SeanDav

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by SeanDav 11y ago
or, when multiplied by 1000, perhaps something else...
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Rather than simplify Javascript and protect beginners from themselves, why not start with a language that is both powerful and protective and yet easy to learn, like Pascal - learn the basics there in a more structured language? Lazarus is
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I would have thought that this could be modelled accurately in computer simulations and tested in far smaller scale.
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Its Go. Current darling on HN. One could write a blog on how to format "hello world" in Go/Golang and it would likely make the front page, especially if it was given a catchy title like "Critical string optimizations in
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They probably used Microsoft Office as their inspiration on how to create a user interface that makes it difficult to to tell the difference between UI and data. The flat UI's have their use cases but mostly they are just a bandwagon t
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Without getting into any sort of religious war, what are typical use cases that make Rust a better choice?
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He does have a certain unique style that is all Arnie. "I'll be back" just does not carry the same impact when done in a non-Arnie voice.
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Netflix may well win this, but then everyone just goes pirate and Netflix loses masses of subscribers. These companies just do not get it....
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Chess rules can be explained in 1 minute - you just have to talk really, really fast.
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One gets the ridiculous situation where an innocent person in prison, keeps on maintaining that they are innocent and end up serving far longer sentences than guilty people, convicted of very similar crimes, that don't deny their guilt
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I cringe at the idea of self-driving trucks. If a car gets it wrong, it is probably a small bump in your door, if a truck gets it wrong, it can easily drive right over your car.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Since you created this account 17 minutes ago (before this post) you are clearly trying to troll, but in this case I will make an exception and reply to a troll. The Wiring developer is not upset about someone forking the project, but the l
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I would be a fan of Skype, if they did not route everything through government spyware.
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In the Quora article, there is a reply by an existing Facebook senior manager, who confirms the zero tolerance policy, even stating that people get fired at Facebook for accidentally breaking a policy they were either not aware of, or had f
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I used to work at a multi-national bank, with very strict rules on sexual harassment. It was widely understood that a male should never be alone with a female with no potential witnesses around. This included getting into a lift (elevator)
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I am highly sceptical of his claim of "training" bees. He may make the plants and resin available and bees will tend to go for the closest convenient source, but much beyond that, I don't really believe. I am happy to be prov
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Medium: an attempt to bring civility to the internet(bbc.com)
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Starbucks to open first coffee shop in Italy(bbc.co.uk)
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Far too detailed character development on non mainstream characters. Far too detailed descriptions of landscapes and environment. The first couple of times they are great to read, after that, very boring. Far too detailed description of pol
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And yet the software industry survives and thrives with only niche use of functional programming at best... EDIT: To clarify. I am agreeing with the original author. If Functional Programming is as great as it is supposed to be it would hav
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Very tedious trilogy. It had great potential but just drowned the reader in unnecessary detail on subjects that had nothing to do with the theme of the books(s). As the subject matter is very interesting to me, I started the series with gre
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by SeanDav 11y ago
> "Assuming a=0 implies a=0" is absolutely true. This is not correct. There is no such thing as absolute truth. Something can only be true within a set of previously agreed constraints and rules. For example, I can simply ima
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Excellent summary and some good points made, thanks.
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I mean absolutely no disrespect and wish everyone well in this project, but other than a fun hobby or even more fun career for the author, what is the use case for MicroPython? Surely at the microcontroller level, C is perfectly adequate an
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Let's see.... If it were possible to remove all guns in USA with a wave of a magic wand: Number of deaths due to Gun Violence: 0 If it were possible to remove all encryption in USA with a wave of a magic wand: Number of deaths due to G
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What is your one-size-fits-all-possible-use-cases scripting language they should all use instead? Lua? Counterpoint: https://julien.danjou.info/blog/2011/why-not-lua Any scripting language will have issues. It is
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> "One thing I don't get with game engines: why do they feel the need to make a X-like scripting language..." They make it in "X" because they want a scripting language that is familiar to a large number of use
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Bill Gates is well aware that people will take this, not as his personal opinion, but as the opinion of Microsoft. He could have made it it clear that this was his personal opinion and not related to the Microsoft position, but he did not.
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> "Mass was highly critical of the federal government's lagging computing capacity in recent years.." Perhaps he should have been having a chat with the NSA boys...
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It does not make any kind of business sense to spend that much money and rely on 1 programmer and such a short project time. What happened if the programmer fell down some stairs or got hit by a bus? Normal project time for a game was 6 to

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