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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" calls into question the very idea of there being a "scientific truth" that is independent of historical assumptions. OK, let's do this. We have a sci
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Positivism. Logical positivism. Isn't this name taken by a somewhat different philosophy?
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Unfortunately those records are shrouded in many dense layers of propaganda: they’ve been selectively preserved and presented by academics over the millennia, to support whatever political, religious, or philosophical cause; and of cou
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> C is the wrong language to dynamically allocate everything. The probability to forget to free it, including in every error path, is much higher in my eyes. There's a trick you can use to make remembering to free it more likely. So
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by cbd1984 12y ago
I'll be happy as long as the Mill CPU can grind through a lot of computational kernels quickly.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> fear of going home Anyone who doesn't see this as a sign of abuse is an idiot. I could have sugar-coated that, but some things need to be said outright. (It's not a surefire sign of abuse, but if it doesn't qualify as a
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> An oft-quoted story about the "coolness" of the Senate involves George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who was in France during the Constitutional Convention. Upon his return, Jefferson visited Washington and asked why the C
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by cbd1984 12y ago
CS is also about creatively using fixed rules to get a desired result. But then, so's engineering.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> and gasp let people do what they want with their property. Are you so out of ideas on how to actually defend your positions that you have to pretend that anyone who disagrees with you is an idiotic child? Because everyone can do that,
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Then get the UI you want. That's possible in Firefox, as opposed to Chrome, for example.
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And then think a few thoughts further, to "How can I fix it?" and realize there's nothing I can reasonably do which isn't already being done, and, at my most engaged, I could cheer-lead established efforts being lead by
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> implementing your own linked list or using recursion I believe I can salvage this piece of the comment, and make it into an intelligent thing to say. Implementing your own linked lists? Not good unless your language is stone-knives-and
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> The only metric I care about for a bad or good programmer is simply the ability to produce a high volume of code, quickly, with no bugs. "This code is unmaintainable" is a bug. There are exceptions. They don't apply to y
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Depends on how you define simple: If something is simple for the compiler-writer, then simple things do yield simple results. If something is simple for the programmer, simple things often yield quite complex results. For example, in a lang
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by cbd1984 12y ago
C is simple to compile into nearly-optimal code, or at least it was back in the 1970s, when computers had single-opcode dispatch or trivial pipelines, no SIMD hardware, no other parallelism worth mentioning, and it wasn't worth worryin
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by cbd1984 12y ago
We've done this. Back in the Day, it was BSD Unix, which used tcsh as the interactive shell and Bourne shell as the scripting shell, as tcsh had tab completion but has a scripting syntax which is harmful to sysadmins and other living t
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by cbd1984 12y ago
They deserve some praise, I suppose, for latching on to the nicest, most socially-acceptable stereotype of 4chan users.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Firefox was an innovation compared to IE, but it was explicitly a trimmed-down version of Mozilla, which had existed in the form of Netscape going back what amount to geologic eras in terms of the history of the Web. Firefox's innovati
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> It's perfectly reasonable to expect extra data to be collected when using prerelease versions of software. This is incorrect in the world I live in, and I do not want to visit a world where it is correct.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> If everything is mass market then there's no individualism or culture. This is just a total misunderstanding of what culture is.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
My point is, foreign investment can't make you sick, at least not directly. People, on the other hand, can.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> angle trisection, which is impossible with a straight ruler and compass To be clearer: It is impossible to come up with a general algorithm to exactly trisect an arbitrary angle using only a straightedge (not a ruler) and a compass
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> But there is no reason why any person should be excluded from basic rights and privileges because they aren't "owned" by any particular subdivision. This is something to work towards, but it runs up against some pretty b
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Capital can't come bringing ebola or polio.
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> pallet This word and 'palate' are so overloaded.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
The quaternions are a subalgebra of geometric algebra. It's not quite the same in that it's strictly more general and, therefore, more broadly applicable.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Take a look at geometric algebra. http://www.geometricalgebra.net/ http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra
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BCD is orthogonal to this.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Why did they lump C in with Go and Dart? Not that it belongs in with C++/C#/Java, necessarily, but it seems like an odd grouping of languages. http://hyperpolyglot.org/c
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> There's a lot in here that's fairly well-supported, rationally and scientifically; but if I continue the list it commonly runs into "no vaccinations" and sometimes really dangerous choices, like treating potentially

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