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by dunk010 7y ago
And what model of programming do you suggest it might be? ;-D
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by dunk010 7y ago
Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure, gave a talk with some very relevant points in this space (The Language of the System): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROor6_NGIWU
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by dunk010 7y ago
That's a brilliant series of articles. Everyone should read it.
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by dunk010 8y ago
> learning phase of your career That should be your entire career . The statement also strikes me as quite self-aggrandising.
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by dunk010 8y ago
That's just "services", though, and it's been the way that people have been building software for a very long time. I can attest to have done this in 2007 at a large website, which was at least 7 years before the "m
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by dunk010 8y ago
Hear, hear!
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by dunk010 8y ago
It just feels like indulgence on the part of the reporter. They really need to do a better job at TL;DR. I thought that the idea with reporting was that you were supposed to deliver all the information, and then iteratively peel back layers
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by dunk010 8y ago
How does the old saw go again? "Academic knowledge moves forward one funeral at a time". People have vested interests and if your research contradicts much of theirs, then they are going to be inclined to reject yours. You'd
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by dunk010 8y ago
I did a research masters and got VERY frustrated by how publishing worked. But I came to your conclusion, too. I'd put it like this: an academic's career prospects are controlled entirely by the journals and the journals' imp
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by dunk010 8y ago
Just FYI although the music industry has changed (much lower profit margins now), it's still a cartel of companies who actually own the vast majority of the content, and extract a pound of flesh. Perhaps you think that Spotify "di
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by dunk010 8y ago
I think that you make a lot of very good points. I have also seen self-entitled, arrogant developers stomping around like they own the place, not respecting the difficulties in different roles (management) or other disciplines. I've
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by dunk010 8y ago
You can use https://theoldreader.com , which is supposed to be similar.
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by dunk010 8y ago
Steve Yegge talking about the system he built at Google, called Grok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJs-0EInW8 . If we have anything half that good in the wider programming community in twenty years time, I will be very s
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by dunk010 8y ago
A million times yes. You have to pick your battles.
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by dunk010 8y ago
I'm quite surprised that nobody has suggested Crash Course. The first one they did - Crash Course World History by John Green - is really great, and I personally found both endearing and funny ( https://www.youtube.com/w
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by dunk010 8y ago
Perhaps they should have read this: https://programmingisterrible.com/post/162346490883/how-do-y... It would have saved them a lot of man-years of time.
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by dunk010 8y ago
The author's main points are: * The dialogs are overlong and obtuse * Some specific metaphors don't click * The author attacks various things which he feels Hofstadter belittles (avant-garde music, Zen) He may be right about the d
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by dunk010 8y ago
Yes, I also felt this reading his post. I think that he is rather ignorant of the fact that the vast majority of people reading the book (it won the Pulitzer Prize, after all) WON'T have a working knowledge of Godel's theorem. He&
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by dunk010 8y ago
'Nuff said: https://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce
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by dunk010 9y ago
Of course there's an untruth in what I said. Ostensibly it's all about Impact Factor, but in reality it's all about how much money you are bringing in. Academia is in a sad state.
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by dunk010 9y ago
I am afraid this piece is missing the most massive reason that articles are still published in journals - Impact Factor. Academics live and die not just by the number of articles that they get published, but, crucially, where they get pub
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by dunk010 9y ago
While informative I think that this article is somewhat misleading as it omits any discussion that the reserves described are, in fact, fractional reserves.
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by dunk010 9y ago
Isn't the whole point of this article to show that that is not how it works out in practice?
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by dunk010 9y ago
Not everyone jumped on the NoSQL bandwagon. Software development is a horrible gaping maw of fad-driven, ill-thought-out crap.
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by dunk010 9y ago
Yayayayayayay! Been hoping for this for ages. Awesome!
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by dunk010 9y ago
Gold is also divisible into arbitrarily-finite (down to the atom, one would suppose, though that doesn't exactly seem practical...), but that completely misses the point of the article: that the money supply isn't large enough,
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by dunk010 9y ago
Captain D is basically the best thing on the internet.
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by dunk010 9y ago
The author manages to completely rip off Adam Curtis's excellent documentary film Hypernormalisation without a single reference to it. Well done.
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by dunk010 9y ago
You're making things far too complex, and confusing the issue, and yourself, as a result. Let's turn to the first sentence from Wikipedia: "A Turing machine ... manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of r
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by dunk010 9y ago
I guess we'll all have to just imagine you're right, then. Mwahahaha!

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