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by dgreensp 14y ago
The article's advice is specifically "be nice" and hold your tongue, which is silly. Say whatever you want. Obviously calling people assholes is unproductive whether it goes into a sealed file or to the company mailing list. For example,
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Among the guys at Meteor, we've built a lot of apps already in the past. For example, I wrote EtherPad. So you could say we're extracting from our extensive collective experience. Do development frameworks built for their own sake ever r
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Saying that "you'd have to know the future" is just an overly dramatic way of talking about risk, and her points are overblown for effect. I could see your argument in a thread about healthcare, say, but we are talking about personal money
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Basing a system on people’s voluntarily saving for 40 years and evaluating the relevant information for sound investment choices is like asking the family pet to dance on two legs. What other skills along with "saving for retirement" are
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Philosophically speaking, he is defining the term "prediction" right out of existence! It's not that "real" predictions are "right" in some sense, even probabilistically. There is only ever such thing as one take on the future based on ce
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by dgreensp 14y ago
OO vs. FP is just a matter of whether you focus the nouns or the verbs. The counterargument to the OP is that surely a function that manipulates "data" is less powerful and abstract than one that manipulates objects. For example, take an "
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Even if all our electronics were redesigned to biodegrade overnight if left outside in heavy rain, what's the point in making them look disposable?
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I don't see how "built to last" means "built out of cardboard." I can't find the original Rob Walker piece, but it sounds like it's talking about timeless quality vs. empty fashion, not about the environment. An iPhone lasts a long time, a
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Not all problems are technically suitable for a NoSQL database. You might as well say "I'm a big fan of JSON, but not all problems are technically suitable for a NoXML data format." There's nothing magical about SQL, as proven by the fact
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by dgreensp 14y ago
The author leaves no room for any concept of "skill" in entrepreneurship, and this is the big flaw in his article. He doesn't so much argue this view as assume it, except to say that person X succeeded only to fail later, and person Y thou
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Good point, ability to distinguish certain vowel or consonant sounds is just the same way.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
It's completely possible to _care_ about whether your code actually helps anyone without ever thinking or worrying about it yourself. All you have to do is trust someone else to make sure you're not wasting your time, whether it's your bos
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by dgreensp 14y ago
This is fascinating. By teaching our kids to use our culture's color words, we are training them in a specific classification skill, so that when they see a color, the name of its class comes to mind.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Preferably the doers are also leaders.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Lighten up. We're not living in a literal 1984-meets-The-Matrix world just yet. Your perspective seems as narrow as you criticize others' for being. Silicon Valley may yet reshape the world, even if some of us take scenic bike rides. (Th
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by dgreensp 14y ago
As others have said, there is not a lot of substantiation in the talk to shed new light on frequently-discussed topics. It feels intellectually shaky to assert that the economy will go back to growing, if only the middle class can go back t
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by dgreensp 14y ago
The point is, if the government manages its money poorly, it should make better decisions rather than taking on more money. If I tell you, "Fred is always running out of money; in fact, he's deep in credit card debt," your immediate respons
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by dgreensp 14y ago
The expression "low-hanging fruit" usually means small things that are easy to pick off, for just as much benefit as harder things. It's a useful term for potential development work that might have outsized gains for the efforts. Gruber se
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I think your intuition is exactly correct; it's the function allocations that are killing you. Fascinating stuff.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Actually, Buffett simply says he doesn't know how to value them. This is the farthest thing from a value judgment. Buffett invests based on an understanding of the fundamental value of his businesses.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Agreed, anyone who uses this as the beginner tutorial it is will be confused for a long time by words like "copy" and "clone" used to mean variable assignment. This is terrible teaching, or somehow the author has an exotic mental model of
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Posted on SO: Meteor has data validation already, though not user authentication. The model is that the server chooses what data to expose for reading, and the server also performs the real writes against the database. The client only simu
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by dgreensp 15y ago
On the "read" side of things, you control what data is exposed to each subscription, and you'll be able to base access on authentication. The client doesn't get a direct database connection, but rather a live-updating subset (or arbitrary
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by dgreensp 15y ago
The "insightfulness" of these points is overblown, especially if you've worked at Google, where the solution to "our bloated application server takes 20 minutes to recompile" is "then use our distributed compiler that runs on 100 machines,"
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by dgreensp 15y ago
I see fallacy upon fallacy here. In reality, political systems are complex; there often is no objectively "right" or "best" answer; it's not about smart vs. dumb. Here are some other headlines we could run. > Neurons Aren't Smart Enoug
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by dgreensp 15y ago
This article is only about localStorage as a cache for performance optimization , and fails to signal this clearly enough. If, instead, you want to use it to store things locally (for example, persist a blob of data across page reloads)
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by dgreensp 15y ago
The author tries to be a little self-deprecating about it, but basically he's the Starbucks customer who engages the cashier in a long conversation about how the coffee is so expensive at places like this, and he's been meaning to start mak
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by dgreensp 15y ago
This article, and the Hickey talk to a greater extent, present a coherent but one-sided argument about elevating simplicity and understanding above human concerns in software engineering. It's true that, as a programmer, you should strive f
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by dgreensp 15y ago
The source of the vagueness is that David doesn't make any real claims to correlation, let alone causation, between VC funding and the company-level problems he lists -- he just says VC-backed companies might do this, VC-backed companies mi
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Agreed entirely; I enjoyed RDPD as well. The review is indignant sputtering, as vague and insulting as the book is claimed to be. "Common sense looks like genius when it’s viewed from a cesspit of stupidity"? The reviewer's final attack

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