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usr_yaginuma | t3_21387 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "encryption is your friend."
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] | 2005-12-25T13:55:51 |
usr_lambert_strether | t3_21415 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Now, the experts, the insiders, the well connected are all wondering: How bad is it, really? The consensus is: Pretty bad. And domestic surveillanceânot this âforeignâ figleafâis almost certainly involved."
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] | 2005-12-25T14:19:05 |
usr_paulgraham | t3_21259 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Oddly enough, yes, it's one of them. I deliberately decided to focus on writing essays in 2005. It seems to me a fairly hard problem, to try to get to the bottom of questions a lot of people have wondered about."
}
] | 2005-12-25T14:44:41 |
usr_paulgraham | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "I don't think switching from B to C procrastination is mainly a question of discipline. I think it depends more on figuring out what sort of work you like, and arranging your life (possibly with some sacrifices) so you get to spend more time doing it."
}
] | 2005-12-25T14:46:49 |
usr_TronXD | t3_21387 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "what the *fuck* is with all the comments on that site cheering on the laptop thief? i like that prof; he made a risky gambit to try to get his laptop back. that is impressive to me."
}
] | 2005-12-25T14:51:11 |
usr_polexa | t3_21264 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "This is five years old? That's pretty sad..."
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] | 2005-12-25T14:59:34 |
usr_pdxmph | t3_21381 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "\"Assholism in 38 Easy Steps.\""
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] | 2005-12-25T15:19:06 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21187 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "nice!"
}
] | 2005-12-25T15:24:32 |
usr_cg84 | t3_21259 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "You know whats procrastination? Sitting in front of your machine all day long doing nothing but reading all the \"hot\" articles on reddit."
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] | 2005-12-25T15:43:46 |
usr_alv | t3_21339 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "I'm voting this down just because I find it unacceptable to start reading opinion in the title of the link."
}
] | 2005-12-25T16:01:18 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21259 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "[deleted]"
}
] | 2005-12-25T16:31:55 |
usr_yaginuma | t3_21417 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Does not work if you have Websense.\r\n"
}
] | 2005-12-25T16:35:00 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21431 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "[deleted]"
}
] | 2005-12-25T16:37:10 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21431 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "[deleted]"
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] | 2005-12-25T16:38:03 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_19783 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Such low ratings..\r\nDoes the reddit crowd not care to learn new things?"
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] | 2005-12-25T16:39:01 |
usr_mattknox | t3_21339 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "sorry-should either have been more clear, or (more probably) omitted that entirely. I think that micro-benchmarks like the accumulator generator are actually somewhat useful, in that they show how naturally a language does that one thing. I look at the python entry and see th... | 2005-12-25T16:45:54 |
usr_dstowell | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Solving P=NP is important, but only if we can do something useful with that solution. What would we be able to do if we knew P=NP? Break encryption algorithms? Schedule resources more effectively?\r\n\r\nI wouldn't wait around for people to agree on what the most important prob... | 2005-12-25T17:02:30 |
usr_OldCoder | t3_20775 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Paul covers a lot of ground in this essay. A good deal of economics and development theory and history. A great many minds have spent a lot of time on these topics and I think overall they haven't found the answers to be as simple as Paul makes them out to be. I am not one o... | 2005-12-25T17:07:49 |
usr_karcass | t3_21264 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "It would be interesting to hear a followup from her other like-minded musicians.\r\n\r\nOMFG I love reddit -- I made a typo and the comment system *let me fix it* after I posted. Such a *simple* thing and yet rare in webby apps ...\r\n\r\n(Hey, can I have wiki-like formatting ... | 2005-12-25T17:10:33 |
usr_sayhar | t3_21369 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Very interesting. I might be wrong, however, but it seems that many of his assertions about \"Judeo-Christian\" seem to be only the ideas of Christianity, not Judaism at all."
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] | 2005-12-25T17:27:11 |
usr_modulo | t3_21269 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Maybe Pastor Clayman is projecting.\r\n\r\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection\r\n\r\nYou think?"
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] | 2005-12-25T17:30:53 |
usr_fshahriar | t3_21120 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Works for me (using Firefox 1.5). The Javascript:unescape() thing might be browser dependent, but you can find sites that can unescape the url or just write your own :)"
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] | 2005-12-25T17:40:13 |
usr_chao | t3_21437 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Intersting site picks new tools for online publishing and collaboration each week, with something extra special for this xmas"
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] | 2005-12-25T17:51:01 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21404 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Kind of crazy that they ended up mowing each other down only a few days later."
