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I gave around $10 to the FSF (in person), and donate all my old clothes to local homeless shelters. I prefer charity to be done directly. Otherwise, I can't really see what is going on with the money.

[dead] 8 years ago

The onus is on you to prove that quotas outperform skill-based hiring. Sorry, but d'uh.

Why Clojure? 8 years ago

This article doesn't really say anything. Walmart is a much better example of "Why Clojure". Or anything that comes out of Rich Hickey's mouth, basically

Well, consider that if airplanes were 99% safe, nobody would fly. And the way I understand it (not very well), the lab-of-origin discovery is based on design choices rather than inherent factors. This means that it could be copied to create false positives? Hopefully someone more educated on the subject can elaborate.

My dad's second wife could draw photorealistically with a pencil from looking at something. She never practiced, never had training, never even showed any enthusiasm for it.

It was one of the most soul-crushing things to witness that. She once drew some animals in my notebook and at school the teachers grabbed it out of my hand and wanted to move me to an art academy. When I told them who actually drew it, and how, they were utterly speechless.

Imagine someone drawing monochrome photorealism as casually as scribbling some stick figures. She couldn't draw anything that she didn't see, but she didn't show any understanding of how incredible that ability is either. And she's now an accountant...

Unfortunately this was 15 years ago or I'd add one of the drawings. But here is something similar (even the detail on the hair):

http://www.remrovsartwork.com/uploads/7/9/8/3/7983811/380163...

Actually, he had a different name and was a memory competition champion who practiced every day. Instead of mentioning that, he decided to blame his entire abilities on a fever he had as a kid. Not to put him down or anything, but a lot of it is PR.

Under the name Daniel Corney he even advertised PSYCHIC services. Definitely his abilities are incredible, but he also spent hours and years practicing them.

At least it uses OCAML and functional code instead of the EVM, for which even the Eth founders themselves can't write secure code.