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811.
by TuringTest 6y ago
If she's buying at a Linux shop, I'd give a try to the hypothesis that she's an ancient hacker with l337 sk1lls, and make sure before assuming she's just entered the wrong store and really was looking for the grocery nex
812.
by TuringTest 6y ago
Bayesian reasoning also means that treating a female client like shit is likely to encourage her to make a fuss, but somehow "bayesian reasoners" never make that inference.
813.
by TuringTest 6y ago
Which points straight to the problem: the tools for expectation management, requirements gathering and design validation are severely lacking. Applications should be built on fast iterations with the user present, until each detail is perfe
814.
by TuringTest 6y ago
I'm also surprised that no one's yet mentioned Bret Victor's work. http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ His visual interactions for programming are a great advance in the state of the art for fast
815.
by TuringTest 6y ago
What does the compiler do if you start "from scratch", i.e., without any source code?
816.
by TuringTest 6y ago
"implementation under the hood requires a lot of work" "people don't make functionally identical clones" "massive refactoring to allow for extensibility" You're enumerating the factors that make my po
817.
by TuringTest 6y ago
> The tools to build a known specification from an existing app are sub-optimal, as are the tools to build a known specification from scratch. That actually reinforces my point ;-) All the steps in the toolchain could benefit from more
818.
by TuringTest 6y ago
My take is that programming languages have an inadequate ratio between abstract and concrete data flows. You are supposed to build code by stitching together commands for all the data handling functions required to handle each case in the d
819.
by TuringTest 6y ago
If that were true, it wouldn't take long to build from scratch a functionally identical clone of an existing application. Yet it does. The conclusion is that the tools to build software from a known specification to working code are su
820.
by TuringTest 6y ago
Free software and open source are different marketing strategies for the same concept. The most commonly understood meaning for both terms is the same, from the very moment the Open Source Initiative was created.
821.
by TuringTest 6y ago
If you're comparing arrays to centimeters on a ruler, the first element is at the center of the first cell; at zero, there's the left border of the first cell. (Also please note that both this and my previous reply are tongue-in-c
822.
by TuringTest 6y ago
I think the Semantic Web was supposed to be that. Yet it was waaay too abstract for the majority of people, even programmers.
823.
by TuringTest 6y ago
Having fewer special cases doesn't make it more natural, when those special cases are intuitive and forcing a single homogeneous process feels weird. The brain is very good at finding patterns for special cases and very bad at followin
824.
by TuringTest 6y ago
Those are compliant HTML5 tags, right?
825.
by TuringTest 6y ago
You beat me to it. Any time treenotation.org is involved, the most fascinating part is how you can build compilers for interesting use cases in a very simple declarative way. Usually, creating a new DSL is a complex programming task; yet wi
826.
by TuringTest 6y ago
This whole subthread was about what comes as a natural procedure to humans. Arguing that computers may need a different process is moot. Anyway, to handle the exception, you could start the algorithm with a "check for the empty collect
827.
by TuringTest 6y ago
All of it is, otherwise it wouldn't meet the 4 freedoms that define open source. The 'project' maintaining the software may be centralized, but all its users "own" the software in the sense that the don't need
828.
by TuringTest 6y ago
Yes, when your collection is whatever is inside a box.
829.
by TuringTest 6y ago
How about using different symbols ? |-1..12-|.to_a ## e.g. months in a year #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] /1..\13.to_a ## e.g. hours from 1h (1AM) to 13h (1PM) #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
830.
by TuringTest 6y ago
You don't need to start at 0 to count intervals between objects, it's just easier to say "one" and point your finger to the space to the right of the leftmost item.
831.
by TuringTest 6y ago
I learned physics and transistors at comp-sci. It didn't help with programming at all (though it made wonders for my understanding of the philosophy of computation). The kind of understanding you're rooting for relies on formal lo
832.
by TuringTest 6y ago
If anyone is interested in a notation for this kind of integer ranges, the two different styles in the above example could be represented like this: /9..10\ : "short" interval : size 1 (hour) == half-open interval [9.
833.
by TuringTest 6y ago
Mystery solved 0 1 2 3 4 5 v v v v v v |---|---|---|---|---|---... ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 1 2 3 4 5 6...
834.
by TuringTest 6y ago
No, that's the lower bound of the first array element.
835.
by TuringTest 6y ago
What the typical programmer doesn't even realize is that this is an artifact of Von-Neumann architectures (and their assembler language) and optimization of early compilers, not a essential property of computation. Spreadsheets, expres
836.
by TuringTest 6y ago
It's plank-sized topological-connected vibrating goo all the way down.
837.
by TuringTest 6y ago
That's because hours are announced as points in time, while days are seen as time intervals. The duality intervals/separators is essential to the different ways to understand ranges (specially for range differences). I once develo
838.
by TuringTest 6y ago
There are handwritten-like fonts which avoid that problem, by having several versions of each glyph and choosing one randomly for each letter. Some of them even introduce some random variation in the shapes to replicate true handwritten tex
839.
by TuringTest 6y ago
A Heisenberg cat is one you know how fast it can run, but you have no idea where the damn critter is?
840.
by TuringTest 6y ago
In the modern world, isn't that true for any activity you want to do a lot? Children or not?

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