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by crux_ 18y ago
Not to pee on your parade, the only one of that gaggle of technicians that was any good was Hieronymus Bosch! </flamewar>
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by crux_ 18y ago
??? What about "gal"? I guess Encarta isn't very knowledgeable about the American West.
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by crux_ 19y ago
But if you have two extra people working, then you could do each 'batch' step in 3 1/3 minutes, not 10. If the point was "all else being equal, continuous processing is faster" then it cheats: all else is not equal in the examples given.
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by crux_ 19y ago
Perhaps this should be "outproduced"..... these ideas are, at this point, creaky and ancient. I'd be willing to concede that they may have been an advantage in the '70s. Heck, you could paraphrase it as "What Henry Ford did, but even more s
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by crux_ 19y ago
No, funny would have been: Would you like to see the dessert menu, sir?
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by crux_ 19y ago
In the situation of the former, an individual has had something and then that has been taken away from them. In the situation of the latter, it is a case of the child having not had something given to them that you judge to be fu
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by crux_ 19y ago
I agree that I was exaggerating things somewhat with usage of "deserve". But that is rather inessential to the core of my argument, which isn't so much about fairness or even public policy: If it is wrong to force some individuals to give u
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by crux_ 19y ago
Right-o, to read between the lines here: "Dysfunctional" people are poor because they deserve it, because they are dysfunctional and have not earned anything. "Functional" people are wealthy because they are functional and have earned their
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by crux_ 19y ago
Sorry to say that I use emacs, so I can't help you too much. It occasionally screws up indentation but otherwise stays out of my way. (I'm far from an emacs power user -- also I don't use the interactive toplevel much, and never from inside
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by crux_ 19y ago
If I were in an arguing mood, I'd say that in terms of verbosity, scala is closer to jython than it is to java... the only major number-of-characters difference is that you need type annotations for method arguments (and return value if it'
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by crux_ 19y ago
Why not take the jump and just use Scala? I have. :)
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by crux_ 19y ago
When I'm doing algorithmic work, I rewrite rather than refactor. Perhaps it's just me as a programmer, but it takes me three or four rewrites before complex and nasty algorithms begin to appear simple. Also WRT abbreviations and again in al
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by crux_ 19y ago
I'm perhaps different than a lot of the other folks here doing startups. My goal in my entrepreneurship is not to exit to $millions; it is to create a long-term sustainable lifestyle for myself where I am continually doing work that I find
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by crux_ 19y ago
OCaml: I like it, a lot. It's my current Favorite Language. I took the time to learn it a few years ago, and it was very, very mind-expanding. Having said that, there are a lot of constraints around real world use. Libraries, the ability to