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by davidmathers 15y ago
Explain.
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Chomsky called the Watson computer that won Jeopardy "a bigger bulldozer." He goes into more detail about his AI opinions here: http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/1366
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Yeah, total straw man. For e.g.: Similarly, the order lines don’t contain product names, but rather foreign keys which point to a product table Well, the product name could be the foreign key. Or it could not be. If you have 2 different p
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by davidmathers 15y ago
this use of the word relation has fallen out of favour Do you think that's true everywhere or just in web development world / MySQL world? I'd always guessed that, say, Oracle professionals know and understand the difference between "Chen
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by davidmathers 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean about pointers though. I'm talking about the practice, widespread in MySQL world, of all tables having a primary key of auto-increment integer. There's nothing wrong, per se, with the example in the
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by davidmathers 15y ago
In order to combat this madness it should be spelled out to all beginners that "table" and "relation" mean basically the same thing. And that "relation" has nothing to do with "links" or "relationships" between tables or between entities. T
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by davidmathers 15y ago
the text you quoted doesn't claim anywhere that the word "relational" has to do with relationships between tables Hmm, I disagree. This type of structure is called a relational database: we have multiple tables that connect to one anothe
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by davidmathers 15y ago
From Introduction to Databases and MySQL: Such keys make it possible to relate the tables to one another, so we can, for example, find the customer information given a key value in the order table. A foreign key is a key used to link two t
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Sonic.net Fusion is the way to go for DSL in SF.
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Circular look-up table, reminiscent of Oliver Steele's FizzBuzz Station: http://osteele.com/archives/2008/02/fizzbuzz-station
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Are you going to eat meat? Just try to capture a wild animal with your bare hands and eat it raw, you will look ridiculous. This isn't a practical option without technology. Watch and learn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI-9RJi0Qo
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Golden Produce, a local shop A few doors down from Golden Produce is El Castillito, the source of my staple food: the super carne asada burrito. At just over $8 it sounds more expensive, but OP doesn't mention how long his staple meal tak
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by davidmathers 15y ago
This is not satire: A wake-up call’s mother is unfolding. At the other end is a bell, which is telling us we have built a house at the foot of a volcano. The volcano is spewing lava, which says move your house. The road will be long and r
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Help. I may need an intervention for my curiosity problem. Here's the whole story, found in this book: http://books.google.com/books?id=HmyqbzrlVpkC Bezos's story resonated among the book-buying public, the investment community, and beyo
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Fascinating. Jerry Coyne (quoted in the article) has a blog post about the article: http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/the-bosto...
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by davidmathers 15y ago
OP is saying something like "when I cook things with my freezer they don't get hot." It's that non-sensical. Git can't do (at all) what he wants to accuse it of doing wrong (because it has nothing to do with what git does). So I'm just poi
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by davidmathers 15y ago
The article is titled "Git is Inconsistent", it doesn't claim Git is WRONG, it claims it is INCONSISTENT. Ok. The claim that git is inconsistent is wrong. From OP: The problem with git’s merging is that it doesn’t satisfy the “merge asso
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by davidmathers 15y ago
What a powerful insight. Only now do I see how truly wrong I was. I don't know how I could have been so blind.
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by davidmathers 15y ago
I just found the talk on youtube for anyone who wants to preview it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDVAHA0oyJU
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by davidmathers 15y ago
pull the exact same commits in different order Sort of. The OP doesn't write clearly. He's also confused about how git works. What he means is.. Say Bob has 2 commits (B1-B2) and Alice has 1 (A1) Scenario 1: Alice merges each of Bob's com
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by davidmathers 15y ago
I hope the OP isn't posting this simply because it's fun to bash Rand. The OP is Jane Galt : http://www.janegalt.net/
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Here's the short version: I am the original sentence. Alice commits a change in her repo: I am a different sentence. Bob commits a change in his repo: I am the original sentence. I am the original sentence. Now Alice
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Yes exactly. With the caveat that f should be a meaningful procedure that does some real work, not direct state manipulation. The OP is kind of ridiculous actually.
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Alan Kay’s vision of object oriented programming was very different than that embodied in today’s popular OO languages such as Java and C++ That's because Java and C++ embody Barbara Liskov's vision of object oriented programming, primari
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by davidmathers 16y ago
I made the mistake of clicking a link on the blog and... Now that Reiser is in jail for slaughtering his whiny bitch wife, someone really had to step in and fill the gap in the long line of psychopathic linux developers. So I'll just forg
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Newton is a self-anointed prophet. It’s true that the faithful followers of self-anointed prophets will believe without question the dogma of their prophet and perpetuate the dogma. But such cults have always come to an end. The Newtonian
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Note, Joseph M. Williams now has 3 different 'Style' books: Style: Toward Clarity and Grace Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace I can't speak to the first 2, but I purchased the 3rd and found it to be
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Uh oh. Over the past 6 weeks I've had the feeling of being liberated from my years-long Hacker News addiction. Now you want to fix it and suck me back in. I'm surprised to see so much focus on the comments. I think the front page is the pri
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The Holy Trinity of Computation: logic, languages, categories(existentialtype.wordpress.com)
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Also Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/...

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