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] | 2005-12-25T17:55:07 |
usr_willis3000 | t3_21381 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "amen to that."
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] | 2005-12-25T17:55:49 |
usr_connor | t3_21387 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Old news..."
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] | 2005-12-25T18:03:16 |
usr_stesch | t3_21387 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Could you all please provide some links to videos one can actually watch?\r\n\r\n--->\r\nThanks for your interest in Google Video.\r\n\r\nCurrently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.\r\n\r\nWe hope to make this feature available more widel... | 2005-12-25T18:09:48 |
usr_riverhood | t3_21374 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "If I was pregnant, I'd be sure to use it."
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] | 2005-12-25T18:16:53 |
usr_lionheart | t3_21088 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "I love Vonnegut's writing but seriously:\r\n\r\n\"Even if we fired the first salvo of hydrogen weapons and the enemy never fired back, the poisons released would probably kill the whole planet by and by.\"\r\n\r\nThe US, USSR, France, UK, etc. have detonated at least dozens of ... | 2005-12-25T18:18:02 |
usr_ravidor | t3_21442 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Einstein's theory of relativity integrates electromagnetism into a logical extension of the relativity of Galileo and Newton. Its conclusions, including time dilation, length contraction, and E=mc2 have changed profoundly our ideas of time and space, matter and energy."
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] | 2005-12-25T18:18:04 |
usr_karcass | t3_21407 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "What?! A Reddit article that didn't conclude that Lisp kicks the crap out of everything else??\r\n\r\n;-)\r\n"
}
] | 2005-12-25T18:27:53 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21369 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "> Very interesting. I might be wrong, however, but it seems that many of his assertions about \"Judeo-Christian\" seem to be only the ideas of Christianity, not Judaism at all.\r\n\r\nAs far as I can tell, he only makes two assertions about Judeo-Christian ideas, and both st... | 2005-12-25T18:28:00 |
usr_ralsina | t3_21088 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Yes."
}
] | 2005-12-25T18:38:25 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21369 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "wimp!"
}
] | 2005-12-25T18:49:30 |
usr_robballan | t3_21381 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Original online text in English:\r\n\r\nhttp://www.coolhaus.de/art-of-controversy/"
}
] | 2005-12-25T19:07:50 |
usr_chefranden | t3_15326 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "A place to get a little education about the minds of others."
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] | 2005-12-25T19:15:03 |
usr_mheiler | t3_21407 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "I like it because they do a little experiment instead of philosophizing endlessly about hypothetical benefits or drawbacks of various computer languages. It's a cute little study with limited but well-defined goals and, within its limits, creadible results.\r\n\r\nThe only thi... | 2005-12-25T19:33:43 |
usr_BJThunderstone | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "I am a successful entrepreneur and I was exactly the kind of procrastinator Paul Graham talks about. I have an extremely sharp sense of what's important in order to succeed at my goal, and I tend to only do that.\r\n\r\nHowever this has caused me a lot of problems:\r\n\r\n- I p... | 2005-12-25T19:48:57 |
usr_BJThunderstone | t3_21259 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "... and then, after you put off an errand until it can no longer wait, on the last day, something happens and you can't do the errand. So you don't complete the errand on time.. which can have various consequences.\r\n\r\nIf I know there will be penalties (for example: I didn't... | 2005-12-25T19:54:41 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21415 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "[removed]"
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] | 2005-12-25T19:56:27 |
usr_soegaard | t3_21407 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "I wouldn't pay too much attention to the benchmark.\r\nHarrop is a OCaml-programmer, and has some strange\r\nviews on how (or whether!) to attribute glory/blame\r\nto others:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/browse_frm/thread/fd26e1886c3f8a70/... | 2005-12-25T20:00:02 |
usr_BJThunderstone | t3_21352 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "If you develop for open source platforms like Linux, you ARE a sharecropper even more than if you develop for Windows.\r\n\r\nWhy is that?\r\n\r\nIf you develop for Linux, you support Linux and help Linux be more popular.\r\n\r\nIf you develop for Windows, you support Windows a... | 2005-12-25T20:01:23 |
usr_psykotic | t3_21426 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "There are good cases to make for putting the tools to create syntactic abstractions into the hands of programmers. However, this guy fails, and he fails miserably. What enables him to pull his example off is call/cc, not macros. You can implement generators just as gracefully i... | 2005-12-25T20:27:49 |
