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by chimprich 11y ago
It depends on what you're working on. If you're working on, say, a huge Java codebase, then a debugger is practically essential because you've got a lot of code to navigate, and you probably want to see what flavour of object
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by chimprich 11y ago
It wasn't my intention to overstate the benefits of dynamic typing, just to point out that static typing isn't just a free lunch. I think yogthos sums up the situation pretty well.
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by chimprich 11y ago
The problem is the overhead in adding typing. The time taken to learn the type system is a one-off but static typing has running costs in slowing down development, discouraging exploratory programming, extra cognitive load in reasoning abou
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by chimprich 11y ago
There's a couple of free Windows programs that compensate for this. http://superuser.com/questions/110700/making-a-mouse-scroll-...
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by chimprich 11y ago
That report does not say how those people became millionaires. You seem to be assuming that those 600,000 millionaires became so due to working, but that figure must include people whose property value increased, inherited money, had legal
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by chimprich 12y ago
On the whole, though, it is fairly easy to make more capital with capital (e.g. tracking the stock market, at least in the medium term). And the more capital you have, the easier it is to make more capital. In general, having more capital o
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by chimprich 12y ago
Where did you get the figure of $30k/person from? My understanding of basic income is that you'd get only a very, well, basic level of income from it somewhat equivalent to basic unemployment benefits now. In the UK you get someth
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by chimprich 12y ago
Your two sentences rather contradict each other - if an employee is already being paid what they're worth they should be unable to negotiate a higher salary or find a higher-paid job.
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by chimprich 12y ago
Interesting. Consciousness is the only thing I'm sure of that exists.