cleong

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by cleong 8y ago
No, philosophy as a academic field has failed. It's common knowledge for those in the field to know that none of the primary problems of philosophy has been solved despite being worked on for 2000 years. What every academic tries to do
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by cleong 8y ago
Although pracitcally what you said is true, many teams I've worked in had seniors that would design projects based on their interests. I'd like to say there is a way to design objectively based on trade-offs for the project. If yo
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Common Causes of Complexity in Software [pdf](curtclifton.net)
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References in PHP: An Indepth Look [pdf](derickrethans.nl)
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by cleong 8y ago
How does crypto currencies solve this if a bad actor gets a hold of your wallet...
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by cleong 8y ago
Why would this work better? Not to be cynical but it seems from a engineering perspective that the trade off is security for data robustness? Anyone who takes control of the network will take control of all property title insurance data. In
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by cleong 8y ago
This might have been true 10 years ago with versions like PHP 4. But remember many companies have invested a lot into PHP including Facebook. In the newest version of PHP what you said cannot apply with a type system, OOP features like trai
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by cleong 8y ago
Agreed, though I would add that in terms of being a better programmer rather then Laravel Developer, you have to get really good at deconstructing frameworks. Essentially you have to understand all these tools and frameworks are just normal
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by cleong 8y ago
The notion of a regulated Engineering profession really came about when some very famous bridges started to collapse under load. In response to this, there was public outrage and distrust in governmental projects such as bridges. Thus, the
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by cleong 8y ago
EAV pattern has trade-offs you need to compensate for (performance). Production systems that use EAV have flat tables, and heavy caching to have be flexible with acceptable performance.
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by cleong 8y ago
PHP was built for the web and has been successful at that job. It is easy to use because the core developers have made some good design choices for the task at hand. For example no threads, stateless requests, core functionality focused on
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The Art of Assembly Language (1996)(web.archive.org)
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by cleong 9y ago
Your right that you shouldn't be fixated on past mistakes, but remember you can't take back what comes out of your mouth.
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by cleong 9y ago
No doubt professionals in the investing field have done good work, highly competent and smart. I was making a reference to Warren Buffet, there was a story where he was working with very high IQ individuals that made a mistake by over-compl
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by cleong 9y ago
The problem with articles like this is that it's in our natural tendency to think "oh this is me". Everyone thinks they are smart and we're not particularly good at successfully finding others who are smart (hence the hi
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by cleong 11y ago
No this is a common argument against anything involving infinite universe/ universe being infinite. If the universe has always been here how many events does it take for us to exist? Infinte. Saying beings always exist therefore beings
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by cleong 11y ago
Terrible paper, it's doesn't use any process of proof (proof by contradiction etc.) It also leads to a logical inconsistencies e.g if the Universe is eternal it must take an infinite amount of time for any being to exist (since th
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by cleong 11y ago
It is a rehash of Thomas Aquina's argument and every other cosmological argument.
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by cleong 11y ago
agreed, in Canada software engineering is a degree that teaches you software methodology,design patterns, project management, QA/testing, and general algorithms.