Will_Parker

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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Oh, if you're talking about anything on the front end more rich than simple classic forms and full page reloads, I agree. It just wasn't clear what you meant by "non-trivial".
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Building a server-side PHP app is really not that hard. That is arguably the biggest historical problem with PHP. :)
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> If you got stuck there was nobody who was going to help out and you just had to puzzle it out vs the example in one of the few how-to books Maybe, ironically, one of the advantages we had is that these difficulties forced us into a muc
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> Not quite as complex as Go, but there are still 4,531,985,219,092 game positions in total, so not trivial for a laptop to learn how to play well with zero human input. That's a small enough state space that it is indeed trivial to
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Lack of turmeric is the mind killer.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
I would suggest that maybe this says something more about you and your natural passion, than whether your first intellectual doodles were on a TV or a monitor.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Disclaimer: I have no particular expertise on this topic. > A tremendous amount has changed in that time. Height, immune system changes, lactose tolerance, blue eyes, different hair colors, digestive system changes. None of those are tre
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
The counter to this is, we're a uniquely complex species where culture is vastly more important than genetics. (If you doubt it, consider what in our genetics makes us different than cave painters 30,000 years ago). I see humans who do
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Nobody is going to buy tickets to "Star Peace".
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
I actually find this discussion really interesting. The piece of data I was missing was that I didn't understand that people associate "mate" mainly with animal behaviour these days. It didn't have that connotation for m
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
I can't resist one more reply. Sorry, chap.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
I have had girlfriends and significant others. What I really wanted to find was a mate. I.e. a pair bond for life with whom I could be myself, and not a social actor.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> Trying to frame this as a 'fashion' vs 'logic' trade-off is nonsensical. It's a tradeoff in spending the effort following and trying to understand changing conventions for very small transgressions of social no
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> it indicates that the person you're seeking is sought after to fill a procreative role. Indeed, if you've been following the last billion years or so, a procreative role is a common reason why males and females seek each othe
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
3 : one of a pair: such as a : either member of a couple and especially a married couple b : either member of a breeding pair of animals c : either of two matched objects Seriously, what's wrong with that?
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> It's astounding to me that you find "creeps, weirdos, nerds and morons without friends" to be a worse fate than "On a bad day he just sits and pretends he is a transit driver, going through the routes in his mind, f
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
The artists still produced music in tempos quite within the range of human heartbeats and / or breathing.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
The lack of distinction between array vs hashtable isn't a big deal. Array as a map from integers to items works fine in practice. Even speaking of algorithm performance, it's fine for the uses you have on a web server. (Any other
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
(I'll take your point.)
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
You could even train it with random theorem expressions run through a conventional theorem prover. And then let it loose on the problems that are left.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
Another irony here is, you're eventually going to have to worry about panics anyway.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> If your function doesn't throw errors now, but does in the future, that's an API breakage. So what you're saying is that, to avoid future API breakages, you should include an error result in every non-trivial function, a
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> On the cost of some repetition here and there, it makes programs look very explicit, which helps readers to understand the code better, instead of wondering: can the exception be thrown here or not? I don't get this. In practice,
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
I second Human Resources Machine. I just finished all the optimization challenges last weekend and it was extremely rewarding. I'd say it's more about assembly language than general programming. You never (really) get enough power
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
> We didn't suddenly become better at building internal combustion engines because people grew up with cars. Are you sure? What about people growing up with cars, curious about what goes on under the hood from childhood, with refere
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
On the other side of this, I'm glad my parents didn't listen to advice not to let me have a computer growing up, or I might be in a different career. The people who build the technology of tomorrow will be better than us at it, be
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
I think bias and gender expectations among peers could have a very large effect. It's striking to me watching my nieces play and how strictly they enforce whether something is for boys or girls. Also it looks to me like groups of women
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
There are still some major irrational points that I see: - Bias (conscious and not) is assumed to be a problem mainly perpetuated by white men, when reality is that, for example, women may have as much or more bias toward women than men do.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
And "preponderance of evidence" means 50/50 plus a feather.
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by Will_Parker 9y ago
It would be irrational to pay more for water from France vs water from the tap, if they're the exact same product.

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