NateDad

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by NateDad 14y ago
Thanks for responding to my late addition to the thread. You're right, of course... I may have missed a lot of it. And I haven't worked at gaming companies - not a lot of those in Boston, and the "kill yourself working just to get fired 2 m
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by NateDad 14y ago
I have a serious question... is this a west coast thing? A midwest or southern thing? I've worked for over 13 years in Boston, in several companies with several smart female engineers... no one ever treated them differently that I saw. So..
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by NateDad 14y ago
You have to test, or you can't know how kids are doing. Maybe the tests need to be changed, but saying testing at all is the problem is wrong. You must test if you want to improve outcomes, otherwise you're just twiddling knobs with no id
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by NateDad 14y ago
Go is all statically linked, so there's no such thing as DLLs made in Go. Creating DLLs may be possible in later versions of Go, however.
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by NateDad 14y ago
This. Your presentation to colleagues is not the same as Chris Rock's standup. Keep jokes generic... yes, that means they're often less funny
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by NateDad 14y ago
If you don't mind people thinking you're sexist, go for it. Otherwise, don't be an idiot, and make a different joke. Yes, I'm a guy, and yes I make crude jokes in front of my close friends on occasion. But I'd never do it in front of someon
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by NateDad 14y ago
What, like COBOL?
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by NateDad 14y ago
I'm not kidding, are you? You think that if the thought of being burned over 90% of their body isn't stopping someone from smoking in bed... that the thought a big hospital bill will do the trick? Or that they're not afraid of breaking ever
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by NateDad 14y ago
Your life is not a statistic. You are not the average. If I gave you $20 to play russian roulette, would you do it? It's only a 1/6 chance of death. On average you'll be up $20, right? I'm guessing most people would not do it. The risk of d
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by NateDad 14y ago
We've had medical technology for longer than we've had either of those, and health care has gotten more expensive, not less. What does the price of commodity items have to do with the price of life saving services?
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by NateDad 14y ago
Yeah, 'cause gastric bypass and daily insulin injections are gobs of fun. Humans are really bad at long term risk assessment. No one says "I'm going to eat 2000 extra calories every day because the government will pay for my daily insulin
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by NateDad 14y ago
This is a straw man. The point of the article is health insurance, and no one chooses to break their leg, get burned in a fire, or develop cancer. But I'll take you up on it anyway, because it's still BS. How about the people in tornado all
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by NateDad 14y ago
Because then anyone who gets unlucky dies from not being able to afford the exorbitant prices of catastrophic health care, which will never go down enough to be "affordable" to anyone who isn't rich.
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by NateDad 14y ago
You are why universal healthcare is so essential - because most people are really bad at calculating their own risk vs. reward. Risk: $1000 a year in home insurance that could be used to buy something else. Reward: the 1 in 1000 chance that
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by NateDad 14y ago
This is a ridiculous argument. Insurance works because not everyone's house burns down. Only some people's do. The people whose houses don't burn down pay for those whose houses do. investing to repay for your house should it burn down only
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by NateDad 14y ago
#2 is a fallacy, which is what the original author had said. Look at all the people buying mansions on the coast of Florida that then get wiped out by hurricanes. Humans are very bad at gauging long-term risk.
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by NateDad 14y ago
haha, me too
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by NateDad 14y ago
Works fine for me.
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by NateDad 14y ago
That's a good thing.
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by NateDad 14y ago
Not all code is read in an IDE. Also, most IDEs don't color names differently at call sites. For example: a = foo.Bar() You know Bar is a public function of foo. It's not hungarian notation because you're not adding otherwise-nonsense chara
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by NateDad 14y ago
You can't use the language without the implementation. They're bound together. Unless you're suggesting someone's going to write a C# compiler that creates native binaries?
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by NateDad 14y ago
(note... I did say large.. my bad... still valid that small companies can't use GPL either)
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by NateDad 14y ago
None of those companies sell the firmware. They sell the hardware. The firmware is only useful if you buy their hardware.
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by NateDad 14y ago
Linksys sells hardware, not software, it's not a valid comparison. People can copy their software all they want - they still have to buy the hardware to run it on.
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by NateDad 14y ago
I didn't mean they care about recognition... I meant, no community forms around their product, because a huge portion of the developers that would like to use it, can't. I never said "large" companies. Small companies can't use GPL in their
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by NateDad 14y ago
Not if you want to leverage the millions of professional software developers out there. With GPL you're stuck with the hobbyists and the very few companies that can survive getting paid for support of their GPL software. You know what's BS
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by NateDad 14y ago
In that case it's exactly the same as if Microsoft never used the code... it would still have disappeared. That's what would have happened if it were GPL code. Proprietary software vendors can't use GPL code, because there's no way they ca
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by NateDad 14y ago
in this case, f is locally scoped to the if/else statement since it's assigned inside the if statement... Probably most of the time I would actually assign it outside the if statement and then check it/return and not have the rest of the co
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by NateDad 14y ago
I thought it would be a deal breaker for me, too. C/C++/C#/Python have been my standard languages... but after coding in it for a while, I love it. You never have to worry if someone downstream is going to throw an exception make your funct
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by NateDad 14y ago
Funny, I had a copy of this on my wall as a kid, 20+ years ago. I reread it today, and the words are still ones worth living by.

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