OtterCoder

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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I think that there's a few semantics we could quibble about, "wouldn't anything God did be natural by definition," and so on. But I wholeheartedly agree with your first statement, and I find it profoundly frustrating tha
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Your comment history suggests that your beef with the Mormon faith has only a little to do with the subjectivity of experience. If you really want to talk about it, I will, but it might be a better discussion for another thread or forum.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
You assume God's goal is human pleasure. What if it was human growth? A person never grows more than in the struggle of life. What if it was human freedom? Freedom means that evil must sometimes be permitted in the face of overwhelming
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I despise the idea of the God of the gaps. I don't believe in a supernatural God, but in one who presides over nature. Not one who defies science, but even allows himself to be known by personal experiment. Why should a miracle be wrou
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
If there is, it's been a long time coming. The Eternal September started in 1993, and has been repeated across every social site or service ever created since then. The only way to avoid the flood is to leave before they arrive.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Exactly. Everybody wants this incredibly expressive, powerful, functional, safe language that they dream about. We already have Lisp and nobody actually wants to use a language that powerful because it's not actually easier, especially
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
If you don't want to manage memory, why are you using any systems language? Python, JS, Go, and any number of other languages will be much kinder to you.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I personally feel like Haskell makes a good reference implementation for functional programming. Whenever someone is explaining how to do some interesting FP thing in, say, JavaScript, I usually just ignore them and go read about how the sa
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Yes, yes it is too much to ask. I won't judge a body for being a brony, or a never-nude, or a benign cultist, or a thousand other things. I don't expect normalcy from anyone. That said, there are unqualified evils in the world.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
If I'm cherry-picking, you're strictly appealing to emotion. Are you suggesting that the gay population, which is between 2-6% of Americans, plenty of whom are also monogamous (75% of male homosexuals, by recent estimates), are a
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I'd like to see a citation for the prevalence of adultery. Studies I've seen cite 20% of married men have committed at least one act of infidelity, and that the current percentage is almost twice what it was in the seventies. That
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I take exception to the claim that being against casual sex is to be anti-sex in general. Having a single, dedicated sexual partner as a spouse is plenty sufficient to satisfy the human need for sexuality, and can provide a deeper, richer s
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
This is a very new-left way of looking at the issue. This is sensationalist, irresponsible, and actively luddite. Engineering, in case the author has forgotten, has built the cars that are the leading cause of accidental death. Engineering
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
For whatever my two cents are worth, I would choose a macro over a keyword every day. Keyword clutter can be incredibly stifling once a language has any history at all.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Git is not for deployment. Also, hardcoding blog posts in the repo is a dumb solution, and not necessary for a static site. The user built markup should be separate from the code that generates static pages from it.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I don't understand the panic about this law. Mens rea is appropriately considered in the law. Unless they can prove that you built your site with the intention of facilitating sex trafficking, you still aren't on the hook for what
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
In case you didn't know, the FBI has zero legislative power... They have absolutely nothing to do with legalization of anything, and a law enforcement branch that picks and chooses which laws it enforces is a breath away from a police
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I'm speaking more from the database/XSS side of things, where a blacklist is about as useful as no list at all. There are absolutely times where security has to be compromised, even abandoned, in the name of usability, and times w
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
In Utah? Perfectly sane. The law just codifies Utah CPS practices. Other states with similar laws? You could have your children confiscated if they weren't in visual range.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
The exact opposite approach of good (e.g. network) security. Coincidence? I think not.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Quine, the descriptor in the actual article, is both more accurate, and more appropriate for a forum made of programmers. The fact that they made it into a quine with non-trivial, useful side effects is actually really interesting, regardle
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Grit, I think. It's not a static trait, the way some people talk about it. More something you discover when you need it.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I don't think you really understand the kinds of details that AI picks up on. If that data pool shows that people who apply for loans on a Tuesday and have a salary whose third digit is 7 almost always default on loans, then neural net
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
This is a surprisingly large scale example of a very, very common problem in small businesses. People forget to invest in the appearance of their place of business. You'll see Joe's RV dealership with a sign out front that's
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
What's Q? They lost me there. A is all computable functions in... Something? Also, if Turing completeness indicates that a language can simulate any mechanical process, and any Turing complete language must be Gödel incomplete , then
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
I was about to quibble with you about the usage of organic, but then I remembered that diamonds are literally just carbon, so, by chemistry, you're right.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Video is usually a huge waste of time, period. The typical reader can take in information something like five times faster that a skilled speaker can talk.
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
You absolutely deserve to be banned, regardless of ToS. You're wasting thousands of other people's man-hours to demand, however politely, that they fix a miniscule error that likely only bothers you. Even if you provide the fix wi
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Within the States, I'm really well traveled. I grew up on the West coast, spent two years on the East coast talking to more people than you've ever met, in more towns than you've ever driven through, and have been living in t
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
As an urban Midwesterner, who has also lived on both coasts, you have less in common than you think.

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