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by charles-salvia 10y ago
I'm inclined to be very sympathetic to this article, even though I don't agree entirely. In an age when conspiracy theories about "global elites" are rampant, it helps to remind everyone that most human designs fail due
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
Not to mention how the truly ubiquitous HTTP protocol uses CRLF in the headers. The mechanical origins of the CR/LF combo were so strongly ingrained in developer culture that line oriented protocols like HTTP inexplicably continued to
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
In the United States, at least, poverty tends to be concentrated geographically in inner-cities and rural areas instead of being evenly spread out. This would seem to indicate fairly conclusively that location and environment affect opport
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I wouldn't go as far as saying effort is irrelevant - just not the only, possibly not even the dominant factor that contributes to success. I view it as something like 40% effort/motivation, 60% luck
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
Then why is poverty concentrated geographically in inner-cities and rural areas instead of evenly spread out? Obviously location and environment affect opportunity, including the perception that breaking out of poverty is even possible to
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
Coding is fun. Debugging sucks though.
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I agree. I don't downplay Aristotle's massive contribution to the development of human knowledge. I just claim it is more of historical significance than practical significance. I mean, Aristotelian physics has no real technolo
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
With Aristotle in particular, I was thinking mostly of his statements about gravity and objects moving towards their natural place.
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
I realize there's a (stereotypical) tendency for scientists and engineers to look down on philosophy - and I think this tendency colors this whole discussion to the extent that it almost borders on being a touchy subject. But a lot of
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It can if you define desired goals or outcomes.
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
Science can settle (or at least inform) a debate over how to govern society correctly if you define certain tangible features or goals that a correct society should have. If you agree upfront that a correct society should seek to e.g. ma
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
Not to mention that arithmetic operations (including division) that overflow signed integers result in undefined behavior.
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You can reduce a lot of specialized knowledge to "trivia" by noting how it can be easily looked up, nowadays. But asking candidates about data structures is hardly the same thing as asking them to spew out memorized responses. T
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So-called "modern C++" (basically C++11 and beyond) is really immensely more pleasurable to work with than C++03/C++98. The confluence of automatic type deduction, closures, and move semantics turned C++ into the language tha