucid dreaming. Morning pages really make me curious. I saw them recommended in the Pragmatic Programmer's book Refactor your Wetware. Have you found that…
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2804414
Nothing in the link I provided was about orange juice. It discussed wiretapping, linking to sites with potentially violent anti-American content and a variety of other issues. You've commented repeatedly on this thread…
>there's no statute against "public example making". If you don't want to be an example, avoid felonies. That's going to get me downvoted, so can we assume good faith and accept this new emoticon I just made up.…
Actually, I'd say the thought experiment worked perfectly in sussing out the gp poster's values. For many people money is the end, not the means.
I may be the target of this article. I like Ruby quite a bit and I don't like Java at all. The word "hate" isn't quite appropriate, but here's my problem with Java: I hate how much work Java makes me do to get things…
As Kurzweil pointed out, Allen hadn't even read his book. In it Kurzweil provides copious volumes of data to support his claim that the overall trend is still exponential. As one paradigm starts to run out of steam,…
>What about energy? >It's true that if you look at most areas of technology they are advancing rapidly. Except energy. Energy has stagnated since the 1950s. This is demonstrably false. Solar power generation,…
>Today, all games are for consoles, all mini-games are iphone games Then I guess I've been living in some fantasy world with Starcraft II, Diablo 3 beta and new games every week at Kongregate. I like it though, so…
>Everybody understands that there's a cost/benefit tradeoff here, so spelling it out all over again doesn't really move us forward. You just asked the commenter to spell it out in your previous comment. Chastising…
A sentence. Requires. A verb.
This is awesome. I really, really like interactive tutorials like this. I do have some programming experience, but being pretty weak in JS I found it educational. Thanks.
Somebody with the power to do so, please flag this. It's only two and a half sentences. The rest is behind a paywall.
Stealing and copying aren't the same thing. The fact that you use the words interchangeably is a testament to the lobbying power of the RIAA/MPAA. Interestingly enough it was those same organizations which brought the…
The author of that also uses a great deal of selective evidence, flat out ignoring genetic research in relationship to music, for example. Specific genetic sequences have been linked both to perfect pitch and to success…
"Further, I believe that a response like mine is the only serious response that can be given to someone (kogir) who actually just suggested, "with a straight face", that a full 10% of the people using the App Store…
That was absolutely stunning. I can't even imagine someone pinning their entire hard-earned fortune on a wing and a prayer, but that's exactly what he did. Talk about balls. Better still his start-ups are actually…
What it does in practice is encourage keyword-stuffing. I've been going through dozens of iOS and webdev resumes a week and about two in three have the right keywords. Their skills don't correlate strongly with those…
I agree with you that the author had some really crazy preferences in his example. Penalizing a front end webdev who aren't on LinkedIn as harshly as you penalize those who don't know HTML is absolutely bonkers! In his…
My disagreement was with the claim that "the Flynn Effect is in full swing". The recent small downwards trend you acknowledge is incompatible with that claim. From everything I've read on the topic, the Flynn Effect…
This was a great tutorial. There's a long discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/iviw3/whats_a_c...
Citation needed? There's only one response to that: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=recent+flynn+effect Right at the top is this excerpt from wikipedia: "Recent research suggests that the Flynn effect may have ended in at least a…
It's hard not to see bringing up GDP as anything other than an attempt to derail the discussion. The author was talking about employment. Implying that the claim was that GDP would go down (which is much less likely),…
Computer chess improved regularly for decades before becoming a true threat to master players. Why did it start toppling them in the 90s when it hadn't before? More recently, financial programs have carved out a huge…
Graphics don't improve linearly with the number of pixels or polygons added. I'd say the improvement is closer to logarithmic. E.g. 500 polygons/second is a step better than 50, 5000 is two steps better than 50, etc.…
I also used to keep a dream journal; mine was for the purpose of lucid dreaming. Morning pages really make me curious. I saw them recommended in the Pragmatic Programmer's book Refactor your Wetware. Have you found that…
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2804414
Nothing in the link I provided was about orange juice. It discussed wiretapping, linking to sites with potentially violent anti-American content and a variety of other issues. You've commented repeatedly on this thread…
>there's no statute against "public example making". If you don't want to be an example, avoid felonies. That's going to get me downvoted, so can we assume good faith and accept this new emoticon I just made up.…
Actually, I'd say the thought experiment worked perfectly in sussing out the gp poster's values. For many people money is the end, not the means.
I may be the target of this article. I like Ruby quite a bit and I don't like Java at all. The word "hate" isn't quite appropriate, but here's my problem with Java: I hate how much work Java makes me do to get things…