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by adamc 5y ago
What is "facially reasonable" supposed to mean?
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by adamc 5y ago
Just a note of appreciation for this thread. One of the things we can get out of debacles like this is a reassessment of how we should design software, and what we should look for in software designed by others. Food for thought.
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by adamc 5y ago
Isn't it from 1970? So, 51 years old.
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by adamc 5y ago
First, it's clearly an analogy. It doesn't have to be exactly the same as the book. Second, both involve some more powerful party trying to force-feed an interpretation using deliberately unclear language. It's close enough.
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by adamc 5y ago
Thanks for the link! Hadn't heard of that, although I've seen similar reasoning in other contexts. (Basically, the most reasonable estimate, absent other data, is that you are at the mean -- so, for example, one could reasonably g
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by adamc 5y ago
I think you misrepresent the comment, which was more "I know an anecdote cannot prove this, but..." Believing something while being aware your experience isn't really proof is not "faulty reasoning", since the aware
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by adamc 5y ago
I'm not the OP, but I would guess he was coming at it from an app point of view rather than an implementation environment point of view -- as in, "why should I write an app this way (assuming I could use any language/tools)?&
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by adamc 5y ago
Good. Google has been dominating search for a long time. At the very least, it is important to constrain how they can use that advantage. (I would rather see search de-monopolized. Not holding my breath...)
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by adamc 5y ago
I came here to say that. I agree with your analysis.
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by adamc 5y ago
A small part of why I stopped using Netflix... it became harder to assess what I wanted to watch.
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by adamc 5y ago
I'm not even ambivalent. It is clearly hostile toward the viewers, but helps content creators (or some content creators). Google is an ad-supported company. They are there to sell you soap, and have no more morality than P&G or Wal
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by adamc 5y ago
Well, it was a good way to get me to cancel youtube premium. It seems like a clear indicator that we are the product, and content creators the actual customers. No worries, there are always alternatives.
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by adamc 5y ago
It doesn't have to be one or the other.
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by adamc 5y ago
A number of years ago, I reported a problem with its default Python mode and the way it automatically indents things. I got a response, which confirmed it was a problem. Then nothing happened and the report was eventually closed. For me, th
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by adamc 5y ago
In the case of the USD, the existence of a powerful government with a variety of powers (including coercive ones). Nothing is guaranteed in life, but it is orders of magnitude different from a digital currency offered by private individuals
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by adamc 5y ago
Just congratulations.
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by adamc 5y ago
I have in the past, and probably will again. I can get turned off by the attitudes of those involved, though. I shouldn't; that's my limitation. But the elitism is sometimes pretty strong.
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by adamc 5y ago
I thought Sublime was closed source?
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by adamc 5y ago
"This is false" isn't much of an argument. If there is an argument, you should probably provide that instead...
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by adamc 5y ago
Great piece, and I think you can read into it a likelihood of inflation in general (not just for games).
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by adamc 5y ago
It didn't have to be unique to be a major force.
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by adamc 5y ago
This is an absurdly limited point of view. If I charge 3x as much as other vendors, then force them to raise their prices by firebombing businesses that don't comply, it might (conceivably) maximize profit, but most people would think
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by adamc 5y ago
I want to upvote the first sentence, but the second is so pointlessly judgmental as to be pretty cringey itself.
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by adamc 5y ago
Anecdotal reports here: I got diagnosed with Type II diabetes in the spring, after many years of being overweight. I've had a lot of success in losing weight (about 10 lbs a month), and while it is too early to make any claims, here&#x
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by adamc 5y ago
I am not convinced music prices were "unfair" -- they were higher than people wanted to pay. There is a distinction.
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by adamc 5y ago
You have to like the JVM, though, because all the errors are pretty much straight Java stacktraces -- very little encapsulation of any of that. So Clojure effectively means you have to know Java/JVM and Clojure.
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by adamc 5y ago
It also became popular because in the 1980s it was a way of wringing decent performance out of x86 machines (then becoming popular) without having to write everything in assembler.
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by adamc 5y ago
Based on experience... Perl 5 <cough>. Or PHP, in other ways. This is very true, and is one of the reasons our workplace moved to Python. Readability is very, very important.
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by adamc 5y ago
How does Oracle licensing play into this? Are these improvements likely to show up in less encumbered Java versions?
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by adamc 5y ago
I think you mean "directly into matter".

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