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by 6ren 15y ago
> If you have a theory about something but aren't too sure, fine. Just say so. > And most of all, please never start a sentence with, "It seems to me...". Many of us already get too much of that from our PHBs. Could you expand on th
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by 6ren 15y ago
It's the difference between a reference book and a textbook: a reference book is better if you already know what you are looking for . In a mass of complex multi-dimensional data, it's easy to show it however you want, but difficult to fin
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by 6ren 15y ago
I think we can view paradigm shifts in science as a gradual accumulation of evidence (data), leading to more sophisticated and complex models until someone sees a new way of thinking about it that explains the evidence more simply. The evid
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If Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains Shrinking?(discovermagazine.com)
9 points by 6ren 15y ago|2 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
> We all have the tendency to believe that we are living in a very advanced technological period. Not me. For example, clock rates maxed out about 10 years ago, and instead we went to smaller less powerful devices: netbooks, smartphones
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by 6ren 15y ago
2. Yes, I agree, nice to have the "view" created automatically when you change schema. Codd's idea was also that applications needn't be aware of the change (a view appears as a plain table)... but (in contrast to your approach) the views w
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Handling Self Doubt and Battling Inactivity(thebuzzmedia.com)
3 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
Database-as-IPC is about the transport aspect, not the logical integration (which is the problem of back-compatibility). Ian F Nelson's blog post is about a DB that is tightly-coupled to the app: “my” application is using NHibernate as an
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by 6ren 15y ago
Views work on UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE with some restrictions, in MySQL 5.0 anyway: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/view-updatability.htm... More expensive RDB's might too. (I should have included this link in my other reply on problem
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by 6ren 15y ago
Yes, the second one. So that from the old app's point of view, nothing has changed: it can create, read, update, delete as before. A single version of the truth etc. SQL's "CREATE VIEW" does this already (note: not all views can support CRU
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by 6ren 15y ago
> relations and SQL are still not enough to guarantee you'll always be able to get the data you need; notably, when the data model changes What data model changes are you thinking of? Relations and SQL will cope with reorganizations/res
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by 6ren 15y ago
Pedantically, RESTful APIs do not maintain session state on the server. This is important for scalability. (Whether "pure" REST is appropriate for a given API, or will be adopted if it is, is another question.) If too much is done on the c
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by 6ren 15y ago
Seems unlikely, yet, Europe switched to the euro. If we get better at software integration, different calendars might not be such a problem. We already convert between currencies, times and date formats. Is this really that much different t
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by 6ren 15y ago
This is dated 1999. It seems that agile methods have become more popular over that time, and upfront approaches (like formal methods) less so. One could interpret that unpopularity as the failure of formal methods... or as suggesting an unt
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by 6ren 15y ago
pg has said this article's out of date ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2982524 ) but most of it seems pretty relevant to me. I guess predicting webapp use via phones makes it out of date, in a way.
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The Other Road Ahead(paulgraham.com)
2 points by 6ren 15y ago|1 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
Summary: poor abstraction is worse than no abstraction. In Java, the "DSLs" you tend to get are at the class level, in different files. Like any abstraction, these can be well- or ill-designed. There's some differences to lisp: (1). the abs
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To Flirt In Cities, Birds Adjust Their Pitch(npr.org)
2 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
Instead of comparing Lisp with other languages, let's consider the problem stated, of people inventing their own little worlds - i.e. DSLs. Brooks said that a "programming product" (meaning one that can be used by other people) takes x3 the
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by 6ren 15y ago
I'm surprised he didn't give an economic evaluation, i.e. debugging time saved - checking time spent . He mentioned a few man-days worth of debugging that would have been prevented, but it sounds like he spent more time than that in checki
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by 6ren 15y ago
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermonthly-issue0{0..1}{0..9}.zip Using "{0..1}{0..9}" instead of bash 4's zero-padding brace expansion.
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What Goes Around Comes Around [databases](webcache.googleusercontent.com)
1 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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Evolution changes heads before bodies(abc.net.au)
1 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
CoffeeScript is a subset of JavaScript with bindings to an alternate syntax (CoffeeScript). John's suggestion is an enforced subset of JavaScript, with the advantage that (some) JavaScript in the wild is understandable; error messages are i
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by 6ren 15y ago
The author seems surprised that we don't understand everything. Feynman: Nature's imagination is greater than your imagination. A more interesting limit is relationships that cannot be understood in isolation. When these exceed our working
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Top closed Stack Overflow questions - the most interesting ones?(data.stackexchange.com)
3 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
And here's your answer: top closed SO questions! http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/2305/top-close... (link includes hyperlinks to all the questions) score id post 1416 1711 What is the single most influential book every
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by 6ren 15y ago
You're right, that particular sentence is unnecessary to my argument and weakens it.
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by 6ren 15y ago
In a sense, speech is mind-reading: you can have in your mind what the writer had in their's. This isn't just sophistry, but shows there are two problems, 1. to transmit information into and out of a mind; 2. to transform the information in
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by 6ren 15y ago
Link-bait title. It argues CoffeeScript is not a "language". The obvious rejoinder is that new languages often evolve from design patterns: a pattern or technique is recognized and subsumed into a language: structured programming; object or

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