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by _yosefk 11y ago
So what's the threshold separating "rich" from "poor"? What laws apply to me if my net worth fluctuates around that threshold? Different laws depending on the day? Now if being poor means you can't become rich
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by _yosefk 11y ago
From the Wikipedia article: "Although the custom had no basis in law and frequently resulted in prosecution..." and "Writing in 1901 on the subject of wife selling, James Bryce stated that there was "no trace at all in o
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Isn't it everyone's original sin? Which nation did not conquer the land it occupies today from some other nation? Which nation did not have the institution of slavery?
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Yeah, Alan Kay says things to that effect, too. Another way to look at it is, assigning all the credit for those "trillions in value" to Xerox PARC (my oh my, creating so much value and capturing so little? how did that happen?) i
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Created for whom, and... did it, really, all by itself? I think it's kinda overblown, to put it mildly.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Dreamwidth's response to worrydream... Meaning Bret Victor's ideas along the lines of "kill math." Visualising a lot of abstract stuff easily expressible in text is hard, and there's all the other stuff tfa mentions
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by _yosefk 11y ago
If a "blind spot" is understood literally then to have no blind spots would require to see, well, everything there is to see at the same time, which is sorta impossible. I think it's pretty obvious that our ability to think -
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by _yosefk 11y ago
It's nice that they used examples of problems denied by supporters of more than a single political party. I think we all do that. (Go programmers are less likely to acknowledge problems solved by generics as real, C++ programmers are l
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by _yosefk 11y ago
If you can do it, chances are an attacker can, too. I prefer hardware that won't load unsigned software in such places.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
A null pointer can be dereferenced into a "null reference" which can be passed around, however. Theoretically UB, in practice, typically represented identically to the null pointer and behaves the same when used. Still helps in th
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by _yosefk 11y ago
...so the phrase "wired like an organic brain" is enough to brush off any skepticism? It'd be rather impressive if it actually did a large number of things that rats do, but a testing environment for that is rather hard to ar
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, accounting is not supposed to tell how valuable a company is, just what its balance sheet is, right? That people then take the balance sheet and invent ways to mechanically arrive at a valuation based on that is not GAAP's or any
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, yeah, but if you want to iterate over integer ranges, don't you use the for ;; {} form? (If not why is that form even there?) I'd expect the TFA's Mandelbrot set example to need iterating over integer ranges (while most
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, compare Python's: for i in range(10): ...with Go's: for i:=0; i<10; i++ { } An experienced programmer might have an opinion about these syntaxes but he can certainly handle both effortlessly. However, when I first saw for
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by _yosefk 11y ago
How much time it took them to get it vs the time it takes to learn the somewhat more elaborate incantations you need to spell a loop in Go? I recall that dealing with parse errors, the easiest error for experienced programmers, was REALLY d
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by _yosefk 11y ago
The biggest one of his points which doesn't apply to Python is static typing. The trouble is that the drawbacks and the benefits of both static and dynamic typing are almost invisible in small programs. So you might say types help ki
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by _yosefk 11y ago
It's nice but it kinda hints that GAAP is "the right thing", which is a bit too optimistic IMO.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
[1] is pretty cool! I don't think it's quite production-ready; first of all it's simply very new (2014), and then the 3D models seem to me to need manual polishing, and most importantly, this demo doesn't mention animati
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by _yosefk 11y ago
From my experience, Object Tweens "never doing exactly what you wanted" is an understatement - they're pretty much useless for any non-trivial shape, not doing anything remotely sensible. There seems to be a lot of room for
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by _yosefk 11y ago
If you know about such ways, please do tell, it'd be great... I haven't heard about anything along these lines that is actually used in professional work.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
One good takeaway: be slow at things you don't want to do a lot. Be slow in answering the kind of email you don't want to receive again, etc.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
"What software projects have stood the test of time? The ones that were painstakingly thought out and progressed slowly." I kinda think that the opposite is true, or at least as true as your statement (meaning that at least as muc
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Giving the same raises as secretly as possible would avoid a whole lot of trouble. If it was considered important to announce it, it would work much better if done after a couple of years when at least you could claim that it proved itself
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Dictionary definitions of words are usually not very close to the use of these words in political contexts. Regardless of dictionary definitions, if we agree that building restrictions are a bad policy, it is a valid and IMO interesting emp
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by _yosefk 11y ago
A way was not yet found to fire Madoff's regulators. (In fact a way should have been found to put them behind bars for a couple of decades.) So regarding firing patent examiners, I'm not holding my breath.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Isn't MS closer to Apple than Google in terms of how it makes money? You pay directly for all or most of its stuff. Also, I thought Google sold your eyeballs to advertisers but not your data nor how it figured that it were your eyeball
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by _yosefk 11y ago
How do you not bundle dependencies programming in anything? If you want to be portable across Linuxes, you can't even count on tcsh or env being installed at the same path. Counting on the stuff installed with the system unleashes a wo
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I don't think the amount of bullets used by the police in different places can be meaningfully compared without knowing the number of bullets fired at the police. Edit: a sister comment cites numbers according to which almost 8 tim
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Everyone's dream? I dunno, getting life-changingly rich by selling worthless stock is kinda scary, much more so than winning a lottery (and I never bought a ticket because, among other things, winning is irksome.) It'd kinda ruin
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Not to disagree with you, but to add a data point (or rather an anecdote) - I heard a few people from Moscow claiming that they're more afraid of cops than criminals. (Of course, even if it's not an exaggeration and even if it ref

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