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hippee-lee

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About hippee-lee

Hi, I'm Matt.

Maybe I can help you.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8658407

    > Human intelligence took millions of years to evolve. Sorry, but AI(s?) will develop faster. Just because it happens faster doesn't mean that the underlying laws that guide evolut…

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    Comment #8610219

    It feels like both you and the previous responder are predicating that there can only be one AI. If there is only one AI then yes, they don't love/hate or care about people and wil…

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    Comment #8609894

    Forgive my lack of knowledge on the topic but a question keeps popping into my head when I read comments about the danger to humanity where AI runs amok. > There are many paths tow…

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    Comment #8374738

    > Kids are made to care. True. But it's hard to predict or script which moments make a lasting impression on a child. Speaking only for myself the moments I remember most vividly d…

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    Comment #7825916

    It's funny you should mention horseback riding as the fun driving I was thinking of involves driving a a truck with a horse trailer attached to it. :-)

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    Comment #7816086

    What about driving for fun? Please note, fun has no correlation to speed when it comes to driving.

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    Comment #7776440

    More than interesting. It would be a way to account what people say and what they do.

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    Comment #7765976

    Why not just render the public pages of your app out to HTML or use one of the phantom JS services to do it. Then when spiders come up the waterspout have your web server tell them…

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    Comment #7748309

    And Blender too.

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    Comment #7706895

    Perhaps, but either way as a ST2 user I'm looking for a replacement and once ST2 does not meet my needs I'll either go back to emacs full time or look towards something else for li…

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    Comment #7671185

    > Not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing The tools we use are neither good nor bad. How well we use them, what we use them for and how we teach others to use them are what mak…

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    Comment #7551149

    I don't sail, but I do surf in the rain. So i'll do that ;-) I would just hate for someone in their early 20's to not even consider all their alternatives. There is quite an intens…

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    Comment #7529152

    This is the approach I took. If the developer offered an adds free app I would gladly pay for it not to have to deal with "Daddy, the iPad is broken." only to find that Safari had …

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    Comment #7529032

    I'm not sure what the moral of you story is? Is it not possible that you can spend all your money/time/effort chasing a lotto ticket and never have the winning numbers or even numb…

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    Comment #7499421

    Could that be sold as an upgrade, something akin to the international outlet kits that apple sells for it's laptop chargers?

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    Comment #7472478

    For me, having a backup plan means when 10-15 years on into the startup career and the tenth startup doesn't work out and shuts it's doors, I have a foundation in place that means …

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    Comment #7465995

    Not playing it safe doesn't mean you don't have a back up plan, right? Why does it have to be all one way or the other? The finance folks on Wall Street take big risks that get lot…

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    Comment #7453497

    Duolingo - because it's not just me learning Spanish, it's us translating English only websites to Spanish. Perhaps I'm not versed enough in the services available in '94 - I didn'…

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    Comment #7450968

    My impression of that as a corporate mission is that is sounds good enought that most folks think, yeah that's a good thug to pursue. Having said this irl to other developers, the …

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    Comment #7450889

    How could they not know? While Mr Schmidt was CEO, it was a three way decision makin process as I recall. I'm of the opinion that something this big, with such large long term cons…

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    Comment #7426549

    This weekend, in between makeing a home for a catapiller we found on the way home from the park and riding bikes in the circle at the end of our street, my daughter said, 'daddy ca…

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    Comment #7419116

    To provide another opinion: Apple does this to, .mac, .me & icloud oh my don't forget about the iTunes account now. In case you are wondering I switched my household, parents and s…

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    Comment #7414287

    So women in a yoga class ( at work ) are actively promoting their sexual characteristics at that time? Your comment reads very, very predatory.

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    Comment #7346954

    To a certain extent, I used to feel that way too. But now I have to ask 'why waste your time hateingthe ads?' Sure they could be better or more entertaining. But most ads are easil…