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by astine 8y ago
I don't see a reason that a DSL can't be Turing complete and still a better option than an existing language. If you look at old-school make files, they are little more than shell script with top level rules that you can invoke fr
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by astine 8y ago
The probable reason that this is not a video is that video production is not only more expensive than text production, but also involves entirely different skills. As a rule, visual programming does not require you to buy a video camera or
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by astine 8y ago
You're language is still not quite right. A cross product does not include those parts of the outer joins. An inner join is a subset of a cross product, but an outer join includes elements not in either. What you say would be true of a
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by astine 8y ago
Um no. The left and right joins both include the inner join tuples; they are not mutually exclusive. A cross join is the Cartesian product of two sets, which means it doesn't include the outer join tuples.
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by astine 8y ago
Or rather 62 million preferred him enough to the alternative to vote for him in the national election. Among that 62 million were probably very many genuine supporters, but I think that a lot of them chose to read what they wanted into his
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by astine 8y ago
Yeah, people don't like being corrected when they are wrong. I've bumped into that a lot when discussing things on social media. I find that if you can manage to spare someone's ego when correcting them, it helps a lot. Rathe
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by astine 8y ago
I think Clojure is actually cleaner - but that comes with the downsides of the JVM and .NET interop is a huge advantage There is a dotnet implementation of Clojure if you're interested: https://github.com/clojure&#x2F
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by astine 8y ago
It is a logical fallacy to ignore context when making an argument.
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by astine 8y ago
The sentence: Firstly, because they used to be written sufficiently well that they never crashed, because competent people wrote them. IS an appeal to a golden age. Because it's not true. People did write services that crashed and sy
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by astine 8y ago
The thing is, most Linux distributions ran services this way for well over two decades. So? That doesn't mean it was the best way to do things. Humanity existed for thousands of years without vaccines and still managed but that doesn
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by astine 8y ago
I find it really hard to believe that you were unable to understand what I meant. The complexity of Sysvinit is orders of magnitude less than that of systemd. This whole thread is a discussion of the relative complexity between sysvinit a
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by astine 8y ago
Firstly, because they used to be written sufficiently well that they never crashed, because competent people wrote them. If your deployment strategy depends on never having to run substandard software then you've already lost. Also,
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by astine 8y ago
You could use the same argument to disparage any technological innovation. Computers? Our ancestors did just fine without them and so do many people across the world to this day. But more ridiculous than that is your listing of Solaris an
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by astine 8y ago
This is not how copyright law works. You cannot reuse other people's copyrighted performance unless your work counts as a parody and the standards for parody are well documented. For example, Weird Al Yankovich needs to get permission
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by astine 8y ago
It is not the movement that itself that is protected but the public performance. You can dance any dance you want but you can't charge people to see it if someone else opens the copyright. You also can't make a little animation of
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by astine 8y ago
I assume it could, but haven't tried it.
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by astine 8y ago
For a serious note, there are occasionally situations where I have to take in a lot of data that I know nothing about. Sooner of the time this data is either in json or readily convertible to json so losing it into a mongodb database and po
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by astine 8y ago
The only way for query performance to be truly predictable is for your data to be static. If that's not your situation then a query optimizer is incredibly helpful because it means that you don't have to rewrite your queries every
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by astine 8y ago
Where? I just see a link to the Edgar filings which are mandatory for publicly traded companies in the US.
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by astine 8y ago
" He remained in the house arrest the next 9 years, until he died in 1942. " I think you have a typo.
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by astine 8y ago
Does it? Unless you mean the poor will have a harder time shouldering a similar tax rate, I'm not certain why poorer people would be using the roads more often than richer people. That said, there's no reason a toll system couldn&
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by astine 8y ago
Dewey's objection to the fact/value dichotomy is more against the notion that facts cannot be used to drive value judgments, not to the notion that value judgments should not be used to derive facts, which is mainly what I'm
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by astine 8y ago
Economics is an evolving field of study like any other. There are many different schools of thought even within the 'mainstream' position. Using disagreements and changes within the field as an argument that the entire field is fl
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by astine 8y ago
"It is an absurd notion that there are two manners of discussing how the pie should be divided up" There is absolutely a difference between normative and positive statements about the world. Arguing whether raising taxes will lowe
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by astine 8y ago
I use both raw SQL and the entity framework on a regular basis. That Linq to entities query gets translated pretty directly to SQL. Each of those includes translates directly to a left join on whatever column is specified as the key. You wo
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by astine 8y ago
If I recall, Steve Jobs attempted holistic methods for treating his cancer instead of undergoing what his doctor recommended and ended up dying as a result.
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by astine 8y ago
And now you're questioning my motives. Hypocrite
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by astine 8y ago
Because your entire series of posts in this thread thus far have been nothing but questioning the motives of Elon Musk and his fans. Even if you're correct you're a hypocrite to complain about someone doing the same to you. And yo
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by astine 8y ago
"The entire response is a really cheap, nonconstructive appeal to motive and is quite frankly full of vague personal attacks." You should be the last person to complain about this...
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by astine 8y ago
"Why do you say he was asked to do something?" The question was put to him by random people on Twitter, not by the Thai government. His initial response that he thought the Thai government had it in hand.

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