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by CodeMage 14y ago
I was going to take your argument a lot more seriously, but then I came to this part: fortunate enough to be endowed with a highly intelligent brain That's just taking it too far. By that same logic they were fortunate that, about 2 billi
902.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Articles like this keep reminding me of Billy Connolly's exclamation of "Fuck political correctness!" Sometimes you should be free to call a spade a spade. Recently I have been seeing leaders in software communities regardless of being cor
903.
by CodeMage 14y ago
My best experience so far has been with a combination of SmartGit and TortoiseGit. SmartGit doesn't have interactive rebase and doesn't allow you to specify refspec when pushing. I've had to use the former occasionally and I use the latter
904.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply I wanted precise information. Their guesstimate is going to be better than mine, which is why I would ask them for that info. I'm just not comfortable with pulling data out of my lower dorsal region. And I gu
905.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Okay, have you been following closely Linus or Crockford? I know I haven't, which is why I always start from the position of "I don't have the full context." My initial assumption is: Linus/Crockford/whoever-else-is-coming-across-as-a-crank
906.
by CodeMage 14y ago
I've never been asked a to solve a Fermi problem in an interview, but I would most likely require that the interviewer give me the data I need. In the golf ball example, I would ask for diameter of the golf ball, dimensions of a bus, etc. O
907.
by CodeMage 14y ago
While I totally agree with you, this example goes beyond that. Whether it's in public or in private, calling someone a "retard" and asking them how they could do something "so fucking stupid" is inexcusably abusive and a reason to quit on t
908.
by CodeMage 14y ago
I wish we could find a way to make non-programmers understand this. Just because programming doesn't involve moving lots of heavy stuff and putting it together physically, doesn't mean that there are no rules about how software needs to be
909.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Okay, I don't get it: why does everyone assume that having the same syntax for trees automatically means you have to put everything in the same tree?
910.
by CodeMage 14y ago
I believe you're missing his point: he said unify the syntax , not mix the data with the presentation.
911.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Thanks for this! I'm still reading the dissertation and haven't gotten to the end yet, but so far it seems to me like what it would be like to "program in ANTLR", so to speak; except that OMeta looks easier to understand and use.
912.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Sensationalist headline alert: They forgot to finish the sentence with "if you leave Wi-Fi turned on".
913.
by CodeMage 14y ago
just write the Mozilla and Chrome extensions to expose a C implementation of PGP/GPG to Javascript? Would that really help? The same hypothetical malicious server admin could simply alter the JS to not call the code from the extension and
914.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Here's an explanation I would offer to a 12-year old to explain Apple's decision, but please bear in mind that it doesn't mean I agree with it: There are many people in the world who use technology, but are offended by even the slightest
915.
by CodeMage 14y ago
While I agree with your ideas about the "syntax weight", I think that you're wrong about Java. Java definitely has no syntax for closures, because it has no semantics for function types. It has interfaces and anonymous classes, which you ca
916.
by CodeMage 14y ago
That's one thing that has been bugging me since the first time I've heard of GPL. If I use a library or framework that's licensed under GPL, without modifying said library/framework in any way, do I still have to (as TFA puts it) "extend th
917.
by CodeMage 14y ago
I imagine that the GP's point was that publishing here doesn't reach the same audience Rolling Stone does. If so, I agree.
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Why Your Employees Are Leaving(forbes.com)
2 points by CodeMage 14y ago|0 comments
919.
by CodeMage 14y ago
As for Facebook and Google, the worst thing they're going to do with your personal information is target advertisements at you. Sure, I bet that is what everyone is complaining about. It certainly can't be about the possibility of your
920.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Here's the existing HN discussion for the original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3816050
921.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I believe they are smart enough to realize that and they just don't care. Lawmaking in modern society is inextricably tied to politics and this seems yet another politically motivated piece of legislation.
922.
by CodeMage 14y ago
Precisely. The correct answer to such questions, whenever they don't include additional context/restrictions, is "Anything at all."
923.
by CodeMage 15y ago
That's heavy on mathematical lingo and I confess I didn't understand it. Can you recommend an online resource that would explain what you just wrote in a newbie-friendly manner?
924.
by CodeMage 15y ago
To me, the problem seems to be that he writes the way he would talk. This would probably be a great talk, but it's indigestible writing.
925.
by CodeMage 15y ago
If we could end the war on drugs at the expense of loss of net neutrality and ten thousand years of existing copyright laws persisting I would find this to be favorable a million times over. Fight hyperbole with hyperbole? Ending the war
926.
by CodeMage 15y ago
our body hasn't genetically adapted to yet And it won't, because natural selection isn't working anymore. I'm not saying that it's good or bad, though, just pointing it out.
927.
by CodeMage 15y ago
On the contrary, I highly recommend reading JackC's explanation on "theft" vs. "copyright infringement" in terms of "alienable rights": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3696526 I sincerely doubt that nothing would change in a discussio
928.
by CodeMage 15y ago
I'm genuinely curious: is this because Haskell is generally hard to learn[ ] or because of some inherent property of Haskell that makes type classes unnecessary when you have first class functions? [ ] This statement is based purely on my o
929.
by CodeMage 15y ago
Maybe I'm too cynical, but I don't think you can seriously plan releases so far in future. What you can do is delude yourself (which happens all the time at big bureaucracies) or make it look like you're planning seriously in order to app
930.
by CodeMage 15y ago
Literally useless? Would you like to elaborate on how specifying a contract that has to be implemented is suddenly useless because you have function types?

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