alayne

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by alayne 10y ago
Those things aren't a goal or desired feature of most JSON use. There's a reason people hated SOAP. XML is better suited for documents. For everything else, XML doesn't work very well.
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by alayne 10y ago
The barrier to entry for online harassment is so much lower that I don't consider them comparable.
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by alayne 10y ago
Huh? The conclusion was "the worst aspects of UNIX and C were intention design decisions that had nothing to do with what a good, systems language should look like and everything to do with limitations of an EDSAC, PDP-7, & PDP-11.
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by alayne 10y ago
Unix may be fine by 1960s/1970s standards, but leaves a lot to be desired now, or probably since the 1980s. Unix has bad approaches to things like file locking (see VMS instead), the shells are a hot mess, and C causes a lot of problem
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by alayne 10y ago
There's an eight hour downvote window.
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by alayne 10y ago
That's not my understanding at all! SGI had state of the art graphics (and other A/V hardware) at the beginning. At the end of the workstation market, commodity hardware got to the "good enough" level for a lot of people
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by alayne 10y ago
It's not the same.
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by alayne 10y ago
I don't think this is a slippery slope towards text modification. Note that there are already problems with emoji being different across platforms. Here is a short article from the GroupLens people at the University of Minnesota: http
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by alayne 10y ago
There is software and concepts around managing microservices that didn't exist before, and so on. Nothing can be new when you use such a vague way of comparing things. There were electric cars in the 1800s, why talk about Tesla?
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by alayne 10y ago
Microservices aren't distributed objects http://martinfowler.com/articles/distributed-objects-microse...
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by alayne 10y ago
James Blachowicz, professor emeritus of philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of science according to his Loyola page wrote "Of Two Minds: The Nature of Inquiry". I found 51 references to Popper searching the book on Amazon. I
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by alayne 10y ago
http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/socialresearch/f...
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by alayne 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper#Criticism
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by alayne 10y ago
TP6 had 255 byte strings and you couldn't implement your own WriteLn. It seemed like it was still breaking free from academic pascal.
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by alayne 10y ago
But why. I don't understand why you'd use Pascal today when you could use C++. I jumped over 25 years ago and never missed Pascal the language, only the Turbo Pascal development environment. Many languages later I still have never
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by alayne 10y ago
Just because you're in the C runtime, doesn't mean you're doing productive work. If it isn't the bytecode VM that is slow, then why is PyPy able to be much faster in many cases. In my experience, Python is easily 10-20x
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by alayne 10y ago
Nope, this was just another Internet lynch mob fed by innuendo from a youtuber.
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by alayne 10y ago
They use abbreviations that can be ambiguous. Not really the same.
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by alayne 10y ago
Okay, I was going off an old comment from Animats where he said "The Bravo file representation was plain text, followed by a control-Z as an EOF, followed by the formatting information. The compiler just stopped at the control-Z."
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by alayne 10y ago
Maybe you're being sarcastic, but I think it's just a hack with the formatting appearing after the end of file marker that the compiler uses.
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by alayne 10y ago
I still have Apple's Dylan book where it has Lisp-like syntax somewhere. The infix they came up with is ugly. Dylan was supposed to be used for Apple's Newton handheld, but was too late and basically died in the 1990s. I'm no
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by alayne 10y ago
Hitler wasn't elected and bringing up Hitler here evokes a scenario far more dire than leaving the EU. Your original point was bad and I regret wasting time on it.
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by alayne 10y ago
Doesn't seem to be true: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/morgan-sta...
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by alayne 10y ago
Yep, this is just like Hitler and the holocaust.
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by alayne 10y ago
I use it on some dev servers I can't install software on as an alternative to vi. Otherwise I use emacs+tramp to edit files remotely. It's not a huge use case or most of my editing. Anything to avoid vi though.
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by alayne 10y ago
Science isn't a problem or a solution, it's the search for the truth.
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by alayne 10y ago
This isn't a company changing names. Branding changes product names all the time. MacOS X was nonsensical. I'm glad they changed it.
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by alayne 10y ago
Most of these arguments boil down to things that benefit the developers, but not the user.
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by alayne 10y ago
CV seemed stalled out before deep learning, at least in the late 90s. By that I mean classifiers had hit performance limits and weren't improving, and so on. As a non researcher, I'm glad to see it moving again.
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by alayne 10y ago
I've been using HTTPie a lot more recently. It really takes the tedium out of using curl and I can produce color coded output for people. However, I am still finding myself in situations where I can't figure out how to induce the

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