MBlume

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1. 451.▲
   by MBlume 14y ago

   I'll bet you that the people you've observed live in the US, and we have really crappy beef here.
2. 452.▲
   by MBlume 14y ago

   Only if you use a key the size of your data, which is not commonly done.
3. 453.▲
   by MBlume 14y ago

   I don't think the quote is about one-failure-and-done entrepreneurs, I think it's about the dearth of one-success-and-done entrepreneurs
4. 454.▲
   by MBlume 14y ago

   My "breakthrough moment" with Javascript was realizing that I could just treat it like scheme.
5. 455.▲
   by MBlume 14y ago

   Honestly, this is something you should get over.
6. 456.▲
   by MBlume 14y ago

   Yeah, it's really confusing. "You" has the same problem, so I try to avoid that too. /s
7. 457.▲
   by MBlume 14y ago

   Er, you can have that freedom now, if you want it.
8. 458.▲
   by MBlume 14y ago

   Uh, where do you think we can get more mathematical talent from? At the end of the day, there's only so many people at the right end of the bell curve.
9. 459.▲
   by MBlume 14y ago

   Y'know, I'll bet Dropbox is small enough that one engineer with a resignation letter in hand could've reversed this before it was announced publicly.
10. 460.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    Downvoted for cleverness.
11. 461.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    Sounds nice.
12. 462.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    Jails are also public property. That doesn't mean the inmates have rights.
13. 463.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    This -- on a good day my brain's running mostly on ketones
14. 464.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    My first thought was "Does this mean if I want a BCI, I'll have to start eating sugar again?"
15. 465.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    I've said this before and I'll say it again. One of the villains in this piece is Apple. Many of the people reading this comment are talented engineers. What Apple needs to survive, more than anything, are talented engineers. So don't work
16. 466.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    Perhaps you should actually bet with OP then!
17. 467.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    You and OP have made clear, concrete, differing predictions about the future, predictions which can be checked within the next 6-12 months. This is epistemically virtuous -- congratulations! If you want to be even more epistemically virtu
18. 468.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    It's not pirating if you download Game of Thrones -- it's paying The Iron Price
19. 469.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    Wrap in another function. ETA: I'm amused by how easily the LISP philosophy applies here: any problem can be solved with enough lambdas.
20. 470.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    I realize this is mostly irrelevant, but can anyone confirm/deny the Elfman claim? (It occurs to me that you'd have to be a fantastic whistler to manage some of, say, the spiderman score. Also, I'm pretty sure the guy invents percussion
21. 471.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    Can we all work on this? Somehow nobody seems to treat writing crappy commits (messages like "work since Tuesday" or "it works now") like they would writing crappy code. Version control is fundamental to our job .
22. 472.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    > Also, are there a lot of developers who work for hours without committing? I manage maybe an hour at a max, and then have to make extensive use of commit -p to tease apart all the changes I've made.
23. 473.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Borenstein To understand how these problems can be addressed, it is instructive to consider an analogy. Imagine, for a moment, that somewhere in the basement of the Pentagon there are two computers.
24. 474.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    Meant to upvote you and then fat-fingered the down-arrow -- sorry
25. 475.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    Or, y'know, find someone who can program and ask them.
26. 476.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    More detail on the Haskell -> js options here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_JavaScript_Problem
27. 477.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    This. On reading this post, I ran to my computer to replace defaultdict(int) with Counter in some of my code, only to find that I couldn't use it yet.
28. 478.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    I'm just wondering how soon someone will push some haskell into production with this flag in place because they can't be bothered to track down all their type errors.
29. 479.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    This. I'm having serious difficulty imagining that anyone would object this much if the bar simply hired someone to sit in the corner, count the men and women, and post the numbers on a twitter feed.
30. 480.▲
    by MBlume 14y ago

    blinks I've already been told I have a defective sense of privacy, but I am genuinely confused about why people would object to this.