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by cbd1984 11y ago
> When you maximize the number of pure methods, minimize mutable state, minimize inheritance and so on, you are doing OOP well. Odd, that's also how you do functional programming well. (As regards functional programming languages no
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Also, if they don't go FOSS, their users are living under a Sword of Damocles: At any point, they can choose to change everything, break everything, and your recourse is one of a variety of impolite ways of saying you have no recourse.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Because "metaprogramming" might as well be a synonym for "magic" to most programmers. Ruby almost gives you real macros. It gives you enough to do interesting things with, at any rate. Sitting that close to Lisp makes so
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Donald Trump must be one of the most correct people in the world.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Similarly, we shouldn't be focusing on (AIDS|malaria) as long as (malaria|AIDS) exists in the world.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Removed old comment, replaced it with this one: Here, read this: http://stevedutch.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-are-both-politica...
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by cbd1984 11y ago
You've defined causation in a very weird way that excludes what you think science covers, and I don't know why you did that.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It seems suspicious when a D student aces a big test. It would be outright ludicrous for China to imagine that they could use North Korea to test advanced weaponry without anyone tracing it back to them.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Sounds familiar? Java JIT doesn't write machine code to disk. OS/400 does, and then it re-uses the machine code until it no longer exists (you move to new hardware) or the bytecode is newer (you change the program and recompi
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Virtualization and emulation are not the same thing. You can have one without the other. (Traditionally, virtualization precluded emulation: The hypervisor simply multiplexed hardware, and the guests got what looked like raw access to the r
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by cbd1984 11y ago
System/360 was meant to be a good all-around system, not optimized specifically for business or science, as previous mainframes were, but good for both. 360 degrees in a circle, you know. Notice how it skips System/380. IBM was go
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It has a Unix subsystem. It is a lineal descendant of OSes which predate Unix by quite a bit, and has grown by accretion since then. It's POSIX certified. Linux isn't. That should tell people quite a bit about POSIX, but it never
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It's more of a follow-on to MVS, actually; OS/360 is a couple steps back.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I also wear gray shirts and occasionally listen to ska. Nothing makes people quite so alien as differing moral codes. I'm "showing my hand" as regards something that simply does not matter to the majority of people on this
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Causation does not exist in science. This is so over-simplified it's wrong. If I drop a weight, what happens? Is there a causal chain there? Would an animal unable to perceive a causal chain be able to live very long?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
So what about the BSODs that device drivers cause? Are those not device driver issues, but OS issues, or are they unfixable?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It isn't that everyone watches porn, it's that watching porn is just as moral as watching any other form of entertainment. Anti-porn crusaders aren't necessarily hypocrites. They also don't need to be hypocrites to be wr
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Are device drivers ever updated, much less for security issues? Seems like an obvious way to increase the take, in any event: "Chip X has a security flaw. Chip Y does not. Buy chip Y now or Evil People will own-zor all your cash-zors
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by cbd1984 11y ago
OK, help me understand: Is there any difference between CoA and design patterns? Sure, "Broker topology" is probably trivial, but so's Chain Of Responsibility and Decorators and everything else the Gang of Four touches on. So
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Nice to see Wendy Sullivan still getting work: http://www.metafilter.com/112362/Thats-no-booth-babe http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/sex-columnist-violet-bl...
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Dilution is a solution (in a figurative sense) if you know you won't want the substance later on. In some ways, though, pollution is a materials technology problem, in that we don't know enough about materials technology to either
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Lots and lots of people, especially people who don't know about conjugate pairs or the Fourier transform.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> my "ASK ME ABOUT ROKO'S BASILISK" novelty t-shirt idea. Why should we take you seriously when you resort to such cheap attacks?
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This is why people don't take philosophers seriously: They apparently can only attack strawmen, and badly at that, using emotion in place of reasoned arguments.
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Believe it or not, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle has nothing to do with measurement.
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I'm impressed how the author managed to make them all work as intended without Javascript.
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But known, proven therapies are better than apps with no peer review.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Are those studies about your product in specific?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Out of respect for people who don't like being surprised, that link is a PDF.
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That link is a PDF.

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