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by cema 16y ago
No pain, it is simply reused.
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by cema 16y ago
Regarding item 1, one of my friends is a professor and tries to fund a student to help with making Clojure stack traces more understandable. I will not say who that friend is and what university or college s/he is in (s/he has not authorize
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by cema 16y ago
Well, there are at least two kinds of people in the world then. -- cema
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by cema 16y ago
Yes, but not all such "religions" are fashionable.
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by cema 16y ago
So you feel like doing it -- but you are not doing it, right? Must have reasons. And I think one reason may be that nobody will listen and stay off your back for 5 business days. What are the other reasons?
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by cema 16y ago
Why, the other way, of course. But my point was, the authors have not considered all the (potentially) important aspects, and we may help them with this. Or just have fun.
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by cema 16y ago
How many of us have written software that will be used 30 years from now? We may not always know that.
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by cema 16y ago
I think the authors did not think of all possibilities. "Arguing back" might help them to improve the logical engine. I guess what I mean to say is that, rather than arguing back, we could contact them with suggestions. Eg one thing they di
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by cema 16y ago
Deep down these are philosophical concepts, so it should not be surprising that different natural languages developed words with slightly different shades of meaning. Language may be misleading too. For example, I think that the fair in "fa
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by cema 16y ago
Fair is more complicated. Mercy is part of fair. And, of course, treating our young and old in a different way than healthy adults is fair.
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by cema 16y ago
Unless it's the tradition of entrepreneurship and hard work. One could say it's a meta tradition; ok.
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by cema 16y ago
44 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 54 University of Massachusetts Amherst Uh?
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by cema 16y ago
I'm bored of social websites. Uh-huh. Do you consider Hackers News a social website?
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by cema 16y ago
He referred to his own comment. He cannot upvote it. Regarding down votes: some people click them because they disagree, some because they think the post may be irrelevant. Sometimes it is not clear which is the case.
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by cema 16y ago
Most of the comments here are good and helpful, but -- go talk to a shrink immediately. Like, right now.
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by cema 16y ago
Not even in the form of coffee.
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by cema 16y ago
Learning Clojure is a good way to like lisp.
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by cema 16y ago
JVM may be crap (or not), but it is widely deployed. In other words, widely available. And performance is not that bad, really. Except for the startup time, it is better than most other languages, not just scripting languages. There has bee
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by cema 16y ago
Russia is the land of hot tea, US is the land of iced tea. This must be the crucial difference between the two; the rest just follows...
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by cema 16y ago
I do not know details about the situation with the untouchables. I know it is less advanced than the current situation with the blacks in the US. What you said about the negative stereotypes about blacks is unfortunately very true. But: aff
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by cema 16y ago
The question of whether alumni-preference "punishes" some people isn't even interesting, the question is a borderline-tautological "yes". The question is, is that what we want to do? I think we want to just stop it. Why is it
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by cema 16y ago
I suspect the reason is closer to what you wrote in the second paragraph than the first paragraph. Personal point of view, longing for education and hard work may be accounting for most of the immigrants' success, and vice versa. This attit
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by cema 16y ago
1. I do not know how we calculate what has a "much wider benefit for the entire society". 2. But I know that if we base our decisions on the (elusive) benefit to the society versus justice, we are taking a step towards a totalitarian system
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by cema 16y ago
I do not get unbiased news. I get biased news and account for the bias.
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by cema 16y ago
I have read about Soviet cavalry charges as late as 1942, but in memoirs, not history books.
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by cema 16y ago
Not necessarily, some find it energizing. In my case (a night owl all my life) it also depends on the social group around me.
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by cema 16y ago
The more intelligent ones?
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by cema 16y ago
"2+2 is 5" is a mathematical statement. Mathematics is different from the rest of science in that it is not an experimental science, so that a (theoretical) statement does not need an experimental confirmation, just a (theoretical) proof.
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by cema 16y ago
Or perhaps "can it be answered in a scientific way"?
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by cema 16y ago
I guess the question will remain meaningless until such evidence is uncovered I doubt people who think the question is meaningless will be looking for answers. This is one reason such "evidence" may never be available. Another reaso

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