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by andywood 16y ago
Right. And in 1991, applications achieved much more of the potential performance and capability due to the available hardware than web apps do today. So going back to 1991 is an improvement in that respect. The rise of the web has been a
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by andywood 16y ago
I think that you, InclinedPlane, and BoppreH are missing the point, while cautioning against a strawman. It is elementary that successful compilation does not imply correct code; but that is not what Ayende is talking about at all. There a
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by andywood 17y ago
I can switch at will. But it took about 30 seconds of initial practice, plus an insight. The insight is that you can't just see her change turn direction - you have to also simultaneously see her instantly switch which way she is facing.
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by andywood 17y ago
I agree with the general concept, but how on earth is 3 years "short-term"? That's enough time to see certain medium-sized software projects through the full development cycle from conception through v1, with plenty of time left over to fol
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by andywood 17y ago
I have found the hardest part of self-learning to be finding peers and mentors, and I work in a software mecca. When I have lunch with colleagues, they don't care to talk about programming. In fact, they make fun of me. I think there may be
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by andywood 17y ago
I'm an iPhone developer. While I'm not generally a fan of restrictions, I also don't quite get where the outrage is coming from. My reaction was "So? I never planned to write in anything other than Objective C anyway!" I have observed that
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by andywood 17y ago
This could almost be an Onion article. Almost.
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by andywood 17y ago
Hilarious! It took me a few minutes to notice all the subtle puns everywhere.
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by andywood 17y ago
I have a heuristic - never make a big life decision for the sake of a romantic situation. Romances should work within the context of everything else you have going on. I'm almost positive my life would be full of much more trouble, and not
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by andywood 17y ago
FWIW, I share these sentiments 100%, and thought your post was great.
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by andywood 17y ago
Spot on. I'm one of those who eventually adapted to the way people are. Mostly. I even came to see all these customs as "true", in a perverse sense, just because people do in fact hold them in their minds. But internally, I still distinguis
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by andywood 17y ago
Really? The impression I get from having seen him talk in a few videos is that he is clearly where he is because he "gets it" - he has that deep, long-term vision that goes way beyond the app, and taps an underlying culture-shift.
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by andywood 17y ago
Wow. I sympathize with this very, very strongly. I think this captures the root of the career frustration that I experience 70% of the time. I seem to spend way too much time on what I call "guessing the magic password" - tracking down that
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by andywood 17y ago
Apples and oranges. Having spent considerable time on both sides of that fence, it seems to me that the way skeptics look at the world is qualitatively, fundamentally different from the way believers do. At the risk of oversimplifying: beli
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by andywood 17y ago
Semantics. People who do not call themselves atheist generally tend to think that you should only call yourself atheist if you mean to say you are certain there is no god. People who do call themselves atheist generally only mean by it that
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by andywood 17y ago
It's trivially true that being an expert and being successful are different things. Being successful generally means being a key part of a value chain that comes together at a certain time/place in society. Some experts do this. Some non-ex
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by andywood 17y ago
You point to existing structure that guides human behavior. One of the points of the talk is that game designers can create additional structure that will guide behavior differently.
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by andywood 17y ago
No. As poetry, this is fine. From a rationalist point of view, this is muddled. As science, this is not much less naive than, say, What the Bleep Do We Know. You seem to be motivated, ahead of time, to arrive at a conception of the universe