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By the way, what would happen if all karma was reset?

The best blogs for me, are those that are not for the great hacker public, but for smaller audiences. Blogs about mathematics, data mining, computer vision, and so on. Coding Horror, Spolsky and the alike only talk about generalities and aren't really useful to me.

Source?

I somewhat agree. For an interesting viewpoint on the NKS discussion, check this NKS review: http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/AOUPSNSAAC8DM/re...

- passionate about his/her subject - caring about the people he/she teaches to

I personally have a problem finding my most impressive achievement not impressive at all from the instant it's done. Anyone else?

I'm not sure if that's what you mean, but if you think BG would give most of his fortune just to get recognition and attention... I think that's really unfair with him.

Right. I had a one man startup and it worked great. You need the right business to start with.

I experimented with lucid dreaming a few years ago, and did it for many times. I saw myself in mirrors and also in my own image of I myself sleeping somewhere. My own image was always wrong in some way, and the memories of some of those images are still completely creepy many years after the dreaming happened (I still have goose bumps for the memory of the image of one of these specific dreams... quite crazy really since it wasn't a very bad image that you wouldn't see in a bad horror movie for example).

The smart people always need other less smart people to do the things they don't want to do. There is always space for a worst of the team.

(I tried to upvote you and I downvoted you instead... sorry)

Looks like a critic to the job system (by mocking the annual performance reviews) to me.

The author has been answering questions here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ujgx/dear_prog...

Maybe you don't upload a thing, but people tag you in photos (and you have your tagged photos marked as private).

Uh sorry

And the demo here: http://www.foxaweb.com/demos/mousegesture/GestureDemo.swf

Nice to see something so easy to program working so well

Glad to know it helped you, thank you!

Sometimes you just read about things you want to learn. At least that's the case of the books I talk about in this thread. For example, I'm driven by the curiosity to understand how some theories of physics work, particularly relativity and quantum theory. I've learned some extremely basic stuff about them, and I want to learn more, and more, and the more I learn, the harder it gets (it needs more mathematical tools, etc.).

Maybe a key is to read books that drive you towards a goal? I can understand your feeling, and I really appreciated your thread when it appeared in hn. But in my case the problem is different: I want to know a lot of things, and learning all of that will take me years, and a symptom of that is that I end up collecting tons of books that I keep reading slowly.

Ah, maybe that's why. When a child I was desperate for books, it was hard for me to get those (I had books, but I read them a lot faster than I could get them, I was always re-reading them). So I guess when I started having money I just started buying them, like in a rush, to compensate or something. I should realize it makes no sense anymore. Thank you.

Nice rules. I started to do something similar to your "only learn what you fall in love with". For some of the older books I bought once and I never read, now I know I will never read, because now I know better and I know they are garbage (or I know of better material now). So I won't waste my time reading those just to remove them from my todo list.

I guess I shouldn't have bought them either.

> If they don't take a good bit of time to read, then you're not doing it right.

Thanks, I needed to know this. I was starting to feel silly, thinking "maybe I don't understand them quick enough, people must read them faster or something".

No, I really like reading them. But it's easy to buy them faster than reading them if reading them takes you so much time (for the hard science ones, not divulgation, fiction, etc.).

Thanks for taking the time to explain this!

Could you explain in more detail? Why do people in 3d simulations and graphics care about the existence of a point where the function value is 0?

Ah thanks

Two comments:

- bug here, the reply button wasn't in your message until I refreshed the page

- I agree... I think maths is extremely hackish (maybe not a wikipedia link though)

The key is to make the algorithms and mathematics, not the languages, your tools. Some things never change.

Rather goto 1980

I tried and I'm horrible. I'd really like to be a good musician but I spend my time programming and reading and drawing and writing and not doing music, so I'm not good at that (also I'm naturally awful). I'm a good programmer, but very bad at music.

There is a case when clicking is bad: in some mouseless interfaces like those based on computer vision. I once worked on one of those and had the user freely move his hand over the space to explore some icons (while having a VR headset covering his head). This interface would have been ideal for such kind of project, really.