dextorious

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by dextorious 15y ago
"""While I agree with you, your last paragraph is just non sense. What's specifically bad? Honestly, if you ask this question you're shouting out that you have no idea what today's iran (or most of the muslim countries) are like.""" You don
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""When people talk about Iran it's more about the things that are, by any definition, wrong, than their traditional or religious choice. """ Actually, people weren't talking that much about Iran before --it's just because it happens to be
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Did you notice that Libya, Tunisia and Egypt already had a popular revolution, and that Syria is still having one? Would you have said, 12 months ago, that the majority of Tunisians, Egyptians and Libyans WANT to live like they do, and R
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by dextorious 15y ago
Only that doesn't work. The owner of a 100/1000/10000 people company has much more power than the employee in need of work negotiating his salary/working conditions. Not everyone is a "rock star" employee that managers are bending over back
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Start a company. Hire some people. Run it for, say, ten years. Come back and review what you just said.""" Even if he disagrees then, so what? Company owners/directors vs employees is a 1:x ratio, where x can get to 100,000 and more. The
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""I like the idea of an employee being able to quit at a moment's notice, and that goes hand in hand with the ability of an employer to make the same choice.""" Not even remotely the same. Because those two, worker and employer do not even
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by dextorious 15y ago
Not in all places of the world. In a lot of places they won't even admit publicly that they are lesbians...
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by dextorious 15y ago
Yeah, but he also adds: "Currently Iran is just the result of what happens if conservative fundamentals got ahold of the government of a country." Well, not all can be explained by "conservative fundamentals getting ahold of the government"
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by dextorious 15y ago
No, he means CLisp, mr "informed"... http://www.clisp.org/
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by dextorious 15y ago
What "unladen swallow"? That project did not have the expected improvements and was abandoned...
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Yes, territories that previously encouraged and allowed behaviour that they now find unacceptable are trying to stamp that attitudes and behaviour out.""" That only makes it a mix of overreacting and "too little, too late" response, that
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by dextorious 15y ago
Well, how about directly downloading, DDL, rather than peer-to-peer sharing?
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by dextorious 15y ago
Yeah, good luck stealing customers from someone else by developing for a third party's arbitrary stack, that they manage and update as they see fit, lacks tons of critical components, often sees unreported downtimes, and isn't flexible when
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by dextorious 15y ago
That happened around 2002-3. The main problem is: Sun died and Oracle does nowhere near a good job at marketing Java or making it better.
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by dextorious 15y ago
It takes a ton of work to get Grails up and running too.
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by dextorious 15y ago
Oracle?
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Heterogenous data structures are non-trivial in such a language""" Why would they be? You just need a common parent type, like object, or something like Objective-C's "id" type, to indicate that a structure/method can accept any type. So
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by dextorious 15y ago
One thing I don't get (not knowing much about type theory, and only having implemented a toy C++ subset compiler in a university class once): Take a dynamically typed language, say, Python: a = 1 a = "foo" What disadvantage would you have i
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by dextorious 15y ago
Well, I could care less about "racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fat shaming, ableism" etc showing up on some comments. It's funny that the societies that really seem hangup about those, are the very societies that perpetuated them
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by dextorious 15y ago
Yeah, or some crappy vc-funded startup that will "change the world" by socializing pictures of your pets and allowing the pets themselves to "like" on each other's pictures...
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by dextorious 15y ago
I wouldn't call those two "serious" examples -- especially since the competitors (Amazon, Heroku, Rackspace etc) have orders of magnitude more popular, complex and profitable services running on them. This is like saying, "Famous actors fre
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by dextorious 15y ago
With Amazon AWS you can handle the scaling yourself, when you need it, with components tailored to your use cases, and better latency. And with Heroku you can have it taken care for you, following a few simple rules. So, why exactly would o
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by dextorious 15y ago
And, to qualify my answer, I'm thinking Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Hoffmann, James, Balzac, Poe, Stendhal, Dickens, Melville, Flaubert, Hugo, Conrad, Mann, Proust, Lawrence, Rilke, Kafka, Fitzgerald, Gide, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Miller, Mu
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""In whose 'literary' eyes is 1984 a minor work? It's an important piece in the 20th C. literary canon.""" It mostly has political (in the broad sense) importance, not actual literary one. ("Brave New World" is even worse in this regard, b
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""case 2: apps with no data from real user. He opens up foursquare/yelp to look for a restaurant... has to create profile""" And that somehow makes it totally useless? He can: talk on the phone, check his email on the web browser, surf to
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""However knowledge of foreign policy and of geography are two different domains. A person could read an article a day about the Iraq war without ever looking at a map of the mid east.""" Yeah. And I wouldn't trust the foreign policy knowl
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""63% of Americans aged 18 to 24 couldn't find Iraq on a map after we'd been at war there for three years.""" Yes, but not because they are dumb. It's because you're NOT really at war with Iraq, and I mean not in the sense that other count
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by dextorious 15y ago
Male model.
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"""The experienced programmers I know call this cheating""" Call what cheating? You haven't described anything that could even remotely be called cheating.
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""The statement "X = X + 1" is (as a mathematical equation) garbage""" Actually it could be perfectly valid, depending on the context. For example, if + denotes the boolean AND and 1 is true, then X = 1.

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