basaah

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by basaah 11y ago
That is golden advice! Also, be careful with power screwdrivers, they offer speed and the illusion of power, but much less control and feeling, increasing the chance of wrecking the screw head and/or screwing too tight or not tight e
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by basaah 11y ago
Someone recently suggested this book [1] to me. I'm still reading it, but enjoying the ride so far. The 'shift of power away from the government' argument is just one of the arguments made in the book, and author Linsey McGo
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by basaah 12y ago
About the "Superstition in the pigeon" link: Kind of painfull that you link to Skinner's (pretty much) only ill-done research; See J.E.R. Staddon for a nice refutation of 'the superstition in the pigeon' experiment.
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by basaah 12y ago
I do not find procedural code unreadable, nor is that what I meant to say. Rather the contrary: I said that OOP is only better if the same problem solved in OOP is more readable, which holds only true for a subset of problems. Regarding the
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by basaah 12y ago
I was also disappointed by the atricle's end: Pretty much only the Dijksta quote was worth reading. The title promised to backup the claim with a real-world experience of OOP, but alas, it did not deliver such. OOP is better where you
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by basaah 12y ago
Saying that all systems have intelligence == anthropomorphizing all systems IF AND ONLY IF you consider intelligence to be a uniquely human trait. A more useful distinction for the realm of intelligence could be 'designed intelligence
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by basaah 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing