Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
Some people believe that young children know more about The Truth in a spiritual sense than adults. They just have it forced out of them by the time they grow up.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Still sounds like a win to me. Think of The Mythical Man-Month . Do you want a kitchen with 10 chefs and the coordination that demands, or a kitchen with 1 chef that is just as productive as the raw sum of the 10 chefs? Assuming that the p
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by Dewie 12y ago
Not many people can work that much in raw hours, and be as productive for each of those hours as someone who works normally are during each business hour.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I agree, to a degree (we're all going to draw a different line in the sand on "fair"). Imagine a kid who has had the best environment possible: his parents were some kind of scientists, encouraged his interest in the same thi
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by Dewie 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if surgeons feel like 10X'ers compared to general practitioners, in a sense (of course, a surgeon "being 10X as productive as a GP" doesn't make literal sense).
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by Dewie 12y ago
I guess the simplest thing would just be to first introduce them to some simple rules, like "this is how you indicate a header", "this is how you indicate emphasis (like italics)". After all, isn't conventions like
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by Dewie 12y ago
Markdown seems to be a lightweight, readable, unobtrusive markup language for relatively simple documents. Considering that, hasn't markdown (or one of its dialects) failed if someone feels motivated to use a dedicated editor for it? T
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by Dewie 12y ago
The thing with two spaces at the end of a line indicating line break doesn't make sense to me. It is invisible in most editors, so it is easy to mess up.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Alternatively you can use org-mode and extend the document with latex where appropriate.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> It's especially odd from a community that places so much emphasis on the importance of a good pitch. A good pitch? Why does that even matter? 97% of these projects are for fun/as a learning exercise. If someone is interested
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by Dewie 12y ago
"Don't be such a Negative Nancy" - If you hate work and chores yourself, do you really think your kids are going to develop a better attitude than you?
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by Dewie 12y ago
I'm a grown man and still have to ask my mom how to use her washing machine when I'm there.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> The thing about typechecking, though, is that you're essentially specifying your program's behavior twice: Once very detailed in the actual code and once at usually some lesser detail in the types. How so? The implementation
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by Dewie 12y ago
Virtual machine implemented in GCd language -> Get ready, On your marks, FUD.
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by Dewie 12y ago
That sounds like library writers being able to bake in optimizations (rewrite rules) into their libraries. Which makes sense; you distribute the optimizations to domain experts (like data structures) instead of just having general optimizat
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Regarding #2, it's conventional wisdom that you can't beat a compiler, but I'm sure DJB is going to show examples where he beats the compiler significantly. Is the fact that a compiler can beat you sometimes[1] really th
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by Dewie 12y ago
Jeez, it was actually an honest question.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I don't have much faith in future processors if it really is impractical to make optimizing compilers for them.
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by Dewie 12y ago
But if they know that they are going into management within 10 years, they are at least expecting it. ;)
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by Dewie 12y ago
Calm down Jack. I wrote that it's one of the less wild assumptions: not that it's a reasonable assumption. To trust the OpenBSD's code with regards to security is more of a safe bet than trusting a lot of other organization&#
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by Dewie 12y ago
To assume that the people behind OpenBSD put protections against that into their C programs is one of the less wild assumptions to entertain.
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by Dewie 12y ago
What other languages does the OpenBSD people use? Shell scripts? Maybe something else?
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by Dewie 12y ago
Sounds like a race to the bottom.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Middle years if you go into something like management by the time you're 45, I guess. Though I guess you'd have to have planned out that career switch for over 10 years, in that case...
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by Dewie 12y ago
The problem with advanced type systems is that, while the theory and implementations and the research might be mature, it will take god-knows how many years of research oriented on usability in order to get something approachable and unders
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by Dewie 12y ago
I think we have to forgive Daniele for making a bull-headed statement, since he is probably not that socially sensitive by virtue of being a man.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Like I said: inferiority complex.
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by Dewie 12y ago
The linked article validates my choice of never getting involved with those groups concerned with so-called structural oppression .
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I would say it is a work life balance issue. Did you even read my second paragraph? Even though it might be caused by a bad work/life balance, that doesn't mean that it isn't a mental issue when you eventually become bur
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by Dewie 12y ago
It's unclear whether you're asking a genuine question, or just using a rhetorical one to dismiss the idea altogether. I guess the lack of question mark on the second line points to it being the latter. Consider that if you're

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