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by dan00 16y ago
"Note that I didn't state that there would be MORE abstraction, only that it would be DIFFERENT abstractions." That doesn't makes sense. What should be a different abstraction of C? If you've an other syntax for the C pointer arithmetic it'
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by dan00 16y ago
"Could this be redirected into something productive? Maybe? But people also burn out and have inefficiencies, so I'm not sure you could extract much more productivity unless we returned to hand-to-mouth." That's not the point. If you're add
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by dan00 16y ago
C is more flexible on the performance and memory usage side. That's my point. Abstractions are great, I love Lisp and Haskell. The problem of more complexity isn't completely solved by using better abstractions, because you still need to lo
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by dan00 16y ago
"So new languages with different abstractions come along and things are simpler to do in it. That simplicity is then used to build even more complex things, which then expose how the abstractions doesn't work in the formerly new language."
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by dan00 16y ago
Sometimes I'm pretty scared of the missing of common sense and disgusted by the people who are "just" doing their job, without compunction what this might imply for other people. It's a confession of failure for a society, if the determinan
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by dan00 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(Star_Trek)
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In the future we don't need to go anywhere, because we have replicators.
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In the future you have to write the better algorithm than your contender, to get the parking space.
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The general public cares too little and the geeks care too much.
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I think that video games or movies are so moving, that everything else in life seems fade. That's why they're so addictive, because they're so much "more" than reality. The only solution is to reduce the consumption of them. Than reality wi
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by dan00 16y ago
Well, all these languages are very stringy because they are very weby.
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by dan00 16y ago
I donate you one: #include <vector> #include <string> #include <iostream> typedef std::vector<std::string> Strings_t; Strings_t split(const std::string& string, char onChar) { S
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by dan00 16y ago
"Say you need both modularity and low level access in a given program. Can they be so entangled that you absolutely have to put both in the same language?" That's not always an option if you've performance and memory constrains. We're using
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by dan00 16y ago
Just using constructors/destructors and class encapsulation makes code so much more readable. And most exception problems are solved with RAII. If you're using RAII, then you won't have memory leaks when exceptions arise.
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"I don't see thinking without words as "unconscious" at all. I'm aware I'm doing it; I keep the thoughts in the forefront of my brain and direct my investigation consciously. Its just not in words at all." That's right. My naming of the thi
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by dan00 16y ago
"Agreed, thinking isn't words." But what's the definition of thinking? For me there are two ways of "thinking", the conscious one, in which I'm talking to myself and the unconscious, intuitive one, in which I don't talk to myself, but get s
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by dan00 16y ago
I read: If you can buy your investor a beer, don't take their money.
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by dan00 16y ago
"This article describes the difference between 'a job' and 'being paid to do what you love'." Perhaps, but he says: It's just the way I was raised. So I think, it's more cultural, that he only feels right, worth, if he's working. There's no
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by dan00 16y ago
"It's a total absurdity, but people seem happy to learn Python and that puts a huge pressure on keeping Lisp shops alive." I think that it's less about learning, because Python is way more similar to languages like Java or C++. Using Python
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by dan00 16y ago
"Like, there's tons of literature on good parenting. How many people read it? Like, none." I think that's a really bad example. There's a lot of bullshit in the parenting literature. In a way I find it very disturbing, that we need to learn
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by dan00 16y ago
"Java beats Scala, and many other languages, in readability and maintainability." The readability and maintainability of software isn't only dependent on the complexity of the language, but also on the complexity of the implementation of a
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by dan00 16y ago
It's right, that in theory I can't know what a C++ function call means. But that's also the case for C. In C I can assign a function pointer to a variable. When the function is called through the variable, than I don't know which function i
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by dan00 16y ago
I can understand why someone is looking down on modern art. Classic art doesn't need that much rationalization to be meaningful. I think that art isn't first of all a product of thought, but an expression of feelings. So the access to the a
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by dan00 16y ago
If enough people are paying, then they won't take you at a court, because it's just work for them without giving them a lot more. If nobody pays, they don't have a business, because it wouldn't pay out for them, if they've to take everyone
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by dan00 16y ago
It's not about technology or price, it's about image. And apple rocks in this regard.
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by dan00 16y ago
Thanks for the info. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qLB_eHazQo&feature=relat...
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by dan00 16y ago
Tablet + Android + PixelQi = iPad + eReader
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by dan00 16y ago
Oh, I've only commented the title of the post. But yes, I could've denied myself. Sorry.
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Well, if something is released, than I'm assuming that it works.
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Well, expertise isn't only needed for building something, but also for using it.

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