StephenMelon

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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Well the phone is already a trackpad, you can mirror the screen wireless via an Apple TV, and you can use a Bluetooth keyboard. In fact, I’m doing all 3 to write this (The user-experience is more than acceptable, but I’m not going to try to
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Never had random reboots or graphical artifacts on screen before on OSX but my iMac has been very unstable since the High Sierra update. I’m lucky I’m not using that machine for work or I would be raging on a daily basis. I’m not an “Apple
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
If you can’t do an experiment in your own environment, you improvise. Humans have done experiments in space that couldn’t be done on earth, so an advanced aquatic species could do experiments above the surface, given enough time, intelligen
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Well making Flash work on mobile is one potential use for quantum computing I guess? :D
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Why are you downgrading then? Isn’t that a bit like buying an iPhone X and waiting several years excitedly in line for 5S?
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Sounds a bit like doing the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs? Seriously though, you can probably redo a typical 20 Man Year project in 2, given how much of the development process is usually taken up by missed requirements and re-work, IF you have
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
The original riddle about the tree in a forest is intended to illustrate the difference between philosophical idealism and materialism. A dog whistle depends on the concepts of dogs and whistles, which don’t exist outwith the human semantic
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
A sound is by definition something heard by someone. An unobserved universe doesn’t make sense, trying to conceptualise one would be like arguing about what colour a ganabreeshlach is.
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Great to see the Scottish Government leading on renewable energy again. I was worried that adding over 30 million cars to the grid would cause problems but having looked into it it looks like it would add less than half a percentage point o
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
I think that the belief that all cultures are equal is usually a mistake based on fuzzy thinking. The underlying thought is that “all cultures have value”, which mutates into “all cultures have equal value in terms of increasing insight int
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
The capitalism system itself fails the universality test, because a person wouldn’t be equally happy to be on either side of a table with Jeff Bezos on one side and an unskilled immigrant on the other. Arguably slavery never went away, it’s
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
“Or at least they are not equal in preparing people to be productive in an advanced economy” is problematic because it can be rephrased as “Or at least they are not equal in preparing people to be (successfully exploited by those who contro
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
I see a lot of comments on satire links that clearly demonstrate that large numbers of people can’t always spot satire. That possibly says more about the current cultural and political climate than it does about people’s gullibility though.
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Have you examined your cognitive biases recently? It seems like you may stuck in a bit of a “deregulated free-market capitalism good, EU bad” loop that is preventing new information reaching you. The author’s point seems to be if you assess
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
I agree, the devil is going to be in the almost infinite edge cases, the visual negotiation that goes on between drivers at box junctions, dealing with bad or aggressive drivers who ignore right of way or tailgate, ethical decisions in all
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Unfortunately, not everything has an objectively correct answer (aesthetics! ethics!) and so what you are saying kind of reinforces the point that diversity of viewpoints is vital to group problem solving. A group with the same blindspots w
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
In my experience everyone has a natural mode of working and the conundrum for management is do you try to get people to change (to become all-rounders) or do you develop people in the direction they are already headed and therefore encourag
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Arrogant and condescending to whom? I said that both types were necessary to succeed exactly because I know the “over-thinking” types can be just as destructive to a software business as hackers who only think short term. My point is that y
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
There are 2 types of “good” programmers, who both think the other type is useless. The first is the “rockstar” developer type who is great at prototyping, hitting deadlines no matter what and delivering functionality, albeit full of bugs. T