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by SiVal 11y ago
I keep wondering how Java compares to Go these days. I'm not advocating Go, just wondering how much of an advantage Java has for server-side "web applications and services" for new businesses that are the usual small to mediu
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by SiVal 11y ago
I'm afraid I don't see it that way at all. This sort of thing is dealt with all the time in the rural US, but in the relative absence of big government public transportation systems, the school district will get the one girl to sc
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by SiVal 11y ago
The explanation usually offered by those instituting these circuit breakers is that they don't have any problem with people who want to trade at some price eventually trading at that price, they just don't want people to have to t
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by SiVal 11y ago
I'm upvoting in hopes you'll continue to share your experience and (evolving) conclusions.
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by SiVal 11y ago
Beautiful work, Ryan. I love your combination of artistry and science.
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by SiVal 11y ago
That was a teacher from the Alabama School of Fine Arts, which began as a state-funded program to pay the fees of private, after school music, art, writing, theater, and science/math schools so all kids, especially lower income kids, c
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by SiVal 11y ago
It's interesting to compare Swift 2 -> 3 to the Python 2 -> 3 upgrade experience. Apple will simply break whatever they need to break to get the improvements they decide would be valuable, move on, and anyone who doesn't fol
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by SiVal 11y ago
Not following the politics; following the technological "innovation". "Appropriate technology" for "developing" dictatorships.
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by SiVal 11y ago
Even so, a lot of us who use server-side Linux would happily convert our last generation rMBP to client-side Linux when we upgraded to a new machine if getting Linux completely working on a client machine changed from something to brag abou
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by SiVal 11y ago
If you can boot faster than the screen can come to life, you don't need to be faster. IoT and servers might not have screens, so this doesn't apply to everything, but for devices with screens, just beating the screen warmup is goo
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by SiVal 11y ago
Respect the Teachers. They are qualified experts on child education. They have the best intentions for the students in mind. As a parent who has had to deal with these "experts" for years, I can't help rolling my eyes at th
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by SiVal 11y ago
The Naval Academy absolutely does train thousands of naval officers in this kind of math and programming. For the most part, they will apply those skills to more difficult problems, but if those tables had to be recreated, you would have
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by SiVal 11y ago
I think auto makers, gov't agencies with fleets of vehicles, private companies with fleets of vehicles, public transit agencies, etc., should contribute to OpenStreetMaps, which would then let them all incorporate any features they wan
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by SiVal 11y ago
Python 3 has the advantage of having a future. It is the living branch of the language. The advantage of Python 2 is an evaporating pool of legacy Python2-only libraries and legacy Python2-only programmers. Python2 is dying at the rate that
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by SiVal 11y ago
I had to laugh at how familiar this all sounded. I've observed again and again how there was an inherent conflict of interest in a hierarchy of ambitious people trying to climb the ever-narrowing tree between serving the company and se
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by SiVal 11y ago
This would inflate the popularity of a language in proportion to its verbosity, but that could be approximately normalized by using line count ratios from the Great Language Shootout, which explicitly tracks how many lines various languages
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by SiVal 11y ago
By that measure, "education" includes many of the worst offenders. The most intensely political of the departments on campus tend to be the ones who talk most about "critical thinking". The loudest proponents of "cr
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by SiVal 11y ago
The question I answered was: "How is this even possible ?" (emphasis in the original). The implication seems to be that it should not be possible for the removal of a `while(False)` statement to break working code, presumably bas
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by SiVal 11y ago
def stub(): while(False): print("smart stuff") print("hello, world") stub() If you remove the `while(False)` loop, the working code will stop working.
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by SiVal 11y ago
I don't understand who this is for. To be able to remain balanced on a small patch of ground that can zip around in any direction under your feet with no handholds requires MORE balance than ordinary walking. That means that almost any
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by SiVal 11y ago
Okay, Joe, I had to drop out at age 20 to financially provide for my mother (who was experiencing a major depressive episode and could not work)... It's possible that you are experiencing the same thing. I have no qualifications to o
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by SiVal 11y ago
You might want to tell him that the better he gets at solving sudoku, the less useful it will be for keeping his mind sharp. The cognitive science research seems to show that you only benefit from the challenge, so doing something that ment
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by SiVal 11y ago
The LDS Church takes a very dim view of publishing genealogical information about living people. It is forbidden by church policy on any church-related site, many potential customers of a genealogy site are Mormon, and most of them know thi
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by SiVal 11y ago
A very similar annoyance is menus that don't wait to be clicked but jump out in your face and obscure the content you wanted to see just because your mouse randomly passed over them. You click a link to go to an interesting-sounding pa
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by SiVal 11y ago
The concept is not that fish CAN'T recognize water, it's that it's more difficult for (metaphorical) fish that have always been immersed in water to notice water than for (metaphorical) animals that have seen both water and n
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by SiVal 11y ago
I wish there were a pair of these satellites separated by a couple thousand miles/km, so we could view these images with next-gen, hi-rez VR goggles and see the surface and cloud topography with enhanced depth.
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by SiVal 11y ago
When you want to ignore integer overflow is when your code isn't going to get near the overflow value and every bit of speed improvement (of that portion of the code) matters. BUT, just because there are cases where a certain choice is
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by SiVal 11y ago
Well said, and it explains part of what I meant when I wrote "(if peer review is of any value)" in the post. The other reason I wrote that is because of the political shenanigans inherent in the peer-reviewed journal system. &quot
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by SiVal 11y ago
I actually avoided going that far to avoid getting bad data. I was trying to answer the question, "What does the experimenter THINK his rule is?" rather than what will the computer do. Since the computer can't be infinite, it
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by SiVal 11y ago
I would like to see the governments that fund research get together and create a rule that your government funding requires that a public version of the paper be made available online before that paper could be submitted to a private publ

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