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by cwp 12y ago
> In broad strokes, game theory claims to have a descriptive model of human behavior Huh? Game theory is the study of strategy. It's not attempting to describe how people actually behave, but how they should behave if they want to
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by cwp 12y ago
Absolutely. In my latest project, I just have a very thin facade between the application and the DB client library, just enough to simplify the process of getting a connection from the pool, fishing the required data out of a response, hand
603.
by cwp 12y ago
Sounds to me like the real problem is lack of IP addresses, and the best strategy would be to hold off on updating HTTP and work on IPv6 ubiquity first. I can see why Google went a different route, but we don't all have to follow.
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by cwp 12y ago
> Lisp... doesn't really have syntax. Yes, it really does. Let me finish that chain of reasoning for you: S-expressions have syntax. Lisp is a subset of the sexps. Therefore, Lisp has syntax. QED Yes, Lisp has very simple syntax. Ye
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by cwp 12y ago
Mixins. High performance interpreter. High performance JIT compiler with dynamic inlining. On the other hand, it doesn't run on anything but ancient versions of Windows, so it's not useful except as a source of inspiration.
606.
by cwp 12y ago
Well, for all the mistakes they've made, I'll give Github credit for one thing, at least: they're listening.
607.
by cwp 12y ago
Ugh. There are (at least) two fundamental problems here: First, depsite the ugliness that asynchronous code entails, it does have one very important feature: it never blocks, which makes reasoning about it much easier. This proposal would
608.
by cwp 12y ago
Rejuvenation would be a good thing. It may not be available to everyone immediately, but that's true of every technology. What makes you think this would only be available to the rich? That could happen, but it's not a given. Th
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by cwp 12y ago
I wonder what would happen if vacation time were tracked and made public (within the company). I'm sure outliers would come under social pressure to conform to group norms, but it'd be interesting to see where the norm stabilized.
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by cwp 12y ago
Yeah! I speak English and Spanish fluently. I often listen to music in Spanish while working, because I can easily tune out the words, and it's not distracting. ...as long as I'm working in English. If I get an email in Spanish, I
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by cwp 13y ago
Yeah, the word is only meaningful when the speaker and listener have enough shared context to pin down the meaning. In that situation, there's probably a better word anyway. It's not quite the red flag that "ninja" and &
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by cwp 13y ago
That's a really long-winded way of saying "Get your twitters off my lawn!" It's a shame, though, because surely there's a deeper story here? Why are people doing this? Are they all teenagers? Do they know each other
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by cwp 13y ago
I'm assuming that the best and the brightest don't have time for a try-out period, because they're busy doing stuff, and don't need one because they can easily get another job.
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by cwp 13y ago
Agreed. But what an audition tells me about the company is that everybody there was willing to put up with it. Anybody who has lots of options probably didn't end up there. So maybe the company is so awesome that good people were willi
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by cwp 13y ago
Open-source projects will generally be much easier to set up than a typical corporate codebase. A lot of effort to set up a corporate dev environment is annoying, but to an open source project it's death. Getting familiar with the code
616.
by cwp 13y ago
This is a fundamental problem for frameworks. To be better, you have to be different. People don't like different. They do like better, though, so the design goal has to be maximize better while minimizing different. Angular's exp
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by cwp 13y ago
Can you really not specify the negative outcomes you're trying to prevent? You're accusing me (and most of the members of this forum) of a moral failing, an abrogation of our responsibility to the world. That's a serious accu
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by cwp 13y ago
Javascript is fundamentally an object-oriented language, it's just prototype-based rather than class-based.
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by cwp 13y ago
The substance of the article is spot on, but I have to take issue with the terminology it uses. The problem he's talking about isn't classes, it's inheritance. This is an important distinction. Javascript doesn't have cl
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by cwp 13y ago
So it's our duty as IT professionals to prevent people from using IT? The services that large-scale IT provides could not exist without gathering the volume of data they do. Google couldn't provide relevant search results with jus
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by cwp 13y ago
I have to agree with Carmack here. Companies, governments or individuals having lots of data isn't a bad thing in its self. It's what they do with that data that matters, and what they do can be positive as well as negative. Thi
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by cwp 13y ago
And if that's the case, what's the difference between the high-hash-capable defender and a central bank? (Not sarcasm, honest question.)
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by cwp 13y ago
Being allowed to keep their existing stores is "major privileges?" How so?
624.
by cwp 13y ago
That's a terrible idea. The problem here is lack of due process, not lack of transparency. (Yes, there is lack of transparency, but the reason that's bad is that it interferes with due process.)
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by cwp 13y ago
It depends on what your data looks like. If you've got a collection of JSON documents that gets served verbatim through a JSON API, Mongo is a natural fit. If you've got a domain model with different types of entities and links be
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by cwp 13y ago
Sure, finance is valuable, up to a point. We reached that point about 100 years ago. Since then, the geniuses of Wall Street have been figuring out how to capture more of the value created by other people. That's a zero sum game.
627.
by cwp 13y ago
He said "let them add value to society ", not the economy. The two are not synonymous. If the economy is unable to make use of them under present conditions, then giving them a job is useless. Giving them a basic income lets them
628.
by cwp 13y ago
Yes, this is a general problem, but that doesn't mean that it can't be ameliorated. One of the most insightful things I read about health-care reform in the U.S. was this: a lot of people on the left would have preferred a single-
629.
by cwp 13y ago
He means that your wrists shouldn't be touching anything. They should be hovering a couple of centimetres above the flat area in front of the keyboard.
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by cwp 13y ago
Just linux distros? You think too small. :-)

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