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dpavlenkov

11 karma · joined August 25, 2010

Culture novels addict. Wants to create planetary AI. Then who knows.
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dpavlenkov··on Ask HN: Interaction programming
I think I overspecified the problem. I'm looking for ways to deal with maximum ignorance, because if you can deal with ignorance of the outside that means you have achieved independence. Dependencies specification is so popular today and I want something quite the opposite. There's bloat of dependencies, but there's bloat in independence as well. How would you deal with the bloat of independence?
dpavlenkov··on Ask HN: Can you code more than 40 hours/wk?
I find learning new programming languages stimulating. Or re-learning old ones.
dpavlenkov··on Game Physics for Javascript developers
I guess it's not even real world physics. And the Newton you attribute those formulas to is not real world Newton. For alternative world, your physics are just perfect. For real world, you need to factor in time as well as space.
dpavlenkov··on Things Paul Graham is wrong about
Now I know what to put in the title to get my stuff read.
dpavlenkov··on Single input login form
Your username is incorrect, but password ok!

Seriously, login is not the place to be helpful. On the contrary, for security reasons, the login control should be hard to find, and the error messages should be cryptic, like "ehh". You can reward their patience on the other side.

dpavlenkov··on Ask HN: Is a Doctorate Worth it?
Learn, machine, learn!
dpavlenkov··on Ask HN: Zero programming experience and badly want to learn. Where to start?
Sorry for delayed reply. I think so because JavaScript, with its prototype system, dynamic typing and closures, makes various famous language features and their implementations explicit, while other languages may hide their inner workings in the name of simplicity, safety, etc. Thus, by learning JavaScript first, one can bypass the reverence for OOishness espoused by Java or C#, and yet understand them better because "class", "type", "object" in JavaScript understood to be not atomic concepts, but constructable pieces of code. With JavaScript, one starts interacting with inner workings of the language very early in the learning process. Really, in which language one learns about events first? Remember "onClick"? Sure, interaction starts at level 0, but that's great because already the value of events is understood without writing a single "public static main voiid".
dpavlenkov··on Ask HN: Has this been done? Cost-sharing for ads
I've seen it on many free download sites (not that I visited any of them). You click to download a file (enticing!), and you get a splash page of many questionable ads. I'm sure there is some cost sharing involved.
dpavlenkov··on Ask HN: If you could transform higher education, ...
Here's what I do: go to www.mises.org, and search "education". That'll keep you busy for a while. http://search.mises.org/search?q=education&site=default_...
dpavlenkov··on One reason for the growing US obesity problem
I watch sugar and flour. It's junk carbs that "obese" you.
dpavlenkov··on Ask HN: Zero programming experience and badly want to learn. Where to start?
I've been programming for probably 17 years, since high school, and just recently I appreciated JavaScript. For all its shortcomings, it's beautiful. If you'd just understand it, you would be able to easily understand other languages, dynamic or otherwise.
dpavlenkov··on Cofounders wanted
At least you're honest.
dpavlenkov··on Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?
how about "net" to 64.202.189.170?
dpavlenkov··on Laid Off Developer Created Shirtweet.com in One Week As a Personal Statement
Blast me if this is a ploy to collect emails.
dpavlenkov··on The dumbing-down of programming [1998]
A point for the last sentence.
dpavlenkov··on Sisu
He was full of sisu.
dpavlenkov··on Ask HN: "Interesting" Job Contract
If you can negotiate, then sign a contract that isn't a trap.
dpavlenkov··on Ask HN: "Interesting" Job Contract
Please, can you share the name and location of this firm? Just curious, hahaha.
dpavlenkov··on Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs
Don't trash a layer on top of the world.
dpavlenkov··on Sensors Use Building's Electrical Wiring as Antenna
Another case of an obstacle turning into an opportunity.
dpavlenkov··on Why Companies Should Insist that Employees Take Naps
http://www.wikihow.com/Rest-with-Your-Eyes-Open
dpavlenkov··on It's time to build the Analytical Engine
I don't see a 3D model there.
dpavlenkov··on Being Poor by John Scalzi
I had grass growing in my first car.