Goladus

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by Goladus 15y ago
Additionally, with regards to the quant business, that they compete for engineering and software development talent probably diverts good people away from the product, research, and service side of the economy.
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by Goladus 15y ago
I agree, I noticed that almost immediately. Also, the rhythms are quantized and the tempo is fixed. It's still a very cool demo, though.
723.
by Goladus 15y ago
The first post was killed for some unknown reason. Are Kawasaki articles banned from Hacker News? Also, the ad hominem seems out of place. Is he wrong or uninteresting in this case?
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by Goladus 15y ago
I would say the distinction is most important for considering what the competition will be. There are already plenty of people who consider higher education an investment, but also factor cost and risk for more significantly than the sort
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by Goladus 15y ago
I don't use Ruby at all, personally. I use Python and Bash almost exclusively. I use Puppet but am not a huge fan, and I certainly have no plans to switch to ruby. I mostly agree with your original point. However, the CLI thing is a legi
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by Goladus 15y ago
I fail to see how Perl-golf style conciseness is inherently more "productive" (particularly when it makes it harder to understand and maintain operationally important software). I'm not sure the author made a great case, but it does matte
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by Goladus 15y ago
I would say the most rapid and important technological advancements happening right now are in genetic sequencing and analysis. In his TEDxBoston talk, Richard Resnick even draws a parallel to the space race, pointing out that China is ahe
728.
by Goladus 15y ago
Do you have additional datacenter environments for staging and development?
729.
by Goladus 15y ago
Technically that's incorrect. A parameter list has an implicit line continuation so the 4 spaces aren't necessary. if x: ----some_long_func_name(..., blah...) ----fn2(x) else: ----fn3()
730.
by Goladus 15y ago
I suspect most python developers get the "insert four spaces per tab" for free with whatever IDE they use.
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by Goladus 15y ago
Tabs are more likely to be destroyed than spaces. Simply displaying a file in a character-based terminal shreds tabs. Spaces are fine. It's true there are tools, especially on the web, that eliminate whitespace and if you rely on those to
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by Goladus 15y ago
I think most people would rather use spaces for their own sanity. Most people would prefer not to bother adjusting tabwidths, ever. So the capability to adjust the display of code to individual's liking would be largely unappreciated. In
733.
by Goladus 15y ago
Most of the problems I mention aren't objective. Sometimes I like washing dishes, it's relaxing. I certainly like eating from dishes. Some people like cars and like driving. It certainly saves people time. Peeling grapefruit is very sa
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by Goladus 15y ago
This is just raw pessimism, you could rant like this about anything. I hate all cars, especially my own. I hate that heavy, dangerous, gas-guzzling honda civic with an over-sensitive brake pedal and enormous, completely pointless blind spo
735.
by Goladus 15y ago
Neither, really. Though I might not have been clear-- I live in a densely populated area where there's public transit and I don't use a car much. I grew up in rural areas where the spread-out method works better. What doesn't work is tryi
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by Goladus 15y ago
Sprawl does not mean a spread-out, rural area. Rural areas don't really have traffic problems in the way that metro areas do. Even suburbs of small cities don't have traffic problems on the same scale as major cities like NY, Atlanta, DC,
737.
by Goladus 15y ago
"I think this is an interesting direction, though I wonder to what extent the real problem in urban planning is not having the resources—money—to do anything about it," says Sam Madden, an associate professor at the MIT Computer Science an
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by Goladus 15y ago
Web apps updated seamlessly without cost to the end user are great, however that doesn't mean developers aren't exerting control over end users. And whether charging $50 for feature additions and changes was greedy or not is completely irr
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by Goladus 15y ago
My thoughts... Supermarket clerk is hardly an ultimate job. Tediousness of checkout is as much a psychological issue as a real one. I rarely spend more than a fraction of the time checking out as actually selecting the groceries I want. Pr
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by Goladus 15y ago
Using the singular would be standard, yes. I think in this case, though, I suspect it's used semi-intentionally because the plural "jobs" is more of a political buzzword than the singular. The issue is jobs, not any individual's job.
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by Goladus 15y ago
MTBI is about natural inclinations. MBTI is about how you answer the questions posed by the sorting test. Sure, many people are always going to test the same way. And some people will have personalities that would seem to fit the descr
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by Goladus 15y ago
GIFA here. German/Irish/French-American. I find that knowledge just as useful and relevant to daily life as knowing into which personality box the MBTI sorting hat places me.
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by Goladus 15y ago
Can you describe the examples used in the group session? The primary flaw with MBTI types is that they cannot be tested for. The common descriptions are too vague and inclusive to devise real tests. The tests that are given sort you into
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by Goladus 15y ago
I admit I exaggerated, the point I wanted to make in the post that got downvoted was that health insurance doesn't reduce the costs of healthcare. Health insurance is a way to share the costs, that's it. Real cost reduction comes from imp
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by Goladus 15y ago
Who do you think funds drug research now? The NIH, nonprofit fundraising organizations like The Jimmy Fund, small companies like Advanced Cell Technology, and Venture Capital to biotech startups. Finally-- existing large drug companies li
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by Goladus 15y ago
They should at least mention that it raises the question: what good is having this technology if most people can't afford it or it's not more effective than technology available elsewhere? Shouldn't we care more about making existing techn
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by Goladus 15y ago
Right, you rarely have to use the formally specified grammar to parse a language, so long as whatever parsing technique you use doesn't violate the spec. A 6000-line yacc file probably isn't an easily-read formal grammar and does more than
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by Goladus 15y ago
What an actual day might look like: The first 3 emails take almost the entire morning. In the 15 minutes before lunch, instead of working on the new delivery feature you and dave specced out, you pull up Hacker News and read an article or
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by Goladus 15y ago
The only thing I'd like to see more of with respect to decorators is discussion of real benefits. The concept is fairly simple it's the technique and resulting code organization that is interesting. Much like Lisp macros, it's important t
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by Goladus 15y ago
I've been using the internet at work since 1997. But it was not nearly as ubiquitous as it is now. "Surfing the web" was generally something people did at home, on a 56k modem. A software engineer fixing the Y2K bug in bank software prob

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