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by davesims 14y ago
The problem is that in cases like these, invariably the old, crappy code contains documentation and functionality that will never be reproduced by a ground-up re-write. Understanding the old code and rewriting is, in general, just as expens
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by davesims 14y ago
Wow , check out the pressure wave (I assume) that moves the camera dramatically forward just before the blast is heard. That was one big freakin bang. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA&t=0m26s
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by davesims 14y ago
Only to a limited degree. Yes, there were soaps and other serials that had long-running narrative arcs, but not with the kind of sophistication contemporary writers are using. Let's call it the 'Post-Buffy' school of thought, where characte
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by davesims 14y ago
A journalist is protected by freedom of speech and freedom of association. We are not, no the other hand, free to take and publish data that is not ours from, for instance, filing cabinets or servers, no matter how good or bad the security
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by davesims 14y ago
It's 10 years max , and no that doesn't seem disproportionate to me at all, given that you have stated malicious intent and actual material harm. I can think of white-collar crimes that have similar effect (dumping stock, insider info)
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by davesims 14y ago
"Do you want 10 years to be the normal sentence (or even the prosecutors threat) for crawling URLs and reporting the privacy breaching results to the news media?" This is such a sanitized version. I'm open to being corrected here, but afaik
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by davesims 14y ago
I get it, but the flip side is that if Auernheimer is brought into the same discussion, do we not risk alienating a public likely very sympathetic to Swartz's plight? In other words, if it's possible that legal reform designed to prevent ca
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by davesims 14y ago
On the contrary, imo this actually highlights the gross injustice in Aaron's case, considering the outrageous imbalance in the potential sentencing in the two cases. I'm assuming here that the following two press accounts are not grossly mi
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by davesims 14y ago
Fair enough. I was pleasantly surprised how much ASP MVC had cribbed from Rails, and it sounds like I'd likely be similarly enthused about new JEE developments. I have noticed the trend towards annotation-driven development and moving away
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by davesims 14y ago
Awesome, thanks for that -- and no, I haven't done enterprise Java in a while. If one could swap out Spring with Guice (annotation-driven as well), sounds like a framework I could live with. I do appreciate the move away from configuration
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by davesims 14y ago
I never used Spring as a framework, although I did use it as a general purpose IOC tool, so I can't really speak to that. I much prefer Guice these days if I need IOC for Java. XML config is clunky and heavy and although was a good choice a
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by davesims 14y ago
I wouldn't go this far myself, but I deeply sympathize. I developed an inordinate level of familiarity with the Windows ecosystem for 10 years. I could tell you which registry keys did what for which COM components <shudder/>. Then
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by davesims 14y ago
I was shocked how well MonoDevelop worked out when I used it briefly a couple of years ago. But my expectations were pretty low -- I was expecting a compatibility quotient something close to Wine circa 2001, and got instead a basically func
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by davesims 14y ago
I had about a decade in both, and really they're two very different worlds. From a code standpoint I'd much rather be in C#. It's one thing that MS has done really, really well over the last 10 years. They've taken a pretty aggressive stanc
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by davesims 14y ago
Agreed. Watching this develop from behind the scenes (at a distance), I'm not sure any core team could have done better managing the deployment and announcement in a more timely and careful fashion. Well played.
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by davesims 14y ago
Agreed.
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by davesims 14y ago
"DHH and Rails are all about pragmatic choices for fairly simple, maybe a little complex webapps built by 1-5-ish programmers (I’m sure there are large Rails projects, but I think they’re a minority)." I have neither the time nor will to re
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by davesims 14y ago
Nietzsche and Philosophy it is. I'm quite partial to Friedrich, particularly The Gay Science -- had a huge impact on me.
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by davesims 14y ago
> Anyway, thanks for this: I'm gonna give this some thought for when I write out a longer, more rigorous iteration. Feel free to email me if you ever want to talk about this intersection; it's pretty much what I do these days. Absolutel
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by davesims 14y ago
This comment will probably be met with a bit of derision, and maybe deservedly so. It is admittedly over-analyzing a bit of micro-community ephemera that probably doesn't warrant such high-falutin' pretense to intellectualism. I can only be
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by davesims 14y ago
Great references Steve -- also check out Whitehead contemporary Henri Bergson, who I think is criminally overlooked in this category, and a huge influence on Deleuze.
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by davesims 14y ago
I award you one Internet.
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NYC Underworld(enpundit.com)
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by davesims 14y ago
That's a good summary of the point I think O'Neil was trying to make contra Silver.
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by davesims 14y ago
> This post really has nothing to do with techniques or "bad data" or a bayesian vs. frequentist debate. I disagree, but maybe I'm missing something. This early quote, regarding 'bayesian vs. frequentist' seems to sum up O'Neil's view o
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by davesims 14y ago
There's some equivocation here I think: "Bad Model" in Silver's view is really "bad modelling" -- a problem with the statistical technique (frequentist vs. bayesian) used to model the data. "Bad Model" in O'Neil's view is really "bad data"
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by davesims 14y ago
"...I’ve also been recommended as an expert in a whole bunch of things I know nothing about." Is this even possible? I've only recommended or been recommended for skills I or others have claimed to have in the LinkedIn profile. Nobody's e
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by davesims 14y ago
> Poll Americans (most of whom are Christian). Close to half will tell you the end of the world and thus the rapture is going to happen in their own lifetime. Christians have been believing that the rapture was around the corner for lit
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by davesims 14y ago
Look, I sympathize. Philosophy, as the core discipline of human thought, has established beyond any doubt that there are limits to empirical human inquiry, and scientists don't like that idea. The standard response of scientific cheerleader
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by davesims 14y ago
Great question. Instead of trying to reconcile my weak prose with a giant like Popper, I'll instead try to summarize my understanding of him, taken mainly from my reading Objective Knowledge and Conjectures and Refutations. Let me know

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