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by adekok 9y ago
A few things things: * any non Javascript / ruby / go languages don't have standard packages, package names, etc. * any non Javascript / ruby / go languages may be using one of many build systems. It's ju
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by adekok 9y ago
Text files? If people get value from it, editing a simple text file once or twice a year wouldn't be difficult.
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by adekok 9y ago
I ran into a GCC bug years ago. (1999-2000). It would put "static" variables into the "text" section of ELF binaries. i.e. into the read-only portion of the binary. The result, of course, was that writing to the var
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by adekok 9y ago
> Crucially, Jayne's definition of "consciousness" is basically introspection. With language as a key portion. See any discussion of deaf people who aren't taught language until late in life, such a Helen Keller. Th
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by adekok 9y ago
Neal Stephenson's novel "Snow Crash" depended entirely on this theory. I'm not sure if I believe it, but it made for a good novel.
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by adekok 9y ago
> I really wonder if non-programmers think the same or is it just like any other profession they're not knowledgeable of? There is a large difference between competence and ignorance. They're qualitatively different, and diffe
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by adekok 9y ago
So we should trust the government with encryption back doors, right? Right?
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by adekok 9y ago
I'm surprised there wasn't more investigation of SQLite and LMDB: https://github.com/LMDB/sqlightning The performance there shows either little to no performance difference, up to substantial speed increases.
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by adekok 9y ago
If you think that's bad, I've seen presentations to angel investors where the CEO repeats things like "we do big data analysis to help our customers synergise and analyze..." Q: OK, that's nice, what do you do ? W
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by adekok 9y ago
Even when I was in 25 years ago, universities were replacing full-time professors with sessional lecturers. And bloating the administration budget. It's only gotten worse since then. If universities are institutions of higher learning
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by adekok 9y ago
It's similar in other countries, too: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29765623 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/a-history-of-residential-schoo...
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by adekok 9y ago
The people who thought the referendum was illegal and didn't matter, didn't show up. In part because of fears of violence from police (shall we say) "enthusiastically" enforcing the law. The people who wanted the refere
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by adekok 9y ago
FTA The Catalan government said that of the 43% of potential voters who took part in the referendum, 90% were in favour of independence. In a referendum where people who wanted to vote "no" didn't show up, because of fears
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by adekok 9y ago
> Someone posts this glib comment every time academic careers are discussed. It's true, and yet harder than you'd think. I asked around during my MSc (25 years ago), and got told this by everyone . > Very few grad students
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by adekok 9y ago
Note that "better infrastructure" != "more highways", as traffic grows to saturate the available roads. If you want better infrastructure, invest in light rail. http://www.iwillride.org/what-200-people-lo
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by adekok 9y ago
Systems do NOT "strive for equilibrium". The only reason we see multiple systems at (roughly) equilibrium is that the ones not at equilibrium destroy themselves and their environment. I'm not denying that negative feedback
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by adekok 9y ago
> Healthy ecosystems strive at equilibrium. Nonsense. The only reason systems are in equilibrium is because of negative feedback. Predators eat prey. Diseases kill plants / animals, etc. Remove the negative feedback, and you get u
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by adekok 9y ago
For all my dislike of capitalism, there aren't many better systems. Perhaps capitalism leavened with some socialism (public roads, police, health care, etc.) i.e. what most rich western societies have.
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by adekok 9y ago
Because in nature, organisms don't grow to the limits of their environment, right? They willingly limit their growth so that all enlightened organisms can share equally in a workers paradise, amidst songs of empowerment and fraterni
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by adekok 9y ago
> Torture obviously works. It just also creates a lot of false information Which means it doesn't work.
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by adekok 9y ago
> Have you tried this lately - in the last 10 years? I'm wondering what it is about HN that lets people be condescending know-it-alls. If you look, there's only one of me online. I write between 10K and 20K lines of C a year.
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by adekok 9y ago
Having written multiple RFCs, violating the RFC is not always a bad thing. Some of the MUSTs are a result of the committee process, and follow the lowest common denominator. If the recommendations don't make sense, don't follow t
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by adekok 9y ago
> Rather, it would be better to devise perceptual experiments and back fit a mathematical model to the results. We already have those results: thousands of existing fonts. The fonts have all been manually optimized. It should be possib
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by adekok 9y ago
Using -Werror in development is annoying too. It works if everyone is running exactly the same OS, header files, and version of the compiler. If not... different developers have different errors. I try to build with all of the warnings tur
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by adekok 9y ago
When you do your work, do you share awards and raises with the cafeteria staff? Does the cafeteria staff understand the work you do? Do they contribute materially to it? i.e. technical contributions which are meaningful in the field? No?
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by adekok 9y ago
I was a collaborator on the SNO project. I worked with Art McDonald, who co-won the 2015 Nobel prize in physics for the project. There were hundreds of people involved. We couldn't have done it without the hundreds of people. While A
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by adekok 9y ago
> Clearly that person has never read the GPL, It's not about "reading the GPL". It's about power. If the only people allowed to decide morality / ethics / legality are lawyers, then they have power, and you
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by adekok 9y ago
The main issue there is that Ikea isn't owning the installation process. They should be making sure that they know who's doing the work, when they're showing up, etc. And then tracking that, so if one group of contractors ha
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by adekok 9y ago
i.e. my DMCA'd videos may no longer be accessible on Cloudflare. But people can still go directly to my site outside of Cloudflare. I just have to pay the bandwidth charges. :( On top of that, I suspect there's no "3 strike
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by adekok 9y ago
That's nice. Do these people have any competence in the field before they're hired into an executive position? > Steaknap Sleepchew @treelzebub Android Tech Lead here. Was a Religious Studies major, then a cook/chef fo

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