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by crpatino 10y ago
> Play around with the program intelignetly and observe no bugs That's the most sophomore thing I have read in a long time!!! Probably works OK if you are working alone in a simple product whose whole code mostly fits inside a singl
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by crpatino 10y ago
Personally, I do not really care what Kalium-the-person says or does. But as long as you are donning the hat of Kalium-the-spokeperson-of-Science, you are displaying ignorance and comptept for human nature. You seem to confuse the fact that
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by crpatino 10y ago
It does hurt less than you'd think. It's antivaxers' children the ones that suffer the most, but as long as they remain a minority, the risks of an epidemic getting out of control is very small. And no, we are not going to el
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by crpatino 10y ago
> Yes, there is a history that includes a number of failures. That history also includes stunning successes. I think it's unreasonable to demand that science only ever produce successes. > We trust people with a history of system
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by crpatino 10y ago
Yes, I understand that sounds odd. The keyword you probably are missing is middle-aged . I brought those guys into this world before I had any awareness on these issues. But even if that had not been the case, I think in spite of the very
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by crpatino 10y ago
Basically... avoid indulging in a lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, be very conservative with the debt I allow myself to take on (used strategically, not just to prop-up expenses), and choose the machines I bring into my life with an ey
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by crpatino 10y ago
PeakOil-the-movement shares the same strenghts and weaknesses of many other engineering spawns: The stuff they predicted got all the technical details correct to a remarkable degree, yet they failed to grasp the economic and political impli
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by crpatino 10y ago
> However, these rituals have almost always been spiritual in nature, with the goal seemingly transcendence Do not generalize your Judeo-Christian experience to the totality of human religion. There are plenty of cultures/traditions
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by crpatino 10y ago
> I see ton's of people in daily life who have cultivated modesty (eg: politicians, ceo's ect) . It is so obvious that its fake, No. You have seen tons of people who have cultivated modesty-signalling. Signalling is cheap, but
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by crpatino 10y ago
Both, but that's not really the point. As others have pointed out, education and experience help you develop different skills. And yes, education is not for everyone. However, your claim that you ar struggling with education because yo
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by crpatino 10y ago
You lost me at "locally". Of course if you take a closed system A and make it a subsistem of some bigger closed system B you are going to be able to diminish entropy at A by increasing entropy even further at (B + !A). My grandmot
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by crpatino 10y ago
You also need to be concerned with the posibility that an opportunistic party will steal the idea, pattent it, and then try to monetarize it in some way that does not involve (and might even get in the way of) actual implementation. Pattent
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by crpatino 10y ago
Joel Spolsky's essay about never doing a full rewrite seems eerily appropriate. It should be obvious that systems that have been going and going for centuries will have quirks all over the place.
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by crpatino 10y ago
In most of the world America is not a country either, but a continent.
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by crpatino 10y ago
If you think copy&paste is an option at all, I agree. If you are to rely on somebody else's work, better make it work they have put an actual effort in getting right, for which they have some stakes. Doing "boring stack"
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by crpatino 10y ago
You are not being paid to change 1 line of code per month. You are being paid to be a living repository of institutional knowledge: so you (can) know (in a finite, bounded time) what line to change in order to achieve the business requireme
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by crpatino 10y ago
It is still worth it to delay adoption by a year or two. By then, early adopters have already stepped on most mines, flaky fads have crashed and burned, and the real winners of next generation stack-wars will have coalesced around something
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by crpatino 10y ago
Funny... but surely you should be thinking of the orks as well.
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by crpatino 10y ago
You don't know that, and cannot know that. Our industry loves to write CYA statements about the product not being intended to be used in critical situations and bury it in the fineprint of licenses we know customers do not ready anyway
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by crpatino 10y ago
If last Friday events do not, I am not sure what will.
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by crpatino 10y ago
Try to start one on your own? Most likely this will be anything but pleasant, but if you are very careful about not accepting VC financing you may try to optimize for sanity... highly functional will come mostly as you learn from your own e
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by crpatino 10y ago
Theoretically, you are 100% correct. In practice, it is still worthwhile to have N redundant independently developed provers to prove each other, and to benchmark against each other. This will help uncover subtle bugs that result from ordin
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by crpatino 10y ago
What the article is about, is the history of Slavery in the North-American continent since the time of the English Colonies. The actual content is pretty interesting, from a historical point of view. The headline was meant to highlight a cr
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by crpatino 10y ago
And what are those goals? Provide free labor to corporate interests? Give away free products to cheap people that cannot care to recognize for one second the personal effort invested by the producers? Creators are going to create, they cann
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by crpatino 10y ago
Sure, why not. Just please note, aeronautics does not defy gravity. It makes use of knowledge in mechanics of fluids to produce vouyancy, which ultimately is a manifestation of gravity. To be more clear, infinite knowledge does not allow yo
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by crpatino 10y ago
Assume an infinite number of brains. Is it still possible to figure out a way to break the Laws of Nature? Yes or no, please.
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by crpatino 10y ago
Ok, this are complex questions... but I will try to address them as best as I can. 1. The guy who first came with the 2 Billion figure in the 1920s was the scientist Raymond Pearl, though the copncept of 'carrying capacity' as we
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by crpatino 10y ago
It would be a "modest increase" if we had spare carrying capacity. Instead, what we have now is a situation that is going from bad to worse, but since the crisis is unfolding in slow motion, most people do not recognize it as such
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by crpatino 10y ago
> ... but it doesn't follow from that that we should prefer third-party libraries to our own code. Agreed. The big tragedy of Open Source is that after its initial wave of success it good flooded with freeloaders. If you allow me to
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by crpatino 10y ago
I upvoted your comment and the GP's, as you both make good points. It does not have to be one or the other, though. The obvious solution to have the best of both camps is to find an open source library with a (mostly) sane architecture

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