usr_brickle | t3_21259 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "This has been a good month in terms of justifying myself to my wife. First, a nice article from Atlantic on introversion. Now this essay on procrastination. Keep 'em coming, guys! We introverted procrastinators need some ammunition on our side for a change.\r\n"
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usr_Zak | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "No, I don't think it is. It may mean that he's engaging in type-b procrastination by writing essays instead of hacking on Arc, but it could also mean that he considers writing essays to be more important at the moment.\r\n\r\nPersonally, I'd rather he finish Arc, but it's not u... | 2005-12-25T21:05:03 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "[deleted]"
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] | 2005-12-25T21:05:54 |
usr_Zak | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Famous is a rather hard thing to define, as it's relative to each person's interests. I suspect almost everyone who's interested in both Lisp and startups knows who Paul Graham is, while the average person does not. By way of comparison, I know very little about pop and movie s... | 2005-12-25T21:13:11 |
usr_bugmenot | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Awesome work!!!!!!!....resembles the reality!!!!"
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] | 2005-12-25T21:18:31 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "[deleted]"
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] | 2005-12-25T21:27:22 |
usr_rhawkins | t3_21264 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "You really think C. Love is THAT original?\r\n\r\nWikipedia sites the original article, written by Steve Albini in 1993 and circulating since...\r\n\r\nAlbini, 1993. \"The problem with music\". In The Baffler, vol. 5 and reprinted in Maximum RocknRoll #133. Also circulated with... | 2005-12-25T21:38:18 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21426 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "[deleted]"
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] | 2005-12-25T22:18:17 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21439 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Silly... you don't like Christmas, you ignore it. Why bother writing stupid letters?"
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] | 2005-12-25T22:20:57 |
usr_drosser | t3_21280 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Vodka is truly at the core of Russian society..."
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] | 2005-12-25T22:21:15 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21444 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Only questions, no answers ... bleh"
}
] | 2005-12-25T22:23:34 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21433 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Shame, USA, for having the death penalty!"
}
] | 2005-12-25T22:24:18 |
usr_michaelneale | t3_21264 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "The phrase \"do the math\" is one of the most irritating american-isms ever invented.\r\n\r\nBut a good (but old) article. I am sure it still rings true."
}
] | 2005-12-25T22:25:12 |
usr_psykotic | t3_21426 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "BTW, I posted a little quick blog entry about this article, which I accompany by a non-macro-using generators implementation in Scheme which is both a little shorter and a little simpler.\r\n\r\nCheck it out here: http://www.cryptopunk.com/2005/12/25/syntactic-abstraction/"
}... | 2005-12-25T22:36:51 |
usr_priestess | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Who?\r\n\r\n;)"
}
] | 2005-12-25T22:42:42 |
usr_tricky_t | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "This article is a good summary of the diagnosis of ADD/ADHD."
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] | 2005-12-25T22:44:58 |
usr_akkartik | t3_21384 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Title makes no sense; it should be Mass Virtual Distraction or Mass Distraction. All the 'virtual' does is to say people are distracted not by the real world but online. And there I was going around in circles wondering what it means to virtualize distraction."
}
] | 2005-12-25T23:43:13 |
usr_yaginuma | t3_21440 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "How is this not bank fraud?"
}
] | 2005-12-26T01:14:33 |
usr_tghw | t3_21426 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Good, another Monday-morning quarterback..."
}
] | 2005-12-26T01:14:34 |
usr_Maxy | t3_21426 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Is Web 2.5 all about pulling your language out of your pants and waving it at everyone?"
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] | 2005-12-26T01:28:24 |
usr_JanetR | t3_20385 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "lalala"
}
] | 2005-12-26T01:45:29 |
usr_dstowell | t3_21426 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Reddit's hot page sure does have a lot of language-flashing. It's a social effect: many contributors found this site through paulgraham.com and were probably interested in programming languages long before they got here.\r\n\r\nSeriously, though, why should anyone care which la... | 2005-12-26T02:05:06 |
usr_TronXD | t3_21440 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "This is why we can't use common sense anymore: there's always some guy who'll try to exploit any possible loophole.\r\n\r\nOf course, I would do the same thing he did, no question about it."
