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811.
by edejong 10y ago
I just tried, albeit slightly unsuccessfully, to describe the philosophy of the Montessori system to someone. Your answer, learning on the part of the beholder, sums it up beautifully. Thank you for that.
812.
by edejong 10y ago
I'd assume that depends on your measure of worth, I'd say. Many operating systems had little academic significance when it was most academically or commercially fruitful to invest time in. Microkernel and dependency specific opera
813.
by edejong 10y ago
Technically, Chrome refuses to work with NPAPI, which Java depends on. Unfortunately, Oracle did not deliver any alternative to run Java in some of the more secured browser-plugin architectures.
814.
by edejong 10y ago
The Netherlands made available all the LIDAR points in the whole country and offered a point-cloud viewer of the data on [1]. The resolution is quite good, so you might want to have a look. [1] http://www.ahn.nl/pagina/
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by edejong 10y ago
The real problem is latency in modifications of advanced IC design. To quickly iterate a design, it's not enough to have the 'standard' components available. Many breaking technologies rely on designs utilizing the latest ver
816.
by edejong 10y ago
Is it a coincidence that both of you almost quoted Edsger Wybe Dijkstra? "Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. " (
817.
by edejong 10y ago
That's definitely true, but PRs, comments and bug reports are not distributed, nor are many bridges between Github and external tools (issue trackers like JIRA/Trello, build-servers). This might seem pedantic, but it creates an as
818.
by edejong 10y ago
It's kind of ironic when one realizes that one of the major design goals of git was to be distributed, to reduce dependency on a single point of failure.
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by edejong 10y ago
It's quite unlikely you've heard of Eckart Wintzen [1]. He was leading one of the fastest growing software engineering companies in the 70's and 80's called BSO using a 'cell management', where sub-companies ha
820.
by edejong 10y ago
And the micro-controllers operating sensors, using chemistry. The chemistry being better controlled by using new materials. The materials being better researched, using high-precision optics. The optics being more precise, using modern phys
821.
by edejong 10y ago
Don't forget, a lot of diseases are hereditary, so your children are screwed as well.
822.
by edejong 10y ago
The (beta) protocol was pretty well documented at the time and it took relatively little time to implement the iOS client. 2000 lines of code is relatively easy to understand, even without someone explaining what's going on. The projec
823.
by edejong 10y ago
Your comments reflect my feelings at the time. Trying to push a round peg into a square hole. Angular had (and still has) some really useful features and so do many other frameworks/libraries. However, it's the combinatorial compl
824.
by edejong 10y ago
It wasn't written to be easily maintainable, as it was a PoC. So no comments, relatively short naming. However, it had good SoC and simple logic to update views. Minimal, but understandable. I wanted it to be rewritten before I wrote t
825.
by edejong 10y ago
I still remember doing a PoC for an end-to-end secure messaging app with web support, around 3 years back. It was written in plain JS with jquery and one or two libs for crypto bolted on. Simple, easy, but not very maintenance friendly writ
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by edejong 11y ago
Such a defeatist approach, but I won't argue whose benefit these rules are. Fact is that they are put in place and they help to prevent disease and death. So, now to liability: [1]: "If a corporate officer "authorizes, direct
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by edejong 11y ago
Yes, but you cannot simply compare the results of industrial activity with the results of breaking rules governing industrial activity. The rules were the trade-off and breaking them breaks the trade-off.
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by edejong 11y ago
It is likely they have broken rules for far longer (25 years perhaps? [1]). And after we (as in, we the tax payers, who pay for all the health bills) have asked scientifically grounded questions, strict rules were put in place. Rules that d
829.
by edejong 11y ago
When a company willingly and knowingly foils rules put in place to increase lifespan and reduce the death toll of cancer due to air pollution, shouldn't these top-executives be charged with mass murder? Why can't we compare this w
830.
by edejong 11y ago
Dijkstra's Law: "Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better."
831.
by edejong 11y ago
Perhaps, but we introduce a new implicit specification by doing this, possibly closing the door for situations where white-space is relevant. The common appearance of the ignorant user seems to stem from him generalizing patterns as a holdo
832.
by edejong 11y ago
How I wish more engineers would take this precaution, as it is arguable the law caused harm over good, well intended as it might be. Engineering with unspecified bounds often needlessly introduces complexity and cost.
833.
by edejong 11y ago
For experienced users, I do agree wholeheartedly. However, to learn how and why git works, it is much more intuitive to work from the command line for a while. For example, you can browse the .git directory, see how refs work, browse throug
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by edejong 11y ago
Personally, I love this simple, readable, short implementation in the EcliPse solver: http://www.hakank.org/minizinc/queens_viz.mzn
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by edejong 11y ago
Such tight structures might be difficult to parse when the patterns used are still relatively unknown. However, once applied more widely, read more often and more familiar, you might start to think the longer version (which undoubtedly reli
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by edejong 11y ago
I remember being introduced to MySQL a long time ago (around 2004). When I noticed its standards incompliance, buggy indexing, weird collating behaviour and incomplete query optimizer, I was repeatedly told these quirks will soon be resolve
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by edejong 11y ago
Personally, it's not about the 'original' developer pulling out, but about the simple question: who or what do you trust? 1. The developer, 2. The content distributor, 3. The code (by git SHA ref perhaps), 4. The contract of
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Research organisation TNO: 3-5x real-world NOX diesel emissions vs. lab tests(tno.nl)
1 points by edejong 11y ago|0 comments
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TNO study finds real-world NO2 emissions 3-5x as high as lab tests(translate.google.com)
2 points by edejong 11y ago|0 comments
840.
by edejong 11y ago
Your first paragraph makes some sense, but I truly disagree with your second. Good OOP design is very similar, if not identical, to good FP design. For example: - The iterator pattern: is essential to more abstract FP, see for instance &#x2

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