SiVal

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by SiVal 13y ago
Mathematical notation is a must. Math in "plain English" would be as big a nightmare as programming in plain English. Natural language is so ambiguous that your "plain English" would turn into legalese every time you had
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by SiVal 13y ago
You speak of "the law" as if you were discussing laws of nature that government had to "properly staff" to deal with. But these are not objective laws of nature. These laws are demands made by government itself, so &quot
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by SiVal 13y ago
I think it's somewhere in between his description and yours. I would say that great programmers do a lot of programming on their own time just because they enjoy it. I'm often surprised at the fact that most professional programme
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by SiVal 13y ago
squirrely and oscillatey (are those even words?) Well, "chaotic" is what you'll read in textbooks, but that's just because they couldn't come up with "squirrely and oscillatey", I assume.
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by SiVal 13y ago
Government is "generally hugely understaffed"? Sure, in the sense that Google is hugely understaffed as long as they still aren't as big and powerful as they want to be. Googlers consistently claim that there isn't enoug
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by SiVal 13y ago
Sorry, I don't have any such link, but I was in the dev tools business then, and I remember, for what it's worth. Regarding CSS, it rose very gradually, but its rise created a slowly growing problem for Dreamweaver, resulting in t
907.
by SiVal 13y ago
If it was more than about ten years ago, you were correct. In the late 90s and early 2000s, a majority (>50%) of professional Web developers used Dreamweaver, according to market surveys done at the time. It worked quite well when the fo
908.
by SiVal 13y ago
...seems less complex than “in Japan, people usually start their workday at 8:00, which is 2100 (or 2000 in winter)”. That's not how calls to Japan currently work, and I make plenty of them. You check the world clocks on your phone a
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by SiVal 13y ago
Google is a lot like a federal agency. They get a pile of resources first, then each sub-group figures out how to squander it in ways that make themselves, their work, and their budgets seem necessary and important. The result is they revie
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by SiVal 13y ago
Bad idea. You would still have different people in different places experiencing different parts of their day, even if you put them all on UTC or had no clocks at all. You still have to figure out what they are doing before you call and fig
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by SiVal 13y ago
So many complaints that it's not hard enough, and my complaint is the opposite, yet, ironically the same: It's not useful over a wide-enough range of skill levels. I was hoping it would be a good trainer for my kids, but it starts
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by SiVal 13y ago
I had to use IE6 for real about a month ago. It wasn't a test. It was the only way I could figure out to get a relative's personal data off an old, damaged PC they hadn't used for years. I managed to get gmail to work in IE6
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by SiVal 13y ago
All projects have finite resources that they allocate as they see fit. You say that priority should be given to legacy upgraders for the sake of "strongest initial interest." That may well be his preference, too, and if so, the co
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by SiVal 13y ago
Uhm, do you understand what "focused exclusively" and "no support for earlier" mean and how they differ from merely adding "Py 3 support" to a legacy product? Any resources (time, attention, research, answering
915.
by SiVal 13y ago
Mod_python has been dead for so long now that its death has gone from a liability to a potential asset. After this much time not supporting its legacy, it hardly has any legacy left to support, and not having legacy baggage can be exploited
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by SiVal 13y ago
Hofstadter and the rest of the field, Jeff Hawkins for example, are collaborating, just indirectly. The "Pentti Kanerva" described in the article as an "old friend of Hofstadter" and his first wife, Carol, was the orig
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by SiVal 13y ago
Yes, MRSA has declined, but not because of improved treatments. Now that we can no longer kill these bugs after they invade the body, hospitals have significantly ramped up their efforts to kill them before they invade. Hurray for these
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by SiVal 13y ago
If you don't have any legacy baggage, you should celebrate your freedom to do what hockey great Wayne Gretszky said was his secret to success: Don't skate to where the puck is, skate to where it will be. The value of Python 2 know
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by SiVal 13y ago
Diamond is very much in the same camp. In the introduction to Guns, Germs, and Steel he stated that his motivation for the work was to come up with evidence with which to counter an Occam's Razor assumption (basically, that certain g
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by SiVal 13y ago
Serious problem. I usually have my page magnification jacked up to reduce eye strain, and it's amazing how many things go wrong on the pages I browse. Don't use a clever hack without testing how it looks after a few cmd-+ (ctrl-+)
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by SiVal 13y ago
enslaving oneself to the cult of standardized tests is worth it It sounds like you are describing enslaving oneself to the cult of elite schools . Standardized tests are just one stepping stone. Standardized tests are a much smaller issu
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by SiVal 13y ago
Oh, no problem. It's a great web app. I just thought you probably accidentally reversed a couple of lines of code and would want to know about it. And, yes, I was using FF 24.
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by SiVal 13y ago
Your US labels are displayed on the map of Australia and vice-versa unless I'm misreading it.
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by SiVal 13y ago
an inordinate amount of this type of bad press So, what would be a more appropriate amount and type of press for the violent robbery capital of the country?
925.
by SiVal 13y ago
+1 for lots of interesting points. Regarding the benefits of Python, I definitely agree. For writing my own scripts, small utilities, one-off data processing jobs (turn this CSV file into a big JSON object, etc.) and all the little, daily a
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by SiVal 13y ago
I'm totally with you. I couldn't care less about all the marvelous games you can play with each new device people stand in line for. What I'm waiting for is the perfect PDF reader for my thousands of PDF books and articles.
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by SiVal 13y ago
As much as I like working in Python, and I tend to use it whenever I'm not forced to use something else these days, I would still rather move on to a nice, async, designed for the era of HTML5/JavaScript apps on client, Golang-bas
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by SiVal 13y ago
Yes, but that's not the most likely interpretation. Teams are new , people are young . Of course, it's possible that "new" was meant, but it's a lot more likely that they were describing the attractions of the peo
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by SiVal 13y ago
So, would calling it a "friendly, white team" be merely an observation and only a problem for PC people who were seriously uncomfortable about their own race?
930.
by SiVal 13y ago
I agree with you. Older minds analyze better than younger minds. They have more knowledge to bring to bear on a topic. Younger minds memorize better than older minds--repeated things make more of a lasting imprint. Both young and old need t

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