Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 6y ago
> I feel like it would be markets correction. Universities and higher learning isn’t and shouldn’t be a market. I’d argue that one of the reasons for the sad state of academia today is that too many MBA are running everything, including
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
There are neither economical or technological hurdles that stop us from ending the release of greenhouse gases within a few years. It is only political will. Stopping climate change is too late since it is already happening and it won’t be
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
[stockholm] In my last job-hunt it never happened. The recruiters I was contacted by then was very professional and all the interviews was actually quite good matches competence wise. Now lately I did the mistake to check a box in LinkedIn
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
All senior developers I know make significantly more than 51000. Yeah, other people in other countries make more money, and it was a competition for who is richest when they die, Sweden would really suck. But I really enjoy my life here, an
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
As a developer in Stockholm in a not particularly exciting big company in a not particularly exciting position I making about $80000. I have daycare for my two kids within 200 meter from my home, and I pay less than $200 per month and kid f
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
Which code is not fragile in that sense? I think that is a rather strange criticism.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
What happens to a comet that enters the solar system if it doesn’t hit anything? It leaves the solar system with the same speed it entered it with. Dark matter cannot hit anything.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
I’m not so worried about a short circuit as much as putting a voltage on the case.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
It’s not only dogs. I remember some stupid shit I did as a teenager.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
How come it stays in the vicinity of other matter? It needs to lose kinetic energy somehow.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
They call the themselves nationalist, the party was born out of old nazi parties and many of their prominent members express deeply racists in miscellaneous web forum. I think this is more than enough evidence to call them far right. Just b
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
No, you don’t. And the alternative implementation is that you either go through all code where car is used and add conditionals for all the cases where kind of fuel matters. Or is very common for this kind of programming, just copy the who
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
I think that it is supposedly a lot of something that hasn’t been predicted or detected in any other way that is considered problematic. It has to interact at least with other dark matter in some other form than via gravity to clump togethe
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
On the other hand, no abstractions is like reading a book where each and every thing is spelled out in outmost detail. Instead of telling you “I’m fuelling the car”, I’ll tell you: “I’m walking to the entrance hall. I’m picking up the car k
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
That is better than I managed to come up with on short notice.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
Only contrived ones without supplying quite a bit of context.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
And if you have a function that is called markStaleRows, everyone better use it, because when I need to change how stale rows are marked, I will change this function and nothing else. I won’t go through the whole codebase trying to find if
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
Yes, thank you! Exactly what I was trying to express in another comment. And if you do it the right way, none of the problems with DRY usually brought up will be relevant. The whole notion of looking at code and trying to spot similarities
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
But when you set out to do that you first have to make sure they really are identical, and since everything from indentation to names often differ it might not be so automatic. And then you do find differences, and you have to figure out if
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
I see similar arguments come up over and over at HN, and I say they stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of DRY. What we must not repeat is not lines of code, but how we do certain things in the code. That is, it’s fine to repeat syntac
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
Programming was actually what I did best. I had been programming since I was eleven and also took some computer science courses at the university. In addition, the kind of programming that most physicists do isn’t really helped by the skill
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
I actually don’t think that is the problem. In addition to the shortage of funds, there’s often a culture of doing most things yourself. When I was a PhD student, I did everything from vacuum systems, electronics, high current equipment, pl
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
It’s often hard to get money to fund anything else than PhD students or post docs.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
They tried that with COBOL and to a certain degree SQL. We would probably do a better job today, but the idea isn’t new.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
Those issues were discussed at length in the article. Not that it contradicts anything you say though.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
Because some people check the linked article only and might never look at the comments.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
On the other hand, we are today daily using tools that 20 years ago certainly was studied as AI, such as speech recognition and image classification. Maybe they are not using general artificial intelligence to do it, but I think that is bes
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
That reminds me how in South Africa the traffic lights are called robots.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
That might be hyperbole, but some people in Australia or California might not think she’s so far off already today.
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by Ma8ee 6y ago
I certainly hope you consider yourself something more than a software engineer. As a human, living with other people in a society, reading other books will not only help you and make your life richer, but also enhance the lives of the peopl

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