ClayFerguson

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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Great you've proven the problem is not the physical arrangement but the noise level. You think you are providing a counter argument, but you are not, you are helping support the main idea that open layout does NOT help productivity BEC
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Unless you are in a paired-programming situation most coding is done by one person sitting alone. I would never accept a job doing paired-programming. I want to be alone at my keyboard working, uninterrupted, with total silence 90% of my da
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
I agree with every word of this article and after 25yrs experience as a developer I have all similar experiences. Being a computer programmer is about the same as being a 'writer' (book author), and no one expects an author to sit
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Thanks, it actually wasn't a great example to make my point because that file contains actually a few things I do try to avoid, but it does demonstrate that "generated HTML" doesn't have to be ugly and hard to read, usin
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
That strange syntax with the arrow function is only needed so that the 'this' inside the function behaves the way one would expect it to in normal OOP language. It 'captures' the this for the object itself (like C++ woul
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Well you've definitely misguided everyone by suggesting TypeScript is in any way related to Angular. There is absolutely no relation. You should fix that.
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
In my 15 years I've come to realize that HTML code-generation via JavaScript (or now TypeScript actually) is vastly superior to any type of templating (like JSP, JSF, Velocity, Mustache). Both ways (templating v.s. straight generation)
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
TypeScript is definitely by far the most important thing mentioned in the article. And no I didn't even read the article. I just searched it for the word TypeScript to see what it said. However, the author apparently is pretty clueless
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
There is one other interpretation of Pilot Wave theory that is sort of the "inverse" of Pilot Wave. and to me makes more sense. The PW may be correct but the particles are not following a wave that is moving around them. What is h
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Javascript is what makes web "pages" essentially become "apps", and as Javascript gets more popular more and more developers use it to build bigger and bigger apps. So you might click a link and it starts downloading som
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
These two facts tell you the answer: 1) The "Web Browser" (i.e. html+css+javascript) is the ONLY platform-independent way of creating Apps. (despite you being addicted to your particular phone) 2) Javascript is the ONLY language c
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
You do two word posts, and then accuse other people of not communicating well.
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I have minification of JS turned off right now, and it's a very big app. I'm not really trying to or expecting to get any traffic on the site yet. It's still under development.
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
haha. That's hilarious. Grey background. Seriously though I'm totally focused on building a solid back-end. Front end code is solid too, but as far as styling i've just let default Google Polymer styling dominate, and it&#x27
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
But i'll reply to myself and admit that I don't give a damn about styling either in my own site, meta64.com, because I'm just working on back end functionality at this point. Let the hypocrisy accusations begin. I plead guilt
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
This is one of those websites that drives you away immediately just because the styling and layout is so ugly that you conclude whoever is running it is like 20yrs out of date on everything. Stayed for like 4 seconds. That was all I could t
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Our current voting system IS secret ballot, and IS also ALREADY based on computer DATABASES (not paper). You fail to realize that blockchain is basically just an encryption strategy for databases. It IMPROVES database security. It has absol
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Dude if you want to prove blockchain can be incorrectly implemented just write an implementation yourself. I'm sure it would fail all test cases.
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
If society decides the risk of these types of behaviors is significant they could pass a law making it illegal to ask someone how they voted. For those who would violate such a law even if it existed, they are by definition criminals, and a
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
LOL @ "ignore reality". Like you have even one single example in your mind of a buggy implementation of blockchain. Nice try.
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Even with blockchain it would still be "secret ballot". Each person would have their own encryption key they use to lookup their own vote. No one could check how I voted unless I allow them to, just like no one can get into my ban
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Someone can also compel me to use my own password to log into my bank account and transfer all my money to them. Every new technology that has ever been invented has always had people like you who can think up highly statistically insignifi
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
The "system" in blockchain is always a single database file (that changes over time) but that can be downloaded by anyone at any time, and it's history can be analyzed in private and in secret by anyone any time. It has a che
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
With all due respect the only way you could claim blockchain is not safer than paper is if you don't understand blockchain. With a large database that is distributed on 1000s of different computers (identical DB), everyone is free to a
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
I invented something like this myself that used a checksum based form of ensuring data can't be tampered with. The key point is that anyone can look up how it recorded THEIR vote without anyone else being able to. Uses a hash of social
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Yes I left out the part about steady state condition as well as absolute zero temperature condition, because those are boundary conditions (constant conditions) that don't involve time. My point is about an integral over all time. And
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Thermodynamics states that in any closed system the entropy ALWAYS increases over time. I think this law works, but they need to stipulate that it's for situations where there is a begin-time and end-time (finite time range), but if yo
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
I have my own theory about how life and entropy interrelate. I think total entropy in the universe starts at zero and will end at zero. This is because 'order' must be considered 'negative entropy'. As the universe evolv
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
This is great news for those holding gold reserves. If all the illicit transfers of funds have to shift to gold then people will have to buy gold in order to do that, thereby increasing demand and also price. Unfortunately, a rapidly rising
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Amazon needs to also stop disallowing bad reviews. I put up a bad review once, with no profanity or anything obviously worthy of rejecting other than a bad review of a product, and they refused to post it citing something "against thei

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