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811.
by batista 14y ago
Well understood also. It's not like they're doing cutting edge pharmaceutical drug research that takes mega scientists and billions in funding and very precise enzyme targeting, etc. They mostly iterate on known drugs to make their making c
812.
by batista 14y ago
> I mean, if I had the capability to screw up Iran's nuclear program in my spare time I probably would, because, y'know, fuck Iran. Fuck Iran why exactly? Because toppling their democratically elected government and establishing a pupp
813.
by batista 14y ago
Yes, but I was talking in context here. The level of patriotism you had in Poland in World War II, is nothing like the (far lower) level of patriotism you get of scientists in affluent modern states in no immediate danger. Plus, the rest of
814.
by batista 14y ago
Those submarines are crude, has you seen pictures? And submarines and cell phone networks are pretty standard technologies, well understood, that any competent engineer can build off of off the shelve components. It's not like drug cartels
815.
by batista 14y ago
Smart determined people don't come for cheap, and you don't get world class cryptanalysts and mathematicians working on such a specific endeavor out of "determination". Plus, we can all guess what wealthy nation-state developed the software
816.
by batista 14y ago
This "architecture astronaut" phrase. I don't think it means what you think it means. The two descriptions you make below describe much more essentially than superficially or "astronautically", the same kind of thing, optimized for slightly
817.
by batista 14y ago
> All this is not to say that the music industry as a whole is doomed. My ultimate point is that when recorded content becomes un-productized, it ups the viability of other types of direct-to-fan products. No, it means the music indust
818.
by batista 14y ago
Are 95% and 99% difficult to parse? Plus, does "I've seen it in Perl" nullify the "an idiom you haven't seen" for the rest of millions of programmers that don't use Perl, or J, or ...?
819.
by batista 14y ago
Guy who doesn't understand general statements and statistics: "Your title is wrong, _I have_ heard of that idiom". A different guy with the same deficiency: "Wrong, it's a common idiom in (list of obscure languages)". Plus: array slicing, i
820.
by batista 14y ago
>I understand 'beat detection' in music to be a really hard problem Hard? Actually it is very easy on rock/dance/pop music. It's only difficult in classical/jazz pieces.
821.
by batista 14y ago
> Probably because that's the paradigm of the most popular languages, the first paradigm everybody learns in college and university and likely the first language a person will encounter? That is just a rephrasing of "they are used to i
822.
by batista 14y ago
Yes, so next time your cleaning lady can use it. Or your babysitter --or her boyfriend. Or any random burglar...
823.
by batista 14y ago
> Or, when I close all the windows for a given program (usually there is just one), the program stays open until I navigate through the menu to explicitly quit. I understand this is a design decision, but it just seems counter-intuitive
824.
by batista 14y ago
> Twenty-something job seekers: Quit whining and get creative But this articulate and intelligent job seeker would benefit from asking himself a question: Why am I doggedly pursuing a strategy that is so clearly failing? I.e: blame the
825.
by batista 14y ago
Yes, he's very afraid of Node.js, that's why he said those things. I mean who is this Anders Hejlsberg guy, criticizing the BEST work of language designer giants like Brendan Eich and framework masterminds like Ryan Dahl.
826.
by batista 14y ago
At some point you have to also consider why most programmers are used to imperative programming. It could be you're rationalizing from a first principle ("it must be equally easy, so if it has not caught on it's because programmers are not
827.
by batista 14y ago
Possibly he just uses the most obvious refactorings in the most straightforward js.
828.
by batista 14y ago
My sentiments exactly. More like a hazy academic working in the fashionable "gender studies" field wanting to promote her work. Plus the way the journalist that put up the piece found her (not because she was suggested as the best in the fi
829.
by batista 14y ago
> "So, for example, some of the work I do is with homeless LGBT youth, most of whom are Black or Latina/o. These young people are struggling with some big life challenges, and they are - like other people their age - completely wired.
830.
by batista 14y ago
"Or you could, you know, just use Xmonad" comments considered harmful. (plus ignorant/simplistic: it's not like everything else related to one's OS use and needs will be the same).
831.
by batista 14y ago
> Sincerely, I don't know how the US manages to be the second most touristic country in the world. Travelling to the US can be a nightmare - customs, TSA, metal detectors, body scanners, etc. As a tourist, I've never felt as unwelcomed
832.
by batista 14y ago
I've eaten in 48 states, including tons of malls. If that is what the book is saying, it is bullshit. Not to mention that in most malls you only find the same generic franchised BS.
833.
by batista 14y ago
> For example, people here generally eat lamb only once or twice a year Well, as a Greek, I beg to differ. We eat lamb more than "once a year" (you probably refer to easter, but forget the mighty paidakia). Plus, this cow meat we mostl
834.
by batista 14y ago
Clay Shirky's "A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy" is also a very good read on the matter: http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
835.
by batista 14y ago
No, the post just has to assume the AVERAGE hand size. Including smaller height people (e.g asians), and women's hands. You really think Apple should make a larger display because an insignificant minority has larger hands?
836.
by batista 14y ago
K&R is a book not suitable for beginner tutorial in C, especially modern C. As a reference type work, ok.
837.
by batista 14y ago
> Which reminds me of the incredibly bloated software by Adobe and Autodesk. When compared to Blender.org which opens and runs dozens of times faster on hundreds times less memory. I don't know about Autodesk. This "bloated Adobe softw
838.
by batista 14y ago
> It's cool that we have an Underscore for Obj-C now, but I'm really excited about this because of the project's opinion that bracket syntax sucks. It's always been a curiosity that a company like Apple, who prides themselves on making
839.
by batista 14y ago
They are just glorified text editors is what is wrong with them (to re-use your initial argument). This concept/potential implementation has more syntactic intelligence.
840.
by batista 14y ago
> Well, I imagine one reason is that there are exactly zero static call sites in Python. Are there in Smalltalk? > There is just very little you can learn from parsing Python code, you need runtime state to understand some function

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