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by dschobel 14y ago
"MRI scares the bejeezus out of me" - you, an hour ago I think asking about alternatives is fair game.
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by dschobel 14y ago
Doesn't ruby with its "operators are actually methods and fair-game for redefinition" implementation disprove the theory operator overloading is an a priori Bad Idea (tm)? Those guys seem to manage the flexibility pretty well.
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by dschobel 14y ago
Good luck explaining that to a judge. Would you gamble a company based on that distinction?
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by dschobel 14y ago
Also not sure what your complaint is. Working at the right level of abstraction is fundamental to being a good engineer.
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I’m doing a new startup(giantrobotlasers.com)
1 points by dschobel 14y ago|0 comments
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by dschobel 14y ago
Funny, I remember HN railing on a guy just a few weeks back for bitching about a bug not being fixed in an older version of perl and having the gall to complain to the perl devs about it. One man's stable environment is another man's techni
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by dschobel 14y ago
I think you misunderstand what a statistical correlation actually means and entails.
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by dschobel 14y ago
Outside of his nigh-endless legal accomplishments, Posner is also allegedly the basis for the character of Mr. Burns on the Simpsons. His blog ( http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/ ) is well worth a read. If you're an economic-utilitarian yo
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by dschobel 14y ago
I prefer this one, which was a response to a prompt about meaning: "How should I know? I only wrote the thing." I've heard it attributed to Hemingway.
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by dschobel 14y ago
I realize that there are existential forces at work which would lead a SEO/marketing consultant to emphasize the overwhelming and crushing complexity in running a business but I've seen enough successful and completely beloved hole-in-the-w
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by dschobel 14y ago
Thank you for this link. I think a lot of HNers with the "life is an optimization problem, I just need to find the correct parameters" mindset can learn from it. It certainly made me uncomfortable for the amount I identified with the speake
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by dschobel 14y ago
I was thinking about this just the other day as I was getting a flu vaccine. As far as accepting closed source technology in your life, that seems like the vastly more salient domain.
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by dschobel 14y ago
vs "If it isn't going in a text-book or you can't sell it, don't bother." --my thesis advisor
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by dschobel 15y ago
That my fried, is called experience.
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by dschobel 15y ago
* (though I don't know if that's an official Microsoft language)* It is. When you launch Visual Studio >= 2010 it's there alongside C# in the Project Creation wizard.
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by dschobel 15y ago
That's a poor definition which you won't find repeated in any other reference (really, take a look). The entirety of the meaning of the idiom concerns the misperception of ones opponents.
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by dschobel 15y ago
just FYI, the idiom "tilting at windmills" implies an imaginary opponent. TSA is very much real, unfortunately.
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by dschobel 15y ago
I appreciate Patrick's intent and mission to get engineers to value their wares more but I don't think his anecdote makes the most compelling argument. For a counter-anecdote, I will say that in +10 years of a software career I have never,
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by dschobel 15y ago
I love that this is the top story on HN. I only wish that PG got as much flack for his startup economics hype piece[1] and proposition to compress a lifetime's worth of work effort into four years. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
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by dschobel 15y ago
Not sociopaths, psychopaths. Sociopaths tend to be introvert / loner types.
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by dschobel 15y ago
Good for him for getting shit done and empowering his troops but unless their financial incentives are as strong as his, he's just another psychopathic manager for asking them to sacrifice for him ("skip your classes", etc).
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by dschobel 15y ago
Nice work guys. Thank you for doing this.
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by dschobel 15y ago
Maybe it was after Jobs fell ill?
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by dschobel 15y ago
I'm sure there's some psychological term for what long-time Chicagoans feel for the winter there... you'll find it amongst the chapters concerning victims who identify with their abusers. (I did my five years in Chicago and gtfo).
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by dschobel 15y ago
question about text objects: given the following string and with the cursor over f: function(1,2,"3") why does di" yield: function(1,2,"") but di( has no effect unless you are within the parenthesis already? Why doesn't
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Architects design 65-storey building which plunges 300 metres below ground(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by dschobel 15y ago|0 comments
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by dschobel 15y ago
Interesting anecdote; I wonder if there is any software which people "lust after" or if that's something reserved for physical products.
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by dschobel 15y ago
Why do you say that Cassandra is ill-fated?
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by dschobel 15y ago
Is there any precedent for legal prosecution against STEVE in case the originator is browsing something more nefarious than Yahoo? I know the "unsecured wireless AP" defense has been used with varying success but I'm wondering if any Tor pe
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by dschobel 15y ago
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Henry David Thoreau

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