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] | 2005-12-26T02:05:51 |
usr_Kristina | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Very well-written essay! After reading some of the comments, though, I am concerned that maybe I didn't take it as seriously as some of the others who have commented, or maybe there was some inside angle that reading in a vacuum doesn't render...? This, to me, is one of the m... | 2005-12-26T02:13:48 |
usr_krypt | t3_13218 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Very good article. \"Web 2.0\" is definitely just what the web should have been in the first place. I just love the way it came about... Microsoft, of all companies, created the final piece of technology to make it possible (with IE5), but nobody used it. Years passed, and whe... | 2005-12-26T02:32:20 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21369 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "[removed]"
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] | 2005-12-26T03:08:21 |
usr_[deleted] | t3_21481 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "[removed]"
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] | 2005-12-26T03:22:21 |
usr_polexa | t3_21440 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "If you read the link, you'll see how it's not bank fraud, or at least not the intent to defraud."
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] | 2005-12-26T03:33:45 |
usr_chase | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "When I'm working on a hard problem and I figure something out, I stop. I should just write the code, but I 'reward' myself by taking a break, or having lunch or running an errand content that I know how to solve the problem. When it comes time to implement the solution, it's no... | 2005-12-26T03:40:56 |
usr_sapphire | t3_21493 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Link to the source article or no vote from me. Good Newsweek story."
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] | 2005-12-26T03:45:42 |
usr_BioGeek | t3_21488 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "\"Our machine is mostly made of connections,\" David said. \"About ninety per cent of its volume is cables. Your brain is the same way. It is mostly made of connections. If I may say so, your brain is a liquid-cooled parallel supercomputer.\" He pointed to his nose \"This is th... | 2005-12-26T04:33:25 |
usr_AJTSheppard | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "I'd like to make 3 points about Paul's essay:\r\n\r\n1) Just because someone is able to focus on some \"great project\", I don't see that, in itself, as having merit. It depends on what the outcome of the project is. Adolf Hitler was deloused at the expense of the state in 1908... | 2005-12-26T04:34:44 |
usr_rubicon | t3_21440 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "this guy is evil"
}
] | 2005-12-26T04:43:12 |
usr_stronimo | t3_21440 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "He banked a check from a get-rich-quick marketing scheme. The get-rich-quick company had accidentally designed a real check, and sent it out to thousands of people. This particular recipient banked it, and the bank were obliged to pay it. The bank transferred the money from the... | 2005-12-26T05:00:36 |
usr_stronimo | t3_21440 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Oh yeah, he ruthlessly took advantage of a poor defenceless, get-rich-quick scheme."
}
] | 2005-12-26T05:02:54 |
usr_stronimo | t3_21440 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "The marketing company was trying to exploit a loophole by sending out realistic checks with \"non-negotiable\" printed on them. They hadn't researched their loophole properly and had actually been sending out real checks. This is a victory for common sense: \"don't send out che... | 2005-12-26T05:06:56 |
usr_davidw | t3_21426 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Why people care what languages other people use?\r\n\r\nhttp://www.dedasys.com/articles/programming_language_economics.html\r\n\r\nhttp://www.dedasys.com/articles/scalable_systems.html\r\n\r\nAlso - the better a programmer someone is, the easier it will be for them to use multi... | 2005-12-26T05:52:33 |
usr_Isomorph | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Recently I have read some\r\nmaterial about team work written by\r\na Allen Fahden.\r\n\r\nHe talks about different roles in team work.\r\n\r\nHe has made a survey where your can find you natural work role.\r\nhttp://www.oneminutemillionaire.com/tools/hots.asp\r\n\r\nYour start... | 2005-12-26T06:39:48 |
usr_mheiler | t3_21407 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "That's the great thing about these little experiments: It does not matter what the author thinks about topics unrelated to the experiment. It does not matter if he is a nice guy or not. It's really about the data."
