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Building a modern API for state gov't(waldo.jaquith.org)
1 points by bendotc 15y ago|0 comments
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by bendotc 15y ago
super() was introduced in CPython 2.2, but it changed in Python3: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3135/ . The link you posted uses super as "super(cls, instance)", but the main article uses Python 3's super, which can just be called as
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by bendotc 16y ago
Are you saying people usually ask you to produce your wallet at the beginning of a meal when you eat at a restaurant? By ordering off the menu, you agree to the price on it. Similarly, when you sign an agreement to pay someone for work done
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by bendotc 16y ago
Fellow game developer here. I can't wait for "gamification" to die. It represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what games are and can be. To make it more annoying, in practice, it often seems to be accompanied by a disrespect for the u
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by bendotc 16y ago
Maybe because this guy is passionate about making a new systems language, instead of solving the problem you want solved? I never understand people who complain that free project X exists, when those people could be working on Y which is ob
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by bendotc 16y ago
If your problem is spending too much time on HN, do you really think the solution involves posting on HN? If this is really a problem, close your browser and never come back here and you'll have a much more productive life. If you find your
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by bendotc 16y ago
I personally think engineers' inability to understand the limitations of their own abilities and the complexity of the problems we face, as evidenced by, say, the thought that if they were in charge they could fix everything, to be a strong
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by bendotc 16y ago
True, though most of the wealth in America is held by a small minority too, which kind of creates the weird taxing/spending incentives. ( http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-a... )
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by bendotc 16y ago
> If you're working at one of the newly acquired studios like Bioware, that's probably true. The older studios like EAC in Burnaby or EARS are so close to the EA corporate that it's hard to say that his friend doesn't "work directly for
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by bendotc 16y ago
There is no "works directly for EA" unless you're a high-level executive or possibly marketing (not sure on that one). EA is split into studios and cross-studio departments, each with very different cultures. EA was once well-known for acq
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by bendotc 17y ago
That's not really accurate. It would be safer to say that people who respond to that poll on HN self-report having NT intuitive thinking traits at about seven times higher than the usual distribution would predict, assuming no one voted mul
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by bendotc 17y ago
I believe you're holding Nate Silver up to an unrealistic standard. This is obviously not a complete refutation of all of the stolen data, nor does it claim to be. He is instead taking an instance of what people are complaining about -- a
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by bendotc 17y ago
In general, you'll hire people who, * are smart/productive enough to automate the drudgery, * are smart enough to get by, but whom the drudgery provides some lasting challenge, or * are screwing around and will likely screw around more as y
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by bendotc 17y ago
You're conflating what I was saying with the idea that we should just say "it's complicated, everyone should give up," which is just silly. What I'm saying is that if we don't stand on the shoulders of giants, there is a limit to how far w
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by bendotc 17y ago
My point was not to take the position that karma is an unimportant number in a computer somewhere, but that people often claim as much in defense of various scoring systems on sites like this and Reddit and so on that create perverse incent
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by bendotc 17y ago
Not seeing the original comment to which you're referring, I can't offer any opinion on it in particular. However, I generally disagree with the statement "if a comment gets down voted but starts a wave of discussion surely it has value."
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by bendotc 17y ago
I always find opinions like these to be illuminating whenever people claim that people don't care about karma, as it's obviously just a silly number in some computer running this website. As it turns out, some people find losing just 1 poin
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by bendotc 17y ago
"I think this gets to the heart of our differences. I don't know things, so I ask people. Or I take up positions which others can criticize. As part of a discussion, I learn more. If modern banking practices are germane, educate me on them.
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by bendotc 17y ago
"The problem with your argument is that there are huge sections of human knowledge in which we really don't know that much -- even experts. In fact, I'd wager there's a hell of a lot more stuff that's debatable than most people would be com
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by bendotc 17y ago
> Government spending does improve the economy, but not as much as tax cuts do. If you give money back to the market, it is guaranteed to be spent efficiently. That's debatable. For example, Moody's Economy believes otherwise (see page
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by bendotc 17y ago
Misandrist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misandrist
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by bendotc 17y ago
DevTrack, with somewhere on the order of 100 users. I really have no idea how well it would work in a small startup environment. I'm not crazy about it, but I've never met an issue tracking system I am crazy about. DevTrack can be configur
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by bendotc 17y ago
Now, I'm not a cheerleader for modern-day psychopharmaceuticals; I often liken antidepressants to kicking a television and hoping that the picture clears up. They often don't work, or mysteriously work for some time, then stop, and there do
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by bendotc 17y ago
Agreed. In general, if you're having trouble tracing through a particular function with a narrow band of input, then the debugger can be useful. If you're trying to figure out a larger system and/or how a system works across a large set of
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by bendotc 17y ago
I disagree. The last thing Python needs right now is to make Python 3.x even more different from the 2.x line. As a strategic move, I think it makes a lot of sense to stabilize 3.x and wait for it to gain momentum before going on to more sy
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by bendotc 17y ago
Oh, and make Box's constructor explicit.
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by bendotc 17y ago
I'm pretty sure the author was comparing C++ to C, not to Java, but that's kinda beside the point, because as the article says, "The real hidden cost is that now, instead of looking at one piece of source -- the function itself -- I need to
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by bendotc 17y ago
"It's not every gamer, it's a specific sort of gamer, but it's a prevalent sort of gamer. The kind that argues that Bioshock is as valuable a contribution to society as the works of Joyce or the movies of Hitchcock." Oh, I know you! http:/
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by bendotc 17y ago
If the idea you're raging against is that there is no 6 hour experience worth $20, I'm totally behind you. But you take it a step further and accuse barrkel of being a "tasteless slob" for not valuing World of Goo more than $2, and that's j
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by bendotc 17y ago
That's barely even testing, and it's certainly not TDD. If I play through the feature I just coded or the bug I just fixed, I can verify that it's doing what I think it's doing, but I need outside verification that it's correct. In effect,

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