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by comrade1 12y ago
I guess this is one of the times where begging the question is not a fallacy.
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by comrade1 12y ago
Are you saying that they're stolen for the marketability of their parts because there are more that are stolen?
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by comrade1 12y ago
Should I have used the phrase super-fecund instead of the word 'slut'? Actually, with birth control we fool our bodies into thinking that we're mating so fecundity doesn't apply I guess.
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by comrade1 12y ago
The transition from powerpc to x86 was surprisingly relatively painless. There was some pain but most apps ran fine in the translation layer and eventually the native apps moved over. It'll probably be even easier the next time since a
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by comrade1 12y ago
Just the reality of the projects. Just doing something simple like database access from a java project, or matrix math in a python projects, you're going to use a library.
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by comrade1 12y ago
I wonder why the downvotes? This is based on observation on large-team projects. Maybe you have a different insight?
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by comrade1 12y ago
Fellow programmers that don't use an IDE and insist on vim or emacs.. I often work on large projects with dozens of programmers and the developers that don't use an IDE are very small-thinking. They don't seem to know any lib
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by comrade1 12y ago
You only talk about client-side related features. Nothing about the language itself. I don't mean to be autistic - I now understand what you meant but it wasn't clear from the start of your post.
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by comrade1 12y ago
I can't believe I'm having to stick up for javascript... I don't particularly like it myself, and I think the growth of node.js oven the past few years is one of the biggest jokes in our industry... But that said, every langu
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by comrade1 12y ago
Javascript is fine in itself as a language, but no one uses it like it's meant to be used. It's a prototype inheritance language and yet people try to use it like regular java (classes and instances). The problem you probably have
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by comrade1 12y ago
One quick follow-up... Despite good experiences with the IRS I have to say that the u.s. tax code is majorly fucked up. We spend $3K - $7K/year to have our taxes done by a competent accounting company and they usually end up around 20+
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by comrade1 12y ago
I've never had a problem at the DMV in CA when I lived there. It was one of my better experiences with the government. The USPS is great too. Even my experience with the IRS has been great - they saved me many thousands of dollars by p
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by comrade1 12y ago
I wonder who's pet project this was and if there were any consequences inside the company for its failure. It really did seem like a dumb idea from the beginning. I had a hard time seeing myself take the time to go to a pier to get on
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by comrade1 12y ago
I spend at least once a year in Delhi and/or Hyderbad. I have friends in both places and have met multiple times with many movers and shakers in the tech and other communities, including the former ceo of microsoft india, the defense m
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by comrade1 12y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there's been more than a few people arrested in-part based on their google queries, some of them wrongly and some of them rightly so.
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by comrade1 12y ago
Mathematics is a specific application of logic. Programming in general is closer to logic than math. But there is certainly a large set of programming that is mathematics-dependent (see above threads of people doing engineering programming)
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by comrade1 12y ago
I think the author is confusing mathematics and logic, as is the referenced blogger.
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by comrade1 12y ago
There are far too many laws in the u.s. and you can never know when you're breaking a law. And enforcement is often arbitrary and based on if the police want to harass/check you, or if they want to pile charges on top of another c
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by comrade1 12y ago
This is surprisingly close. I'd never thought of it like this but it's immediately clear what you mean. Especially if it's off-piste but an area that you're familiar with. You plan out your run multiple steps before you
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by comrade1 12y ago
Oh, and your last sentence reminded me of something else. My Swiss company was bought by a large American Silicon Valley company. The first time the C-level staff came for an all-hands meeting was a strange experience. The Americans were sm
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by comrade1 12y ago
What you say reminds of what I've experienced as an American that now lives in Europe (Switzerland). Soon after moving I learned to not smile so much - I was told that it makes me look simpleminded. Especially in meetings, and especial
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by comrade1 12y ago
There will always be conflict. I'm currently working with two of the nicest people I've ever met but we still have conflict and we still argue and 'fight' over big things such as direction of the company, goals for growt
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by comrade1 12y ago
Down from the moon too.
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by comrade1 12y ago
If you want to play with something similar, including the sourcecode, check out conceptnet: http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu/ If you want to get an interesting introduction to the idea of concept graphs take a look here: h
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by comrade1 12y ago
First, an on-topic comment just so my post isn't completely pointless... My niece was stung in the foot by a jellyfish north of LA. I had read that rinsing with freshwater will cause more poison to be released, and thus more pain. I ha
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by comrade1 12y ago
This is why my European clients are no longer using Amazon Web Services. For awhile they let us put their projects on AWS's ireland zones but even with that they were reluctant. After the NSA revelations (I know that this particular st
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by comrade1 12y ago
This brings up an embarrassment I have, being an american that's moved to Europe. I've had colleagues that have worked short-term in the u.s. and when they receive a 'check' from their workplace they think it's the
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by comrade1 12y ago
I have the same experience in Switzerland. I moved from the u.s. (s.f., boston, dc, socal) and despite working less we get a lot more done than in the u.s. We have an 8.5 hour workday in Switzerland which we strictly stick to - we get comp
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by comrade1 12y ago
The trains in the u.s. are still pretty primitive. Do a google image search on amtrak for some cringeworthy pics. Where I live in Europe the only trains where the engine pulls are freight trains. All passenger trains except some cog-wheel t
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by comrade1 12y ago
I'm increasingly of the opinion that there should be no corporate taxes. Instead there would have to be restrictions and incentives to encourage corporations to spend and not horde their cash. The reason I've come to think this is

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