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usr_OldCoder | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "There are important exceptions. Exception-driven jobs like taking care of small children, cops and firemen answering emergency calls, emergency room doctors, and soldiers on the battlefield. Additional exceptions are all the kids in elementary and high school: there entire li... | 2005-12-26T09:07:15 |
usr_david4scb | t3_20775 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "really impressed by Paul's article. really regret not so much people have seen this or just not post comments on this.\r\n\r\nundoubtedly Paul give us many points concerning how to make wealth and rich. \r\n\r\nI like IT and doesn't like complicated relationship here in China. ... | 2005-12-26T09:18:14 |
usr_symbiont | t3_15805 | reddit | [
{
"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "\"Steve is also a polyphasic sleeper, sleeping just 2-3 hours per day and only 20 minutes at a time. So chances are good that he's awake right now.\"\r\n\r\n--from the about page"
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] | 2005-12-26T09:21:10 |
usr_jcage | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Amen to that!"
}
] | 2005-12-26T09:28:12 |
usr_watkeys | t3_21426 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "In your example, the users of your COUNTER procedure now need to know that in order to make a counter, they need to call MAKE-GENERATOR. That's an ugly exposure of implementation detail. What happens when you re-write COUNTER using closures to preserve state?\r\n\r\nWell then m... | 2005-12-26T10:53:20 |
usr_stesch | t3_21521 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "There are still some Graham pages left to be posted on reddit?"
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] | 2005-12-26T10:59:22 |
usr_psykotic | t3_21426 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "It's not an ugly exposure of implementation detail any more than, say, all Python methods receiving an _explicit_ rather than _implicit_ 'self' parameter is. In other words, I think it is a completely valid design decision; the scoping is out in the open. \r\n\r\nI don't unders... | 2005-12-26T11:26:58 |
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usr_jwells | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"text": "My husband could have written that article himself...if he had deemed it worthy of the time. As the wife of a developer, start up guy and good procrastinator, I'm the one left to do the interruptive \"errands\" in our life. It often means I become the bad procrastinator workin... | 2005-12-26T12:59:07 |
usr_watkeys | t3_21426 | reddit | [
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"text": "How often would you want to expose the implementation details of COUNTER? Almost never. So why do you want a programmer who writes a generator to almost always define a constructor procedure?\r\n\r\nIn a few hours I created a generator facility that feels at least as \"baked-in... | 2005-12-26T13:07:29 |
usr_randallsquared | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"text": "This is exactly the case for me, as well! Even though I'm drawn to the hardest problem in the group of things to do, I find that things work much better if I use \"working on the hard problem\" *as* the reward for having cleared out the smaller ones that I'd otherwise not fiin... | 2005-12-26T13:24:54 |
usr_lgv | t3_21587 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "There was an article about the pill up earlier, thought this made a good complement to it."
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usr_psykotic | t3_21426 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "\"How often would you want to expose the implementation details of COUNTER? Almost never. So why do you want a programmer who writes a generator to almost always define a constructor procedure?\"\r\n\r\nAs I already said, I don't think it's not really an implementation detail a... | 2005-12-26T13:39:28 |
usr_mblais | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "I find that I often naturally use procrastination of the #1 thing I find hard to do, as a leverage to take on that #2 thing I find hard to do, which suddenly somehow becomes easy and fun. Strange, isn't it?\r\n"
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usr_chu | t3_21535 | reddit | [
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"text": "\"The upside, however, is potentially enormous, says Miller (proponent of menstrual suppression) ... \"You can wear a skirt with no underwear\""
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usr_psykotic | t3_21426 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Forgot to reply to this...\r\n\r\n\"Is there a better interface for generators? Are generators a good idea? Is there a better abstraction for solving these sorts of problems? I'm glad I use a language that allows other people to easily explore these questions.\"\r\n\r\nI just w... | 2005-12-26T13:54:41 |
usr_jlaudun | t3_21259 | reddit | [
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"text": "What I find interesting about Graham's essays is that he so often approaches what are conventionally considered \"business\" or \"humanistic\" problems and approaches them from the point of view of a programmer who has a fair amount of business and life experience. The insights... | 2005-12-26T13:55:22 |
usr_sptrashcan | t3_21426 | reddit | [
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"speaker": "SELF",
"text": "Maybe I'm an idiot. Certainly I am a Lisp beginner who doesn't know jack about continuations or call/cc. What I have to ask, given this state of ignorance, is why a generator needs continuations? Wouldn't it be sufficent to create a function taking a number, which returns a ... | 2005-12-26T14:06:18 |
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