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Re:Ask HN: What's your next career move? on Friday February 26, 2016 @01:34PM (#11183096)
What's your email? (mine in my profile) I'm interested in talking about doing something great (I also live in S.C.)
Re:ASK HN: What Coding Language Should I Learn? on Saturday February 13, 2016 @11:26PM (#11097131)
I like to think a good programming book will teach you theory along with showing you what an implementation in a language is going to look like.

While you still find it's hard to decide which language is superior to learn, maybe do some comparisons? You could look at some samples of different languages very easily, e.g. get on github and browse around! Then perhaps you gravitate naturally towards how one looks?

It could be nice, just starting out and all, to enjoy the natural elegance of languages: consider solving some project euler problems...then you can look at solutions in all sorts of languages! What fun.

Re:Ask HN: Crash Course in Tech on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @07:35PM (#10935220)
The Go Programming Language is a recent concise book that will give you a basic grounding in important CS stuff through the lens of a modern language. I'd say that will clarify loads of jargon.
Re:Ask HN: How do you make something people want? on Thursday December 24, 2015 @08:22PM (#10790107)
Aptitude. Some people can (and want) to sing. Esoteric talents abound. Use your aptitudes to help you make something people want. If you're good at, say for example singing, that is the natural talent you can bring to a making project. Make something you can make really well. Otherwise you might end up bored as hell.
Re:Show HN: Remote Duck on Thursday December 24, 2015 @03:35PM (#10789510)
this was fun. i popped in on a nice fellow that listened in to my miles davis and tea slurping. i wish I had a problem to talk out! I'll have to come back....
Re:What Wittgenstein Learned from Teaching Elementary School on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @02:29PM (#10785111)
He was also hoping I think to debarb his relentless search to know philosophy. Everywhere he looked it seemed despair, even finding out his famousness in Vienna, did not help him. He was utterly lost, and so looking to children, found some light in their innocence. I've read quite a bit on Wittgenstein, and he seems to always be wandering, as if there is no one thing to explain anything at all. What is energy? Well it exists within the usage, as in, how would you teach a child to use the word?
Re:Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012) on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @01:56PM (#10784919)
if you get a chance to go somewhere where there is a variety, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn the variety of smells is valuable information. Some, smell bad to you, others, may smell okay or even fantastic. seriously, compare its smells and flavors to that of coffee.
Re:Show HN: Something pointless I made on Thursday December 03, 2015 @09:16PM (#10674157)
I read the domain as: DoN't HaTe
Re:Inside an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Poland [video] on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:46PM (#10618643)
I felt like I was watching a visual piece of software.
Re:Why is Bitcoin forking? on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @06:45PM (#10089058)
Politics is about ethics? Yes, well, do you think an eight year old can look words up in the dictionary? Yes, of course you do. Well I argue that's all it takes, essentially, beyond that an eight year old needs some time, to answer some questions of their own, to be lectured at about the implications. But, an 8yo is perfectly capable of making the right choice, given context/access to information.

And, I'll additionally argue that technical merits can convince someone opposed on humanitarian grounds, the two are not incomparable, we do these sorts of comparisons just fine in the real world.

You are attempting to modularise the argument in a way I find unpalatable is all, our differences are likely surface deep.

Re:Why is Bitcoin forking? on Monday August 17, 2015 @03:48AM (#10071728)
Do you see anything redeeming about the quote? It seems problematic if something like this can be so political but be impervious to the logical debate an 8yo can engage in, no?
Re:Ask HN: Is my landing page too technical? on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @05:22PM (#10044489)
ddos is a pretty mainstream term by now imo

Ask HN: How to fix the headache of telephone haggling?

I wish corporations had their shit together, make it easy on the consumer, but often they don't. Calling institutions to resolve disputes or handle general maintenance issues is a big waste of time and pain in the ass. Familiar with the long wait times when you call corporation x? It's especially bad when your question/problem is a thirty second (or less) fix/solution for the corp. support...

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>>Questioning that need is questioning one of the founding tenants of modern human society...

There's private space to live in his van, there's no problem there, yes he too wants a private space to live in like the rest of us. The difference is the van does not provide a box around him unlike the 2-3k box.

I think things like this are great, as social experiments these are important, esp. b/c we are exploring how to reclaim spaces, making it less of a crime to inhabit spaces.
Re:Saving Zelda (2012) on Monday August 03, 2015 @04:53PM (#9999725)
sure when appropriate randomize it in clever ways, but don't make it random unless it really should be random, cleverly placed secrets are part of why many players like these games, internet spoilers or not. See Myst.
Re:Saving Zelda (2012) on Monday August 03, 2015 @04:49PM (#9999687)
>>>> How do you preserve the mystery while avoiding the bomb-every-block tedium?

You don't, it's part of the fun.

Re:Saving Zelda (2012) on Monday August 03, 2015 @04:18PM (#9999467)
I loved the original zelda as a kid, it was loaded with eurekons imo. http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/INT/INT7/paper/viewFile/92...
Re:Netcat.c on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @05:12PM (#9925849)
I especially liked: /* None genuine without this seal! _H*/
I'd be curious to see how sales pan out looking forward too, considering the intersection of popularity of the topic.
Re:Poll: How old are you? on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @06:51PM (#6060552)
I'm still young so I can't say for sure, but I reckon the brain's baud rate peaks in a similar fashion as the heart's peak BPM. That being said, I think more efficient cycle clocking, a.k.a wisdom, makes up the difference.
Re:I Wasn’t Prepared to Work on Saturday June 01, 2013 @06:43PM (#5806360)
Is academia an excuse to "hide out" for a while and continue being an autodidact? Also, the 2 hour commute, as I'm sure you suspect, is no small part of the intellectual killer.
Re:Physics Phd on Saturday May 18, 2013 @05:38PM (#5730568)
If you put a link to your email in your profile, then someone on this forum might message you personally. Disclaimer: I also attend UCSC.

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