crimsonalucard

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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
That's because you haven't stepped outside of the box. Most of the programming languages you learn are derived from Algol. So JAVA, C, C++, python, javascript are all essentially permutations of the same thing. There's other
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
How does an incompetent engineer tell the difference between incompetence and imposter syndrome? I don't think it's realistic to say that all incompetent engineers think they're competent.
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
Yes, I know. I am saying refining an idea is done all the time. But you have to realize that designers are only dealing with an abstract idea. It is easy to cut a thing in half and reconfigure components of that thing into abstract perfecti
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
It's always easy to refine an abstract idea, such is trivial. For implementing and maintaining designs, especially in software, the squiggle goes in the opposite direction.
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
(x * 1) + 0 - x + x + 1 x + 0 - x + x + 1 x - x + x + 1 0 + x + 1 x + 1
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
>This is a very odd way of responding. When someone makes a point, it does not necessarily carry the implication that you said otherwise. First phrase was in response to your statement. Second phrase was a followup to my sentence that yo
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
>The uncomputability of Kolmogorov complexity is beside the point here, just as Turing's halting theorem does not prove that it is always possible that any given program will fail to halt. I never implied this. First off the halting
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
Human notions and formal notions overlap. All formal notions are human because they are developed by humans but not all human notions are formal because formal implies internal consistency and not all humans are rational. The difference bet
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
I got into a really deep conversation about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042796 You may have seen it, it's in the same thread of conversation we're having. Basically there's actually axio
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
>The thing is, prior to Gödel, one might have said "a probability of the existence of a proof of the decidability of Peano arithmetic will ALAWYS be greater than zero", and, by your argument here, that would be correct - but, o
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
>It is not entirely clear what your original point was. The possibility of there being a simpler solution does not justify your claim "there is ALWAYS an opportunity for a reduction to be discovered" (and you specifically capit
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
>1) Therefore, there cannot be a simplest solution. I never said this, I said that you cannot verify that the current solution you have is the simplest solution. This is based off of science, nothing can be verified science. Because we t
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
It's not that simple. For one we don't have a formal definition of "simple" and secondly, even when we do have a definition of "simple" for certain contexts, we can never prove that something is at its' &q
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
In a certain sense complexity CAN be destroyed. Yes there is a minimal level of complexity that must exist, but given an entity with a purpose, in many cases it is possible to reduce the complexity of that entity without changing its'
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
I'm not really talking about that. I'm saying that it's obvious in the sense that this English sentence has a certain level of complexity... In fact for anything to exist it must have some level of complexity... that much is
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
The fact that complexity has to exist is obvious. The real question of design, especially the design and organization of computer programs, is where that complexity lives, and how do you organize that complexity so that it doesn't in
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
Stalking people and trying to incite conflict is against the rules on HN. Freedom of speech allows you to be racist, sexist and start verbal battles in the real world. Not here. You do not have freedom of speech on HN. You need to back down
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
There is zero chance I will ever communicate with you about anything ever gain. You need to back off now.
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
This person has been stalking me across threads and topics and deliberately trying to ignite conflict. Please warn.
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
I have an idea. Bring the concept of microservices into software! Within software module interfaces that can only communicate with one another via socket like serial interfaces with no type checking! Or simply have all your software modules
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
Microservices in terms of code organization was always a redundant concept. You can organize code with functions and namespaces, why do you need hardware to segregate code? It only makes the segregation permanent but offers nothing else ben
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
I bombed an interview before because I said microservices can be really bad.
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
No. Scott Kims viewpoint is irrelevant because it's not programming. It's an editor for pixels. I am contributing by telling you whats wrong with viewpoint and the ideas behind it. You're contributing by spouting off about ev
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
Did you just call me moron?
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
stop, we're done.
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
>Do you really believe you're infallible? And that I and everyone else is infallible too? Or was that just your sarcastic spelling? Not a misspelling. A misuse of a word. Can we move on from this? >So now are you finally willing
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
What do his credentials have to do with anything? I don't care.
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
Yeah (Obviously)
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
>Then who are Scott Kim and Donald Knuth and Larry Tesler and Jeff Raskin, and what did they do that relates to this discussion? If you were being sarcastic about not knowing, then you should be able to easily answer that question. And h
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by crimsonalucard 6y ago
I actually (honestly) haven't heard of them. Are they your programming idols? Are they beyond reproach? Do you worship them and snark at anyone who criticizes there ideas?

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