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by duaneb 10y ago
> There is enough money. Money dedicated to space exploration is well spent. How do you figure? We have plenty to research on earth for a fraction the cost. What makes you say space exploration will give a better return?
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by duaneb 10y ago
Mac OS X would have serious competition for a "just get out of my hair and allow my to code to music" developer os.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Renaming and moving is still more than you can get with a dynamic language.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Dynamic typing is fine until you have to maintain someone else's code. Then it's like pulling nails to get any certainty about how the code runs and productivity tanks.
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by duaneb 10y ago
A lot of optimizations on arbitrary byte code often look for patterns in byte streams (or in reified assembly) in similar ways to regexes.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Well, I'd put "can't know" squarely in the ineffable. But yes, I think phenomena are the atomic building blocks of science. The logical positivists at least got that right.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Actually, I find it very intuitive that reality is just information. It's much easier than setting it apart as ineffable.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Note—tying this back into the article—a lot of people can write code. It's the person who understand what they're writing, why they're writing it, and why it works that you want to hire, so you would not be well served walkin
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by duaneb 10y ago
Well, that'd sure be swell if we could get some engineer love in the US, but I don't see that happening any time soon. Got any suggestions?
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by duaneb 10y ago
Sure, but everything qualitative is information. What remains? Is there any other way to think about reality than information? Seems kind of silly to pull apart information as somehow separate or lesser than reality. Saying "real telep
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by duaneb 10y ago
At the subatomic level, is there any real difference between information and a "thing"? Seems mostly philosophical and arbitrary at that point.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Looks cool! > No support for F# Why is this? Is it a macro (as opposed to working with bytecode directly)?
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by duaneb 10y ago
That is what I was angling toward.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> The dynamic language are more productive. Do you have a source for that? I hear it a lot and I just don't buy it.
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by duaneb 10y ago
You can't even write a generic pmap in go. Right there haskell wins.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Why are they better? Dynamic languages are orthogonal to creating CRUD apps and come with massive runtime and reading overhead.
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by duaneb 10y ago
2004 well predates the deep learning leaps we have made recently.
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by duaneb 10y ago
If I took your phrase out of context, I apologize. I didn't see any context that would add to the phrase and I most likely misunderstood. Being an atheist implies a religious belief. It does not imply anything about how you view or jud
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by duaneb 10y ago
> It does seem to me that net neutrality makes it effectively impossible for ISPs to differentiate, because they're all compelled to sell the same product - dumb pipes. If ONLY they viewed themselves as a dumb pipe, I could actually
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by duaneb 10y ago
Gravity's Rainbow is not worth the slog, IMHO, unless you like beautiful plot constructions and vulgar wordplay. As a commentary on literature, as a novel, as a piece of writing, and most of all as a story , Mason & Dixon is (by f
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by duaneb 10y ago
> An atheist or otherwise "religion tolerant" mentality implies compatibility with anyone. You're referring to ethical relativism. Do you really expect me to be chill with female genital mutilation because I believe there
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by duaneb 10y ago
None of Google, Apple, and FB have any public discourse worth reading, or even readable conversation threads at all. You're comparing apples and oranges.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Well twitter may lose employees, but is that really interesting? Twitter is certainly huge as a product and isn't going anywhere. In fact, I do not and never will use twitter for more than reading and sso--but it is still irreplaceable
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by duaneb 10y ago
FWIW fish is great. My only complaint is that you can't use the `ENV_VAR=value` syntax available in bash, but you really just need to prefix with `env`.
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by duaneb 10y ago
This is what all experience indicates is correct.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Very good point.
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by duaneb 10y ago
What does dynamic vs static have anything to do with preferred indexing convention? The former is an execution time detail, the latter is how to index memory.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Anything other than base 0 would be unacceptable in python; people would go crazy. Personally, this is the biggest reason I can't use R—my brain doesn't work with position-based indexes; I'm just hardwired to offset.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Why would it not be absorbed by proportional savings in heating?
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by duaneb 10y ago
Part of the problem is that a CEO plays a very different role in a three person company, a 300 person company, a 3000 person company, and a 30k person company. I have a very difficult time imagining swapping out the CEO of an early round st

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