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by chton 12y ago
I agree, my gripes are not with the entire document, or even with the chapter in question. I also don't have a problem with starting from a statement that may be wrong in an informative way, it's a valid approach to learn a subjec
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by chton 12y ago
Alan Kay disagrees that objects exist to 'encapsulate state'. I agree with him. They also encapulsate behaviour. While it's difficult to get a precise overview of Kay's definition (he never gave them explicitly), this
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by chton 12y ago
It's surprising to me how few developers, even hardcore OO developers, are able to just give this minimal definition. It's the core of the entire paradigm, that an object is state and behaviour on that state, and yet everybody alw
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by chton 12y ago
It crystallizes my ideas. In more than one way. It still staggers me that I can think up complicated structures that do entirely new things, even impossible things, and put them into practice using only my fingers and mind. I love archite
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by chton 12y ago
hoo boy, this article sounds like it was written by somebody who only had a first-year course in OOP. I hope it's mostly tongue-in-cheek, but in case it's not, let's quickly go through it: 1. Paradigm: The paradigm of Object
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by chton 12y ago
It does vary from person to person, and from job to job. For me, it's less than 25 days, on average. Others might need much more. I won't judge anyone for taking more vacation time, and I'll respect it as best I can. I ju
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by chton 12y ago
Oh absolutely, I consider any time you take to stop yourself from needing more time off to be 'needed'. The goal is to stop long-term accumulation of stress, not to remedy it when it gets too bad.
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by chton 12y ago
Is it? People will still feel guilty when taking time off, and it's possible that forcing people to take time off means the vacation time will be even less respected. "I won't bother that person, they'll need the time&qu
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by chton 12y ago
I definitely agree that people in any form of leadership role serve as an example. They do on many more things than just vacation time. In general, that's one of the ways to influence culture, by being the best example of it. Conver
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by chton 12y ago
"We tried something that didn't fit our culture, and it didn't work." Taking less vacation time is not necessarily a bad thing. For myself, not having to meet a minimum quota means I enjoy the vacations I do take more,
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Databases at 14.4Mhz(blog.foundationdb.com)
297 points by chton 12y ago|81 comments
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Chrome experiment turns Wikipedia into a virtual galaxy(engadget.com)
3 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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Superconductivity without cooling(phys.org)
9 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
I know people with 10 years experience with the language that still use the DSL for simple cases. There is a lot of discussion about the usage of var, and ultimape's non-usage of it in his example is a personal preference, as well as m
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by chton 12y ago
That is an excellent point, I didn't even consider that. It's possible they were listening on the correct frequency to receive it, since they knew the redshift was going to happen, but that just leaves more questions as to why th
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by chton 12y ago
It would happen, but for a black hole massive enough, that point would be well inside the event horizon. We don't know how deep they actually went into the black hole, or even whether or not the 4D structure was inside the black hole
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by chton 12y ago
I'll just link you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ... It's by far my favorite way to explain time travel system like the one we see in Interstellar, and it's rooted in rea
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by chton 12y ago
ThePhysicist talks about using the bits of information provided in the movie to learn about the basics of some of the physics behind it. That's why he points to the formula for calculating a Scharzschild radius and not the complicated
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by chton 12y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, so I'm going to give you a proper reply instead. Actually, the 2 things you noticed are not that hard to resolve: - The quantum data was most likely never going to get out of the black
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by chton 12y ago
I figured the mothership was still orbiting the black hole, in a much wider orbit. They could rendezvous by matching orbits using pretty standard manoeuvres, it would just take more time than if it was moving in a similar orbit as the plan
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by chton 12y ago
Calculations about time dilation become enormously more complicated in a system where the black hole is spinning, because you get effects like frame dragging that influence the orbits and time. For the purposes of the parent poster, a ball
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by chton 12y ago
They expected a ping every year, if it ever stopped pinging they would write off that planet. It was up to the scientists to keep the ping going, if they considered the planet still a suitable candidate for humanity. The signal they receiv
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by chton 12y ago
Yes, they knew about the relativistic effects. And they could obviously send some data. But somehow they can't figure out that they've been getting a repeat of the same ping for the last 10 years? And even if they couldn't fi
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by chton 12y ago
Absolutely, it is possible to claim accuracy, but then you have the hard task of making that actually true. 2001 was better because of that accuracy, but for many movies it's not a good way of doing it. Interstellar could have worked
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by chton 12y ago
That's a possibility, but the special fuel they have would have to have been extremely expensive then. That would have been a fine explanation, and if they had mentioned it in the movie that would be one less point I could make. But h
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by chton 12y ago
Surely Kip Thorne himself has to realize that he's grasping at straws. A lot of the things he mentions are of the type "in this precise, extremely rare situation it is possible, if we ignore all the other side effects". For
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Design patterns across paradigms(blog.ploeh.dk)
1 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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The Ashton Disinterest Curve – JavaScript and Node(codeofrob.com)
2 points by chton 12y ago|1 comments
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Desert Bus for Hope 8 is now live, a charity fundraising marathon(desertbus.org)
2 points by chton 12y ago|1 comments
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What's New in C# 6.0 [video](channel9.msdn.com)
227 points by chton 12y ago|142 comments

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