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by _yosefk 11y ago
Can't a democratic decision be made to get out of the treaty? Also - international obligations in general, by their nature, restrict democratic or any other kind of sovereign decision-making. Decisions such as waging war, defaulting on
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I wrote my own interpreters for my own languages, including stuff used in production. 10 days for designing and implementing something like JavaScript is pretty good. Also, I think that the number of problems in JS normalized by the time
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Erm... "software engineers" are not, and have never been engineers. Programming is trail and error. Computer code is spaghetti code of the highest order. The article is kinda... I dunno. Its solution to the spine problems allegedl
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by _yosefk 11y ago
It's funny how there's still a considered-harmful goto buried in the language, even though they don't call it that.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
One language where this is currently practiced is Verilog. To make things spicier, different vendors have different syntax for semantics-changing comments, often prefixed with the vendor's name. One "benefit" of this is that
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by _yosefk 11y ago
The simpler subset is useful for personal or internal projects, however, so it's useful to have it spelled out. (And BTW my own simple subset is still simpler - no branches, for instance, as it helps people delay merges which IMO they
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I pity the hog butchered by a computer programmer (though except for Zuckerberg I heard about few who tried.) I pity as well the programmer honing his hog butchering skills. If you want to make the most money to be able to work the least ho
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Embedded programming is much more stable wrt languages and (often non-existent) frameworks. Nice for C/C++ devs.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
A resenting B says nothing about their relative merit, just about merit as perceived by A. A usually sees more merit in A than B, C or D. B, on the other hand, tends to overstate B's merit. So no matter how wages are set, and regardles
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by _yosefk 11y ago
My main point in the article was that employers cannot measure productivity and hence often get a raw deal themselves.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I don't think I assumed what you say I did. That said, your "human instinct" of getting the most in exchange for the least - would it not extend to employees and not just businessmen? Assuming both are equally human, you&#x27
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I wasn't advising employees to pretend to work, I was advising employers to avoid this situation. That said, working less and taking less responsibility means less stress for many people and so their quality of life does rise, without
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Living close enough to the places you want to get to, however, often means buying/renting more expensive housing. This can more than offset what you save by not having a car.
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Speeding is also a victimless crime until an accident happens. I don't have a strong opinion about this, I'm just saying it's more complicated than victimless crime, war that cannot be won, etc. For each such talking point th
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by _yosefk 12y ago
"...the impossibility of winning the “war” against theft, burglary, robbery, and fraud has never been used as an argument that these categories of crime should be abandoned." (From Don't Legalize Drugs, http://www.
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by _yosefk 12y ago
PMP? Seriously? (I'm not saying I know anything about the value of having this certification in terms of career prospects. What I do know is that you get to memorize a ton of horseshit to then spit it out in a brain-damaged multiple-ch
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Well, regardless of exactly what static typing facilities CL has, at least without static type info you wouldn't need all those ugly casts.
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by _yosefk 12y ago
I dunno. If you cover every source line at least once, that catches the dumb type errors as it does dumb bounds errors etc. If you don't have a test covering every source line at least once, then you will have dumb type errors as well
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by _yosefk 12y ago
print(arr[i]) Compiles, runs, fails if i is out of bounds. Which means that you need to test the code that you write, and that even if you have 100% line coverage (or branch coverage or MC/DC coverage or...), it doesn't mean i won
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Personally I'd probably label MPI as "too low-level" an abstraction, not unlike threads; and I think there are many great high-level threading abstractions which I wouldn't call fragile, from Cilk/TBB and the like t
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Actually, plain threads indeed are pretty much the goto's of parallel computing, one difference being that while various techniques analogous to "structured programming" - "structured threading", if you like - are a
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Was "echosystem" a typo? (Regardless, a brilliant portmanteau of "echo chamber" and "ecosystem" IMO)
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by _yosefk 12y ago
I can't believe all the comments saying pretty much what you said. How much bloody staff do you need to take a peek at the securities kept at a fund's bank account? We aren't talking "complex" stuff like rating agen
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Weren't Madoff's regulators paid a salary? What tools did they lack to check the warnings they got from numerous sources? Do they not have the right to check which securities the fund actually holds in its bank accounts?
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by _yosefk 12y ago
Well, you can go to the bank where he actually keeps the securities if you don't trust the declarations. His bankers for instance were tipped off by his balance sheet and shorted him. Why couldn't the SEC look at the real balance
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by _yosefk 12y ago
To spot a Ponzi scheme you only need to look at the balance sheet, not? Do regulators not have a right to do so, especially having gotten multiple warnings (from people who, unlike public employees, have an actual stake at the game because
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by _yosefk 12y ago
I don't know the answer to the following questions, but I'll take wild guesses: 1. Were Madoff's regulators fired? (My guess: they weren't, it wasn't even weighed as a realistic option by whoever should fire them.)
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by _yosefk 12y ago
You know who never goes to jail? Regulators. Madoff, for instance, moved from Wall Street into a cell where he belongs, refuting the above headline. His regulators, however, weren't even charged with anything AFAIK. That despite thei
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by _yosefk 12y ago
A great point. Perhaps because if "competitive behavior" means striving to win in a competition, and "anti-competitive behavior" means breaking the rules of the competition, hoping to win unfairly, then the former will t
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by _yosefk 12y ago
$15M sounds like a rounding error for Sony. It sounds like a rounding error as well when compared to the cost of brand-name IT solutions when deployed in a company of Sony's size.

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