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by cgrealy 8y ago
The entire premise of the article is flawed. If increasing road safety is the goal, we don't need to make drivers more engaged, we need to continue research to eliminate drivers entirely. The problem with articles like these are that t
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>Believing something is wrong does not mean the adherents are out to kill people or use force against them. Most of human history disagrees, especially in the case of gay rights.
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by cgrealy 8y ago
This. The idea that we can simultaneously build a machine smarter than us and also control it is bordering on an oxymoron. Unless we are near some kind of physical upper limit on intelligence, any AGI we build will easily out smart us, prob
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by cgrealy 8y ago
Exercise for anyone who thinks that your programming as kid counts. Apply for a job as a senior dev that requires 10 years experience when you're 21. See how interview offers you get....
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Hilariously, it has a super intrusive popup asking you to disable your adblocker so they can show you someone elses work.
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by cgrealy 8y ago
There's a difference between development (read: build) performance and runtime performance. For any kind of even vaguely profitable software, your developers should all have kick arse machines. But they should test on a $200 laptop
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by cgrealy 8y ago
> it only wastes the programmer’s time. ... Wasting CPU time on the other hand bothers me a lot! As always the answer is... it depends. Programmer time costs money, CPU time is cheap by comparison. If you're building something that
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by cgrealy 8y ago
Actually you can make it even more concise with an inferred array var isValidShort = createPasswordPolicy(new [] { Test.MinimumLength(8), Test.MustHaveDigits, Test.MustHaveUppercase, });
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by cgrealy 8y ago
I 100% agree that F# does this better. but saying "unless someone knows C# very well one could have easily gotten this wrong" is disingenuous at best.
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"Your sort solution limits which algorithms can be used, because you can't pass in a Func which might need an additional parameter anymore" O RLY? void List<int> Sort(List<int> input, bool someParam){} var
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by cgrealy 8y ago
While I really like the concept of functional programming and F# is definitely on my list of practical useful languages to learn, this article is clearly written by someone who doesn't know C# very well. Take the "To hell with int
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"If demand for a particular good or service is highly elastic and AI does not completely automate the production of that good or service, then technical change would create jobs rather destroy them." This is the fundamental proble