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by V-2 10y ago
> The percentage isn't relevant if working around the design of the library to fulfill the missing 5% takes 30x as long as just writing the code yourself. Of course, but one should be aware of a tendency to overestimate the effo
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by V-2 10y ago
This looks super interesting, thanks!
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by V-2 10y ago
> Perhaps a library covers only 95% of the requirements 95% isn't "only". That's pretty darn high. I'd wish that in-house code covered 95% of requirements more often. If we're talking about open-source (I
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by V-2 10y ago
> I'm sorta GitHub star hoarder, have starred 1.9K repos at the moment That's almost enough to power a medium-sized JavaScript app these days ;)
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by V-2 10y ago
Instead of "you" it should read "the OP", I apologize.
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by V-2 10y ago
True, and "Cube" also. Only to some extent though: these mazes reordered by themselves, and those trapped in them couldn't "travel in time", or navigate between different setups.
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by V-2 10y ago
I've always played with the thought (too lazy to ever get down to it) about multi-dimensional mazes. They could be very small, but still make for mind-boggling puzzles. Even a 4D maze; let's call it a 3D maze with time-travelling.
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by V-2 10y ago
Well, you did this by sort of mocking (imaginary / hypothetical) haters or nitpickers, so I'd argue it does fall under sarcasm category. Sarcasm doesn't always have to be directed at the person you're addressing, or even
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by V-2 10y ago
> just stick a couple of lines of PHP into an HTML file, hit reload, and you're there This ease of use and low entry threshold is a double-edged sword though
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by V-2 10y ago
Well of course I played to the negative stereotype as a joke : ) Obviously reality is not that simple, but to briefly sum up my personal take on it, yes good PHP may be good, even beatiful, but in practice it's rare to come by. One of
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by V-2 10y ago
Stop trolling the OP. How would you feel if he believed you and actually picked up PHP?
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by V-2 10y ago
It immediately reminded me of "Emperor Kennedy Legend: A New Anthropological Debate" by Leszek Kołakowski : ) Highly recommended and very funny snce there's much truth to it I think. I found it online in English: http:&#x2F
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by V-2 10y ago
Rule #89 appears subjective to me
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by V-2 10y ago
I got used to Nexus 6P (5.7") quite quickly, and I don't wear purses or belt clips. It did feel a little uncomfortable at the beginning.
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by V-2 10y ago
Not just the US, it dominates in other Commonwealth/Anglosaxon countries as well, plus Japan, France, Scandinavia - quite a chunk of the world, and in a great many countries both platforms are roughly head-to-head
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by V-2 10y ago
> On the other hand since wages are not so high the price of services is lower too. So things like food in restaurants is just cheap (and great). With 24k you dont need kitchen and can basicaly eat outside all the time. [...] It depends
827.
by V-2 10y ago
Why sugar-coat reality?
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by V-2 10y ago
35 years old, 5 years of experience as a software dev. Poland I make the equivalent of about $16.5/h on B2B (net pay after all taxes, social fees etc.)
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by V-2 10y ago
> At that point I wasn't even able to comment on the reply That's the root cause of the problem. Once that's fixed, I think commenting is better than editing the answer. As a mod I often can't know - having no time
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by V-2 10y ago
Yeah, well, that's a good point too. That's another possibility. At any rate, whether the reason for someone to point out a missing semicolon is because they couldn't run the code straight away, or only because they didn&#x27
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by V-2 10y ago
> Someone at Hacker News expressed a common experience for many programmers (experienced or not) when trying to participate on Stack Overflow. Okay... > 4 — Respond to comment about a missing semicolon that got deleted when I was c
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by V-2 10y ago
Well yes it kind of does move the problem, but it moves it in an interesting direction, because it pushes it to become a self-solving problem. The important difference is that with this approach, we could never actually get to understand ho
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by V-2 10y ago
It only has to be stronger than us in the field of building AIs (which isn't an area evolution shaped us to excel in). Same as chess engines beat us as chess while being dumb as doorknobs. Obviously chess heuristics is much simpler tha
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by V-2 10y ago
That's a fallacious comparison. Blind people still have all the "hardware" for visual processing. It does add to their brainpower. They just use the same "circuits" for different purposes - case in point, only recen
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by V-2 10y ago
I don't see a mention of the concept of "seed AI", which I believe came first from Turing himself. High-level (even superhuman) artificial intelligence could come from AI that specializes in creating other, stronger AIs. Thos
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by V-2 10y ago
This leads me to a funny thought that the best chance of evolving an AI would be through putting it in a very hostile, virtual environment where it's preyed upon by dumber AIs
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by V-2 10y ago
Yes I think so to. We were poorly adapted to our environment (which suddenly changed as we had to leave trees etc.). This meant our best shot at survival was to hunt in packs. And that, in turn, made it crucial that we're able to commu
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by V-2 10y ago
It could be a virtual body in a virtual world though.
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by V-2 10y ago
"Now imagine a giant squid, swimming a kilometer deep within the ocean. Likely they are also intelligent but we can hardly leverage this for anything useful." As a matter of fact, not that likely, because if it's not useful
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by V-2 10y ago
1. Go isn't a functional language 2. I didn't say noisy fans don't exist, only that it's unfair to automatically lump people with preference for functional approach into this category

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