Delmania

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by Delmania 12y ago
The difference is the Amish are willing to change their stance on a technology if it proves to be beneficial to their lifestyle.
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by Delmania 12y ago
"They justify this by arguing that "that insistence can only come from one place: that gender—specifically, masculinity—is inextricably linked to software"." This justification reveals Joyent's (and many others) mis
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by Delmania 12y ago
I can agree with this sentiment. There's a big narratives on HN about corporate drones using C# and Java to implement specifications from on high versus the elite hackers using cool languages such as Clojure, Ruby, Python etc. The trut
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by Delmania 12y ago
As has been pointed out many times, that's the difference between science and religion. From day, scientists are trained to understand their beliefs and understandings must be based on the evidence before them, and that if the evidence
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by Delmania 12y ago
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - John Steinbeck
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by Delmania 12y ago
Of all your examples, the conference one is probably the only time such a feature could be useful. Every other example you've raised has a low tech alternative: just talk to people. I realize many people have a tendency to fear small t
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by Delmania 12y ago
In the United States, they will never do this. Our society is too heavily influenced by the "Protestant work ethic", and we have a folk lore about hard work and success. Plus many politicians are "pro-business" and take
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by Delmania 12y ago
I'd disagree with this. While OS X and Windows are not as transparent as linux, there are enough resources on both that a hacker that wants can go deep on them. In the Windows ecosystem, Mark Russinovich (creator of Sysinternals) and C
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by Delmania 12y ago
The key point is "any other activity". For most people, the cognitive games on their phones are probably the most accessible enriched environment tools. The blood, on the other hand, seems to be fraught with complications, from ba
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by Delmania 12y ago
Yes, salaried employees are paid to get the job done regardless of how long it takes, so long as it takes no less that 40 hours. Companies will gladly let you work 50, 60, or 80 hours a week with no additional compensation (except promises
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by Delmania 12y ago
That attitude represents the wrong way to read the article. He's not arguing against learning in general, but the claims that knowledge is transferable. Study Latin if you're genuinely interested in learning Latin, don't stud
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by Delmania 12y ago
I seriously think the author needs to revisit the series, because Katniss was not overly concerned for the welfare of others, nor did heap praise on other people. She was a survivor, willing to do whatever it took to stay alive. It was only
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by Delmania 12y ago
It's not just the collateral, usually you make a profit when you sell your house.
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by Delmania 12y ago
Neither of which they do. The website is incredibly ostentatious, and offers no hints of what the company is trying to achieve. If you want build interest, drop the over the type hype machine and explain what the hell you're doing.
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by Delmania 12y ago
They're selling something. If they want people to hand over cash, it might be practical to tell us what it is.
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by Delmania 12y ago
Maven archetypes make Maven a lot easier to use, and the standardization of things such as JPA and CDI and the simplification of EJB has gone to lengths to reduce the complexity if JEE. That being said, this isn't a "Hello, World&
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by Delmania 12y ago
Terry is technically brilliant, but I just don't understand TempleOS. I can't tell if he's serious, or it's a tongue in cheek concept.
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by Delmania 12y ago
"My main problem with it is that ESR is unable to differentiate between being a good programmer and being ESR." This line really identifies what my issue with ESR is. I've skimmed over his writings, and he definitely mixes th
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by Delmania 12y ago
You're either being inane, dense, or you're just plain inexperienced. Coding, like math, has an element to creativity to it. If you don't think math has creativity, you don't know anything about more advanced math. Howev
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by Delmania 12y ago
Wow, I have rewritten my response more than once, but I am basically amazed at how completely wrong this response is. Coding is a system of calculation as well. Like math, the goal of programming is to solve a problem. There are beautiful,
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by Delmania 12y ago
No, I think you misunderstand. I'll stick with Visual Studio here because that's used as the classic example. Visual Studio does a lot of the heavy lifting when generating boilerplate code for things like Entity projects and ASP.N
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by Delmania 12y ago
That still doesn't change the fact that art and music are poor analogies. I struggle with the best way to describe this, but at the end of the day, perhaps the best analogy I can give is that the purpose of art and music is to share th
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by Delmania 12y ago
I actually think it depends on the analogy. For some reason, people love to compare programming to art and music. The article Dabblers and Blowhards[1] is a great response to these types of claims. A better analogy for programming is that i
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by Delmania 12y ago
No, it's your fault. Saying your IDE is to blame is the equivalent of saying using C to program is making you stupid because it abstracts you too far away from the underlyung architectures. Or like using the languages implementation of
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by Delmania 12y ago
Really? Considering Apple sold 5.5 million Macs last quarter, I'm not sure your claim that there's no growth holds water. If anything, the trend seems to be people using laptops (which are desktops) and smartphones, while tablets
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by Delmania 12y ago
Big question: why did you pin your hopes, dreams, and identity on working for a XXXX major tech firm? It's not fully within your control, and at the end of the day, it's just a job. I can't really offer you much help other t
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by Delmania 12y ago
Wow, the opening sentence contains the nonsense word "unsession" which makes it hard for me to read this, which is disappointing considering the source. However, this is the first time I've been exposed to "zendo",
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by Delmania 12y ago
How similar was your situation? Did you have a family you needed to support? A full time job?
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by Delmania 12y ago
"When you're in a spot so bad that you have maybe $20 a week for food and have bills and collections wanting everything you have, simple things like a new couch or speakers look like an escape, almost therapeutic, when you have no
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by Delmania 12y ago
This article makes the case that coffee is "bad" for people due to sugar and caffeine. The sugar part I understand, but caffeine is found in teas as well, and the last I knew, it's impact on the body was only temporary. Outsi

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