Aqueous

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by Aqueous 13y ago
Author doesn't mention obvious observation, that professional scientists' drawings looked more like circuit diagrams for the most part whereas the other two groups' looked like portraits of biological neurons of varying accuracy.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Those seem like the three laws of everything.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Oh boy - disagree with the premise. It's been four months since you started? You haven't failed. It looks like you've been trying to market it to the Internet at large and not targetting your likely user base. Go see some local businesses
934.
by Aqueous 13y ago
I graduated from the same school a year ago. It took 10 years, because I got very sick in the middle. I did so because I wanted to finish what I started.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I wouldn't really call it a protocol. If Twitter is a protocol, then every exposed JSON-emitting API is a protocol - and perhaps that's true. But Twitter isn't unique in that respect. People have been publishing messages without specified r
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by Aqueous 13y ago
They've done a lot of innovations with respect to JavaScript optimizations, asm.js, and Emscripten. Even V8 running hand-written JavaScript can't approach the near-native speeds of Emscripten-emitted asm.js. A year or two ago I would have
937.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Is there any reason that you don't switch over to Scala for your main programming language? I'm in the process of converting a middle-sized PHP codebase completely over to Scala. It is not uncommon for me to see functions that run between 1
938.
by Aqueous 13y ago
His passion is admirable, but his vision for himself and his site seems a little grandiose. He might have world-changing ambition but Silk Road is not a world-changing idea. BitCoin attacks the status quo at its center - our entire system
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Everything is political, because everyone else is political, except for me - I'm not political. The winners of the political game are the same individuals who reinforce the political game, and the people who complain about the politics are
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Honestly, this is not just something that works with design. Do you know how many programming jobs you can get just by talking to people? One-person design projects are like small, one-off web applications. You don't need a firm to attract
941.
by Aqueous 13y ago
What, are you high? :) In all seriousness, it's an intriguing idea, and you point out some interesting parallels, but the idea of the Silk Road seems really small for someone like Satoshi Nakamoto, given that BitCoin is a work of unusual ge
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I believe plumbers should have a college education. As I said in an above reply, I don't believe college education is about learning things that are directly relevant to any profession. It is about learning critical thinking, how to work wi
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by Aqueous 13y ago
"starting to settle in...again." I agree. This is nothing new. But I believe even people in the trades should have a college-level education. College education is not about learning facts that are directly relevant to whatever we end up cho
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It's kind of unsettling that the idea that a college-level education is for the elite only is starting to settle in. Rich benefactors like Peter Thiel and Mayor Bloomberg, both of whom seem to think they got where they are on talent alone,
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It's an interesting comparison, but chemotherapy at least has peer-reviewed research and clinical experience to back it up, and despite its ill-effects it can frequently achieve remission from cancer. What Freeman did was monstrous and comp
946.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Uhm, yes. TDD, as you've already said, means write tests first, and then the function they test. The point of the test-first is to declare and define explicitly what the specifications for the function are. So writing your tests first is pr
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by Aqueous 13y ago
You look at it :-) (Edit: That's not the whole answer. Usually when you test you assert that certain elements of the DOM are where they should be. At the very least you have verified the structure of the HTML document, if not how it looks.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I agree that there is very much a paradigm shift and that it is very painful for a lot of those whose jobs were contingent on an older, more analog economy. The entire old economy of clerical work, creating, organizing and transmitting docu
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I need to clarify. I'm not talking about manufacturing I'm talking about protoyping and design. Software deevelopment is analogous to making the protoype, not the copies. A replica of the prototype should be able to pass the same tests the
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by Aqueous 13y ago
You're talking about the manufacturing of cars, not design and prototyping. The reason that they can take only a representative sample of each component that rolls off the assembly line is that they should be nearly perfect copies of the pr
951.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Wow. This argument is somewhat ridiculous. A) It proposes a solution that is already happening on its own. (micropayments for work that enriches the network.) B) It compares apples to oranges. Instagram is not the Kodak of the Internet. C)
952.
by Aqueous 13y ago
On the web, you can use Selenium and pair it with either a headless browser like PhantomJS and/or a headless virtual machine running IE.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I think a common misconception about TDD is that it requires a a lot of overhead. It actually reduces overhead because you front-load the quality assurance, and save a lot of time going back and fixing bugs down the road. Some of the most
954.
by Aqueous 13y ago
I don't really understand why TDD is controversial. When we build software we are building a machine with components. In every other industry where a machine with components is being created they apply test-driven-development. A component i
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Because the law is recognizing something that didn't happen. If I transfer my copyright to someone else, the law then views that person as the originator, owner and creator of that work, legally speaking. But it is not true. I created the
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by Aqueous 13y ago
@droithomme I was using Harper Lee as an example. I didn't actually take an ebook and read it without paying her. I read To Kill a Mockingbird from a print book I bought a long time ago, but will gladly send her a donation anyway to offset
957.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Copyright is nearly useless in a world where there is an infinite supply of any given work for negligible cost. Anyone can print anything without paying royalties to anyone, with the only actual barrier between them and doing so being an un
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by Aqueous 14y ago
Wow. Mr. Pinkus (it is alleged) took advantage of his own uncle's death by stealing the rights of an elderly woman to her award-winning, classic American novel. Then he tried to avoid paying his dead uncle's company or estate its due. Mr.
959.
by Aqueous 14y ago
The theory is correct, and I applaud the author for willing to be that guy, because if you do this too often you become the person who always has the worst idea.
960.
by Aqueous 14y ago
Why not just write the SQL?

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