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A Criticism of Computer Science: Models or Modèles?(lemire.me)
2 points by ajarmst 9y ago|0 comments
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Senic Launches Smart Home Hub(blog.senic.com)
2 points by ajarmst 9y ago|0 comments
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by ajarmst 9y ago
This isn't imperfection. This is beyond incompetence into some sort of Dunning-Kruger zen state. The story describes failures so egregious that the principals have no business taking money from customers.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Perhaps, but in 2017 it is gross fiduciary malpractice not to have backup systems in place for production data and code. It would be grounds for a shareholder suit against the principals.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
He should get that laptop back to them IMMEDIATELY. These sound like exactly the sort of douches would try to charge him with theft. (Edit: Why is it not surprising they don't have a protocol in place for managing dismissing staff an
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Assuming the details are correct, this should be considered a win by the junior dev. It only took a day to realize that this is a company he really, really doesn't want to try to learn his profession at.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Popper would respond that the thing preventing their resolution is their unfalsifiability.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I thought the problem was that you can't teach both of those things at the same time (masses in spacetime vs. matter as clouds of bosons and fermions statistically obeying laws of quantum behaviour) . Hence the interest in finding a
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by ajarmst 9y ago
As Jef Raskin famously observed: "intuitive" just means "familiar". O- vs 1- based indexing is a source of curious passion for many people, as it really just reflects what you first learned and (consequently) what menta
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by ajarmst 9y ago
And, while I try to hide my embarrassment---while Transatomic is BS, the concept of nuclear fuel cycles using waste is not, and many IV Generation designs are specifically working toward that. My main point was we likely won't need to
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Bah, my bad. I was just looking for a quick citation for nuclear fuel cycles, saw "MIT Tech Review" (usually a very good source), and grabbed it. Thanks for catching it.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
We could just leave a pile of skeletons at the entrance. Less facetiously: it's already been an area of study for some time: http://www.salon.com/2002/05/10/yucca_mountain/
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by ajarmst 9y ago
We already have: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/512321/safer-nuclear-powe...
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Yep. It was easily cleaned up and apparently happens every year in the spring.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I'm of similar vintage, although my father was a mainframe technician, so I had some significant on-site expertise to draw on, even over the 6502 and Z-80 boards in our basement. One thing I've noted, now that I teach programming
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Is there an unserviced market for people who like Slack, but worry that it has too big a resource footprint, that I'm unaware of?
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Exactly. The goal of the regulation isn't to prevent veterans from learning to code, it's to prevent them for being preyed upon. The OP has an unexamined premise: that the "code camps" described are an effective entry
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by ajarmst 10y ago
Be careful not to conflate grammar and orthography. The former is tied to the spoken language as understood and mentally represented by native learners, the latter is tied to convention and style guides. Grammar has nothing to do with punct
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by ajarmst 10y ago
Any school that teaches programming will take a stab at teaching debugging, although that is often limited to general familiarity with a debugger, say to the level of stepping through code and inspecting state. The problem is that debugging
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by ajarmst 10y ago
Oh, yeah, I know how this ends. A year from now, when we're chest-deep in caterpillars, you're going to offer to sell us some caterpillar-eating birds...
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by ajarmst 10y ago
I own a physical copy of Savov's "No BS Guide to Math and Physics" and am very pleased with it. I found it particularly useful as a refresher on things I learned long ago, but no longer regularly use. The focus on practical
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by ajarmst 10y ago
I'm going to say "inside a dozen or more discrete pitch decks currently oscillating between a variety of investment sources".
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by ajarmst 10y ago
Whether punctuation belongs inside or outside quotations is (1) different depending on British vs American usage, (2) currently in a state of flux on both sides of the Atlantic. Best not to correct others on that unless you're sure yo
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by ajarmst 10y ago
I guess I'm officially part of the greybeards now. This sort of thing just makes me feel tired. I know it's naive to want your engineering projects to come without politics and drama (hell, I'm less than a decade junior to
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by ajarmst 10y ago
There's something delightfully twenty-first century about a project to replace Western Philosophy with a dozen or so definitions, shortcut heuristics and simplistic approximations.
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by ajarmst 10y ago
Non-disclosure agreements have become pro-forma. They're as expected as handshakes in any early meeting between people who might discuss intellectual property. And in IT, any interesting conversation is by definition intellectual p
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by ajarmst 10y ago
We are seeing a similar process as the last native speakers of now extinct languages pass.
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by ajarmst 10y ago
I'm seeing a lot of self-righteous "I need the second monitor for the sheer amount of data my programming requires I have immediate access to". Ok, but speaking as someone who spends a few dozen hours a week in computer labs
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by ajarmst 10y ago
I dislike multiple monitors. Part of this is going to be age-dependent. I prefer to work from my hand-written notes and a pen-annotated paper-spec, so I don't really have much of a need for a second monitor for my primary task, so th
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by ajarmst 10y ago
I like the optimism of keeping symbols of Ireland and Scotland on the coin. Of course, those could become ironic in the not-to-distant. The leek seems safe, though.

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