CodeMage

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by CodeMage 14y ago
Again, I seem to be missing something. Isn't there a great deal of difference between "petitioning the government" and "paying the government"? Here's an excerpt from briandear's comment about lobbying: We all know who Hollywood gives the
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I'm sorry if my question is naive, but it's been bothering me for a while now: why doesn't anyone consider the lobbying itself to be the root problem? I'm not from the US, so I haven't grown up with that system and to me it sounds like lega
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I can't say anything about arguments other people have offered, but yours is the textbook example of the prisoner's dilemma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma You're stuck in a Nash equilibrium and something tells me that
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by CodeMage 14y ago
And yet you need to be a dentist to work on someone's teeth, a doctor to prescribe medical treatment or a pilot to fly a plane. Yes, you can program without being a programmer, just as you can drive a city car to your office and back, but y
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by CodeMage 14y ago
My guess is that what GP considers a "real" programming language is a language that tries to solve at least one problem some of the other programming languages have, instead of incorporating pitfalls that most other languages avoid in order
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I guess it's irrational, but the fact that there are some good points nestled inside this post only makes me more irritated about the post as a whole. You see, it's easier to just shrug and say "meh" if the whole thing is crap. Te problem w
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I'm genuinely curious here: why would using integers be slower than using floats? I thought floating point operations were always more expensive than handling ints.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Is it confidential to say which company you're talking about? I also live and work in Chile and I almost always get blank looks from people when I mention Haskell.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
FWIW, I think the question should have been "Why do bad PMs/BAs frequently get paid more than good programmers?" As far as I can tell, that question has traditionally been our motivation for inventing "a narrative of moral superiority". Whe
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Honestly, at this point I can no longer tell whether you're misinterpreting or misrepresenting the conclusions. I'll make an honest attempt to argue, nevertheless. "Static type checking" and "unit testing" are two concepts. There are numero
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by CodeMage 14y ago
> That is precisely what it says This is a very strong claim and it's false. The article doesn't say that anywhere. You interpret it that way. I would hazard a guess that presenting your own interpretation as fact is what brought on
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by CodeMage 14y ago
It's precisely the other way around: ++x is a pre-increment and x++ is a post-increment.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Any plans for providing Android app too?
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Flagged as a duplicate. Please stop sneaking duplicates past the filter through tricks such as replacing "http" with "https". Previous submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4106269
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by CodeMage 14y ago
These delusions come from experience with watching programmers flop around like fish out of water whenever some layer of abstraction they took for granted starts "leaking". I honestly don't get this attitude in our industry. Nobody tells a
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Yeah, and those shoes totally don't match that purse! What an outrage! Seriously, if you're prepared to throw out the whole language based on what its syntax resembles , your decision-making process might need a bit of work.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I don't know about others, but here's an extract from the article you linked that explains why I have blind spots: Those who have switched to the SAE's approach swear by it, however, some drivers can't adjust to not using the outside mirro
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by CodeMage 14y ago
From my personal experience, the two main challenges when it comes to making video games are: 1) It's a multidisciplinary effort. Unless you're someone with multiple talents, you need to put together a team to work on it. You might try to p
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by CodeMage 14y ago
If it's open source, then git/svn/cvs pull a copy of the repo and read the code. No need to interrogate the guy. While I understand what you're saying here, I can't help but think of how many times my co-workers asked me something they co
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I wonder just how much I'm overreacting by feeling disgusted about the way that Asperger's, ADD and stuff like that are suddenly a thing of fashion. It seems to be a trendy thing for journalists to discuss and a sort of a fashion statement
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I see that as a form of passive aggressive manipulation. The way I read that kind of comment is "I know the mob will downvote me instead of discussing the topic; you don't want to be part of the mob, do you n
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I think that answer deserves partial credit ;) I believe that the reason people need to know these things is not because they should be playing Russian roulette with them, but because they need to know what's going on when things go acciden
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I own this one: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-War-Sun-Tzu/dp/0385292163 I liked the interjected additional content it includes, but there are people who hate it, so YMMV.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
that linkedin profile shows a series of job, each of them lasting less than 1 year. That's a bit of a concern. Can someone please explain why this is a concern? I've also had a series of jobs lasting usually less than 18 months. Whenever
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Get real! ;) I can just imagine promotional tweets gone wrong, e.g.: "Get your tickets to Blind Guardian concert! Only 500 left!"
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Cleverness like this makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside right up to the point where someone decides to actually pass that second argument to your function.
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by CodeMage 14y ago
You missed the point. Your original comment was an oversimplification of how people interact, similar to the argument "If you're not doing anything bad, you have nothing to hide." The way people interact with other people can not be reduced
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by CodeMage 14y ago
For me it's the latter. I learned to code on a US keyboard, because that was the only layout we had in Yugoslavia back in the day. Then I came to live in Chile, where you can't even find a US keyboard, and had to get used to not caring abou
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Hey, Jeff, here's another way you could look at this: "I wish I'd thought of [this]... The need for people who can read and write has never been greater. This is a fabulous product at the right time" -- Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Re
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by CodeMage 14y ago
As long as we're having fun with the analogy: Whoever pelts me with mud is going to be lucky if I just flip them off.

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